Research
Science and Research at the IMS
Within the framework of the FSV research plan and in a number of other Czech and European grants, the Institute's members are developing the theory, methodology and the empirical research in all the major areas of social sciences.
The Institute publishes its own magazine, Studia Territorialia, which is a reviewed academic magazine covering Area Studies.
The students are also involved in the Institute's scientific activities as assistants or researchers, or as the main investigators in the projects of the Charles University Grant Agency (GA UK).
Research Projects
Institute publications
News
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PhD student Lamiya Panahova published an article on the role of the EU in resolving the conflict in Karabakh
Doktorandka z Katedry ruských a východních studií Lamiya Panahova publikovala v odborném časopise Problems of Post-Communism článek s názvem Recognition of the EU’s Actorness in the Karabakh Peace Process by Azerbaijan. -
IMS FSV UK opens a PhD/junior researcher position within the project “Understanding and Experiencing Sexual Violence in the Late Habsburg Monarchy”
The Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, is opening a junior researcher / PhD student (1.0 FTE) position within the research project “Understanding and Experiencing Sexual Violence in the Late Habsburg Monarchy,” a three-year project funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) and led by Prof. Ota Konrád (IMS, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University). The researcher will join a wider project team, including Dr. Tereza Juhászová. -
New research article by doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D., in the YSU Journal of International Affairs
We are pleased to announce that Doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D., in collaboration with Dr. Klodiana Beshku, has published a new research article in the YSU Journal of International Affairs entitled A Tale of Two States: Explaining the Divergent Outcomes of the EU Soft-Transformative Power in Albania and Georgia. -
Call for papers! Special Issue Memory Studies: Memory and Resilience
Following the MSA Prague 2025 Conference we invite all Prague participants and all current Memory Studies Association members to contribute to the Special Issue Memory Studies: Memory and Resilience, which will be co-edited by Maria Alina Asavei, Kateřina Králová, and Juliane Tomann. The deadline (for proposals) is Dec 15, 2025. -
SnS Talk: “Globalizing the Balkan Wars (1912–13): How Balkan Nation-States Shaped Military Innovation across Europe”
Rádi bychom Vás pozvali na diskuzi, kterou bude ve čtvrtek 11. prosince 2025 pořádat výzkumné centrum Small (Nation-)States Research Centre. Diskuze s názvem "Globalizing the Balkan Wars (1912–13): How Balkan Nation-States Shaped Military Innovation across Europe” proběhne od 15:30 do 17:30 hodin v místnosti C423 (a také online na platformě Zoom) a bude vedena historikem Dr. Jovo Miladinovićem z Univerzity v Kostnici. -
Prof. Králová will be presenting her book at Yale University
We are delighted to share that Kateřina Králová, head of RCMS will be giving a talk at Yale University next week on her book, Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946 (Brandeis University Press, 2025). It explores the rarely told stories of Greek Jews who returned home after World War II—revealing the complex realities of survival, loss, and reintegration in postwar Greece.
