Area Studies Research Seminar
Area Studies Research Seminar
The area studies research seminar offers a platform for an internal debate on the on-going and planned research at the Institute of International Studies. The presenters are IMS researchers as well as guests from Czech and foreign research institutions. The seminar is intended for all IMS staff and Ph.D. students.
The program for the 2025/2026 academic year can be found below on this page. The seminars are held in person in the meeting room (No. A125) in the A building of Jinonice Campus (U Kříže 8, Prague 5) and also online via Zoom, at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., unless noted otherwise.
From 2019 to 2022 the seminar was organized with the support of the Jean Monnet Chair TeDEUSS - Teaching and Debating EU Small States' Security.
Future Lectures
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| TBA | TBA | TBA |
Past Lectures - AY 2025/2026
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 18. 5. 2026 11:00 | Fabian Burkhardt (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies) | From “Contingent Consent” to Draft Evasion: The Frictions of Military Mobilization and Compliance in Wartime Ukraine |
| 13. 5. 2026 11:00 | Sandrine Kott (Honorary Professor / Contemporary History) | International Organizations: The Historians’ Perspective |
| 27. 4. 2026 11:00 | Gianina Joldescu Stan (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) | Youth, Memory, and Urban Belonging. A New Perspective on Cluj’s Cultural Identity |
| 20. 4. 2026 11:00 | Philippe Thomet (Universität Bern) | A Region in Limbo: Carpatho-Ukraine / Podkarpatská Rus between Crumbling Hungarian Statehood, Rivaling Military Occupations and French Geopolitical Interests, 1918–1921 |
| 23. 3. 2026 11:00 | Maren Röger (Universität Leipzig) | A European History of Violence against Women: Challenges of a Book Project |
| 9. 3. 2026 11:00 | John C. Swanson (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Senior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, Budapest) | Lili’s World: Lili Jacob, Bilky, and the Auschwitz Album |
| 2. 3. 2026 11:00 | Hoi Sik Jang (IMS FSV UK) | South Korea’s Cold War Diplomacy with Czechoslovakia |
| 16. 2. 2026 11:00 | Natalia Dziadyk (IMS FSV UK) | Decolonizing Knowledge on War-Driven Displacement: The Russo-Ukrainian War, Migration Studies, and the Ethics of Knowledge Production |
| 8. 12. 2025 11:00 | Baldur Thorhallsson (University of Iceland) | Small States Between Giants: Iceland’s Relations with the US, Russia, and China |
| 1. 12. 2025 12:30 | Ekaterina Domorenok (University of Padua) | Implementing the Just Transition Fund: patterns of multilevel governance |
| 24. 11. 2025 11:00 | Rachel O'Sullivan (IMS FSV UK) | Holocaust Education in European Societies: The Challenges of National History, Identity and Victimhood |
| 10.11.2025 11:00 | Natalia Aleksiun (University of Florida) | Accounting for gratitude: Jewish survivors and their rescuers in the first postwar decade |
| 3. 11. 2025 11:00 | Jakub Beneš (University College London) | Discussion of The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe |
| 24. 10. 2025 10:00 | Jan Rovný (Sciences Po) | Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy |
