Mgr. Claudia Hildegarde Galantha Macey-Dare, BA

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5430-6541

Claudia Macey-Dare is an Anglo-Slovak PhD candidate in Area Studies (full-time / government-funded) based at Univerzita Karlova v Praze. Her research is supervised by Dr. Maria-Alina Asavei and focuses on the memory of socialism in contemporary Central and Eastern European literature, as well as the interactions between law and personal / collective identity, and the development of language policy in former socialist states. Her consultant is Dr. Simona Mitroiu at Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" in Iași. She is a member of the Research Center for Memory Studies, and Ukraine in a Changing Europe, as well as the Ukraine Policy Network at the University of Birmingham.

Claudia has received scholarships from both the Latvian and Slovak governments, as well as the POINT grant from Univerzita Karlova, and a Hlávkova nadace (Hlávkova Fountation) grant. She has studied at both King's College London (BA, 2020), and the University of Cambridge (Diplomas, 2017, 2018, 2019), as well as conducting funded study / research stays at Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Rēzekne), Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Her chapter 'Weaving between Meta-Narratives of Multiple Pasts' has recently been published in The Fluidity of Collective Memory (Bloomsbury, 2026), and she is currently an assistant for a special issue of the Memory Studies journal focusing on the Prague 2025 Memory Studies Association annual conference. Her other professional experience involves both time spent on the Civil Service Fast Stream (DWP), and at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, where she worked on Sudanese policy. In her free time she is chief co-editor of the Central Asia Forum, a graduate journal of Central Asian affairs, and she is currently completing her AKC at King's College London. 

Conferences and Workshops

2026 - 'Wandering through the Memories of Post-Socialist Central Europe: How to Olga Tokarczuk's 'Bieguni', and Martin M. Šimečka's 'Príhody Tuláka po Slovensku' use Literary Postmodernism to Address Shifting Identities' at The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) annual conference at the University of Birmingham (UK). 

2025 - 'We Need to Talk about Class: An Open Discussion about Positionality and the Role of Class in De-Colonial Practice' roundtable chair at the 'Decolonial Approaches and Fieldwork: Theory and Practice' workshop at Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic). 

2025 - ‘“Za Komunizmu bolo Lepšie”: Petite Histoire and Contested memories of Socialist Repression in “Príhody Tuláka po Slovensku”’ at the 'Mobilizing and Weaponizing Memories of Soviet Repressions’ conference at the University of Warsaw (Poland).

2025 - 'Postmodernism in Contemporary Central European Literature' at the 'Materialities of Memory in Central, East and South-East Europe’ workshop as part of the CENTRAL network at the University of Warsaw (Poland).

2025 - ‘Shamed for the Crimes of Their Fathers: Legislative and Artistic Responses to Children Born of Wartime Sexual Violence within the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina' at the ‘Echoes of Conflict: Health Consequences of War and Violence Across Generations’ conference at Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic).