The journal AUC Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis, subtitled “Příspěvky k dějinám Univerzity Karlovy” (Papers on the History of Charles University), is a periodical devoted not only to the history of the Prague university but also to the history of education and student movement in the Czech lands. The journal, published since 1960 as part of the Acta Universitatis Carolinae series, also publishes essays presenting original historical sources (all texts are accompanied by summaries in foreign languages, mainly in English and German). It regularly publishes reviews and annotations of works on the history of education and annals of research activities.
The journal is archived in Portico.
AUC HISTORIA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PRAGENSIS, Vol 55 No 2 (2015), 17–80
Dějiny ve vlastní režii. Příběh dějin Karlovy univerzity v proměnách 20. století
[One’s own version of history: the story of history of the Charles University and its development in the course of the twentieth century]
Adam Horký
published online: 23. 02. 2017
abstract
This study deals with the issue of constructing a distinctly ‘national’ narrative of the history of the Charles University during the ‘short’ twentieth century (1918–1998). The author assumes that popular representations of the past of the university had been strongly influenced by the Czech national narrative whose roots stretch all the way back to the first half of the nineteenth century. In order to reconstruct the various versions of this narrative, the author analyses not only the various verbal and visual representations of the past of the university, but also the changes its story had undergone in the course of the twentieth century. Based on an investigation of narrative compressions and stereotypes on the one hand and the development of the narrative in the works of particular historians and their impact on the shape and form of the narrative on the other, the study aims at identifying the basic unifying features of the history of the university during the abovementioned period.
keywords: Charles University in Prague – national history – university history – stereotypes – narration –20th century
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ISSN: 0323-0562
E-ISSN: 2336-5730
