Seminář obecných a komparativních dějin  

		Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts Institute of World History  Seminar of General and Comparative History   Nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic
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European cities and their modernisation in comparative perspective. Social organisation of space and demographic development. Problems of innovations as an aspect of the modernisation process and further to the problem of perception and interpretation of the changes in towns by those who witnessed these changes. Most recently small peripheral rural towns and their strategies for change (usage of history, heritage, innovations) and on the attitude of urban societies towards innovations. In broad context the issue of cultural identities and perceptions of various othernesses.

 

2005 – 2009 - CLIOHRES.net – Research network of excellence supported by the 6FP of EC. Leader of thematic workgroup „Frontiers and Identities“.

 

2005 – 2009 - „Modern Europe – unity and diversity: European culture and identity, 18th – 20th century“, leader of the team within research framework: VZ - MSM 0021620827 České země uprostřed Evropy v minulosti a dnes (main coordinator: prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Beneš, CSc.)

 

Personal project – the Backward as the „Other". The problem of rural (peripheral) regions, untouched by (large) industrialisation, perception of peripherality, identification with backwardness. Innovative spirit, historical heritage and small rural towns.

 

Results: www.cliohres.net  - publications and activities of the Thematic workgroup 5: Frontiers and Identities

 

 

 

Imagining Frontier, Contesting Identities, Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, Pisa 2007, 458 s. (co-editor with ELLIS, Steven G.)

 

Frontiers and Identities: Exploring the Research Area, Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, Pisa 2006, 214 s. (co-editor with ELLIS, Steven G.)

 

Meeting the Other, Studies in Comparative History, pro Studia Historica LVI, AUC, Philosophica et Historica  2/2003, Praha 2006 (co-editor with KUBIŠ Karel)

 

”We” and ”the Others”: European Societies in Search of Identity, Studies in Comparative History, Studia historica LIII, AUC Philosophica et Historica 1/2000, Praha 2004, 275 s. (editor)

 

The Road to Constantinople. The Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Towns through Christian Eyes, ISV: Praha 2002, 248 p.

 

Peripheries or Crossroads of Cultures? Towns of East-Central and South-Eastern Europe in Urbanistyka, Miedzyuczelniane zeszyty naukowe, 5, Warszawa 2000, Special edition, Session Papers for Fifth International Conference on Urban History: European Cities: Networks and Crossroads Berlin 30 August – 2 September 2000, 64 p. (co-editor with GZELL Slawomir).

 

Criteria and Indicators of Backwardness. Essays on Uneven Development in European History, Praha 1996, 200 p. (co-editor with HROCH Miroslav).

 

 

 

 

Between Urban and Rural Culture: Public Use of History and Cultural Heritage in Building Collective Identities (1990 – 2007), in KLUSÁKOVÁ, Luďa - TEULIERES, Laure (eds).: Frontiers and Identities. Cities in Regions and Nations, Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, Pisa 2008 , p. 299 – 322.

 

Perception des frontieres au début de l´Europe moderne : La route militaire de Vienne a Constantinople, in: Jean-François Berdah – Anny Bloch-Raymond - Colette Zytnicki (eds.): D´une frontiere ? l´autre: migrations passages, imaginaires, Toulouse, CNRS - Université Toulouse 2–le Mirail, Collection Méridiennes 2007, p. 65 - 73 .

 

A European on the Road. Searching “Connecting Themes” for Frontiers, Borders and Cultural Identities: Approaches, concepts and empirical evidence in: KLUSÁKOVÁ, Luďa – ELLIS, Steven G. (eds.): Imagining Frontier, Contesting Identities, Edizioni Plus – Pisa University Plus, Pisa 2007, p.1 – 19.

 

Within and Beyond: the Reciprocal Relations and Intersections of Identities and of Symbolic and Territorial Borders, ELLIS Steven - KLUSÁKOVÁ Luďa (eds): Frontiers and Identities: Exploring the Research Area, Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, Pisa 2006, s.101 – 135 (co-author with KUBIŠ Karel, ŘÍCHOVÁ Blanka, SUŠOVÁ Veronika, KROCOVÁ Martina, DANIEL Ondřej).

 

Terms and Concepts: ‘frontier’ and ‘identity’ in academic and popular usage; in ELLIS Steven - KLUSÁKOVÁ Luďa (eds): Frontiers and Identities: Exploring the Research Area, Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, Pisa 2006, s. 1 – 15. (co-author with ELLIS Steven).

 

The Burgus of Leiden: The ”Image” of the City as the Component of Identity, in SVATOŠ, Michal – VELEK, Luboš - VELKOVÁ, Alice (eds.): Magister Noster. Sborník statí věnovaných in memoriam prof.PhDr. Jana Havránka,CSc., Karolinum: Praha 2005, s. 97 – 106.

 

Oriental or European Identity? – Modernization and Balkan towns in Czech popular discourse, in We and the Others: European Societies in Search of Identity, Studies in Comparative History, Studia historica LIII, AUC Philosophica et Historica 1/2000, Praha 2004, s. 131 - 151. (co-author with SOBOTKOVÁ Hana).

 

The Spread of Cultural Innovations. Towns in East Central Europe, in: NIEMI Marjaana & VUOLANTO Ville (eds.), Reclaiming the City. Innovation, Culture, Experience. Studia Fennica Historica, Helsinki 2003, s. 135 – 147.

 

Between reality and stereotype: town views of the Balkans, in: Urban History, 28,3 (2001) Cambridge UP, p. 358 - 377.