Členové

Mgr. Jaroslav Ira, Ph.D.

 
 

        

Contact and consultations:

Wednesday, 12:30-14:00, room 302b
(main building of the Faculty of Arts)

E-mail: ira.jaroslav@seznam.cz
 

Courses in English:

  • Comparative History of Europe
  • European history in
    Comparative Perspective
  • Methodology seminar  

Specific agenda: The Erasmus+ coordinator for the Institute of World History


Occupations

  • since 2016: assistant professor, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
    (Institute of World History)
  • 2012 – 2016: external lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (programme TEMA Erasmus+)
  • since 2010: external lecturer at CEVRO Institute - school of political studies
  • 2008 – 2011: researcher, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
 
Education
 
  • 1998 – 2005: master studies at history and political science,
    Charles University in Prague (CUNI), Faculty of Philosophy & Arts
     
  • 2005-2013: Ph.D. studies of history at CUNI, Faculty of Philosophy
    & Arts, specialization at general and comparative history.

    English title of the unpublished Ph.D. thesis (orig. in Czech): Local and National Identity
    in the Historical Monographs on Bohemian, Moravian, and Galician Towns (1860-1900)
     
Current Fields of Research:
 
  • Cities and small towns in modern imaginary
  • Representations and social uses of urban past
  • Uses of heritage in small towns
  • History and theory of local/national/European identities
  • Theory and methodology of historiography
     

Projects, teaching, conferences

  • Lecturer in ERASMUS and ECES courses 
  • Speaker at the 8th (Stockholm 2006), 9th (Lyon 2008), 10th (Ghent 2010), and 13th (Helsinki 2016) International Conference of Urban History (organized by EAUH)
  • International research network of excellence CLIOHRES.net  the thematic workgroup Frontiers & Identities (2005-2010)
  • Research scheme The Czech Lands in the Middle of Europe (2009-2011).
  • Research project Comenius as a Site of Memory (Czech Academy of Sciences, 2011-2014)
  • Specific research project City, Text, and Identity in the 19/20th Century: theoretical and methodological problems (2007)
     
Publications
 
 
  •  IRA Jaroslav: "Požívání a zneužívání poznámek pod čarou", Dějiny - Teorie - Kritika 2/2016, p.285-299.

  • IRA Jaroslav: "Topografie paměti: Reálná a imaginární místa kulturního vzpomínání", In: Lenka ŘEZNÍKOVÁ a kol., Figurace paměti. J. A. Komenský v kulturách vzpomínání 19. a 20. století. Praha: Scriptorium, 2014.
     

  • IRA Jaroslav: "Paměť v národní a transnacionální perspektivě", In: Lenka ŘEZNÍKOVÁ a kol., Figurace paměti. J. A. Komenský v kulturách vzpomínání 19. a 20. století. Praha: Scriptorium, 2014.

  • IRA Jaroslav: "Město", in: Lucie STORCHOVÁ a kol., Koncepty a dějiny: proměny pojmů v poválečné historické vědě. Praha: Scriptorium 2014, s. 338-355.

  • LARGUECHE Aladin – SARGENT Andrew – KALIVODOVÁ Eva – IRA Jaroslav: “Resistances in the Field of Frontiers and Identities: A new connecting theme or an interdisciplinary tool for comparative research?” In: Luďa KLUSÁKOVÁ, Martin MOLL (eds.), Crossing Frontiers and Resisting Identities, Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 2010.

  • IRA Jaroslav – SARGENT Andrew – LARGUECHE Aladin – KALIVODOVÁ Eva: “Outcomes and Outlooks: Resistance after the Case Studies,” In: Luďa KLUSÁKOVÁ, Martin MOLL (eds.), Crossing Frontiers and Resisting Identities, Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 2010.

  • IRA Jaroslav: “TWG4: Work, Gender, and Society on Frontiers and Identities,” In: Luďa KLUSÁKOVÁ, Martin MOLL (eds.), Crossing Frontiers and Resisting Identities, Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 2010.

  • IRA Jaroslav: "Creating Local and Broader Identities: Historical Monographs on Bohemian, Moravian, and Galician Towns (1860-1900)", in Luďa KLUSÁKOVÁ, Laure TEULIERES (eds.), Frontiers and Identities: Cities in Regions and Nations. Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 2008, pp. 251-266. 

  • IRA Jaroslav - SUŠOVÁ Veronika - KROCOVÁ Martina: "The Notion of Good Citizenship (1848-1918): The Austria-Hungary Empire in Czech Perspective", In: Steven G. ELLIS, Gudmundur HÁLFDANARSON, Kathy ISAACS (eds.): Citizenship in Historical Perspective, Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 2006, pp. 163-179. 

  • IRA Jaroslav: "Dějiny politických pojmů: nové roviny, nové přístupy a nové otázky", Dějiny – Teorie – Kritika 2/2004, s. 213-236.