Professor Tamara Scheer from University of Vienna Will Teach at Philosophical Faculty This Winter Semester
In the winter semester of the academic year 2024/2025, the Philosophical Faculty UHK students can look forward to two courses by visiting Professor Priv.-Doz. Dr. Tamara Scheer from the University of Vienna.
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Tamara Scheer, who focuses on modern European history, will be working at the Department of History FF UHK. She was habilitated in 2020 with a thesis on Language Diversity and Loyalty in the Habsburg Army, 1867-1918. As part of her PhD studies, she did research on the state of emergency during World War I. She is currently leading the project Turning a Forgotten Burial Place of 450 Austro-Hungarian Soldiers from the First World War in Rome into a 21st Century Memorial at the Pontifical Institute Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome. She has worked in several Austrian and foreign research institutions. In 2016, she was awarded the J. Dobrovsky Scholarship at the Masaryk Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She has 18 publications indexed in the Web of Science and 14 in the Scopus database.
The lecturer will offer the course Nation Building in Central Europe: The Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond (HIU/PSSMX) to both Czech and international undergraduate students. Students of the follow-up Master's degree can choose her course Conflicts, Commemoration and Peace Efforts in Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century (HIU/AAVP1).
In the summer semester, for example, students of archaeology or philosophy can also look forward to other courses taught by visiting professors from abroad.
If interested, students can send their course application to the email ff.internationaloffice@uhk.cz
