The Literary Samizdat Bibliography Section became part of our activities in 2016. This groups deals primarily with dissident Czech magazines and to a lesser extent those of Slovak and Polish origin. These journals date from the 1950s to the early 1990s, with an emphasis on the normalisation period and the time just before the Velvet Revolution.
The chief sources of this material are the Libri prohibiti library and scriptum.cz website, which feature scans of samizdat journals. Other material stems from the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre archive (now administered by the National Museum) and private collections.
Aside from their bibliographical tasks, staff also contribute to research on post-war eastern bloc alternative culture, the dissident movement and underground literature of the 1970s and 1980s. For these purposes, they often partner with foreign institutions and research networks like the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the NEP4DISSENT international network. NEP4DISSENT, a beneficiary of the COST research programme, helped compile the Polonica database for Czech samizdat. Another product of international collaboration is Samizdat Past & Present (2019), an English-language anthology of seminal work on samizdat-related issues by leading Czech literary scholars and historians.
Head: Mgr. Gabriela Romanová
Contact address: sambibl@ucl.cas.cz
The Bibliographical Data Working Group of the DARIAH-ERIC consortium is organising a remote workshop entitled Databases and information systems for research output: digital humanities outlook read more
We are opening the registration for the Mutual Learning Workshop for Improving Cultural Heritage Bibliographical Data organised by the Bibliographical Data Working Group of the DARIAH-ERIC consortium on 12–14 October in Prague. read more
On June 27, 2022, the Sixth Congress of International Czech Literary Studies, organised by the Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, and the Slovak Academy of Sciences, was officially opened in Prague. Czech Literary Bibliography team will also contribute to the four-day rich programme: read more
On April 22–29, our colleagues from the Global and Digital Literary Studies Lab and the Current and Literary Samizdat Bibliography Sections visited the Polska Bibliografia Literacka in Poznań. The main topics of the meeting with bibliographers from our sister institution included international cooperation read more
Seven colleagues from the Czech Literary Bibliography visited Poznan in the last week of April. The main focus of their stay was to exchange experience with colleagues from our Polish partner institution Polska Bibliografia Literacka (Instytut Badań Literackich PAN). read more
n the second week of January, colleagues from the Literary Samizdat Bibliography Section went on a visit to the Polish sister institution Instytut Badań Literackich in Warsaw. The Polish colleagues Piotr Wciślik and Jan Olaszek were the main guides and discussion partners for the Czech expedition. read more
