Lecture series
Topographies of Transformation: Dresden-Prague Talks

A Cooperation of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism studies at TU Dresden and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague; Organized by Dr. Maren Hachmeister, PD Dr. Friederike Kind-Kovács, Dr Klára Pinerová and Dr. Veronika Pehe.

This lecture series brings together scholars from the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. In four talks, they will explore different aspects of the social and cultural histories of the postsocialist transformations in Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia and beyond. Running through the series of talks is a unifying focus on the spatial aspects of transformation processes: their situatedness in particular topographies and their (unequal) distribution across different urban and rural locations.

The talks will take place in person alternately in Prague and Dresden as part of each institution's regular colloquium/seminar programme, with the possibility of online attendance.

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