Max Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung

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Book Chapter

Janák, Dušan and Johana Wyss. 2019. Ernest Gellner’s Habsburg dilemma. In: Walter Pape and Jiří Šubrt (eds.). Mitteleuropa denken: Intellektuelle, Identitäten und Ideen; der Kulturraum Mitteleuropa im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 137–146.

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Forthcoming

Wyss, J. (forthcoming 2020) Stones Do NotForget: the Symbolic Struggle Between Forgetting and Being Forgotten. In: Gilbert, C. (Ed.) On Commemoration. Oxford: Peter Lang

Lectures

2019 Academic lecture: Hundred Years of What?: the Identity of Memory of the Hlučín Area, Colloquium of the Institut für Geschichte, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
2019 Public facing lecture: Kolektivní paměť na přič generacemi [Collective Memory Across Generations]. Hlučín, the Czech Republic.

Presentations

2019 Paper Presented: Fighting on the Wrong Side: a Case Study of Non-German Wehrmacht Soldiers and Their Commemoration, Conference: 118th American Anthropology Association, Vancouver, Canada, 20-24 November.

2019 Presented paper: Heritage of Silenced Memories, International Workshop: No Neighbors’ Land, Deutsches Historisches Institute Warschau and the Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, 23-25 October.

2019 Presented paper: Anthropology of Memory: Past and Future Trajectories, Conference: Epistemologies of Memory, Kings College, London, 12-13 September.

2019 Presented paper: The Tourist Taste: Cooking Identity, Cultural Heritage, and Silesian-ness, Conference: 20th Cambridge Heritage Symposium: Cooking Identities & Tasting Memories: The Heritage of Food, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, Cambridge, 10-11 May.

2019 Presented paper: National History and Vernacular Memory, Conference: 29th Annual ASEN Conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 27-28 March.

2018 Presented paper: Remembering the Present, EASA Conference: Staying, Moving, Settling, Stockholm University, Sweden, 14-17 August.

2018 Presented paper: A Hundred Years of What?, Conference: Czechoslovakia 100, The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cardiff University, UK, 11 May.

2018 Presented paper: Contemporary Czech Nationalism, Conference: 28th Annual ASEN Conference, London School of Economics, London, 27-28 March.

2017 Presented paper: Revenge, Silence, Guilt, Reconciliation?, Conference: 2nd Memory Studies Association, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-16 Dec.

2017 Presented paper: Negotiating the Past and Forming the Future, Conference: 116th American Anthropology Association, Marriott Hotel, Washington DC, USA, 29 Nov.-3 Dec.

2016 Presented paper: Performative Identity, Conference: Ambiguity, Charles University, Czech Rep., 30 Sept.-1 Oct.

2016 Presented paper: Negotiating the Past/Negotiating the Present, Conference: Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 20-23 July.

2015 Presented paper: Collective Amnesia as a Solution to Difficult Heritage, Conference: Visual Anthropology and European Cultural Heritage, University of Warsaw, Poland, 21-26 Sept.

2015 Presented paper: Silencing German Memories, Conference: Utopias, Realities, Heritage: Ethnographies for the 21st Century, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 21-25 June.