Mgr. Alena Marková, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor


INSTITUTIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:


September 2024 – present, member of the Extended Dean's Board of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHS-3390.html


2023 – present, representative (delegate) of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University at the Council of Higher Educational Establishments (RVŠ) (delegate to the Council’s Assembly and a member of the Comission on the Strategy and Development in Higher Education and the Comission on Academic Activities) https://radavs.cz/RVS-1.html


Contacts and Office Hours:

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Courses:

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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8906-1242

SCOPUS ID: 57208304255

Web of Science Researcher ID: W-7443-2018

Expertise and Field of Specialization:

Long-term research of national processes in Central and Eastern Europe: nation and nationalism, nation-building, national identity formation, national movement, historical consciousness, soviet nationality policy, history of USSR, neo-nationalism and the new wave of national emancipation, contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe.


Other fields of research: post-soviet (-socialist) transformation, transition and their aspects (social, political, cultural and others), language planning and language policy in post-soviet countries, experience of totalitarianism, socialism and post-socialism, national identity and state ideology, contemporary history of countries of the former soviet and socialistic bloc, socialism and history of everyday life under socialism, communism, totalitarian regimes and propaganda.


EDUCATION

  • 2007-2011 Ph.D., Charles University in Prague

    Ph.D. Thesis Subjects: „’The Belarusization Episode’ in the Process of Formation of the Belarusian Nation”, Thesis Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Miroslav Hroch, DrSc.

  • 2005-2007 Mgr., summa cum laude

    General Anthropology – Integral Study of Man, Charles University in Prague

  • 2001-2005 Bc., summa cum laude

    Liberal Arts and the Humanities, Charles University in Prague

  • 2000-2001 Certificate ÚJOP UK

    Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies (ÚJOP), Charles University in Prague

  • 1995-1999 MA Economics

    College of Management Minsk (since 2015 Minsk Innovation University), Belarus

Awards

Research Activities, Grants and Projects

  • 2024 Specific Academic Research Projects Competition (SVV-260 738, renewed for 2024), project Rewriting the History: Changing the Reading of the Past, the main investigator

  • 2023 Specific Academic Research Projects Competition (SVV-260 738), project War in the Humanities: Rethinking, Charles University, the main investigator.

  • 2020 The 4EU+ European Universities Alliance (4EU+Alliance), Charles University Minigrants 2020, project 52A Eastern Europe from the Post-Socialist Perspective: Changes and Challenges (in collaboration with University of Warsaw, Heidelberg University and University of Milan), Flagship2, the main grantee and leader of international research team

  • 2019 Specific Academic Research Projects Competition (SVV-260 485), project Social Processes, Events and Historical Breakthroughs from the Perspective of Historical Sociology, Charles University, the main grantee and leader of research team

  • 2018-2021 Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) – GAČR 18-18108S, Neo-Belarusization Processes in Post-soviet Belarus in the National Independence Era (1990-1995), the main grantee

  • 2012 Specific Academic Research (SVV), project Contemporary Research Topics of the Eurasian Space from the Viewpoint of Historical Sociology of Politics, Charles University, co-researcher

  • 2010 Specific Academic Research (SVV-206 705), project Cultural and Social Patterns in Modern Central European History, Charles University, co-researcher

  • 2006 Transformation Cooperation Programme (12/0306/BY/FHS), The Ways to National Revival: Belarusian and Czech Cases, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the main grantee

SCHOLARSHIPS

  • 2000-2007 Government stipendiary of the programme Scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in support of foreign nationals studying at public higher educational institutions in the Czech Republic based on international agreements binding for the Czech Republic or within the Czech Republic Foreign Aid Programme

Expert and evaluation activities for Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe Programme

EXPERT AND ADVISORY ACTIVITIES FOR THE HORIZON EUROPE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF THE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION DEPARTMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, CULTURE, CREATIVITY AND INCLUSIVE SOCIETY CONFIGURATION (CL2):

  • 2021 - present representative (national expert) of the Czech Republic in the Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society configuration of the Horizon Europe Programme Committee of the Research and Innovation Department of the European Commission (in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic)

  • 2021-present member of the Expert Advisory Board of the EU Horizont Europe programme, Cluster 2 “Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society”.

EXPERT AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES FOR THE HORIZON 2020, EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME:

  • 2017-2018 expert evaluator and rapporteur of the Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships programme (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, H2020-MSCA-IF-2018), section (or scientific area) Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC), European Commission for research and innovation framework programme

Expert, advisory and evaluation activities

EXPERT AND ADVISORY ACTIVITIES FOR THE NATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE EUROPEAN UNION OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC:

  • 2021 – present, member of the discussion platform of the National Convention on the European Union of the European Affairs Communication Department, Section for European Affairs, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic.

EXPERT AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES:

  • February 2019 – present, evaluator (external reviewer) of selected results of the National Research, Development and Innovation Policy of the Czech Republic (R&D&I) according to the Methodology for Evaluating Research Organizations and R&D&I Programs (M17+)

EXPERT JURIES AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:

  • 2021 - member of the Selection Committee under the Support of National Minorities Education Program of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic.

  • 2021 – present, member of the Expert Jury of the Miroslav Ivanov Award (book evaluation)

  • 2020 – present, member of the Expert Jury of the Egon Ervín Kische Lterature Award (book evaluation)

Editorial activities

  • 2024 – present, member of the Academic Board of The Journal of Belarusian Studies (Brill/Ferdinand Schöningh Publishing), https://brill.com/view/journals/bela/bela-overview.xml?language=en&contents=editorialcontent-84250

  • 2022 – present, member of the Editorial Board Studia Białorutenistyczne (Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie Publishing, Poland)

  • 2018 – 2024, Associate Editor of The Journal of Belarusian Studies (Brill/Ferdinand Schöningh Publishing), double-blind peer-reviewed periodical on Belarusian studies indexed by SCOPUS, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS and other databases.

Publications

MONOGRAPHS

  • Marková, A., The Path to a Soviet Nation. The Policy of Belarusization, Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2021, -p. 295, ISBN 978-3-506-79181-8.

  • Marková, A. – Sahanovič, H. – Šybieka, Z., Dějiny Běloruska [History of Belarus], Praha: Nakladatelstvi lidové noviny, 2021, -s. 280, ISBN 978-80-7422-667-0.

  • Marková, A., Šliach da savieckaj nacyji. Palityka bielarusizacyji, 1924-1929 [The Road Toward Soviet Nation. Nationality Policy of Belarussization, 1924-1929], series Biblijateka časopisa „Bielaruski histaryčny ahliad“ [series Library of the Belarusian Historical Review], Minsk: BHA, 2016, -s. 324, ISBN 978-985-7140-36-7

  • Marková, A., Sovětská bělorusizace jako cesta k národu: iluze nebo realita? [Soviet Belarussization as a Way to a Nation: Illusion or Reality?], Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2012, -s. 261, ISBN 978-80-7422-230-6

EDITIONS

CHAPTERS IN MONOGRAPHS

  • Marková, А., “Bielaruskaja sialianska-rabočaja hramada vačyma poĺskich specslužbaŭ” [Belarusian Political Organization “Hramada” in the Documents of the Polish Secret Service], in: S. Kawalou – R. Radzik – M. Sajewicz (eds.), Polsko-białoruskie związki kulturowe, literackie i językowe, Lublin: Wydawnictwo Universytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 2010, pp. 67-79.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES (selected)

HISTORICAL MAGAZINE ARTICLES

  • Marková, A., „Kulatý stůl: Třicet let od rozpadu Sovětského svazu“ [Round Table: Thirty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union], in: Mezinárodní politika, N3, 2021, s. 6-9.

  • Marková A., „Nowe szanse dla nauki?“, in: Newletter Niemieckiego Instytutu Historycznego, Vol. 3, 2020, s.14-15. https://www.dhi.waw.pl/fileadmin/benutzerdaten/dhi-waw-pl/bilder/Newsletter/Newsletter_PL/DHI_Newsletter_203_PL_web.pdf

  • Marková, A., „„Proč českoslovenští soudruzi protestují?“ Pražské jaro a jeho odezvy v běloruské sovětské společnosti“ [„Why are the Czechoslovakian Comrades Protesting?“ The Prague Spring and its Repercussions in Belarusian Soviet Society], in: Dějiny a současnost, 9/2020, s.18-20.

REVIEWS (selected)

Conferences, Workshops

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS (since 2019):

  • 2024 Rewriting the History: Changing the Reading of the Past, June 13-15, 2024, Charles University, Prague (the main investigator and project coordinator), http://rewriting.conference2024.tilda.ws/

    https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHS-1001.html?event=27925&locale=cz

    https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-510.html?event=27935&lang=en

  • 2024 The 9th Annual Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century Conference, April 26-27, 2024, Charles University, UCL School for Slavonic and East European Studies, London (group member of the organising committee).

  • 2023 Rethinking War in the Humanities, June 22-24, 2023, Charles University, Prague (the main investigator and project coordinator), http://war.conference2023.tilda.ws/

  • 2023 The 8th Annual Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century Conference, April 28-29, 2023, Charles University, UCL School for Slavonic and East European Studies, London (group member of the organising committee, chair of the History Panel), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVr2K4Hl09k&list=PLw4dsUmSAsT4JCdBoVgwzB13ppnymx1cq&index=1

  • 2022 The 7th Annual Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century Conference, February 18-19, 2022, UCL School for Slavonic and East European Studies, London (group member of the organising committee, chair of the Society and politics Panel).

  • 2021 Zmiana perspektywy: Białoruś jako przestrzeń wymiany. Warsztaty poświęcone nowej koncepcji historii Białorusi, November 22–23, 2021, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (group member of the organising committee, participant, chair of the Panel Syntetyzując historię Białorusi).

  • 2021 Memory in Central and Eastern Europe. Past traumas, present challenges, future horizons, June 10-12, 2021, Charles University, Prague (the main project coordinator)

  • 2021 The 6th Annual Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century Conference, 19th–20th February 2021, UCL School for Slavonic and East European Studies, London (group member of the organising committee, chair of the History Panel)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CiQtJsRuIo&list=PLw4dsUmSAsT6oeiDYqNbcLSAr34I4tbSI&index=5

  • 2020 Eastern Europe from the Post-Socialist Perspective: Changes and Challenges, Interdisciplinary Summer School, August 24-28, 2020, Charles University, Prague (4EU+Alliance F2 project, the main grantee and project coordinator)

  • 2020 The 5th Annual Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century Conference, 21st – 22nd February 2020, UCL School for Slavonic and East European Studies, London (group member of the organising committee)

  • 2019 Social Processes, Events and Historical Breakthroughs from the Historical-Sociological Perspective, 14th – 15th June 2019, Charles University, Prague (the main grantee and project coordinator)

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINAR SERIES ORGANIZATION

  • From 2020 – present Special Workshop for PhD and MA students of the FHS UK, Boris Nemtsov Academic Center for the Study of Russia and Department of East European Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, on Grant Proposal Writing (call for applications of the Grant Agency of Charles University (GA UK)), on a regular basis in October.

  • 2021 BASEES Postgraduate Workshop: Using archives and research libraries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, breakout session Ukraine – Belarus, online, December 8, 2021, BASEES, United Kingdom.

  • 2021 Writing National History: Objectivity, Construction, Narration, online, May 6, 2021, Department of East European Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

  • 2020 How Memory of Famine and Banderivets Movement is Shaped Today? Examples in Politics, Memorial Strategies, Movies and Literature, workshop at the Summer School Eastern Europe from the Post-Socialist Perspective: Changes and Challenges, project 4EU+Alliance, Charles University Minigrants 2020, 4EU+/20/F2/14, 24th August 2020, Charles University.

  • 2020 Reading&Writing in Humanities, special workshop for PhD and MA students at the Summer School Eastern Europe from the Post-Socialist Perspective: Changes and Challenges, project 4EU+Alliance, Charles University Minigrants 2020, 4EU+/20/F2/14, 28th August 2020, Charles University.

  • 2020 The contested memory: Can there may be a historical truth established by law? Some sensitive issues in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of the European Parliament Resolution “On the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe”, workshop at the Summer School Eastern Europe from the Post-Socialist Perspective: Changes and Challenges, project 4EU+Alliance, Charles University Minigrants 2020, 4EU+/20/F2/14, 27th August 2020, Charles University.

  • 2019 Time and Space as a Framework for Memory Studies and Macrosocial Analysis, workshop, FHS UK in collaboration with the European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds for the Czech Republic, the Operation Programme Research, Development and Education (OP RDE), project International Mobility of Charles University Research Workers (CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_027/0008495), March 26th 2019

  • 2017 - 2023 Guarantor of the seminar series Historical Sociology Confrontations, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, https://hiso.fhs.cuni.cz/HISOENG-45.html

Invited Lectures, Public Talks

INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER

  • “How can regional cooperation stimulate production of new epistemologies?”, closing keynote speech within the working group, International conference “The Decolonization of Education and Research in Belarus and Ukraine: Theoretical Challenges and Practical Tasks”, September 28-30, 2023, European Humanities University, Vilnius.

  • “Nation-Building Processes after 1918 in Belarus: Three Waves of National Emancipation”, public debates The Emergence of New States in Eastern Europe after the First World War: Lessons for all of Europe (TENSE), Europe for Citizens programme of the EU of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), April 25th 2019, Czesław Miłosz Center of Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas.

  • „Belarusian State- and Nation-formation: from Polatsk Principality to Independent Belarus“, The Third Annual Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century Conference, 23th March 2018, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL SSEES), London.

  • “The Ministry of Education Research Institute of the Republic of Belarus and the New Conception of National Education (1990-1995)”, International Conference The Formation of Belarusian Statehood during Geopolitical Transformation of the 20th Century, 29th – 30th November 2018, Belarusian State University, Minsk.

INVITED LECTURES AND PUBLIC TALKS


PUBLIC DEBATES, ROUND TABLES:

  • Forum of Lithuanian, Polish, Ukrainian and democratic Belarusian intellectuals the „Lublin Four“, international round table discussion at the Panel „Historical Narratives at War“, Lithuanian Institute of History in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, October 5-7, 2023, Vilnius, Lithuania.

  • “30 Years after the Collapse of the USSR from the perspective of Warsaw”, round table discussion, December 6 -7, 2022, Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland.

  • CBEES Annual Conference 2022, Pre-conference Keynote Roundtable „Reconsidering East European Studies: Potentials, Limitations and (Ab)Uses", November 30, 2022, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertrön University, Stockholm, Sweden.

  • „Czwórka Lubelska: II Forum intelektualistów, polityków i działaczy z Polski, Litwy, Białorusi i Ukrainy”, international round table discussion, November 28, 2022, Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haf7SF_J7CI

  • „Belarusian exiles in Central and Eastern Europe after 2020“, round table discussion and moderation of panel „Belarusian exiles, politics, and democracy“, CEFRES workshop, May 19, 2022, CEFRES, Prague.

  • The One World International Film Festival, public debates with students of ZŠ Libchavy, ZŠ Třebovská, VOŠ a SŠZS Ústí nad Orlicí, and Střední škola Uměleckoprůmyslová Ústí nad Orlicí, April 27, 2022, Ústí nad Orlicí.

  • “Scholars and institutions facing powers”, moderation of panel and discussion, CEFRES 30th Anniversary International Conference (Part 2) Is academic freedom a freedom of all, November 25–26, 2021, CEFRES, Prague.

  • “Identity Dispute. Do Belarusians Need a National Identity?”, round table discussion, 17th Warsaw East European Conference Year of Belarusian Changes, July 8–9, 2021, Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jf9d8wAk70&list=PLNTBmGRock3JMwftb5Pj6N1Q6HsAW_xx5

  • “Current Events in Belarus”, round table discussion by the European Society of the London School of Economics, online, 26th November 2020.

  • „Today’s Belarus in Diverse Contexts“, public debates by Civic and Social Studies Teachers' Association, November 11, 2020, DOX, Prague.

  • Digital HIRA book launch “Cultural Dissent in Soviet Belarus (1968–1988)“ by Tatsiana Astrouskaya, online, October 1, 2020, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg.

  • „Today’s Belarus in Diverse Contexts“, public debates with Libor Dvořák and Petruška Šustrová, 30th September 2020, Centrum PANT, Ostrava.

  • “Anger in Belarus: Cross Perspectives on an Unexpected Unrest”, 16th September, 2020, seminar/webinar by CEFRES, Prague https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB_HUjuD5Ns&t=1s

  • “Risks in the Region: Belarus” public debates with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Dr Tomáš Petříček, September 12, 2020, International Symposium Democracy in the 21st Century: Crisis or Opportunity?, Prague, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktrZveS_Kok&t=1s&fbclid=IwAR0beT1ilt6bP5Ij_IsuRgQCU1A2rH-IWH_NHEOI8zATBIda-tq6P0brlQ8

CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected)

  • „Decolonization, de-Sovietization and nation-building of the Belarusian national education during period of the national emancipation (1990-1994/95): experience, evaluation and (un)learned lessons?“, Decolonization of Education and Research in Belarus and Ukraine: Theoretical Challenges and Practical Tasks, September 28-30, 2023, European Humanities University in cooperation with Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukrajina) and Charles University (Prague, Czechia), Vilnius, Lithuania.

  • “Whose Vilnius? Historical-legal reasoning behind territorial claims and the Soviet legacy”, 8th Annual Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century Conference, April 28-29, 2023, UCL SSEES, London, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVr2K4Hl09k&list=PLw4dsUmSAsT4JCdBoVgwzB13ppnymx1cq&index=1&t=139s

  • „Possibilities and Limits of the Archival Research within Digitalization of the Archival Sources“, workshop Digital Humanities, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Prague, MIA CAS, January 3, 2023.

  • „The Politics of Funding and Eastern European Studies: the Present Situation and the Future Development“, CBEES Annual Conference 2022 Where are we now? Perspectives on East European Area Studies today, December 1-2, 2022, Södertrön University, Stockholm, Sweden.

  • “Results of the Soviet Belarusization: 1924-1929”, Im Schatten der Sowjetunion: Belarus im 20. Jahrhundert, November 10-13, 2022, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde e.V., Forum für historische Belarus-Forschung, Berlin, Germany.

  • „Rola języka białoruskiego w odrodzeniu narodowym lat 90. XX wieku“ [The Role of the Belarusian Language in the National Renaissance of the 1990s], 7th International Conference Belarusian Path to Independence. For the 30th Anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Belarus, November 26-27, 2021, CSB SEW University of Warsaw, Poland.

  • „Syntetyzując historię Białorusi“ [Synthesizing the history of Belarus], Zmiana perspektywy: Białoruś jako przestrzeń wymiany. Warsztaty poświęcone nowej koncepcji historii Białorusi, November 22–23, 2021, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

  • “Struggle for the Belarusian Language during the 1990s”, 6th Annual "Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century" Conference, 18th – 19th February 2021, UCL SSEES, London, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawoPHDhzwU&list=PLw4dsUmSAsT6oeiDYqNbcLSAr34I4tbSI&index=6

  • “Old nomenclature elites and new changes and challenges of 1990s.”, 8th International Congress of Belarusian Studies, 27th-29th September 2019, Vilnius, Lithuania

  • „National Emancipation and Post-soviet Belarusization of 1990s“, 4th Annual "Belarusian Studies in the 21st Century" Conference, 29th March 2019, UCL SSEES, London.

  • “Historical Memory and Post-Soviet History in Belarus (1990-1995)”, 7th International Congress of Belarusian Studies, 15th – 17th September 2017, Warsaw, Poland.

Supervising and Mentoring Activities

  • Supervisor of the Post-Master’s scholarship of the Visegrad Scholarship Program 2019 (project Denunciation as a Tool of Social Control during Czechoslovak Normalization (1968-1989), Maryna Laurynovich)

DEFENDED THESES (FOR SEP 25, 2024):

Bachelor (6), Master (19) and Doctoral theses (1)

Civic engagement:

Interviews in media (selected)


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