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Jarmila Novotná - Happy Birthday to You!

8 Oct 2018

documentary at the 2018 SVU World Congress in Prague, its world premiere was screened in Los Angeles by The Wende Museum, in cooperation with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Chapter of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Sciences. [...] In her lectures and research, Antonie is focused on economic history in the Czech lands and CEE at the late 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries and explore the following themes: the history of Czech economic thought; the history of Czech and Czechoslovak economic policy; the phenomenon of individual and group interests including nationalism and philanthropy; and history of historiography. [...] At the 18th World Economic History Congress in Boston in 2018, Antonie chaired a panel titled Behind the Iron Curtain: Waves of Globalization in Historiography of Economic History focused on the historiography of economic history as it was developed on both sides of the Iron Curtain and on the transfer of ideas between the exile historians and those historians who stayed in the home countries. [...] The purpose of the Society of Arts and Sciences was to enable continuity of the creativity of independent minds of the persons of Czech and Slovak origin in exile. [...] The Congress opening in the Main Hall of the Wallenstein Palace, which was followed by vernissage of the exhibition on the history of Czechoslovakia, was a dignified ceremony and commencement of the event.

Authors

SVU

Pages
28
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Czechia