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Visiting Fellowship 2024/25

Kristina Andělová, Visiting Fellowship 2024/25

Short biography

Kristina Andělová is a historian; in 2021 she completed her dissertation on the political thought of Czech reform communism in the 1970s and 1980s in 2021 at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Recently she is a research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS and affiliated researchers to the HERESSEE ERC project in Vienna. She focuses on intellectual history, Czechoslovak dissent, and women’s political thought in Czechoslovakia.

Visiting Fellowship June 2025

Motivation

My stay at the institute will give me the opportunity to deepen my cooperation with colleagues from INZ and to plan our further cooperation and joint projects that we could submit in the future. We will also have a dialogue about the possibilities of editorial activities in the field of the history of political thought and I will present my intended project on the intellectual biography of Milada Horáková.

At the same time, I will be completing a chapter for a research project on Charter 77, which focuses on the political thought of the dissidents in Charter 77 and raises the question of how Charter 77 and its human rights appeal transformed the “world of thought” of Czechoslovak dissent, as well as what new ideological frameworks it brought and how it changed existing political and historical narratives.

Selected biography

Pro nás nás dějiny nekončí. Politická práce a myšlení českého levicového exilu (1968–1989), Praha, Argo, 2023. (with Jiří Suk and Tomáš Zahradníček)

“Crises of Feminism and Democracy in the Interwar Period. Yugoslav and Czechoslovak Entanglements” In: Balázs Trencsény – Lucija Balikić – Una Blagojević –  Isidora Grubački (eds.), East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century. A Never-Ending Story? Routledge, 2024, s. 159–182. (with Isidora Grubački)

Česká sovětologie? Socialisté v opozici a kritika systémů sovětského typu. Kontradikce, Vol. 5, nr. 1–2 (2021), pp. 15–43.

The Genesis of Political Distrust towards the so-called “Sixty-eighters”. Former Reform Communists in the Czech Political Environment in the Course of 1989. Forum Historiae, nr. 2 (2021).

Reinhart Koselleck a metoda Begriffsgeschichte jako nástroj k interpretaci textů politického myšlení. In: HALAMKA, Tomáš – VIRDZEK, Andrej (eds.): Jak číst politické myslitele? Praha: Karolinum, 2020, pp. 91–108.

Czechoslovak Generational Experience of 1968: The Intellectual History Perspective. East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 33, nr. 4 (2019), pp. 881–98.

The Power of the Powerless and Further Havelian Paradoxes in the Stream of Time. East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 32, nr. 2 (2018), pp. 214–231. (with Jiří Suk)

Reinventing Central Europe and the Decline of Marxism: Czech “Orientalism” through the lens of Intellectual History. In: Eloisa Betti – Katherine Miller: The Power of the Norm: Fragile Rules and Significant Exceptions (Vienna: IWM Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conferences). Vol. 35, nr. 1 (2016).

Tschechiens „neue Linke“: Strömungen, Menschen, Ideen. Osteuropa, nr. 5-6 (2013), pp. 341-353. (with Ondřej Slačálek)