Questions concerning the 1989 democratic revolutions and the collapse of "real socialism" in East Central Europe were a highlight of an international conference in Prague organized by two AS CR Institutes. The conference’s aim was to historicize the democratic revolutions of 1989, moving beyond the dominant "transitological" understanding of these revolutions in terms of the "End of Communism" and the "Beginning of Democracy." These were questions discussed: "Did these revolutions and the end of "real socialism" signal the end of revolutionary regimes and the beginning of a "restoration," or rather the replacement of worn-out communist revolutions with a new, neoliberal revolution? Or, considering the nonviolent character of the events, did they really constitute a revolution at all?" It was observed that modern political identities and ideological currents are marked by their attitudes toward the pheno-menon of revolution and toward various historical revolutionary models. Other themes were, "Democratic, Liberal, or Neoliberal Revolution? Dissent, Post-Dissent, and the Ideas of 1989. The End of History or the End of the Future? Theories of Soviet-type Society. The Second Life of the 1968 Prague Spring in 1989." Hosting the conference were the Department for the Study of Late Socialism and Post-Socialism of the Institute of Contemporary History ASCR and the Department for the Study of Modern Czech Philosophy of the Philosophy Institute ASCR, held October 2-3, 2014 at the Villa Lana. and Petr Kužel.
22nd Annual Mammalian Genome Conference took place in the new edifice of the Institute of Molecular Chemistry AS CR, v. v. i., in Prague. The symposium was aimed at dissiminating research news on the topic mammalian genomes, epigenomes and phenotypes. It began with Bioinformatics speakers folowed by a Student Satellite Meeting and it continued with a number of sessions. and Jiří Forejt.
A meeting of the Visegrad Group of Academies was held in Třešť on September 23-24 and was hosted by Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The Visegrad Group of Academies was initiated in March 2000 by the Slovak Academy of Sciences which organized the first meeting of the representatives of the V4 Academies in Bratislava. and Robert Zika.
This symposium focused on participants from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Following the tradition of the CESTC, two plenary lectures were offeret for each of the participating countries and a number of short reports and poster presentations. Student Kiran Bhaskaran Nair from Charles University in Prague was awarded the Student poster prize as creator of the best student poster. and Petr Čárský, Květa Stejskalová.
This event was a collaborative workshop involving scientists, power industry leaders and government officials to outline the future and role of energy storage in ensuring secure energy and to discuss the promising topics for research into energy storage. The workshop sought to present ideas, examples, and projects related to experience with energy storage with a strong emphasis on promoting national awarness and inspiring action towards solving emerging problems. Through this event the scientists hoped to present promising research themes and technologies and challenge the attendees to discuss the feasibility of the technologies and trends for energy storage. The workshop was a part of the Strategy AV21 and was organized with the patronage of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Professor Jiří Drahoš by the Institute of the Thermomechanics of the CAS and the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS. and Magdalena Bendová, Jan Hrubý, Miroslav Chomát, Patrik Zima.
Stejnojmennou mezinárodní konferenci, jejímž záměrem bylo v širokém slavistickém kontextu prezentovat současné teoretické a praktické poznatky slovanské lexikografie, uspořádalo Oddělení slavistické lingvistiky a lexikografie Slovanského ústavu AV ČR. Sympozium se konalo ve dnech 20.-22. dubna 2016 v prostorách budovy Akademie věd na Národní třídě. and David Blažek.