hybrid event: Jan Surman, ‘Images of science’ in Interwar Czechoslovakia: State, Language, Politics, Monday October 10, 2022, 15:00 CET (Prague&zoom)

 hybrid event: Jan Surman, ‘Images of science’ in Interwar Czechoslovakia: State, Language, Politics, Monday October 10, 2022, 15:00 CET (Prague&zoom)

On 10 October 2022 Jan Surman will hold a talk “‘Images of science’ in Interwar Czechoslovakia: State, Language, Politics” at the MUA colloquium. The event will take place at 15:00 CET in the lecture hall of Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Gabčíkova 2362/10, Praha 8 (tram stop Vychovatelna). The talk will be also available on zoom. To join online please follow https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82250495322?pwd=NGpRWXVnQ1ZUQloyQ0IwaUYvKzR6UT09 (add to google calendar: http://tiny.cc/1fpzuz )

Abstract

A few years after the World War I ended, Prague academic milieu became a highly complex one. As part of post-imperial Central Europe Czechoslovakia was home to Czech, German, Russian and Ukrainian higher schools, which developed active academic communities around them. Using Yehuda Elkana’s “images of knowledge” I will propose an analytical framework to analyse this multilingual intellectual landscape. By looking at the post-WWI conceptual insecurities and glocal renegotiations of science’s conceptual framework, I will show how these “images” oscillated between state prerogatives, cultural allegiances and ideological prescriptions.