Problems of Access to Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
The aim of the project is to explore the opportunities, challenges, and conflicts arising from the digitization and platformization of access to cultural heritage. The following will be examined: 1)…
Displacement and (Post)secular Memory: Contemporary Crises and Historical Legacies inSoutheastern and East-Central Europe (MEMCRIS)
The MEMCRIS project investigates how societies in Poland, Serbia and Greece engage withtheir own histories of displacement while addressing the challenges posed by recent migratorycrises. By focusing on museums, memorial…
Understanding and Experiencing Sexual Violence in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
This project examines sexual violence in the late Habsburg Monarchy through the lens of local actors—both ordinary people and meso-elites. Taking a bottom-up approach, it analyzes how sexual violence was…
Across Autocracies. Mid-Level Elites from the Slovak State to Communist Czechoslovakia
This project explores the trajectories and motivations of mid-level elites of the fascist Slovak state—teachers, clergy, and lawyers—who were tried for collaboration yet later found ways to continue their careers…
Forging Peace in the Shadows: Czechoslovak Pugwash and Pugwash in Czechoslovakia
This research proposal explores the history of the Czechoslovak Pugwash committee and Pugwash in Czechoslovakia, highlighting the pivotal role of both in promoting science diplomacy in the Soviet bloc. It…
Negotiating ‘Serbhood’: Layers of memories among the Serbs in the post-Yugoslav and postwar space
This project examines the interaction between individual memories of interethnic violence in the Yugoslav Wars and the politics of memory channeled through grand ethnonationalist narratives among people of Serbian ethno-national…
Exploring Personal History: War, Violence, Occupation, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in 20th and 21st Century Europe
Discuss new interdisciplinary approaches to the history of subjectivity, emotion, and intimacy and utilize them for an innovative, comparative analysis of personal histories related to war, occupation, and violence. –…
Beneficent Multi-Agent AI Avatar in a Small Democratic Society (CZDEMOS4AI)
Bringing together legal, ethical, educational, media, security and psychological studies, the interdisciplinary project CZDEMOS4AI aims to explore the societal implications of the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context…
Linking Arms: Central Europe´s Weapons Sector, 1954-1994.
Despite the divisions of the Cold War, Austrian- and Czechoslovak-made weapons never circulated neatly in separate spheres of East and West: instead, both belong to a joint history of two…
Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building (CoRe)
The CoRE project is defined as problem-oriented research into the relationship between resilience (society resilience) and conflict in Czech society. And this in reflection on the unprecedented war situation in…