Abstract
Just like the history of popular culture and the history of the interrelation between 'high' and popular cultural formations, the genesis and effectiveness of the concepts of canonicity vs. popularity / triviality since around 1800 has attracted intensive research attention. These concepts and oppositions determined diverse reflections on culture and literature in their diverse social, economic and legal historical contexts.
The interdisciplinary conference dealt with the question of what role the perceptions and reflections of various forms of popular and elite culture and the corresponding exclusions play in intercultural practices and transcultural spaces in a broad time frame since the emergence of cultural public in the 18th century. The main focus was on the Bohemian countries, the neighboring German-speaking regions and the German-Czech interrelationships.
Particular attention was paid to the regional perspective, in which the relationships between the center and the periphery and also the poles of vertical cultural observation are often viewed differently than is the case from the point of view of the cultural metropolises.