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Newly discovered preserved potash-making workshops in the Czech Republic
Woitsch, Jiří
The article briefly describes the technology of production of potash in the early modern times. The basic typology of production facilities (potash-making workshops), which were built in the village envinment, is introduced as well. The main emphasis is given on the introduction of two newly identified workshops - in Zlatá Koruna near Český Krumlov and in Kolinec in the Klatovy region.
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Teachers and beginnings of Pedagogical Museum in Prague
Králíčková, Markéta ; Váňová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee) ; Rýdl K., (referee)
The current Pedagogical Museum of J. A. Comenius belongs to one of the oldest museums in the Czech Republic. Its more than a hundred-year-old historyhas been accompanied by several turning points in its whole existence. With the initiation ofthis establish mentwe see teachers of elementary and municipal education trying to give birth to an institution which would preserve and document the development of the Czech educational system. From 1880 teachers worked hard to realize an institution that would preserve the cultural heritage of J. A. Comenius. Together with the upcoming 300th anniversary celebration of J. A. Comenius' birth their idea was initiated by Josef Klika at the Literary Union meeting held in 1889. The collection was successfully presented at theRegional Jubilee Exhibition in 1891 in the Municipal Museum in Prague in 1892 and at the Ethnographic Exhibition in 1895. The Comenius Museum was then transferred under the collective stock of Permanent Exhibition of Education (St,ila vystava skolska) to stay there until a new pedagogical museum could be established in Prague. Finally, in 1916 the newly founded Pedagogical Museum of J. A. Comenius was presented atits opening ceremony. According to the request of its founders the collection (enriched by Slavin archives) was brought under the authority of...
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The imperative of feminine beauty
Myslivcová, Klára ; Mudd, Dana (referee) ; Duffková, Jana (advisor)
The diploma thesis deals with one of the most viable ideas within the Euro-American territory that accentuates the distinction between men and women and therefore maintains the "mystic demarcation line" that Virginia Woolf talked about. It is the idea that only women are obliged to "be beautiful". The primary objective of this work is to lift this conviction from the common (biologically-essentialist), trouble-free understanding and to uncover it in the light of social constructivism as a mere myth; to show that the myth of beauty - as it is called in this thesis - is originally our human work, not the work of nature (or God), and that its hidden ambition is nothing less than preserving the social - patriarchal - status quo. It is a purely intentional myth aimed at the disadvantage of women, which is, however, again and again reproduced unrecognised within the process of socialisation: first of all by the family, school, (mass) media and the industry of (feminine) beauty - these factors are called the guardians of the myth of beauty for the purpose of the thesis.
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The repatriation and return of Czechs from forced labor and internment in Germany after World War II.
Kasíková, Jana ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Koura, Petr (referee)
Repatriation of Czechoslovak citizens after the Second World War is one of the less explored areas of the Czech history. This work examines the process and arrangement of repatriation, focusing primarily on the return of the Czechs from Germany. Investigated issues include the international preparations for repatriation during the war, defining the status of Displaced Persons, as well as the international postwar repatriation activities of the international institutions, e.g., SHAEF and UNRRA. The key topic being the repatriation in the Czechoslovakia, attention is paid to the newly created department for repatriation in Bohemia and Moravia. This paper describes the contribution of individual organizations to repatriation as well as the coordination of the care for the repatriates. A special chapter is dedicated to the contemporary communication with the public and presenting the repatriation in the mass media.
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