, PhD.Email: radim.hladik[at]fulbrightmail.org
EDUCATION
2007-2011 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Sociology, research doctorate; PhD. degree awarded in 2011
- dissertation title: “The Screen of Laughter and Remembering: Czech Cinema And Post-Socialist Memory” (advisor: Mgr. Tomáš Dvořák, PhD.)
09/2009–06/2010 Columbia University, New York, USA
- visiting student-researcher at the Dpt. of Sociology
02/2009 – 03/2009 University of Cape Town, South Africa
- one month research visit at the Centre for Popular Memory
10/2007 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences
- First-degree doctorate (PhDr.) awarded in Media and Mass Communication
2004-2006 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Media Studies - Master's program
- Mgr. degree (M.A. equivalent) awarded in 2006, Summa Cum Laude
06/2005–07/2005 Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
- Institute on Political Journalism: certified summer program
06/2004 Institut de Touraine, Tours, France
- intensive French language course
2003-2004 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
- Program in International Education: one year, non-degree exchange program
2000-2003 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Journalism major, undergraduate program
- Bc. degree (B.A. equivalent) awarded in 2003, Summa Cum Laude
1999-2000 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law
- Law - Master's program, studies uncompleted
WORK EXPERIENCE
2008-present researcher; executive editor – Theory of Science journal (part-time since April 2008)
- The Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Jílská 1, 110 00 Prague 1
· - The Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies
- independent research, academic translation, manuscripts reviewing
2006-2007 Officer-Specialist at the European Affairs Unit (Oct. 2006 – Oct. 2007)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Karmelitská 7, 118 12 Prague 1
· - Preparations of the Czech EU Presidency - training, logistics, and content
- National Lifelong Learning Strategy coordinator
- Representative at the Education and Training workgroup of the European Commission’s & Education Committee of the Council of the EU
- Organizing conferences and seminars, updating website, office duties
2005 Editor (2 months, full-time)
internship - Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, DC, USA
· Construction Labor Report: researching and writing articles for publication
2004 Research Assistant (4 months, part-time)
- Bard College, Department of Sociology, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
· Manuscript editing (Donnelly, M. a Straus, M. A. (eds.): Corporal Punishment of Children in Theoretical Perspective. New Haven. Yale University Press, 2005.), research, handling administrative work
2002-2003 Student-Editor (6 months, part-time)
internship - The New Presence - political and cultural quarterly, Národní 11, 110 00 Prague 1
continuously Assisting in teaching, administration, consulting and reviewing of theses at Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Humanities); assisting in office duties; researching and writing articles for publication in popular media; translating (reversibly: English-Czech); articles in the printed media (e.g. A2, Přítomnost, Rock&Pop); project management („Na stopě“ - website project of the Czech Business Representation)
TEACHING
Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Film and Memory I.-II.(FAMU International M.A. program)
Social Sciences (Czech Technical University in Prague)
Science, Technology, and Human Values (Czech Technical University in Prague)
Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Film and Memory I.-II. (FAMU International M.A. program)
Spring 2009 Média a modernita. [Media and Modernity seminar]. (M.A. in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague)
Fall 2008 Film and Memory. (FAMU International M.A. program)
Fall 2008 Přehled dějin a teorie médií. [Introduction to Media History and Theory]. (B.A. program, FAMU)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- “The Recent Journey of Post-colonial Theory to Post-socialist Space” at Spaces and Flows: Second International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies. November 17-18, 2011 (Prato, Italy)
- “The Absence of History in History Films and the Gateways for Nostalgia” at Media – Technology – Nostalgia. February 17-18, 2011 (Karlsruhe, Germany).
- Karlsruhe (DE): Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 17.02.2011-18.02.2011
- “Re-membering the National Body: Negotiating the Meaning of the Czech State-Socialist Past” at the ASN Convention, April 14-16, 2011 (New York, USA).”
- “Film as History or Film as Memory?” at the Histories Created Through Film conference at the San Francisco State University, October 20-22, 2010 (San Francisco, USA)
- “Memories of the States, Histories of the Historians: Epistemologies of the Pasts in the Czech Republic and South Africa” at the Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium 2009, Conversations V: Theories of Knowledge, November 19-20, 2009 (Cave Hill, Barbados).
- “Therapy or Trial: Framing the Czech Post-Socialist Memory” at The Enkidu Summer Conference 2009: Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions, July 1-5, 2009 (Mexico City, Mexiko).
- “Serious Comedies: Commemorative Practices in Czech Post-Socialist Cinema” at Postcommunist Visual Culture and Cinema, March 20-21, 2009 (St. Andrews, Great Britain).
- “The Rear-View Screen of Post-Socialism” at Visible Memories, October 2-4, 2008 (Syracuse University, NY, USA).
- “Normalization of the Ideology of the Normalization: The Politics of Memory in Czech Post-Socialist Bitter Comedies” at Genre, Ideology and Culture in the Cinema, September 18-20, 2008, (Jaca, Spain)
GRANTS
· “Representations of ‘Communism’ in Czech Post-Communist Cinema.” GAUK [The Charles University Grant Agency]. Student grant project no. 104409. 2009-2011.
HONORS & AWARDS
v The Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies in the U.S., 2009-2010
v Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, Charles University, 2008
v Dean's Special Praise for Outstanding Master's Diploma Thesis, FSV UK, 2006
v The Fund for American Studies Scholarship, Georgetown University, 2005
v Program in International Education - Hanzelka Scholarship, Bard College, 2003-4
v Dean's Special Praise for Outstanding Bachelor's Diploma Thesis, FSV UK, 2003
v Award for Contribution to Significant Activities of the Faculty, FSV UK, 2001
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
● Hladík, Radim: „Memories of the States, Histories of the Historians: Knowledge of the Past in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic and the Post-Apartheid South Africa“. In F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo, Roxanne Burton, and Ed Brandon (eds.).: Conversations in Philosophy, vol. 2. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming.
● Carpentier-Reifová, Irena; Gillárová, Kateřina; Hladík, Radim: “The Way We Applauded … How popular culture stimulates collective memory of the socialist past in Czechoslovakia – the case of the television serial Vyprávěj and its viewers.” In Aniko Imre, Timothy Bavena, Katalin Lustyik (eds.).: Popular Television in Central and Eastern Europe: Entertaining a New Europe. London and New York, Routledge, forthcoming.
● Hladík, Radim: Traumatické komedie: Politika paměti v českém filmu. Sociální studia, vol. 7, no. 1 (2010), p. 9-26.
● Hladík, Radim: „Třikrát o mnohočetné paměti.“ Teorie vědy/Theory of Science, vol. XXII, 2010, no. 4., p. 535-551.
● Balon, Jan; Hladík, Radim: „Proměny studia kultury: projekt kulturálních studií.“ In Šubrt, Jiří (ed.): Soudobá sociologie. IV, (Aktuální a každodenní). Praha : Karolinum, 2010, p. 64-79.
● Hladík, Radim: “Between Resentment and Forgiveness: Public Histories in the Czech and South African Transitions.” Teorie vědy/Theory of Science, vol. XXI, 2009, no. 2., p. 113-137.
● Hladík, R. – Mozen, C. “Global Day of Action Against the IMF and World Bank, Prague, September 26 (S26), 2000.” In: Ness, Immanuel (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp. 1391–1395.
● Hladík, R. “Astigmatický pohled na vizuální sociologii - Piotr Sztompka: Vizuální sociologie.” (Review). Teorie vědy/Theory of Science, vol. 30, 2008, no. 2, pp. 149-156.
● Hladík, R. “Bůh chraň historii.” (Exhibition review). Sešity pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, vol. 2, 2008, no. 4-5, pp. 150-155.
● “Skutečný autor Bílé knihy.”. [On the Higher Education Reform]. In A2, no. 47, 2007.
● Star Trek: Technologies of
Disappearance. (Review). Resource Center
for Cyberculture Studies. Oct. 2006 [online].
Selected translations:
● Latour, Bruno: “Poznání a vizualizace aneb jak myslet očima a rukama.” [Visualization and Cognition: Thinking with Eyes and Hands]. Teorie vědy/Theory of Science, vol. 30, 2008, no. 2 , p. 35-92.
● Warner, Michael: “Styly intelektuálních publik.” [Styles of Intellectual Publics].Teorie vědy/Theory of Science, vol. 29, 2009, no. 3-4 , p. 81-116.
OTHER
Languages: English – fluent (TOEFL score 300, computer based test, 2005)
French – avancé 2 (level at the French Institute of Prague, summer 2007)