Department of Modern Transnational and Intellectual History

Areas of Focus

The department specializes in research in three interlinked dimensions of modern history pertaining to the perspective of transnational and intellectual concepts: research into formative patterns and structural transformations in European political thinking; tracing the development of diplomatic networks and an international system; and last but not least research on transformations of collective (self)identification within the European space. In terms of ‘glocal’ methods, the activities of the department are primarily defined by research focusing on the Czech, Polish, and greater Central European space as well as by the study of transnational perspectives in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Members of the department work to apply conceptual and interdisciplinary methods from the domains of philosophy, politology, anthropology, and sociology. Furthermore, they strive to bolster the optics of intellectual and transnational history in the so-called third role, i.e. in the areas of popularization and education.

Main Research Projects

• Czechoslovak Foreign Policy in the Context of the Development of an International System 
• Central European Political Thinking and Ideologies
• Central Europe Between Democracy and Totality: Modernity, Gender, Violence, and Memory
• Collective Identity and Interethnic Relations in the Central European and Balkan Space

Department Publishing Projects

• Documents of Czechoslovakian Foreign Policy
• Programmes of Political Parties 

Periodicals

• Slavonic Review
• Modern History

Important Grants