Box: 11
Phone: +49 7531 88-3821
Room: F 348
Email: pavel.kolar@uni-konstanz.de
Office hours: The upcoming office hours on 22.07.2024 are cancelled.
The following appointments will take place during the lecture-free period by appointment per E-Mail
- 21.10.2024
We kindly ask you to send appointment requests by Friday morning of the week before.
Research Interests
- Comparative Transnational Modern History (Germany, Central, South Eastern, Eastern Europe)
- State Socialism, Comparative History of Dictatorships
- History of Physical Violence
- Historiography, Remembrance, Narration
- Nation-Building, Nationalism
- Science and Universities in Modern Central Europe
Curriculum Vitae
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"
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.