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Hana Bortlová, Ph.D.

Date and place of birth: May 10,1980, Praha

Education:
1998 – 1999 Faculty of Modern Literature, University of Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
2000 - 2004 Institute of Humanities, Charles University, Prague - B.A. in Humanities
2003 Faculty of Education, University of Patras, Greece (Scholarship awarded by Greek Government and Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic)
2003 – 2004 Faculty of Philology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain (European Universities Mobility Programme SOCRATES-ERASMUS)
2005 Visiting Student at School of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Patras, Greece
2006 Faculty of Philosophy of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Scholarship awarded by National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
2005 – 2007 Graduate (Master) at Charles University of Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts - M.A. in History and Anthropology of Latin America and Iberian Peninsula
2007 – 2010 Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Charles University of Prague - Ph. D. in History of Latin America

Employment history:
1999 – 2000 Editor at Večerník Praha and Deníky Bohemia newspapers

2001–2009 NGO worker: 2001–2002: People in Need Foundation in Prague (Člověk v tísni), Human Rights Project Coordinator; 2002–2003: Endowment Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust in Prague (NFOH – Nadační fond obětem Holokaustu), Staff Member of Individuals Compensation Programme; 2005–2006: Association for Probation and Mediation in Justice in Prague (SPJ - Sdružení pro probaci a mediaci v justici), Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Project Coordinator; 2007–2008: Fair Trade Hellas in Athens, Staff Member and Project Coordinator; 2008–2009: Ecumenical Academy of Prague (Ekumenická Akademie) , Raising Awareness on the Working Conditions and Environmental Pollution in the Production of Computers Project Coordinator
• 2002–2010: Freelance translator and interpreter for Czech and foreign NGOs (Spanish, English, Modern Greek), Spanish and Modern Greek teacher
2011 - up to present - researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Specialization:
History of Latin America, Czechoslovak Foreign Policy in Latin America in 20thcentury, Spanish Civil War, Francoist Spain, Oral History.

Selected Publications and Articles:
Československo a Kuba v letech 1959–1962 (“Czechoslovakia and Cuba in the Years 1959–1962“). Praha: FF UK (ed. Scholia), to be released in 2011
Mañana España: Historia oral de la guerrilla antifranquista 1945–1952. (“Tomorrow Spain: Oral History of Antifrancoist Guerrilla 1945 – 1952”) Praha, 2005 [Manuscript available at: http://www.premioibam.cz/cz/ganador2005.php]. The essay was awarded Premio Iberoamericano Prize in 2005

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