Annotation
The course is intended for the students of all cycles and disciplines, to the Erasmus and other programs´ students, as to the Czech students. The course combines lectures, presentations by students, film projections, text readings and discussions around the topic of the Night and its representations and living practices in the postwar Czechoslovakia and the postwar Central Europe.
The aim of the course is to bring together ideas and to think about the different aspects of the “Night issue”. The course puts the representations of the Night and the Night living practices in the context of the postwar political, social and economic changes, which were connected to the establishment and stabilization of the Socialist dictatorships and to the course for the political, social and technical modernization.
The language of course is English, but communication in German, French and Czech is also accepted.