Successful defences of the dissertations of Jakub Střelec a Johana Kłusek

On Friday, 15.9.2023, our PhD student Jakub Střelec defended his dissertation "Homo Sapiens or Homo Brutalis? Psychiatric Knowledge, Violence and Criminality in Postwar Czechoslovakia, West Germany and Great Britain (1945-1970)" in the field of Modern History and thus received his Ph.D. The committee consisting of prof. Volker Zimmermann, Dr. Adéla Gjuričová, Dr. Christiane Brenner, doc. Rudolf Kučera (thesis supervisor) and doc. Tomáš Nigrin appreciated the high quality of the submitted dissertation. Jakub will work as a postdoc at the Institute for History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at the Charité Berlin, where he will participate in the ERC project "Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good".

On Wednesday, 27.9.2023, Johanna Kłusek, a Ph.D. student of Modern History at our institute, successfully defended her dissertation "Top hats for everyone: The Image of Great Britain in the Newspaper Discourses of Czechoslovakian Exile and its Afterlife in the Third Republic". The committee consisting of Darina Wolf (University of Munich), Lucie Storchová (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Vít Smetana (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, supervisor of the thesis), Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton) and Ota Konrád (Charles University) unanimously recommended the defense of the thesis and its publication after an inspiring discussion.

We warmly congratulate both and wish you the best of luck in the future career in academia!