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.
Proroctví, alchyimie a startegie komunikace náboženského disentu. Dopis českého chiliasty Paula Felgenhauera (1593- asi 1677) lipskému lékaři Arnoldu Kernerovi z roku 1630.
Mezinárodní konferenci „The Protest Movements in the Contemporary Middle East“ (Protestní hnutí na současném Blízkém východě) hostila Akademie věd na Národní třídě v Praze. Uspořádal ji Orientální ústav AV ČR ve dnech 29.-30. května 2014 za spoluúčasti Francouzského ústavu pro výzkum ve společenských vědách v Praze (Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales - CEFRES) a za podpory Groupe de Recherches et d’Etudes sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient (GREMMO, Lyon) a Cercle des Chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient (CCMO). Sympozium zahájil jako hlavní řečník prof. Henry Laurens z Collège de France v Paříži. and Ondřej Beránek, Jan Zouplna.