Positions

Education

• Area Studies, Department of Russian and East European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Ph.D. candidate since 2012
• Russian and East European Studies, Department of Russian and East European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, MA (Mgr.), 2012
• Erasmus student Exchange, Facultatea de Studii Europene, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Erasmus student Exchange, 2011
• Area Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, BA (Bc.), 2009

Academic awards

• Dean's Award for the Representation of the Faculty of Matthematics and Physics, 2019
• Dean´s award of excellence for MA Thesis Ion Iliescu and his role in the forming of modern Romanian democracy, 2012
• Suma cum Laude MA Diploma for excellent study results, 2012

Research grants

• H2020, Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe (DEMOS), co-investigator, 2019–2021
• H2020, Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neofeudalism (POPREBEL), co-investigator, 2019–2021
• NAKI II. „Prameny Krkonoš. Vývoj systému evidence, zpracování a prezentace pramenů k historii a kultuře Krkonoš a jeho využití ve výzkumu a edukaci“, Co-author and co-investigator of the project MFF CUNI, 2020–now
• IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) Grant "Manifestations of Antisemitism in the Visegrad countries" (led by Tom Lántos Institute Budapest), researcher, 2018-2021
• European Commission’s ‘Rights, Equality and Citizenship’ Programme "Manifestations of Antisemitism in the Visegrad countries" (led by Tom Lántos Institute Budapest), researcher, 2018-2021
• Charles University PRIMUS, Project title: Beyond Hegemonic Narratives and Myths, Junior Investigator, 2017–now
• Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, Project title: “We had live somehow, we had to survive…” Jews in Greece 1944–2012, co-investigator, 2016–now
• Specific University Research at the Charles University in Prague – Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport fo the Czech Republic, Populism in the Times of Crisis, 2014
• Charles University Grant Agency, Three-Years Research Project, Policy of Romanian State Towards Hungarian Minority co-investigator, 2013–2015
• International Visegrad Fund Western Balkans+, Thinking for Governance, co-investigator on behalf of the Association for International Affairs, 2013–2014

Research fellowships

• Teaching and Research Mobility Fellowship, Charles University, carried out at Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, 2016
• Research fellowship, Center for Doctoral Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, carried out at the Charles University, IOS Regensburg and Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, 2015–2016
• DAAD Short-Term Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, carried out at IOS Regensburg, 2015
• PhD Studies Mobility Fellowship, Charles University, carried out at Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, 2014

Recent conferences

• January 2020 (27–28) – Malach Centre for Visual History on its 10th Anniversary: Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference, MFF UK, Prague.
• December 2019 (9 –10) – CENTRAL Research Infrastructure Annual Conference, Universität Wien, Austria. 
  Presentation: „Transylvanian Regional Identity and its Political Reflection after 1989“.
• December 2019 (6–7) – Beyond 1989. Hopes and Disillusions after Revolutions, Filozofická Fakulta UK, Prague.
  Presentation: „Persistent Burden: Post-1989 Romania and The Quest for Democratic Maintenance“.
• November 2019 (20–21) – CLARIN General Assembly Conference, Prague.
  Guest Speaker: „Malach Center for Visual History in Research Practice“.
• November 2019 (8–9) – 5th International Balkan Studies Conference „Balkan Express“, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, Prague.
  Presenter: „Roundtable: The future of Balkan studies“.
• November 2019 (1.) – Kolokvium Stages of Ethnic and Nationalist Violence: Perspectives of the Global ‘North’ and ‘South’. Centrum Vizuální Historie Malach, Prague.
  Organizator: consortium CVH Malach, Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice​, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, BOHEMS UK a VITRI UK.
• October 2019 (20–22) – ORATOR Project Workshop, Université de Luxembourg.
  Presentation: „Malach Center for Visual History and Accessible Technologies“.
• September 2019 (25–27) – European Association for Digital Humanities Annual Conference 2019 , Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
  Presentation: „Challenges of integrating multiple divergent audiovisual oral history collections: the case of the Malach Center for visual history in Prague“.

Memberships

• Czech Association for Digital Humanities since 2020
• Association for Jewish Studies since 2018
• Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies since 2018
• Society for Romanian Studies, member since 2014

Selected publications

• Králová, Kateřina a Jiří Kocián. „German Collective Guilt in the Narratives of Southeast European Holocaust Survivors“. In German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century, ed. Christopher A. Molnar and Mirna Zakic. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-8229-4645-8.
• Kocián, Jiří, Jakub Mlynář a Petra Hoffmannová (eds.). Malach Centre for Visual History on its 10th Anniversary: Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference. Praha: Matfyzpress, 2020.
• Asavei, Maria Alina and Jiří Kocián. "Gendered Histories/Memories of Labour in (Post-) Communist Romania and Former Czechoslovakia Illuminated through Artistic Production". In Analize - Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies 8, 22 (2017): 9-37.
• Mejstřík, Martin, Michal Kubát and Jiří Kocián (eds). Populismus v časech krize (Populism in the Time of Crisis). Praha: Karolinum, 2017.
• Králová, Kateřina and Hana Kubátová. Návraty: Povalečná rekonstrukce židovských komunit ve střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropě. (Returns: Post-War Reconstruction of Jewish Communities in Central, East and South-East Europe). Praha: Karolinum, 2016 (co-author). 
• Králová, Kateřina, Jiří Kocián, and Kamil Pikal (eds.). Nationale Minderheiten im sozialistichen Jugoslawien: Brüderlichkeit und Eigenheit (National Minorities in Socialist Yugoslavia: Brotherhood and Particularity). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 2015.