Visiting Professors

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Dr Ulf Hlobil (summer semester 2016/2017)

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 Andrew Roth (winter semester 2017/2018)

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.

 

 Prof Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (summer semester 2018/2019)

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 Kemp (summer semester 2017/2018)

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.

 

Dr. Casey Doyle (summer semester 2019/2020)

 Dr. Doyle teaches Introduction to Philosophy of Mind to undergraduates and Self-Consciousness to graduate students. In the courses, Dr Doyle surveyed accounts of the self and self-knowledge across different philosophical traditions and historical periods. At UHK he worked on a research project entitled "Self-Knowledge and the Normativity of the Mental."

Dr. Doyle received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and was previously a Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford. He works at the intersections of epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind, focusing on self-knowledge and moral knowledge. Historical interests include Kant, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Murdoch, and Ryle. He has published in numerous general philosophy journals and co-edited the book New Essays in Epistemological Disjunctivism.

 

Assoc. prof. Ronald Loeffler (summer semester 2021/2022)

At the University of Hradec Králové, Ronald Loeffler taught an introductory course to ethics for undergraduate students and a seminar on recent developments in the literature on so-called mindreading for graduate students. The latter course focused mainly on how social stereotyping, biases, and enculturation affect our attributions of “inner thoughts” (beliefs, desires, intentions, motives, etc.) to others.

Prof. Loeffler is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University, Michigan (USA). He earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in the early 2000s. His area of research is in the philosophy of language, mind, and psychology, and meta-ethics, with special interest in exploring relations between our abilities to reason and to discourse with others on the one hand, and to recognize others as competent speakers and reasoners on the other hand. Prof. Loeffler is the author of an introductory monograph to the philosophy of Robert Brandom (Polity Press, 2018) and the co-editor of a volume on the practical philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars (forthcoming with Routledge). Moreover, he authored articles that appeared among other in Synthese, Erkenntnis, the European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and Philosophy Compass.

 

dr. Willem A. deVries (summer semester 2022/2023)

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire Willem A. deVries was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hradec Králové within the university's Mobility program. Previously, he also worked at Tufts University, Harvard University or Amherst College. He is the (co)author of professional publications, e.g. Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity; Knowledge, Mind, and the Given: A Reading of Sellars' "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" or Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars.

You can read an interview with him here.

 

Dr. Kris Hill (winter and summer semester 2024/2025)

Kris earned her PhD in Anthrozoology from the University of Exeter, UK. Her doctoral research focused on discourses surrounding roaming cats (Felis catus) and cat-human relations. Anthrozoology is the study of human interactions with members of other animal species and draws upon scholarship and methodological approaches from a wide range of disciplines. Kris’ research is primarily qualitative, utilising discourse analysis, content analysis, and multispecies ethnographic approaches to explore more-than-human relationships and multispecies cultural co-creation. Her academic areas of interests include more-than-human families, griefwork, animal representations, animals and tourism, cat-human cultures, and more-than-human research ethics. Since 2019, Kris has authored or co-authored over 15 peer-reviewed papers or book chapters and presented her research to a range of audiences. Read more about Kris’ research interests and collaborative project here: https://academiccatlady.com/

In 2023 Kris founded the Cat Academic Think Tank (e-CATT), which is a cross-disciplinary group of academics whose interests are related to domestic cats or small wild cat species. Since 2021, Kris has served as a Communications Officer for the Society of Companion Animal Studies (SCAS), and in 2023 joined the board of trustees. Kris co-organises an annual online student conference in human-animal studies (Anthrozoology as International Practice, AIP) and is a co-host on The Anthrozoology Podcast. Kris is also an associate editor for the relaunched journal, Sloth: A Journal of Emerging Voices in Human-Animal Studies.

 

INSTITUTE OF HISTORY

Mag. Dr. Birgitta Bader-Zaar (summer semester 2016/2017)

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 (winter semester 2017/2018)

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.

 

Dr. Sc. Stipica Grgić (summer semester 2017/2018)

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 (winter semester 2018/2019)

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.

 

 Dr. Karin Moser (winter semester 2018/2019)

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 (summer 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.

 

 PD Mag. Dr. Oliver Kühschelm (winter semester 2019/2020)

Oliver Kühschelm teaches history at the Universities of Vienna and Salzburg. In July 2020 he will take up a new position at the Institute of Rural History (IRH) in St.Pölten, Lower Austria, leading a research group on the history of migration. He has focused on 19th and 20th century Central Europe, with particular emphasis on the history of the middle classes, nationalism, consumption and advertising.

He has also pursued an interest in theoretical and methodological issues and published about historical discourse analysis and visual culture. He sits on the editorial board of zeitgeschichte and the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften/Austrian Journal of Historical Studies. He is lead editor of a societal history of Lower Austria in the long 19^th century (two volumes, to be published late 2020). A monograph on buy national campaigns in Austria and Switzerland, 1920–1980 (Zur Genealogie nationaler Ökonomien. Einkaufen als nationale Verpflichtung) will be published with the de Gruyter early 2021.

At the University of Hradec Králové he held courses on economic nationalism and the history of consumption.

 

Dr. Ekatěrina Klimenko (winter semester 2019/2020)

Dr. Klimenko received her Candidate of Sciences degree in Cultural Studies at the Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts in 2010. For a number of years, she taughts at various state universities in Saint Petersburg. She published articles and book chapters both in Russian and in English. Her latest publications are "Building the Nation, Legitimizing the State: Russia—My History and Memory of the Russian Revolutions in Contemporary Russia" In Nationalities Papers and "Towards Forgetting: Russia' s Account of the Stalinist Repression before and after the Ukraine Crisis" In Euxeinos. Her research interests are ethnicity and nationalism, nation-building and national identity, history politics and political use of the past; my research focus is on contemporary Russia. her current research project, “Church, State and “Russia – My History”: Narrating National History, Legitimating Vladimir Putin’s Regime” was supported by the Polish National Science Centre. 

 

Dr. John Paul Newman (summer semester 2019/2020)

 Dr John Paul Newman  is Associate Professor in Twentieth-century European History. He completed his PhD at the University of Southampton (supervised by Professor Mark Cornwall) and from 2008- 2011 he was an ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the project 'Paramilitary Violence after the Great War', to which he contributed a case study of violence in the Balkans. 

He is interested in the modern history of the Balkans and East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, I have published on veterans of the First World War, paramilitary violence, and the larger legacies left by war in the region. He has been working on a large research project looking at victorious societies and cultures of war victory in twentieth century Europe, a study of the Croatian General Josip Jelačić and the intersections of national and imperial identities in nineteenth-century Central Europe, and a book-length study of irregular warfare and paramilitary violence in the Balkans, provisionally titled ‘Freedom or Death: A History of Guerilla Warfare in the Balkans.

 

Dr. Spyros Tsoutsoumpis (summer semester 2021)

Dr. Spyros Tsoutsoumpis is an Associate Lecturer at Lancaster University. His primary interest lie in the history of paramilitarism, counter-insurgency and guerrilla warfare in the Balkans and Southern Europe.

Dr Tsoutsoumpis has held several fellowships and lectureships at the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Sofia, New Europe College in Bucharest and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He has published numerous journal articles and a monograph ‘A history of the Greek resistance during the Second World War: The people’s armies’ (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019)

 He holds the courses ‘Century of the Irregular: Insurgencies and Civil Wars in the 20^th century’ and ‘Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler’s Europe’ in the summer semester of 2020/2021

 

Dr. Iakovos Menelaou (winter semester 2022)

Iakovos Menelaou is a lecturer and research supervisor at Metropolitan College Athens . He is a member of the Balkan History Association. In the past, he taught in secondary and further education in the UK. At the University of Hradec Králové, he teaches Modern History focusing on the Cyprus problem and the Rwanda crisis.

Dr Menelaou studied History and Literature (BA) at the University of Ioannina, Medieval Studies (MA) at Queen’s University of Belfast, Theology (MTh) at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David and holds a PhD from King’s College London.

Dr Menelaou has broad academic interests and specialises in world history, world literature and education.

His monograph on the Cyprus problem has been published by Trivent Publishing, and a second book on the Greek poet Cavafy and the Medical Humanities will be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Dr Menelaou is a published poet. 

 

Dr. Therese Garstenauer (summer semester 2021/2022)

Therese Garstenauer is Elise Richter Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna. Her research interest lies in the history of work and livelihood, gender studies, and social studies of science. Her current research project is about the proper conduct of life of Austrian government employees in the interwar period. Recently, she has edited a volume of the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften/Austrian Journal of Historical Studies titled  “Historicizing Bureaucratic Encounters. From September 2022 on, she will be president of the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH), an international network of historians concerned with the history of labour relations, labourers, and the labour movement.

 At the University of Hradec Králové she has taught courses on gender and the division of labour throughout the last four centuries and on civil service from the perspective of global history.

 

Dr. Rebecca Shriver (winter semester 2022/2023)

Dr. Becca Shriver is teaching two courses during her time at UHK: an introductory historical survey of European cultural developments since 1500 and “Heart of Europe: Culture and Identity in Bohemia,” which is a seminar that includes students from UHK and her home institution, Missouri Southern State University. 

Dr. Shriver is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at MSSU. Her research focuses on transnational social movements, geopolitical identities, and international organizations. She has published several recent articles on women’s involvement in interwar European federalist organizations, which is also the focus of her current manuscript. While in the Czech Republic she is working on a new project that investigates peace organizations’ responses to minority conflicts in Eastern Europe during the 1930s.

 

Dr. Bruce Berglund (winter semester 2023/2024)

Dr. Bruce Berglund is an American historian of Russia, Central Europe, and world sport. His articles on world sports have appeared in the Washington Post and CNN Opinion, and he has been interviewed for media sites, television, and radio in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. He is currently writing a book on sports and politics in the Soviet Union and Russia, from the Stalin period to today.

Until 2018, Dr. Berglund was Professor of History at Calvin University in Michigan. Prior to that, he taught in the Russian & East European Studies program at the University of Kansas. A three-time Fulbright scholar, Dr. Berglund has visited the Czech Republic several times in the past for research work. He is author of Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague (CEU Press, 2017), a study of religion, culture, and politics in the First Czechoslovak Republic. His most recent book is The Fastest Game in the World (University of California Press, 2021), a global history of ice hockey. Dr. Berglund has also published twenty books for children on history, sports, and other subjects.

 

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Philipp Strobl (summer semester 2023/2024)

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Philipp Strobl is an Austrian historian focused on the history of Migration and the History of Knowledge. Befor joining the University of Vienna, he has worked at different universities in Austria, Germany, Australia, the United States, and Slovakia. His latest book “A History of Displaced Knowledge” (Brill), analyses how refugees from National Socialism have transferred, adapted and applied their cultural capital in a refugee context in Australia. In his current project at the University of Vienna, he researches the agency of refugees in postwar Austria as crucial players in the process of negotiation a legal equalization.

He is the founder and editor of the academic student journal “Historia Prima” at the University of Hildesheim as well as of the podcast Transit at the University of Vienna. His seminars in Hradec Králové are focused on a modern history of migration in Central Eastern Europe (MA seminar), as well as on the history of communication and networks during the past 150 years in Europe (Bachelor seminar).

 

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Tamara Scheer (winter semester 2024/2025)

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Scheer is an adjunct professor at the University of Vienna, Institute for Eastern European History. She acquired her venia docendi in 2020 with a thesis about Language and Loyalty in the Habsburg Army, 1867-1918. Since completing her doctoral thesis in 2007 about the state of emergency during First World War, she has been working at several institutions in Austria and abroad, among them her early post doc project about the Austro-Hungarian presence in Sanjak Novi Pazar, 1879-1908 at Andrássy University in Budapest, and with a Dobrovský Fellowship at the Masaryk Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.

Currently, she is also heading a research project entitled Turning a forgotten Burial Place of 450 Austro-Hungarian Soldiers from First World War in Rome into a 21st Century Memorial at the Pontifical Institute Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WJZv_SFwAc&t=12s

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF AUXILIARY HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHIVAL SCIENCE

Vitaliy Perkun, M.A., Ph.D. (winter semester 2017/2018)

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. Yurii Smolnikov (winter semester 2019/2020)

Dr. Yurii Smolnikov taught the courses “History of Propaganda and Information Warfare” and “Global Terrorism” at the UHK in the winter semester 2019-2020.  He received his PhD from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dr. Yurii Smolnikov is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Documentation at the National Aviation University (Kyiv, Ukraine) and at the Department of International Relations at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) where he teaches courses in history and political science.

His research is mainly focuses on nationalism, terrorism, far-right movements in Europe and the United States, and propaganda and information warfare. He is also one of the organizers of the international project “Involving Youth in Municipal Planning” (Ukraine, USA, Lithuania, Switzerland), designed to attract university students to local government.

 

Dr. Tomasz Kaluski (summer semester 2021)

Dr. Tomasz Kałuski is assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He graduated with a master's degree in history from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2004. He then obtained his PhD from the University of Zielona Góra in 2009. His PhD thesis was devoted to guild seals in Silesia (duchy of Głogów) from the Middle Ages till 19th century.

He has received several scholarships such as scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD 2007–2008 and again in 2016), then the Herder scholarship in Marburg in 2010. He was also a National Science Center grant holder in Poland from 2017-2018.

His research interests include: the auxiliary sciences of history, especially sphragistics and heraldry. He researches seals visuality and their active role in constructing identity of the pre-modern societies. Currently he focuses on the Cistercian seals in Silesia from the Middle Ages till the beginning of the 19th century.

 

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Dr. Kwame Asah-Asante (for the last time winter semester 2017/2018)

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 (winter semester 2017/2018)

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 (regularly since 2014/2015)

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.

 

Mgr. Fátima Zambrana Almaraz (winter semester 2018/2019)

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.

 

 Dr. Mauricio Barrera-Valencia (all academic year 2019/2020)

Dr. Barrera-Valencia held the courses “Neuropsychology: an Introduction”, “Writing and publishing in Spanish Scientific journals”, “Quantitative Research Methods: basic skills”, and “Etiology of Brain Injury in old people”. 

Dr. Barrera-Valencia is a full professor at the University of Antioquia (Colombia), visiting professor at Texas Tech University (USA), associated editor of Psychology Frontier Journal, and Revista de Psicología, CES Unversity. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the International Neuropsychology Society (INS). His research has been mainly focused to establish the effects of traumatic experience on the childhood brain, describing the emotional and cognitive domains involved in the traumatic response. At the same time, he deals with the relation between behavior and brain, trying to find out what it really could be localizable on the brain. 

He is author of more than 40 articles and chapters, and his work has been presented at international conferences and seminars. This year in collaboration with the Philosophical Faculty, he published an article entitled "Implicit processing of emotional words by children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An fMRI investigation”.

 

 Dr. Liliana Calderon-Delgado (winter semester 2019/2020)

Dr. Calderón-Delgado taught affective Neuroscience and Child Neuropsychology courses at the Philosophical Faculty, attended by students of the International Erasmus mobility program. These courses dealt with the development of the brain and its relation with emotion and cognition through childhood. 

Dr. Calderón-Delgado is a Scientific Director of the Psychology Laboratory and Professor of the Psychological Faculty at the CES University in Colombia. She acquired her doctorate degree from Maimonides University in Argentina. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and the International Neuropsychology Society. Her research is mainly focused on the neuropsychological evaluation and rehabilitation, and the development of psychosocial interventions for youth victimized by several forms of violence in Colombia. At the same time, she is involved in an international collaboration project, trying to figure out, what is going on after a traumatic experience into the children and adolescent brain.

Her work has been published in several international journals. Significant publications include Implicit processing of emotional words by children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An fMRI investigation (published by IJCHP, 2020), and Cognitive profiles of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and depression in children and adolescents (published by IJCHP, 2017).

 

Dr. Justo Jesus Tovar Mendoza (winter semester 2020/2021)

Dr. Jesús Tovar is Full Professor at Autonomous University of Mexico State since 2011. He is the current president of Mexican Political Science Association (AMECIP) and Executive Member of the Board of Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores en Campañas Electorales (ALICE); and Coordinator of Latino American Network of Quality of Democracy Studies.

 Dr. Tovar and Professor Leonardo Morlino led an international project about que Quality of Democracy in Latin America during 2009 to 2014. This research project was funded by Idea International and covered 15 Latin American countries and more than 30 researchers from 20 universities in Europe and Latin America. As a result of this research, the book The quality of democracy in Latin America was published in 2017.

During his stay in Hradec Kralove, Prof. Tovar teaches the course: “Comparative Politcs in Latin America” at the Philosophical Faculty of the UHK. His research topic is the democratic waves in Latin America and also works the relationship between democracy and Covid 19 pandemia in these times.

 

As. professor Yuliya Krylova-Grek, PhD. (summer semester 2021/2022)

Prof. Yuliya Krylova-Grek teaches the psycholinguistic aspect of media communication at the Department of Political Science FF UHK. The course deals with media as a political tool of influence on the audience’s consciousness.

Prof. Yuliya Krylova-Grek acquired her doctorate degree from H.S. Kostyuk Institute of Psychology of the NAES of Ukraine. Her research interests are psycholinguistics, media communication, media and information literacy. She gives close attention to methods and tools that are used in media to influence consciousness and shape public opinion. At the same time, Professor deals with the humanitarian aspects of cybersecurity and considers how language is used by social engineers for personal data breach. Her latest research deals with the influence of the mass media on people’s consciousness and behaviour. She is the author of the methodology of psycholinguistic text analysis.

The methodology is used for media text analysis, identification and search for evidence of the existence of hidden hate speech, fake news, disinformation, and manipulation. The methodology was applied within an international project “Free voices: Promoting Independent Media in the Target Region”, featuring the Crimean Human Rights Group.

Professor Krylova-Grek has more than 20 years of teaching experience at Ukrainian universities. Now she both holds the position of an associate professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is affiliated with the H.S. Kostyuk Institute of Psychology of the NAES of Ukraine. She is the author of more than 30 publications on the aforementioned topics, including articles, conference proceedings, and monographs.

She is the director of NGO «The Institute of psycholinguistics research IPLR» and a member of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL). 

 

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Dr. Peter Trebsche (summer semester 2017/2018)
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.

Dr. Thomas R. Roček (winter semester 2018/2019)

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.

Dr. Karen Rosenberg (winter semester 2018/2019)

Karen Rosenberg is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware.  She is paleoanthropologist (B.A. University of Chicago, 1976, M. A. University of Michigan, 1980, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1986). 

Her research is on Neandertals and their contemporaries, the origin of modern humans and the evolution of human childbirth, human infant helplessness and their implications for humans today in terms of both behavior and health.   She has been at the University of Delaware since 1986, serving as chair of the Department of Anthropology from 2002-2014.   She holds editorial positions as co-founding editor of PaleoAnthropology, and as Associate Editor for PLoS One and Evolution, Medicine and Public Health.  She served as vice-president (2010-2012) and president (2013-2015) of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and was recently elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 Dr. Joan Pinar Gil (summer semester 2019)

He obtained his academic qualifications in Barcelona and Bologna, and gained experience as a post-doc researcher in Olomouc, Copenhagen, Paris, Turin, and Mainz. His main area of expertise is the archaeology of South-Western Europe during the 4th-9th century, with a special focus on funerary archaeology and metal small finds.

He has researched a number of issues related to mobility, fashion dissemination, identity, social organization, spatial analysis, topography, economy, trade, and craftsmanship. During his stay in Hradec Králové, he will try to share with the students the manifold and deep transformations of the cultural landscapes and the material culture between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, and the ways archaeology can approach them.

 

Prof. Pawel Valde-Nowak (winter semester 2019/2020)

Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is a world-renowned scientist in the field of research, especially in the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. It focuses on research into the technology of the stone chipped industry, on research into the Quaternary, the application of geographical methods, archaeological research into the settlement of mountain areas (Carpathians, etc.), seasonal and cave stations. During his long scientific career, he has led a number of national and international scientific projects and archaeological research not only in Poland (eg Ciemna Cave, Kraków-Witkowice II, Lipnica Wielka, Żerkow), but also abroad (eg Tel Erani-Israel).

In recent years, he has been conducting archaeological excavations of cave sites in the Polish Tatras with evidence of settlement from the Late and Middle Paleolithic. In the Obłazowa Cave (near the village of Nowa Biała) he discovered the oldest human remains in Poland, but also the oldest boomerang in the world. He is the director of the Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He lectured at UHK In the winter semester of 2019/2020 he lectured at the Department of Archeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Hradec Králové, two subjects "Palaeolithic cave- and open air sites in Poland on the European background" and "Archeology of mountainous areas. A case of different archeology “

 

Dr. Michelle Beghelli  (summer semester 2020)

Dr. Beghelli is primarily interested in Early Medieval Archaeology. At UHK, Philosophical Faculty, she has taught two courses focused on "Crafts and artisans in the 7th-9th centuries", and on "Building in stone and the economics of lithic materials in the Early Middle Ages".

 

Dr. Beghelli graduated from the University of Bologna and acquired her PhD at the University of Mainz. Her thesis was awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. She received doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships, has worked in international research projects, participated in conferences in several European Countries, and authored and co-edited a number of scientific papers and books.    

 

Dr. Dagmara Łaciak (summer semester 2021/2022)

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.

 

Dr. Martina Dalceggio (winter semester 2022/2023)

Dr. Martina Dalceggio teaches two courses of Early Medieval Archaeology of Italy, focused on material culture, production centres and funerary behaviours of elite in the Italian peninsula, at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, FF UHK.

In 2022 she completed her Ph.D. in European Cultures, Environment, Contexts, Histories, Arts, Ideas -Cultural Heritage curriculum- from the University of Trento, whit a research project focused on elite female burials in the Italian peninsula during Lombard Age. Dr. Dalceggio have collaborated with the Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum, in Trento, one of the main local institutions for Cultural Heritage and research in the Trentino region. She has participated in archaeological excavation campaigns in northern Italy and Sicily, also in collaboration with Hradec Králové University. Dr. Dalceggio published her Master thesis in 2018, “Fibule a disco di VI-VII secolo in Italia”, and other papers in Italian, German, and Hungarian journals.

 

Assoc. prof. Elisa Possenti (summer semester 2023/2023)

Elisa Possenti studied in Venice (MA) and Bologna (PhD). Since 2006 she is an Assoc. Prof. of Christian and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Trento. Her amin interests concern the archaeological evidences of "barbarians people" in Italy during the late Antiquity and Middle Ages, untul the 10/11th century AD. Other studies have focalized funerary archaeology in Middle Ages; production, chronology and trade of early medieval metallic items; the alpine areas with particular regard to late antique/medieval castles and churches.

 

Dr. Joanna Markiewicz (winter semester 2023/2024)

 

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

Dr. Pavel Šindlář (summer semester 2019)

Pavel Sindlar has a bachelor’s degree from gender studies and doctoral degree in sociology from Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic. His main interest lies in the fields of international migration, transnationalism, social integration, startups and enterpreneurship. Currently working as project coordinator at Business Angels Norway and operational manager at Oslo International Hub and it’s sister Bærum International Hub. Pavel’s early career was in various fields, working in project management, recruitment and relocation. While completing his education Pavel worked at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Beijing, as external recruiter for Amazon UK and relocation consultant for Foreigners CZ. Prior finishing his PhD in 2017 and moving to Norway, Pavel has worked in several research roles and gained international experience by working in UK, China, Czech Republic and Japan.

 

Dr. Oldřich Bubák (winter semester 2020/2021)

Dr. Bubák teaches a course Paradigms, Philosophies, and the Collective State of Mind, which begins with a different look at the contemporary discourse and leads students across the Faculty to appreciate its key underlying socio-cultural workings, dynamics with implications to politics, the prevailing social scientific approaches, and ultimately to social progress.

Oldřich Bubák is an author and an academic focusing on society, politics, and culture. The author's research facilitated by his extensive theoretical and practical training helps his students appreciate issues stemming from complexity, interconnectedness, and uncertainty. He is intrigued by transdisciplinary inquiry that, in his view, brings the greatest strides forward in the intellectual progress. Aside from the wealth of his industry experience, he served as a research associate at George Mason University’s System Architectures Laboratory. Most recently, the scholar has conducted advanced research in public policy at McMaster University, Canada, from which he also holds a doctorate in comparative public policy. 

His last book (with H. Jacek), Trivialization and Public Opinion: Slogans, Substance, and Styles of Thought in the Age of Complexity (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), was distinguished as one of Springer Nature’s top research works of 2019.

 

Dr. Dirk Schuster (summer semester 2022/2023)

Dr Dirk Schuster taught the course Processes of secularization, secularity, and non-religiousness in Central and Eastern Europe at the Department of Sociology at FF UHK. In the course the students got an overview about different theories related to the phenomenon of secularization. Also, different country specific examples were given.

Dr Dirk Schuster is Research Assistant at the Center for Museum Collections Management at the University for Continuing Education Krems (Austria) and lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. He studied History and Religious Studies in Leipzig (Germany) and acquired his doctorate degree from Freie University Berlin. His main research topics are religion during the Nazi period, secularization processes and also atheist worldview in communist ideology.

As editor he published different books, for example Communicating Religion and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe (Berlin 2020), articles, and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals and edited books.

For the full list of publications visit https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-7668

 

INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL WORK 

prof. Malcolm Fisk (winter semester 2021/2022)

Prof Fisk taught a course on Digital Health: Theory and Practice at the Department of Social Work that was attended by undergraduate and Masters degree students. In the course, Prof Fisk gave special attention to the challenges and opportunities of digital health (telehealth) at the ‘interface’ of health and social care. Important issues were addressed including the lack of a coherent social theoretical framework that could guide social workers and social care staff in their advocacy and/or use of relevant technologies (from portable smartphones, wearables and apps to devices that can monitor people’s physiological signs at home). Such technologies, it was pointed out, can on the one hand provide health and social care service staff with a means of monitoring and surveillance; and on the other hand, can enable, empower and motivate people through their enhanced access to networks, services, knowledge, work and training opportunities. 

Malcolm Fisk is Professor of Ageing and Digital Health at De Montfort University, Leicester (United Kingdom) but has a ‘rounded’ portfolio that includes extensive periods of work in municipal government (housing and social services) and the private sector (research and the electronics industry). He has a long track record with regard to the use of technologies by or provided for older people and recently led two major European Commission funded projects (TeleSCoPE and PROGRESSIVE) that addressed some of the challenges. His various expert UK appointments include NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) and (formerly) government-appointed Chair of the National Partnership Forum for Older People in Wales.

Prof Fisk is well published in academic and professional journals and he is a regular, often keynote, speaker at international conferences. His new book ‘The Telehealth Paradigm: Time to Care Differently’ is due for publication in 2022.  

LANGUAGE CENTRE

dr. Nataliia Styrnik (summer semester 2021/2022)

Dr Nataliia Styrnik teaches English and Cross-Cultural Communication course for the Bachelor’s students at Department of Political Sciences of FF UHK. Students of the Philosophical Faculty have an opportunity to join Speaking Club and Grammar Workshop to discuss burning topics and practise grammar points. Among the main questions which are considered at Cross-Cultural Communication course: Cultural Adaptation, Stereotypes and Bias, Education and Personal Development, Language and Psychology, Effective Communication Strategies.

Dr Nataliia Styrnik, PhD in Philology, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language for Non-Philological Specialities at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Ukraine. Her professional interests lie within the formation of foreign language competence, cultural studies, international information and communications, foreign literature (especially from the modernist era), questions of translation studies, academic writing and EHEA standards of postgraduate education. She also has a background in journalism.

Her research activity comprises more than 100 academic papers, including publications in Web of Science, course books (study courses for practical classes with students), articles co-authored with students, literary translations.

Dr Styrnik is a participant of Erasmus+ EU Projects and international internships. She is a member in scientific and scholarly societies.