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Conference Report

Conference Report

Conference report: 15. konference European Association for Urban History (EAUH), Antverpy, 31. 8. – 3. 9. 2022

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The results of a comparative analysis based on the Electoral Integrity Index, evaluated for the period 2011–2021 in the Balkan countries are this paper’s objectives. Referring to perceptions of the level of fulfillme...

In allusion to the famous Johannine dictum, this paper seeks to explore the relationship between beauty and liberation. Liberation is here understood in terms of a movement toward transforming all reality in accordance w...

This study presents the destruction of the Hungarian currency caused by the Second World War. The devastation caused by Nazi collaboration and the Soviet Red Army had an impact on the Hungarian “pengő”. The occupyin...

In the second half of the 19th century, many architects worked for noble members of the house of Morzin and subsequently the house of Czernin-Morzin in Vrchlabí and other mansions in North Bohemia. Among these architect...

This study is dedicated to the Austrian physicist Edmund Weiss (1884–1932) and his time as assistant at the Institute of Physics of the German University in Prague in 1906–1914. Particular attention is paid to his 19...

Report from Bewertung – eine Kernaufgabe im Archiv. Frühjahrstagung 2022 der Fachgruppe 8 im Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare e.V., 5.–8. dubna 2022, Mnichov.

This paper analyses the role of visualisations in grammar books for learners of German as a foreign language. It evaluates a sample of grammar books self-labelled as pictorial as well as other grammar books designated fo...

Many individuals around the world speak two or more than two languages. This phenomenon adds a fascinating dimension of variability to speech, both in perception and production. But do bilinguals change their voice when ...

After the US Army liberated Czechoslovakia and consequently left the country at the end of 1945, local women started to give birth to children fathered by American soldiers. As a result of their multifaceted origin these...

The so-called Velvet Revolution started a new “transformation” period of Czech history. There seemed to be a general agreement that the main goal was the “return to Europe”, assimilation to the West after more th...

Phonetic research has developed both impressionistic and more objective means of describing the basic units of intonation. The quantification involved in the approaches based on acoustic measurements provides more detail...

Book review: Dostál, M. Dějiny Nejvyššího soudu Spojených států. Praha: Ústav státu a práva AV ČR, 2020, 736 s.

This paper is a brief reflection on the current views of the Supreme Administrative Court and the Supreme Court on selected issues related to the appointment or the recalling of a secretary of a municipal office. In part...

Editorial

Editorial

Editorial

The aim of this paper is to evaluate, if competition-like efficiencies of European-style rule of reason shall apply also in the context of the ex-ante regulation by the DMA. The rationale of such consideration lies in th...

For years, the theory of word formation in contemporary German has been a fixed part of the course Lexicology and Word Formation in Contemporary German at the Bachelor of German Language Studies at the Department of Germ...

The correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan provides examples of legal issues which Pliny had to face as an imperial magistrate sent to the province of Bithynia and Pontus by the emperor. The aim of t...

Book review on Frintová, Dita. Mezitímní a částečné rozhodnutí ve světle judikatury a evropské komparace [Interlocutory And Partial Decisions In The Context Of Case Law And European Comparisons]. Praha: Wolters...