The Prague Castle: Cartography of the Construction of Republican Space in Czechoslovakia Between the Two Wars

First session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
Already in 2023, we  started questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory). In short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, we began inquiring into the question of the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: Friday 4th, October 2024, from 10am to 12pm
Language: French

Speaker: Jakub Štofaník (The Masaryk Institute and the Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Discussant:  (tbd)

Abstract

Prague Castle was an exceptional political venue in interwar Czechoslovakia. In addition to being the residence of the President of the Republic and of many other state institutions, it reflected ideological and symbolic changes and conflicts. This seminar will examine the spatial dimension of the castle, with the architectural and symbolic modifications undertaken during the presidential term of T. G. Masaryk (1918-1935). The new spaces and monuments created within the Castle will be analyzed in relation to local politics and public opinion.

See the complete program of the 2024-2025 seminar here.