Essays
Łukasz Biskupski – The Abyss at Łódź: in the context of ‘agitation films’
Jana Dorčáková – The Development of Czech Tabloids before First World War
Blanka Hemelíková – K počátkům české detektivní literatury: Z pamětí anglické detektivky Ady Paulsonovy (Mezi replikou a inovací)
Filip Herza – Freakshow and the Imaginations of the Collective Body of Nation
Michal Jareš – „A Israel Kafka?“ (Nad Pražskou čarodějkou Francise Mariona Crawforda)
Daniela Javorics – Vienna’s World Fair 1873 as a spectacle for the masses?
Tomáš Kavka – Poštovní knížky – svérázný literární žánr pro drobné zaměstnance a jejich zákazníky
Robert Kulmiński – Zdroje masové kultury na českém území – úvod do studia
Essays
Marko Lovrić – The Satirical Magazine “Koprive” and the Political, Social and Cultural Climate in the Early 20th Century Croatia
Jakub Machek – The Early Popular Press and Its Common Readers in Fin-De-Siècle Prague
New Metropolitans and their Popular Press in Fin de siècle Prague
Počátky populární kultury v českých zemích na přelomu 19. a 20. století
Lenka Procházková – Dívčí romány na konci dlouhého devatenáctého století a genderové stereotypy v nich
Nikolina Šimetin Šegvić, Filip Šimetin Šegvić – Mass Manifestations and Aspects of Urban Popular Culture in Zagreb during the Second Half of the 19th Century
Rastislav Tóth – Kultúrny dôsledok priemyslovej revolúcie ako príprava k vojne
Bogdan-Vlad Vătavu – “The world of the hajduks”. Bandit subcultures in 19th century Romania and their balladry
Programme of the Workshop “Popular Culture in East-Central Europe before WWI”
Prague, 24 October, Sporck Palace (Hybernská 3), room 303
8:45, Panel I (in Czech and Slovak)
Robert KULMIŃSKI (Varšavská univerzita): Zdroje masové kultury na českém území – úvod do studia
Rastislav TÓTH (Trnavská univerzita): Kultúrny dôsledok priemyslovej revolúcie ako príprava k vojne
Lenka PROCHÁZKOVÁ (Historický ústav AV ČR): Genderové konstrukty v dívčích románech konce dlouhého 19. století
Markéta HOLANOVÁ (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR): Sešitové detektivky v 1. polovině 20. století v Německu a v Čechách – srovnání edičních řad
Michal JAREŠ (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR): „A Israel Kafka?“ (Nad Pražskou čarodějkou Francise Mariona Crawforda)
10:30, Coffee Break
10:45, Keynote address: Nathaniel D. WOOD (University of Kansas): The Interurban Matrix: The Dissemination of Local and Transnational Popular Culture in the Boulevard Press.
11:30, Coffee Break
12:00 Panel II
Klaus HOEDL (University of Graz): Jewish music halls in Vienna around 1900
Viktor VELEK (University of Ostrava): Tamburitza music – a connecting factor of Slavic minorities in Vienna in the “long 19th century”
Bogdan-Vlad VĂTAVU (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca): An indicator of a delinquent subculture? 19th century Romanian popular culture on banditry[*]
13:30, Lunch
15:00 Panel III
Jana DORČÁKOVÁ (Charles University in Prague): The development of sensational press in Czech lands at the turn of the 20th century
Marko LOVRIĆ (University of Zagreb): The Satirical Magazine “Koprive” and the Political, Social and Cultural Climate in the Early 20th Century Croatia
Łukasz BISKUPSKI (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw): Double birth of cinema in Russian Poland – the case of Łódź
16:10, Coffee Break
16:30 Panel IV
Filip Šimetin ŠEGVIĆ, Nikolina Šimetin ŠEGVIĆ (University of Zagreb): Mass Manifestations and Aspects of Urban Popular Culture in Zagreb during the Second Half of the 19th Century
Karel ŠIMA (Centre for the study of popular culture, Prague): Four Antinomies of Mushrooming. On the Origin of Modern Mushrooming in Czech Lands
Filip HERZA (Charles University in Prague): Freakshow and the Imaginations of the Collective Body of Nation
17:50, Coffee Break
18:10 Panel V
Juozapas PAŠKAUSKAS (Vilnius university): Private photo-collections and beginnings of mass culture in 19th century Lithuania
Matteo BERTELÉ (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): The Russian illustrated postcard as an object of imperial popular culture
19:00, Conference wrap-up
Informal post-conference get-together (tba)
The workshop is supported by the project The Emergence of Popular Culture in the Czech Lands (GP13-39799P) of the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR).
[*] This research was financed by “MINERVA – Cooperare pentru cariera de elită în cercetarea doctorală şi post-doctorală”, contract code: POSDRU/159/1.5/S/137832, a project co-finaced by the Social European Fund through the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013
Workshop
Call for papers
Workshop: Popular Culture in East-Central Europe before WWI
24.10.2014, Prague
Centre for the Study of Popular Culture and Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Abstract Deadline: 10.9.2014
The aim of the workshop is to discuss the development of early mass-mediated popular culture in the East-Central European region and its significance for revealing fundamental social and political changes that took place at the turn of the 20th century. Continue reading