Prof. Dr. Pavel Kolář

Education

2003

PhD in General History, Charles University, Prague

1998

MA degree in General and Comparative History, Charles University, Prague

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Professional Career

Since October 2018

Professor of History of Eastern Europe, University of Konstanz

2010-2018

Professor of Comparative and Transnational European History, EUI, Florence

2003-2010

Researcher at Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam

2001-2002

Junior lecturer, Department of History, University of Liberec, Czech Republic

1999-2001

PhD researcher and lecturer at Seminar of General and Comparative History, Charles University, Prague

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Fellowships, Visiting Researcher, Project Leadership

2022-2023

Visiting Research Professor, University of Bielefeld 

2011-2014

Co-Director of international research project "Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam

2007-2010

Leader of project "Socialist Dictatorship as a World of Meaning" (Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Institute of Contemporary History, Prague)

01-03/2009

Visiting fellow at German Historical Institute, Warsaw

07-08/2006

Visiting lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2003-2008

Participant in European Science Foundation´s project "Representation of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Europe"

2002-2005

Member of the Czech-German graduate school "Life worlds and communication structures in central Europe, 16th to 19th centuries"

02-09/2001

Research stay at the Institute of History, University of Vienna

09/2000-01/2001

Erasmus stipend, School of Humanities, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne

1998-1999

DAAD-Fellow at the Institute of History, Humboldt University Berlin, member of the PhD-school "Gesellschaftsvergleich in historischer, soziologischer und ethnologischer Perspektive"

Full List of Publications

Recent publications

Violence After Stalin. Institutions, Practices, and Everyday Life in the Soviet Bloc 1953–1989. Edited by Jan Claas Behrends, Thomas Lindenberger, and Pavel Kolář, Hannover: ibidem Press 2024.

"Die Todesstrafe und die Transformation der kommunistischen Staatsgewalt nach Stalin", Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2023, 115-134.

"Geschichtstrauma, Nationsbildung, Sozialismus. Außenpolitik und kollektive Identität in der Tschechoslowakei (1945–1989)", In Nationsbildung und Außenpolitik im Osten Europas. Nationsbildungsprozesse, Konstruktionen nationaler Identität und außenpolitische Positionierungen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, edited by Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Osnabrück: Fibre, 2022, 375-412.

"Hroch's Critique of the Concept of Nationalism", Nations and Nationalism 28 (2022), 3, 755-756.

Poststalinizm. Ideologia i utopia epoki [Poststalinism. Ideology and Utopia of an Epoch], Warszawa: Neriton 2022.

“Nationalstaat, Physische Gewalt und Transnationale Geschichte Europas“ In Ambivalenzen der Europäisierung. Beiträge zur Neukonzeptionalisierung der Geschichte und Gegenwart Europas. Edited by Timm Beichelt, Clara Maddalena Frysztacka, Claudia Weber, Susann Worschech, Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner-Verlag 2021, 223-237.

„Penser le Printemps de Prague: désillusion, mélancolie et déclin de la gauche” In L’onde de choc tchécoslovaque. 1968 en Europe médiane et occidentale. Edited by Antoine Marès, Françoise Mayer and Jacques Rupnik. Paris: Institut d’études slaves, 2020, 71-85.

”Unfinished Transformation: Philipp Ther’s Odyssey of Post-Socialist Neoliberalism”, East Central Europe 47 (2020): 361-367.

Capital Punishment and the Late Socialist State

Violence in Peaceful Times: Welfare and Coercion in Europe Since 1945