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Doctoral Conference: Rewriting the History: Changing the Reading of the Past

How is history ideologised and the creation of myths of the exceptionality of individual states and nations such as the USA, Israel, the Soviet Union or North Korea? And what role does political interest and propaganda play in such processes? How is historical memory related to national, religious or gender identity? And how does it relate to migration? The international interdisciplinary doctoral conference entitled Rewriting the History: Changing the Reading of the Past will seek answers to these and other interesting questions. The event is organized by the Department of Historical Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University, at the faculty headquarters and online on the 13th-15th. June 2024. The main expert guarantor of the conference is Dr. Alena Marková.

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PhD students from the Czech Republic, Sweden, India, Great Britain, Norway, Latvia, Spain, France and other countries will speak at the conference. The event includes an open lecture by Dr. Hisashi Shigematsu from Meiji Gakuin University and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan) as well as Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) entitled Changes in the Historiography of the Jews in Lithuania's Historical Books, which will be held on Thursday, June 13 from 5 p.m. in room 2.41.

Free entry.