Hybrid conference organized by the Cumulus member, the Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia, in the context of BUTTERFLIES DON’T LIVE IN THE GHETTO

Online on September 30th, 2021 at 12:30 CET

Butterflies Don’t Live in the Ghetto is the title of a long-term Second World War research, exhibition and publication project initiated and curated by Jan Van Woensel and organized in cooperation with the Photography Studio of the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia. Annually, since 2019, students engage in critical and introspective reflection on the history of World War II via research-based and artistic assignments that address the key moments of the war. “Butterflies” establishes a discourse between history and contemporary art and results in exhibitions (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Israel) and a publication featuring artworks, concept texts and essays.

The conference will be broadcasted via Youtube here. Open for all, no registration is needed.

Operation Anthropoid, 27 may 1942 is the subject of the third edition of “Butterflies”. Four leading historians explain the case of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by paratroopers Jan Kubiš and Josef Gabčík and the consequential Nazi reprisals, e.g. the eradication of the villages Lidice and Ležáky.

Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of the Center for War Studies.
Radka Šustrová is historian, political scientist and researcher at Charles University Prague and University of Cambridge.
Jana Raila Hlavsová is supervisor at the National Memorial of the Heroes of Heydrich’s Terror at the crypts of Saint Cyril and Methodius.
Eduard Stehlík is Director of Lidice Memorial and Museum and military historian.

Organized by: Curator Jan Van Woensel, Heads of the Studio of Photography Vojtěch Aubrecht and Štěpán Grygar at the Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Partner: Photographic Communication Faculty, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel.