Kalendárium Masarykovy univerzity 1919-2019 – Šaur Josef (2019)

A team of six historians tells the 'story of the university' in a popularizing manner, accompanied by unique photographs and visual materials. It relates this story to the transformations of domestic higher education and scientific and technical development, as well as the fates of several generations amid the political turbulence of the 20th century. In the book, you will learn, for example: • Why the question of founding the Brno university sparked demonstrations and bloodshed before 1918. • What connected the young university with composer Leoš Janáček. • Why many members of the faculty participated in the resistance and what happened at the closed faculties during the Protectorate. • How university and student festivities changed from graduations and Majáles to forced celebrations of May Day. • What daily life was like for students during the First Republic and normalization. • Under what conditions the first computers penetrated the university. • How the university's polar base was established on the coast of James Ross Island in Antarctica. • That the university opens its doors to schoolchildren and seniors as well. • Which research successes of the university in recent years received the most media attention. The authors present the second Czech university in the context of the city of Brno and within the framework of 'big' history. Universities have always stood in...