International Research Teams

The IRT must consist of a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 researchers. At least one IRT member must be an internal employee of FF UHK and foreign researchers must represent at least half of the IRT members.

1^st team - Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Peregrin, CSc. - Steps towards the naturalization of inferentialism

 

The aim of this project is to show how the philosophical doctrine of inferentiality can be treated as a thoroughly naturalistic approach to language, mind and society, drawing from cutting-edge research in special sciences and proposing its own progress.

It is part of a long-term research programme recently launched by prof. Peregrin and he will continue to work in close cooperation with three experienced researchers (Koreň, Risjord, Hlobil) who have additional theoretical knowledge. The grant should further exploit this potential and lead follow-up research projects (Call of EXPRO GACR), which are financed by external grant agencies, at a highly competitive level.

Budget for 2 years – CZK 2,000,000.00

Members - Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Peregrin (CZE)

                 Mgr. Ladislav Koreň, PhD. (CZE)

                 Prof. Mark Risjord, PhD. (USA)

                 Dr. Ulf Hlobil (CAN)

2^nd team – Mgr. Josef Wilczek, PhD. - Automatic extraction and interpretation of the formation of archaeological pottery

 

The main aim of the project is to propose a solution – work procedures - enabling (semi)automatic highlighting, quantification and interpretation of diagnostic traces on archaeological ceramics. The procedures will be based on quantitative analyses of 3D models of ceramics containing object information. The work procedures will allow to extract and to present the most complete information about the production history of each analysed container - from its origin from clay, through surface finish to final decoration - in a quantitative and easy-to-understand visual way.

In addition, the project will also automate the vessel operational determination process in order to increase the effectiveness of archaeological analyses and the interpretation of the archaeological ceramics. The project will also explore and discuss the possibilities of effectively sharing the analysed, annotated and interpreted 3D ceramic models with a wider scientific community, including a possible application of the extended and virtual reality.

Budget for 2 years – CZK 862,625.00

Members - Mgr. Josef Wilczek, PhD. (CZE)

                 Mgr. Richard Thér, PhD. (CZE)

                 Dr. Fabrice Monna (FRA)

                 Dr. Christian Gentil (FRA)

 

3^rd  team - Mgr. Karel Kouba, PhD. - Designing public policies through institutional analysis in political science - 5/2019-4/2021

 

The aim of the project is to explore new ways of using institutional analysis in political science to design public policy. It uses state-of-the-art methods of evaluating the effectiveness of specific institutional arrangements in four differently institutional conditions.

It asks four main research questions:

(1) What institutional configurations are the most suitable for organizing outgoing and incoming international flows of university students´ mobility?

(2) What institutional configurations are the most suitable to reduce invalid ballots in new democracies?

(3) What institutional arrangements are the most appropriate for indigenous political representations?

(4) What institutional settings are more favourable to the presence and success of independent candidates and party lists?

Budget for 2 years – CZK 1,496,000.00

Members - Mgr. Karel Kouba, PhD. (CZE)

                  Ing. Tomáš Došek, M.A., PhD. (CHILE)

 

4^th team – Mgr. Martina Bolom-Kotari, PhD. - Mediaeval Ecclesiastical Sigillography - 5/2019-4/2021

 

The project focuses on the research of medieval seals as a multi-layered cultural phenomenon and one of the most important means of the symbolic communication in societies throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.

The aim of the project is to re-conceptualize the procedures and objectives of sphragistic research using the concept of case studies and comparisons based on broader historical contexts, supported by the use of different types of historical sources. Using important examples of medieval Hungarian, Czech and Portuguese society and the church environment as one of the social pillars, the project endeavours to show how the seal accurately reflected the social order of time, as well as changes in the social climate and its dynamics. Thus it became a kind of immortal "body" that forms a bridge between the past and the people living today, carrying culturally encoded symbolic content.

Budget for 2 years – CZK 1,748,212.00

Members - Mgr. Martina Bolom-Kotari, PhD. (CZE)

                  Mgr. Miroslav Glejtek, PhD. (SVK)

                  Dr. Maria do Rosário Barbosa Morujao (PRT)

 

5^th team - doc. Mgr. Karel Kouba, Ph.D., M.A. - Formal and Informal Institutions and their Impact on Political Representation 1/2021-12/2022

 

This project will research the tensions between formal and informal institutional rules, and the ways that these contradictions and intersections affect political representation. The analysis will be focused on, but not limited to, three particular institutions where the interplay between formal and informal rules powerfully molds the outcomes in terms of representation – clientelism, prior consultations and compulsory voting. The project will produce 3 journal articles which will be authored or co-authored by the research team members. The European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator or Advanced grant will be submitted by the principal investigator with at least one other member of this IRT research team during the duration of this IRT project.

Budget for 2 years - 1 947 168,- Kč

Members - doc. Mgr. Karel Kouba, PhD., M.A. (CZE)

                  Ing. Tomáš Došek, M.A., PhD. (CHILE)

                  Dr. Maritza Paredes (PERU)