PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D.

PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Department of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University in Prague
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Contemporary history, Holocaust and memory studies, post-conflict society
Regional focus: Greece, Central and South-East Europe
CONTACT:
Office: J3076 (Jinonice Campus)
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +420 251 080 296
https://cuni.academia.edu/KaterinaKralova
Office Hours: Winter 2016: J3076 Tuesday 3:30-5:30 p.m. or contact me via email
([email protected])
Curriculum Vitae
Positions
Faculty of Social Sciences / Institute of International Studies /
CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE (Czech Republic)
(2010 - today)
Assistant professor
(2013 - today)
Program Committee member & Director for Prague
“Nationalism, Religion and Violence in SE Europe” Summer School in partnership with the
International Hellenic University in Greece, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) of Cyprus
and the LSE in United Kingdom.
(2010 - today)
Post-doc research fellow
Centre for Collective Memory Research
(2010; 2012 - 2015)
Vice-Dean for International Relations
Faculty of Social Sciences / Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)
(2005 - 2010)
Lecturer & research assistant
Faculty of Social Sciences / Institute of International Studies / Charles University, Prague (Czech
Republic)
Education and Scholarships
Sosland Family Fellow, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. (2015)
Charles University, Prague (CZ): Ph.D. doctorate in Contemporary History (2010)
Yale University, New Haven (USA): Fulbright Scholarship (2008-2009)
Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf (Germany): DAAD Research Scholarship (2006-2007)
University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki (Greece): Greek State Foundation (IKY) Ph.D. research scholarship
(2003-2004)
Philipps-Universität, Marburg (Germany): M.A. in Political Science & German Language and Literature Studies (2002)
Philipps-Universität, Marburg (Germany): Bilateral University Scholarship in cooperation with Charles University
Prague 1999 – 2000)
Charles University, Prague (CZ): B.A. in International Area Studies (2000)
Grants & Awards in the past 5 years
e-COST Action: European Cooperation in Science and Technology (MC: 2016-2020) [CA15101 CZ]
Project title: Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories (COMPACT)
Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) (PI: 2016-2018) [16-16009S]
Project title: “We had to live, we had to survive somehow...” Jews in Greece, 1944–2012
CENTRAL-Project of DAAD “Strategic Partnership”, HU Berlin (CI: 2015-2017)
U.S. Embassy in the Czech Republic, Small Grants Program (PI: 2016)
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Czech-German Future Fund (PI: 2014, 2015, 2016)
Miroslav Ivanov Award for non-fiction literature published in the last three years, Prague (2013)
Research Program THALIS: Operational Program "Education and Life Long Learning", Greece (CI: 2012-2013)
Specific University Research, Czech Republic (CI: 2011-2014)
Selected academic publications
1. “The ‘Holocausts’ in Greece: victim competition in the context of postwar compensation for Nazi persecution.”
Holocaust Studies, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group (2016): 1-27.
2. Králová, Kateřina and Hana Kubátová (eds.). Návraty: Poválečná rekonstrukce židovských komunit v zemích
středovýchodní, jihovýchodní a východní Evropy [Coming Back. The Post-war Reconstruction of Jewish Communities
in the CE-, SE- and Eastern Europe]. Prague: Karolinum, 2016, 385 p.
3. Das Verma?chtnis der Besatzung: Deutsch-griechische Beziehungen seit 1940. Ko?ln: Bo?hlau, 2016, 283 p.
4. “In the Shadow of the Nazi Past: Post-War Reconstruction and the Claims of the Jewish Community in Salonika.”
European History Quarterly. 46.2 (2016): 262-290.
5. Králová, Kateřina, Jiří Kocian and Kamil Pikal. Minderheiten im sozialistischen Jugoslawien. Brüderlichkeit und
Eigenheit. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Vlg. 2016, 418 p.
6. Králová, Kateřina, Jiří Kocian and Kamil Pikal. Národnostní menšiny v socialistické Jugoslávii [Ethnic Minorities in
Socialist Yugoslavia.] Sokolov: Flavia Viera 2015, 223 p.
7. Králová, Kateřina and Tsivos, Konstantinos. Stegnosan ta dakrya mas. Ellines prosfyges stin Tsechoslovakia. [Our
tears dried up: Greek refugees in Czechoslovakia] Athina: Alexandria, 2015, 384 p.
8. Kateřina Králová and Nikola Karasová. “Reparationsforderungen: Umfang, Rechtsfragen, politische
Rahmenbedingungen”, in: Ulf-Dieter Klemm, Wolfgang Schultheiß (Hg.), Die Krise in Griechenland. Ursprünge, Verlauf,
Folgen (Bonn: BPB,2015) - Schriftenreihe (Bd. 1608), pp. 299-325.
9. Kateřina Králová and Nikola Karasová. “Reparationsforderungen: Umfang, Rechtsfragen, politische
Rahmenbedingungen”. In Ulf-Dieter Klemm, Wolfgang Schultheiß (Hg.). Die Krise in Griechenland. Ursprünge, Verlauf,
Folgen. Berlin: Campus Vlg., 2015, pp. 299-325.
Recent lectures & conference presentations
“Righteous Foster Family? The case of Ester Franco.” Paper presented at the international multidisciplinary conference
Children and War: Past and Present, University of Salzburg – Austria (July 2016).
“Minderheiten im sozialistischen Jugoslawien. Brüderlichkeit und Eigenheit.” Book launch at the IOS Regensburg –
Germany (May 2016).
“Vernichtung und Neuanfang: Juden in Griechenland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.” Lecture at Universität Regensburg
- Germany (May 2016).
“Researching Holocaust survivors in Greece through the Visual History Archive.” Presentation at the CLARIN PLUS
Workshop Exploring Spoken Word Data in Oral History Archives, Oxford – United Kingdom (April 2016).
“Holocausts in Greece: German occupation in Greek historiography.” Presentation at the international conference
Perceptions of history in Germany and Greece: Comparative Approaches to Narratives in the European Context,
Universität Hamburg – Germany (March 2016).
“It was a beautiful life until the war came…” Personal Accounts of Greek Civil War Refugees in Czechoslovakia.
Paper presented at the international conference Political Violence, Terrorism, and Civil War, SFU Vancouver – Canada
(February 2016).
“Global Refugees - The Case of Jews & Greeks in 20th Century Czechoslovakia”. Presentation at the Library of
Congress, Washington D.C. together with Michal Frankl, introduction by Amy Kaslow (December 2015).
“Reconstituting Greek Jewry after the War”. Lecture at the Finifter Symposium on Greek Jewry, MSU East Lansing MI
– USA (November 2015).
“Jewish Community in Post-war Greece.” Presentation at the Mandel Center fellow meeting, USHMM, Washington D.C.,
moderated by Vadim Altskan (October 2015).
“How to Make it Well Again? Greek-German Relations in the Shadow of Occupation”. Lecture at the CERES, University
of Toronto – Canada (September 2015).
“Jews, Communists, and Germans: Greece's handling of its post-war legacies”. Lecture at the SEESOX Oxford – United
Kingdom (March 2015).
“The Holocausts in Greece: Victim Competition in the Context of Post-War Compensation for Nazi Persecution”. Paper
presented at the international conference Beyond Camps and Forced Labour, London – United Kingdom (January 2015).
Courses
Modern History of Greece; Balkans after 1989; Greece and South-East Europe; Contemporary Mediterranean;
Contemporary East-Central Europe; Dictatorships in the Balkans; Greek-Turkish Relations; Contemporary History in
Balkan Cinematography; Israel: Politics and Society; Introduction to the Study of the Social sciences II; M.A. thesis
seminars.
Suggested thesis topics
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Contemporary history of South East Europe (SEE)
National emancipation in the Balkans
SEE during the WWII
Jews and Holocaust in SEE
Dictatorships in the Balkans
Democratization of SEE
International community and SEE
Bilateral relations of SEE countries
Civil society in SEE
Migration and minorities of SEE
Armed conflicts in SEE
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