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Successful Dissertation Defense by Modern History PhD Candidate Tereza Juhászová
Yesterday, on September 15, 2025, Tereza Juhászová, PhD candidate in Modern History, successfully defended her dissertation with the highest distinction (Summa Cum Laude). Her thesis, entitled “Navigating Turbulent Times: A Microhistory of a Multilingual Small Town in Mid-20th Century Slovakia”, was prepared within a cotutelle program between our Institute and the University of Regensburg, under the supervision of Prof. Kateřina Králová and Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer. The defense committee was chaired by Prof. Guido Hausmann, with Prof. Pavel Kolář and Prof. Chad Bryant serving as reviewers. -
Book Launch: Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe
Výzkumné centrum Small (Nation-)States within/without Empires and Unions (IMS FSV UK) srdečně zve na křest knihy Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe: Small State Responses to Economic Changes, 1960s–1980s, jejížmi editory jsou Adrian Brisku, Martin Gumiela a Lars Fredrik Stöcker. -
Ota Konrád’s Study on the History of Domestic Violence in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Ota Konrád has published an article in the Journal of Family History titled "When Is It Violence? Social Recognition of Domestic Violence in Czech Society Under State Socialism, 1948–1989." The study examines domestic violence in socialist Czechoslovakia as a social phenomenon shaped by specific historical, cultural, and social conditions. -
Invitation to Enroll: Seminar on Central and Eastern European History (JTD022, Fall 2025)
Are you interested in exploring cutting-edge research and debates in Central and Eastern European history while collaborating with graduate students from abroad? Join us for the Fall 2025 graduate seminar "Central and Eastern European History", co-taught by Prof. Ota Konrád and Prof. Chad Bryant (UNC-Chapel Hill), and offered in cooperation with the University of North Carolina through its Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) initiative. -
New Visiting Fellow at IMS – Natalia Dziadyk
The Institute of International Studies, FSV UK, is pleased to welcome Natalia Dziadyk as a Visiting Fellow within the joint fellowship between the Research Centre Ukraine in a Changing Europe and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. -
CENTRAL Workshop 2025: Materialities of Memory in Central, East and South-East Europe
Last week, four RCMS members – Kateřina Králová, Tereza Juhászová, Ivana Koutníková and Claudia Macey, joined colleagues from Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna and Budapest at the CENTRAL Workshop 2025: Materialities of Memory in Central, East and South-East Europe!
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SIMS
SIMS is an informal association of the IMS students. Its task is to solve students' problems, so as to bridge the imaginary gap between them and the instructors. Another activity of the SIMS is to organize traditional social and educational events for (not only) the IMS students. These events include, for example Welcome Party, Christmas Part, Karaoke Party, lectures on current topics or an Orientation Week for the first years of the Bachelor's degree studies.
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Study Programmes
High-quality education, young and creative academic team, an immense number of student activities, modern lecture rooms... these are just a few reasons why you should apply for one of our English language degree programmes and study at Faculty of Social Sciences in the very heart of historical city of Prague! Check our BA and MA study programmes now!
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Alumni
The Institute values its graduates and likes to meet them at the traditional reunion in Grébovka. This year's reunion took place on 28 May 2024 in the restaurant Pavilion Grébovka in Havlíčkovy sady. At the meeting we celebrated together the significant 30th anniversary of our institute. The graduates were welcomed by the director of the institute, doc. Tomáš Nigrin. The event was also attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Lipavský.
