Email: radim.hladik[at]gmail.com 

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-long research visit at the Centre for Popular Memory

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

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
                                    - 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 & 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, 11000 Prague
                                     - Assisting in office duties, researching and writing articles for publication

continuously                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); assisting administration and teaching at
                                    the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University

Spring 2009                 seminář Média a modernita. [Media and Modernity seminar]. (M.A. in Sociology,
                                    FSV UK)
Fall 2008                     Film and Memory. (FAMU International M.A. progam)
Fall 2008                     Přehled dějin a teorie médií. [Introduction to Media History and Theory]. (FAMU)

-  “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)

• The Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies in the U.S., 2009-2010
• Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, Charles University, 2008
• Dean's Special Praise for Outstanding Master's Diploma Thesis, FSV UK, 2006
• The Fund for American Studies Scholarship, Georgetown University, 2005
• Program in International Education - Hanzelka Scholarship, Bard College, 2003-4
• Dean's Special Praise for Outstanding Bachelor's Diploma Thesis, FSV UK, 2003
• Award for Contribution to Significant Activities of the Faculty, FSV UK, 2001

Languages:       
English – fluent (TOEFL score 300, computer based test, 2005)
French – avancé 2 (level at the French Institute of Prague, summer 2007)

Other:
Volunteer for Association 2000, a non-profit collective running an infoshop in Prague. Activities included: lectures, debates, screenings, library. (2001-2006).