Brewing Ethnicity Revisiting the 1897 Riots and Beer Boycotts in

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Brewing Ethnicity
Revisiting the 1897 Riots
and Beer Boycotts in Pilsen
Alison Orton (University of Illinios at Chicago)
15. únor 2016
od 15 hod.
Zasedací místnost
ÚČL AV ČR
Na Florenci 3, Praha 1
(vchod C, 3. patro)
The lecture will discuss how self-identified “Czech” rioters
who attacked Pilsen’s largest “German” brewery and later
boycotters of Pilsen’s breweries used beer as a marker of
national belonging – as both a connector and a divider of
people. An examination of the riots in Pilsen is a part of
my dissertation, which studies beer and the brewing
industry as a way to deepen our understanding of the
fluidity of nationalist sentiments in the Czech Lands and
among migrants from the Czech Lands to the United
States.