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SUMMARY:Baťa's Architecture of Belonging
DESCRIPTION:The Czech Centre London\, in collaboration with the Tomáš Baťa Foundation and the Bata Heritage Centre\, marks the 150th anniversary of Czech entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa’s birth\, founder of the global Baťa Shoe Company\, with an exhibition exploring his achievements and guiding principles and their realisation in East Tilbury. It reveals how ideas about work\, culture\, sport\, health and community were embedded in the design of the built environment. \n\nThe exhibition unfolds in two complementary strands. Desire to Create presents Baťa’s legacy as a comprehensive philosophy\, uniting work with service\, enterprise with education\, and personal development with responsibility towards others – not as a relic of the past\, but as a continuing source of inspiration. Baťa’s Architecture of Belonging brings East Tilbury to life through architectural drawings\, historic photographs and original artefacts\, evoking its distinctive modernist atmosphere. Together\, they trace how ideas were translated into built form – from vision to planning\, from planning to everyday life – creating a cohesive narrative of belonging\, work and community. \nOrganised by the Czech Centre London in partnership with the Bata Heritage Centre. \nOpening hours: Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm\, free entry
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/batas-architecture-of-belonging/
LOCATION:Vitrinka Gallery\, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Přemyslids a ruling dynasty
DESCRIPTION:The story of a dynasty that transformed the Czech principality into a kingdom and profoundly shaped the form of Central Europe comes to life in the National Museum’s largest exhibition of the year. It brings together more than 900 exceptional exhibits from nearly seventy institutions from the Czech Republic and abroad\, presenting the most extensive project dedicated to the Přemyslid dynasty in both a Czech and European context. \nVisitors will see rare treasures displayed only on exceptional occasions. Among the most significant exhibits is the Romanesque sarcophagus of St. Longinus\, which is being displayed outside Vyšehrad for the first time and likely once held the body of a monarch\, the Royal Crown of Środa Śląska\, textiles from the tomb of Saint Ludmila\, the funerary jewels of Přemysl II Otakar\, his sword\, and the personal ring of Přemysl I Otakar. \nThe exhibition located on the ground floor of the Historical Building of the National Museum tells history as a compelling story of power\, ambition\, family conflicts\, and a changing world. It follows the lives of princes and kings from legendary beginnings to the dynasty’s decline\, highlighting their influence on the Czech lands as well as on Europe of the time – it will guide you through four halls from the beginnings of the dynasty through the princely and royal eras to its legacy in the time of the Luxembourgs. It traces not only the development of the royal family\, but also the transformation of Bohemia and Moravia from the late 8th to the early 14th century in a broader European context. \nFor further information and ticket details see The Přemyslids. A Ruling Dynasty and Its Age – National museum
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-premyslids-a-ruling-dynasty/
LOCATION:National Museum Prague\, Václavské náměstí 68\, Prague\, Czech Republic
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SUMMARY:The Prague-Vienna Circle in British Exile
DESCRIPTION:This workshop focuses on the ‘Prague-Vienna Circle’\, a group of Jewish friends from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire who\, having survived the Holocaust and reunited in British exile after 1945\, sought to make sense of the momentous events they had witnessed. The circle comprised Nobel laureate Elias Canetti\, poet and Oxford anthropologist Franz Baermann Steiner\, and writer\, sociologist and philosopher H.G. Adler. They combined\, in Michael Hamburger’s words\, the virtues of the ‘imaginative writer’ and the rigour of the ‘polymath’. Whilst Canetti and Steiner had come to the UK in the late 1930s\, from Vienna and Prague respectively\, Adler only arrived in 1947 having survived incarceration in several concentration camps. Displaced from Prague\, he transformed his experiences of Nazism and state terrorism\, recording them in the ground-breaking Theresienstadt 1941–1945. The Face of a Coerced Community. Steiner and Canetti were no less engaged in trying to come to terms with totalitarian experiences: Steiner pursuing his (unfinished) comparative study of the origins of slavery and Canetti discussing the nature and dangers of the contemporary subject in modern societies in his monumental Crowds and Power. \nMutual influences between the friends and wider ‘Prague-Vienna Circle’ in exile can be traced throughout their œuvres which bridge several disciplines\, from anthropology\, ethnology and psychiatry to political science and economics\, and genres from essays\, novels and poetry to aphorisms and letters. Despite differences in intellectual and literary temperament\, their styles of thinking converge in an attempt to interpret the trend towards authoritarianism. Whilst the debate in the UK\, both before and after 1945\, was dominated by geopolitical issues and the transition from a pre- to a post-war order\, Adler\, Canetti and Steiner took advantage of their position on the margins to proffer new concepts and forms of analysis and challenge the intellectual mainstream.  \nThe workshop will discuss the pervasive subject of authoritarianism\, the critique and exertion of power\, its continuation and its implications for the present day. Speakers will include: Jeremy Adler (King’s College London\, Peter Filkins (Bard College\, New York)\, Maria Peacock (Iris Murdoch Research Centre) and Erhard Schüttpelz (University of Siegen).  \nThe workshop will be held in person at the University of London Senate House (Room 261\, Second Floor) \nAttendance is free\, but advance online registration is essential (see booking link below)
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-prague-vienna-circle-in-british-exile/
LOCATION:Senate House\, University of London\, Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HU
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