IMS 2026 Doctoral Conference

On Monday, May 25, the IMS is hosting another edition of the Doctoral Conference, where doctoral students who are completing their second year of study -or a higher year if they have not yet presented their research - will present and defend their research. This is therefore an opportunity for you to familiarize yourself with the research being conducted in our departments and to assist students with constructive criticism and commentary.

The conference will take place in Room C321, where students from the fields of Mezinárodní teritoriální studia s and Area Studies will present, and in Room C322, which will be dedicated to the fields of Moderní dějiny and Modern History.

Conference Program (MTS/AS):

• 9:00-9:45 - Klára Vedlichová: Mythologized past and multifaceted nostalgia for communism in contemporary Romania (Discussant: Veronika Pehe, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
• 9:45–10:30 - Shreya Sharma: Gendered Perspectives on India's Nuclear Weapons (Discussant: Jan Daniel, Institute of International Relations Prague)
• 10:40–11:25 - Hans Zdravko Harmens: Competitive Victimhood and Memory Politics: The Kosovo War and the Serbs in Kosovo (Discussant: Jessie Barton Hronešová, University College London)
• 11:25-12:10 - Anna Šillerová: Divided by Russia: Images of Russia in the Czech and Slovak Public Discourse (Discussant: Jozef Bátora, Comenius University Bratislava)
• 12:15–13:00 - Lucie Božková: Transformations of Serbia’s Strategic Narratives and Foreign Policy Identity in the Context of the Western Balkans (Discussant: Filip Tesař, University of Pardubice)

Conference Program (MD/MH):

• 9:00–9:45 - Monika Sekal: The Role of Fashion in the Development of the Czech Bourgeoisie between 1848–1914 (Discussant: Dr. Martin Klečacký, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS)
• 9:45–10:30 - Radana Rutová: Emigration of Jews from Czechoslovakia after WWII (Discussant: Prof. Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University)
• 10:45–11:30 - Markéta Kroupová: Performing Arts in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp (Dr. Laure Guilbert, Käte Hamburger Centre - Cultural practices of Reparation, Saarbrücken)
• 11:30-12:15 - Kinga Langowska: Feliks Gadomski (1898-1998). A microhistorical biography of an émigré activist (Prof. Dobrochna Kałwa, University of Warsaw)
• 2:00 PM–2:45 PM - Alicia Garcia: The New Man at Work: Socialist Psy-disciplines and Labor in Cuba and Czechoslovakia (Prof. Jennifer Lambe, Brown University)
• 2:45 PM–3:30 PM - Leo Stauber: The Arms Town of Steyr as a Home Front in the Global Cold War (Dr. Matěj Bílý, Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS)
• 3:45–4:30 PM - Theodor Spitzer: Journalists and Agents: American Media and Czechoslovakia from 1967 to 1969 (Prof. Kieran Williams, Drake University)