Concepts and Interpretations of Central European History - JMMZ133

• Title: Concepts and Interpretations of Central European History
• Guaranteed by: Department of German and Austrian Studies (23-KNRS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2018 to 2018
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 9
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:4/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (5)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc.

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc. (17.03.2017)

The aim of the seminar is to provide students with key concepts of Central European history as they´ve been appearing since the beginning of the 20th century and to confront these concepts with the selected problems of Central European history. The course is based on text reading and interpretation.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jiří Vykoukal, CSc. (17.03.2017)

Terms and concepts
Okey Robin, Central Europe/Eastern Europe: Behind Definitions. Past and Present, No. 137, 1992, pp. 102-133
Sinnhuber Karl A., Central Europe: Europe Centrale: An Analysis of a Geographicla Term. Transactions and Papers, No. 20, 1954, pp. 15-39
Franzinetti, Guido, Mitteleuropa in East-Central Europe. From Helsinki to EU Accession (1975–2004). European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 11, 2008, No. 2, s. 219-235.

Development of the idea
Arnason Johann P., Introduction: Demarcating East Central Europe. European Journal of Social Theory 8, 2005, No. 4, pp. 387–400
Halecki Oscar, Limits and Divisions of European History. University of Notre Dame Press 1962, pp. 85-141.
Szücs Jenö, Three historical regions of Europe.
Kundera Milan, The Tragedy of Central Europe.
Wandycz Piotr, The Price of Freedom. Introduction.

Between Germany and Russia
Betz, Hans-Georg, Mitteleuropa and Post-Modern Identity. New German Critique, No. 50, 1990, s. 173-192.
Labov Jessie, A Russian Encounter with the Myth of Central Europe
LeRider, Jacques, Mitteleuropa, Zentraleuropa, Mittelosteuropa. A Mental Map of Central Europe. European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 11, 2008, No. 2, s. 155-169.
Neumann, Iver, Russia as Central Europe´s Constituting Other. East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 7, 1993, No. 2, s. 349-369.
Stråth Bo, Mitteleuropa. From List to Naumann. European Journal of Social Theory 11, 2008, No. 2, pp. 171–183

Language, nation, state, identity
Berger, Stefan, On the Role of Myths and History in the Construction of National Identity in Modern Europe. European History Quarterly, Vol. 39, 2009, No. 3, s. 490-502.
Kamusella, Tomasz, The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, s. 1-60

Development and backwardness
Janos, Andrew C., The Politics of BAckwardness in Continental Europe 1780-1945. World Politics, Vol. 41, 1989, No. 3, s. 325-358
Kochanowicz Jacek, A moving target or a lost illusion? East Central Europe in Pursuit of the West in Two Globalization Phases, p. 31-52
Todorova, Maria, The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality, and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism. Slavic Review, Vol. 64, 2005, No. 1, s. 140-164.