In mid-May, our team member, Karina Hoření, presented her work at the After Industry: Cities and Regions in Transformation conference in Prague. The event was organized by the Institute for Contemporary History, the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space. Scholars from different fields shared case studies about industrial transformation in places like Lusatia and Silesia’s former coal mining regions, a tobacco fermentation plant in Albania, and chemical production sites in former Eastern Germany. Karina’s paper, “Ghosts of Marx: Deindustrialization and Reindustrialization in Northern Czechia,” linked her research on the memory of German industrialists in Liberec to the region’s current role in the global automotive industry. The conference was a valuable opportunity to share our work in a new setting and connect with other connoisseurs of old cotton mills.
