Visiting academics

Dr Ulf Hlobil taught the Reason, Virtue, and Norms course at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at FF UHK attended by students of the Master's degree in Philosophy. In the course, Dr. Hlobil provided his audience with various theories about practical reasoning and moral and social norms.

Dr Ulf Hlobil is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. He acquired his doctorate degree from Pittsburgh University. His research mainly focuses on the topics of epistemology, logic, philosophy of mind and moral psychology. At the same time, he deals with the philosophy of language and philosophy of action. Dr Hlobil is also a permanent member of the team solving the 3-year project of excellence of UHK "Man as a Normative Creature" (together with Prof J. Peregrin and Dr L. Koreň).

As an editor and translator, he participated in the publication of the book G.E.M. Anscombe: Aufsätze (2014). His articles have been published among others in the prestigious philosophical magazines Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Review of Philosophy and Psychology and International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

Prof Paul Roth teaches the Philosophy of History course for the Bachelor´s and Master’s students at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of FF UHK. The course deals with the exploration and solution of the debate about whether history is a science.

Paul A. Roth, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Meaning and Method in Social Sciences: A Case for Methodological Plurals (1987) and editor (with Stephen Turner) of the Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. He has written more than 70 articles on topics including the philosophy of W. V. O. Quin, the philosophy and sociology of science, and the philosophy of history. A special edition of essays devoted to his work of historical explanation (including Prof Roth's answers) will be published in December 2017 in the Towards a Revival of Analytical Philosophy of History edition: Around Paul A. Roth's Vision of Historical Sciences. Prof Roth was a co‑founder of the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable and he is currently part of its management where he is involved in editing the institution´s annual conference anthology. He was a member of the original editorial board of The Journal of the Philosophy of History and also a member of the editorial boards of the journals History of the Human Sciences and Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Professor Roth is currently completing a book on analytical philosophy of history, which is expected to be published in 2018.

Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig where he has been teaching since 1992. His specializations are philosophy of the logic and language, philosophy of mathematics, German idealism, respectively Kant and Hegel.
He has been an editor of various philosophical magazines (Dialectik, Philosophische Rundschau, Philosophisches Jahrbuch), Robert Brandom's philosophy book "Pragmatics of Expression of Explicitness" (Benjamins 2005) and extensive commentaries on Hegel's phenomenology of mind.

Dialogue Note. 2 vol. Hamburg (Philos, Bibliothek, Meiner 2013) and Hegel's Science of Logic (2 vol., Philos., Bibliothek, Meiner 2019, 3^rd year 2020).

Dr Gary N. Kemp teaches Quine's Naturalism: Its distinctiveness, its origins course at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, FF UHK.
Dr Kemp works at the University of Glasgow and he acquired his doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is primarily interested in the history of analytical philosophy / philosophy of language (Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine and Davidson) and in aesthetics (Wollheim, Representation and Expression). He has published a number of articles, books and textbooks in both areas. Significant publications include Quine versus Davidson (published by OUP, 2012) or Wollheim, Wittgenstein and Pictorial Representation (Routledge, 2016), which he published together with Gabriela Mras. This year, the second edition of his book What is this thing called Philosophy of Language? (Routledge, 2018) is published.

Mag. Dr. Birgitta Bader-Zaar is an Austrian historian working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of History of the University of Vienna.

She is the author or co-author of dozens of studies dealing primarily with legal history in relation to the history of minorities and the history of women in Central Europe, to the history of North American slavery and to the history of citizenship and political thought associated with it.

Prof Gene Terruso (currently the College of Performing Arts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia) is an American educator, director, script editor, actor, producer, playwright (author of plays and musicals such as A Gentleman's Game or A Rock and Roll Fantasy) and also a journalist with rich experience with the American theatre, film and television scene, where he has been active for several decades. As an actor and director, he has worked in a number of theatres across the United States, including a number of theatres on Broadway, and he was the artistic director of the Provincetown Playhouse and also president of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles and New York.

He is a graduate of history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zagreb. He has been working at the Department of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb as a scientific and pedagogical worker since 2008. He is a member of several professional historical societies and associations.

He regularly appears at international conferences. He specializes in the history of the Balkan countries and Croatia, especially in the 20^th century.
In the summer semester 2017/2018, he teaches courses "European history 1945 till present" and "Southeastern Europe in the first half of the 20^th century" at the Philosophical Faculty of the UHK.

Dr. Dmitar Tasić is a researcher from Belgrade. His primary research interests relate to the history of the Yugoslav armed forces in the interwar period as well as after 1945. He is the author of more than 60 different publications (monographs, adapted collections of documents, articles, encyclopaedias) and he regularly presents himself at international conferences.

In 2014 he received a postgraduate scholarship from the Irish Research Council and in 2016 he was a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Sofia. In the years 2017 - 2018 he participated in the joint project War and Citizenship. Redrawing the borders of citizenship in World War I and its consequences at the Department of Humanities at Frederic II University, Naples, Italy.

A historian and researcher who has been lecturing film and media history, the history of consumption and current history at the University of Vienna (since 2006) and at the University of Innsbruck (2017). A curator of several film series and exhibitions. A historical and dramatic consultant, scriptwriter and co-author of television documentaries.

She has published many publications and DVDs on Austrian/European 20^th century history, film and media history, propaganda film, national identity, East-West stereotypes / Cold War, film censorship, film policy, advertising and industrial films.

She holds the courses "Consumption in the 20th Century" and "Media, Propaganda, Politics" at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové in winter semester 2018/2019.

Dr Rutger Kramer is currently a postdoc researcher within the SFB Visions of Community: Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400-1600 CE) (Austrian Science Fund F42, www.viscom.ac).

 As part of this project, he studies the founding of the authority of the Carolingian dynasty in Western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries, which was the subject of his first monograph.

 He has also worked and published in the area of comparative approaches to studies of the influence of the monastic culture on the development of the political discourse in Europe, Arabia and Tibet, and he is constantly interested in hagiographic narrative as well as in the influence of the "Middle Ages" on the modern world.

Dr. Tsoutsoumpis research interests are centred on the social, political and military history of South-eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. He is particularly interested in the creation and activities of the armed resistance groups during the Second World War, the history of paramilitary violence in the Balkans, and the history of the extreme right during the Cold War. Recently Dr. Tsoutsoumpis completed his first book, a monograph titled The People’s Armies: A History of the Greek resistance, which looks at the activities of the Greek resistance armies during the occupation.

The main research interests of Dr. Menelaou are Postcolonial History of Cyprus, Postocolonial History of Africa (especially Rwanda), Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities. 

She is a historian with a background in Social Sciences and Russian Studies. Also, she is based at the Department of Economic and Social History at University of Vienna. Currently, where she works on her habilitation project dealing with the conduct of life of Austrian government employees from the late Habsburg Empire to the National-Socialist Regime. Her further research interests are the history of work and livelihood, gender history, and the global division of labour in the social sciences and humanities. In the summer term 2022 she have been a visiting professor at the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.

Dr. Dagmara Łaciak is an assistant professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław. Her research is mainly focused on the blackened and painted pottery of the Bronze and the Early Iron Age in Central Europe, the development of investigations on manufacturing and surface treatment analysis. She involves both formal, functional, experimental, archaeometrical, and imaging analyses of pottery in research of prehistoric societies.

She lectured at the Department of Archaeology, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, in the summer semester of 2022, subject "Cognitive possibilities of archaeometric and experimental research in studies on prehistoric and ancient pottery“. The course dealt with the possibilities and limitations of archaeometric and experimental analyses on studies of various issues related to prehistoric and ancient ceramics. Particular emphasis was placed on getting acquainted with the theory and using it in practice.

A member of the Institute of History of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, who has closely cooperated with research institutions in Poland since 1999, visits the Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archival Science, FF UHK.

Among other things, he was a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw (2007-2013) and he has been a member of the Polish National Commission at UNESCO as part of a project at the Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Methodology of the University of Warsaw since 2017.

He mainly focuses on auxiliary historical sciences such as early modern sphragistics, diplomatics and iconography, further on church history and he examines Ukrainian manuscripts stored in foreign collections. On behalf of FF UHK he publishes several studies in scientific magazines entered in the ERIH+ and SCOPUS databases and he participates in teaching.

Dr Kwame Asah-Asante is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, which ranks among the best and largest universities in West Africa and in the entire Sub-Saharan Africa. Scientifically, he specializes in media, political communication and electoral behaviour, drawing on the rich experience of his previous journalistic profession.

He lectured at FF UHK for the first time in 2008 and since then he has been regularly returning with lectures focusing mainly on the political development in Ghana and West Africa. Dr Kwame Asah-Asante visits FF UHK thanks to the Erasmus International Credit Mobility funding.

Dr Margarita Jiménez Badillo, Doctor of Political Sciences and Sociologist, working at the International Institute of Political Sciences of the Autonomous University of Guerrero (Universidad autónoma de México) in Mexico, visited our Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové (UHK) in March 2017.

This Mexican expert, who has long been involved in the topics of political representation, electoral processes, the quality of democracy and violence, is also a member of the SNI-Conacyt National Research System and participates in the academic staff of Prodep-CA-148: Institutions, Democracy and Political Change within the research of parliamentary elites in Mexico (RELIPAMEX).

During her stay in Hradec Králové she offered students of the Philosophical Faculty the following courses: Legislative Representation in Latin America and Political Resistance: Democratic Institutions of Latin America.

Dr Lars Berge is the director of the Dalarna University Centre for African Studies (DUCAS), Sweden's leading Africanist centre.

In his lectures, which he has been performing for students of FF UHK since 2014, he mainly focuses on the history of South Africa (where he was staying among others at the Archbishop´s and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu´s within his research) and Ethiopia.

Dr Berge visits FF UHK within the Erasmus cooperation.

She studied economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Mayor de San Simon University in Cochabamba - Bolivia. She has been a researcher at the Centro de Planificación y Gestión (CEPLAG - UMSS) for nearly three years. She also worked at the Instituto Socio Ambiental Bolivia.
She mainly focuses on developmental models such as extractivism - non-extractivism, studying energy transition and lithium policies in Latin America.

In the winter semester 2018/2019, she teaches the course "Integration of renewable energies in developing economies: Bolivia" at the Philosophical Faculty of the UHK.

Professor, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

Carmen Rial is a professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), is a researcher of the CNPq (National Council of Scientific and Technological Development), and directs the Center for Visual Anthropology/Research Group on Urban Anthropology/UFSC. Her work focuses on cultural globalization, transnational migration, gender, consumption and sport. Publications in 2016 include four co-edited books: Migration of Rich Immigrants: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class (Palgrave, with Alex Vailati); Diálogos Antropológicos Contemporâneos (with Elisete Schwade); Antropologia audiovisual na prática. (with Alex Vailati, Matias Godio); and O Poder do Lixo: abordagens antropológicas dos resíduos sólidos. She has numerous recent publications on Brazilian soccer. Rial is Deputy Chair of WCAA and a former president of the Brazilian Anthropological Association.  

Dr Peter Trebsche is an Austrian archaeologist working as a scientific worker at the Donau-Universität Krems, also lecturing at the University of Vienna. He specializes in the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Central Europe.

His main topics include the issues of the settlement archaeology, prehistoric architecture or the acquisition of copper in the Bronze Age. During his stay in Hradec Králové, he will present the courses of the Iron Age in Austria - Key Locations and Current Trends in Research and Reconstruction of Prehistoric Architecture and the Austrian Open Air Museums to students of the Philosophical Faculty. 

Thomas R. Roček received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and he is currently a senior lecturer of anthropology at the University of Delaware.
His research interests include medium-sized companies, agricultural origins, mobility and sedentism, quantitative analysis, and in particular comparative approaches to archaeological analyses.
Recently, these comparative interests have included both the formation period in the south-western United States as well as the Neolithic period in the Czech Republic. He is a member of the Society for American Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, the European Association of Archaeologists, the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society and the Archaeological Society of New Mexico.

Professor Fisk focuses mainly on the topic of Ageing and Digital Health.