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Summary/Abstract: A Summit of Historians in the Antipodes: The 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney, 3–9 July 2005 This contribution is a series of related reports on the historians’ congress in Sydney presenting various points of view by the Czech participants Jaroslav Pánek from the Council for Foreign Relations of the Academy of Sciences, Prague, Oldřich Tůma and Jiří Kocian from the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, Milo-slav Polívka from the Institute of History, Prague, Petr Vorel, from the University of Pardubice, and Jiří Lach and Radmila Slabáková from the University of Olomouc. Three ‘big’ subject-areas dominated the Congress: ‘Humankind and Nature in History,’ ‘Myth and History,’ and ‘War, Peace, Society, and International Order in History.’ The Czech participants reporting here all observe that non-European historiography gained ground at the Congress, both in terms of choice of topics, which covered more or less the whole world, and in terms of the scholars who gave papers. --------------------------------- A Conference on Czechoslovak Currency Reforms This is a report on the conference ‘Currency Reforms and Upheavals in the Bohemian Lands since 1918,’ which was organized by the Institute of History and Museum Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Science, Silesian University, Opava, in November 2005, and attended by historians and experts on finance --------------------------------- An Autumn Seminar on Conscientious Objection in Czechoslovakia A report on a seminar called ‘Conscientious Objection in Czechoslovakia, 1948– 89,’ organized by Petr Blažek and other young historians from the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, in September 2005, for historians and conscientious objectors from the former Soviet-bloc states.

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