Location

• Žerotínovo náměstí 449/3, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Languages

• Czech

Website

• www.archiv.muni.cz

Name of collection

• Spolek posluchačů filozofie UJEP Brno

Provenance and cultural activities

• The collection is a set of documents from the Students at the Faculty of Arts, University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně (UJEP), in Brno. The constellation was created gradually during the years 1968-1970; containing organisational documents, opinions, notes from meetings, manifests, posters, photographs and prints from mainly Czechoslovak student magazines, from the Prague Spring period. The association has officially been in operation since March 1968, formed by a group of students and graduates at the UJEP Faculty of Arts. It was an unusual organisation for this time, since it was completely independent of the centrally managed mass youth and student organisations. Due to this fact and also because the association was officially authorised by the South Moravian National Committee (KNV), in the second half of 1968, a platform for other student organisations were formed: the strike committee, and also in January 1969, an action committee. Both of these platforms within the association had an entire university competence. At this time, the Students of the Faculty of Arts became a place for formulating free opinions of the whole university. In addition to the initiative started within the university, it also developed contacts with other universities in Czechoslovakia and abroad (for example the Freie Universität in West Berlin). The association also became the initiator of the founding of a new student organisation, the Moravian Union of University Students that would take into consideration the interests of Moravian universities and their students, besides the existing Czech and Slovak Union. With the coming normalisation, the independent and democratic platform of the association was becoming an increasing problem, after which the club was dissolved in 1970. After the association ended, one of its leading members, Jan O. Eliáš, created a collection of the preserved documents. Work on creating the collection ended in 1971 by publishing its handwritten catalogue. At the time of the normalisation, the collection kept in his personal ownership and, after a change in political conditions, he had agreed with the management of the Masaryk University Archive about its placement in this institution. This was done in 1993. The following year's material was added to the convoy by the ownership of one of the other members of the association, Martin Potůček.

Description of content

• The collection contains documents on the founding, activities and extinction of the association: statutes, notes from meetings from the committee and their general meetings, the strike and action committee, materials for Jan Palach's funeral, resolutions, posters, leaflets, photographs, and the index of members. In addition to these activities, the collections also preserve the materials from the University Student Union and the Brno Student Centre, from student magazines published during the Prague Spring, including some of their foreign materials, newspapers and newspaper clippings.

Content

• graphics: 10-99
• grey literature (regular archival documents such as brochures, bulletins, leaflets, reports, intelligence files, records, working papers, meeting minutes): 1000-
• manuscripts (ego-documents, diaries, notes, letters, drafts, etc.): 500-999
• memorabilia (posters, flyers, stamps, etc.): 10-99
• photos: 10-99
• publications (books, newspapers, articles, press clippings): 100-499
• voice recordings (including oral history recordings): 0-9

Operator(s)

• Archive of the Masaryk University

Owner(s)

• Archive of the Masaryk University
• Eliáš, Jan
• Potůček, Martin

Geographical scope of recent operation

• local

Topics

• student movement

Founder(s)

• Eliáš, Jan
• Potůček, Martin

Date of founding

• 1968

Place of founding

• Brno, Czech Republic
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Creator(s) of content

• Eliáš, Jan
• Potůček, Martin
• The society of students of Faculty of Arts, UJEP Brno

Collector(s)

• Eliáš, Jan
• Moravian Museum
• Potůček, Martin

Supporters

• Archive of the Masaryk University

Important events in the history of the collection

• Donation of The society of students of Faculty of Arts Collection to the Archive of Masaryk University

Featured items

• Student magazine "Ruch"

Access type

• visits by appointments

Publications

• Maxmilián Strmiska. „Ke kulturně politické charakteristice Spolku posluchačů filozofie na Filozofické fakultě Brněnské univerzity (1968-1969).“ Časopis Matice moravské 113, no. 2 (1994): 313-327.

  Josef Raiskup, Martin Potůček. „Spolek posluchačů filozofie.“ Ruch no. 1 (1968).

Author(s) of this page

• Zapletal, Tomáš

References

Pavel Urbášek - Jiří Pulec a kol., Kapitoly z dějin univerzitního školství na Moravě v letech 1945-1990, UP Olomouc, Olomouc 2003.
Gabriela Hájková, Role brněnských studentů a divadelníků v tzv. sametové revoluci 1989 (bakalářská diplomová práce, Historický ústav FF MU), Brno 2008.