doc. PhDr. Radomír Vlček, CSc.

Research areas

history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 18th-20th centuries, especially the history of the Russian Empire, its nationalism and Pan-Slavism, history of historical Slavic studies and history of inter-Slavic relations, history of scientific institutions

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

1977–1981: Rigorosum proceedings (PhDr.) in History, Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Brno (today Masaryk University), thesis title: Historik Franz Mehring / Historian Franz Mehring

1983–1986: Ph.D. (CSc.) in General History, Institute of Czechoslovak and World History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, thesis title: thesis title: Zájem ruské pozitivistické historiografie o sociálně ekonomické problémy ve srovnání s českou a polskou historiografií / The Interest of Russian Positivist Historiography in Social and Economic Problems in Comparison with Czech and Polish Historiography

2001: Habilitation proceedings (PhDr.) in History – General History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, thesis title: Ruský panslavismus – realita a fikce / Russian Panslavism - Reality and Fiction

Foreign internships and scholarships

11–12/1990: Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
11/1998: Collegium Carolinum, München
11–12/2000: Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
6/2004: Austrian Institute of East and South-East European Studies, Vienna
6/2006: Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
9–10/2006: Austrian Institute of East and South-East European Studies, Vienna
5/2009: Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
11/2009: Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
11/2013: Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow

International grants and projects

1987–1990: History of Slavonic Studies, Bibliography of World Slavonic Studies, Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Science, team member

1991–1993: History of Czech-Russian relations in the 19th century, Institute of History of Central and Eastern Europe, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Science, team member

2000–2005: Rusko a stredná Európa (Reflexie, vzťahy, politika) / Russia and Central Europe (Reflections, Relations, Politics), Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences, team member

2006–2010: The Image of Russia in Czech Lands and the Image of Czech Lands in Russia, Institute of History of the CAS and Russian Academy of Science, team member

Domestic grants and major projects

1990–1993: Vznik a vývoj ruského impéria / Origin and Development of Russian Empire, Grant Agency of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, beneficiary: Institute of History of Eastern Europe of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Principal Investigator

1996–1998: Ruský panslavismus – realita či fikce / Russian Pan-Slavism - Reality and Fiction, Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Grants of Distinctly Investigative Character Focused on the Sphere of Research Pursued at Present, Particularly in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, reg. n. A9015601, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator

2001–2004: Slovanství v procesu formování novodobého českého národa. (České politické myšlení a praxe.) / Slavism in the Process of Forming the Modern Czech Nation. (Czech Political Thinking and Practice.), Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Grants of Distinctly Investigative Character Focused on the Sphere of Research Pursued at Present, Particularly in the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, reg. n. A8015103, beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Principal Investigator

2016–2018: Rusko v kategoriích přítel vs. nepřítel: česká reflexe / Russia in Friend vs. Enemy: Czech Reflection, Grant Agency of Masaryk University, ID number: MUNI/M/0921/2015, co-beneficiary: Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, co-Investigator

Teaching activities

Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (since 1991)
Faculty of Education, Masaryk University (since 2001)

Membership of editorial boards

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Slavonic Review [Slovanský přehled]
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Moravian Foundation [Časopis Matice moravské]
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Church history. Personalities, events, structures, mentalities [Církevní dějiny. Osobnosti, události, struktury, mentality]
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Slavic Studies [Slovanské štúdie]
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cultural History [Kultúrné dejiny]

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of the Moravian Foudantion [Matice moravská] (since 1987)
Member of the Association of Historians of the Czech Republic [Sdružení historiků – Historický klub] (since 2001)
Member of the Czech-Russian Commission of Historians and Archivists [Česko-ruská komise historiků a archivářů] (since 2004)
Member of the Doctoral Board of the Doctoral Programme History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2005)
Member of the Doctoral Board of the Doctoral Programme History – Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2005)
Member of the Doctoral Board of the Doctoral Programme History – General History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2005)
Member of the Frank Wollman Society of Slavists [slavistická společnost Franka Wollmana] (since 2012)
Vice-Chairman of the Association of Moravian Institutes of the CAS [Sdružení moravských pracovišť AV ČR] (since 2013)
Vice-Chairman of the National Committee of Slavists [Národní komitét slavistů] (since 2013)
Director of the Centre for Research on the History and Culture of Eastern Europe [Výzkumné centrum dějin východní Evropy Historického ústavu AV ČR] (since 2015)
Chairmain of the Czech Society for Slavonic, Balkan and Byzantine Studies [Česká společnost pro slavistická, balkanistická a byzantologická studia] (since 2017)
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Boris Nemtsov Academic Centre for the Study of Russia [Akademické centrum Borise Němcova pro výzkum Ruska] (since 2018)

Significant awards

2018: Honorary Medal for Merit for the Czech Academy of Sciences