CfP - Education and Totalitarianism
Educational Sciences, Education in Europe between Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Freedom in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Organizers: Technical University of Liberec, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences University of Pannonia, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Porto, Complutense University of Madrid, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, ELTE University Budapest
Conference dates: 10–11 June 2027
Venue: Technical University of Liberec
The conference aims to reconstruct, analyze, discuss, and compare examples of educational discourses, theories, and practices (in both formal and informal education) in a divided Europe during the second half of the 20th century. We ask which educational themes, goals, and concepts were developed in different parts of Europe, and which themes were shared, even though they were contextualized quite differently politically and socially. We ask whether, in a politically and culturally divided space, similar or just different educational questions and goals nevertheless circulated. From a transnational perspective, we ask how these themes and discourses circulated, how they traveled and why, from where and how they were transferred, “imported and exported,” “borrowed and lent,” and how these pedagogical discourses were assimilated and internalized in individual states or “national” educational discussions
Click here to download the full Call for Papers
Submission deadline: 30 October 2026
Addional information:
- Abstract of 250-500 words
- Length of presentations: 25 minutes
- The conference is free of charge.
- Presentations may be given in English or German.
The conference is held as part of the project project of the Czech Science Foundation GACR no. 25-16883S: For a New Model of Educational Sciences - Totalitarianism, Ideology and Political Instrumentalization in Educational Sciences in the Communist Period.
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