The Institute of History of the ASCR celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2011. The Institute, re-established in 1990, is the successor of the Czechoslovak State Historical Publishing Institute founded in 1920 and incorporated in 1953 into the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences as the Academy´s Institute of History. In 1970, this Institute was abolished and reorganized to form the Institute of Czechoslovak and World History within the Academy, which was dissolved in 1989. In 1990, the reestablished Institute of History was merged with part of the former Institute of Central and East European History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. The research scope of the Institute covers Bohemian, Czechoslovak and general (especially Central and East European) history from the Early Middle Ages to World War II, including the theory and methods of historical research, with long-term projects on encyclopaedic and biographical studies and historical geography. and Pavla Vošahlíková.
This is the title of an international conference organized jointly by the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology and the Institute of Ethnology of the ASCR at Villa Lanna in Prague 25-26 May, 2012. This event focused on a series of meetings held in different places under the auspices of IUAES and within events organized by UNESCO-MOST in which the Institute of Ethnology regularly participates. The meeting discussed topics such as, how a city's image is influenced by specific broad contexts; how cities exceed their own borders and how the city borders are affected by outside influences; and how foreign migration influences the image of a city and changes its borders. and Zdeněk Uherek.