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International conference Military Reenactment, Military Heritage, and Historical Conflicts and Traumas in Czech Lands

At the end of August, the Faculty of Humanities will host an international conference on military historical reenactment entitled Military Reenactment, Military Heritage, and Historical Conflicts and Traumas in Czech Lands. "This is the first-ever professional event in Czechia on the topic: the so-called reenactment studies, well established in the Anglo-Saxon academy, are still in their infancy in the Czech environment. The activities and publications associated with our GAČR project 'History and culture of contemporary Czech military re-enactment in an interdisciplinary perspective' are changing this situation," says Petr Wohlmuth, the event organiser. The conference will feature keynotes by Julianne Tomann from the University of Regensburg on doing gender in historical re-enactment and Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska from the Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej of the Polish Academy of Sciences on historical reconstructions of the WWII in Poland and the issue of authenticity. Other presentations will cover topics such as the material culture of military reenactment from the perspective of the culture of weapons, reconstructions of medieval battles, and the place of the Habsburg army in Czech historiography, military traditions and public space after 1990. The full programme and the abstracts of each paper are available for download below.

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