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CEFRES Team

Michaela Rumpíková – Research & CV

“Young Women in Transition: A Phenomenological Reading of First-Person Coming of Age Stories”

Contact : michaela.rumpikova@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

Research Area 2 – Norms & Transgressions

My doctoral research proposes a phenomenological reading of contemporary French coming-of-age fiction centred around the figure of the young girl. By perceiving the young girl as a body in the state of becoming, I take up the concept of “becoming a woman” (Beauvoir, then Deleuze and Guattari) in order to extend it to a broader understanding of becoming as a directed process, that is, one influenced by gender, class, race, and sexuality norms. In 2001, Tiqqun wrote “Like so many of our unfortunate contemporaries, the Young Girl took Western metaphysics at the foot of its aporias”. Integrated into late capitalism, feminine subjectivity is formed through the norms of seduction, performance and consumption, and their internal contradictions. Nevertheless, it cannot be reduced to a simple embodiment of this ideology. Far from being a passive symptom, it also constitutes a reaction to the impasses of the system: it is a question of adapting to it, negotiating a space within it, and of becoming in a world which has already frozen into an artificial image of it. All while attempting to break free from the narrow confines of this representation, her story attempts to sketch the outlines of her own subjectivity.

In terms of methodology, I draw on the triad of orientations-objects-others (Sara Ahmed) to examine how formative trajectories are shaped by external forces that determine accessible and desirable directions and shape our relationship to the world, objects, and others. This allows me to rethink coming-of-age not as a linear or teleological route, but as an active movement, a form of navigation within a relational and dialogical field, where the body is affected without end, moved, and reconfigured in its way of being in the world. I thus reinterpret the Bildungsroman as a narrative journey, a dialectic movement of experience: a space of disadjustment, of friction, and sometimes even failure, understood not as an individual fault, but as a symptom of the norms which organise the social space.

This research draws on a corpus of coming-of-age fiction in the first person which I refer to as the ‘fourth generation’, characterised by social mobility, post-identity and the porosity of belonging (i.e. Nina Bourauoi, Faiza Guène, Wendy Delorme, Lolita Pille, Emmanuelle Richard, Blandine Rinkel, Fatima Daas). By examining the ways in which young girls negotiate their place in a world that guides them before they even have the opportunity to choose their own direction, I explore what becoming (a woman) means today, and what narrative forms and textual strategies enable us to express, reshape or invent this becoming.

CV

Education

  • 2022 – present: PhD. candidate jointly supervised by Charles University and Sorbonne Nouvelle University (programme: French and comparative literatures); Thesis: Young Women in Transition: A Phenomenological Reading of First-Person Coming of Age Stories, under the supervision of Eva Voldřichová Beránková and Alain Schaffner
  • 2019 – 2021: Master’s at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University (programme: French philology); Specialities: sexual identities and their representation in francophone literature, self-narrative, illness and auto-fiction; Dissertation: Hervé Guibert: the resurrection of the Author, under the supervision of Eva Voldřichová Beránková; Grade: excellent
  • 2015 – 2019: Bachelor’s at the Faculty of Education at Charles University (programme: French and English); Specialities: literary engagement, the literature of the Enlightenment and its emancipatory limits; Undergraduate dissertation: The emancipation of women in Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, under the supervision of Milena Fučíková; Grade: excellent

Exchange programmes

  • (2024) Vassar College (Department of modern literature)
  • (2022 – 2023) École Normale Supérieure (Department of literatures and language)
  • (2020 – 2021) Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Department of languages and literatures)
  • (2017 – 2018) Institut Catholique de Paris (Department of literature and language)

Publications

  • „Holky s bouchačkou: Odysea revolučního násilí v podání Virginie Despentes“, in: A2, 2025.
  • „Angažovat se od stolu“, in: Re:vize, 2025.
  • « Le chronotope de devenir-queer dans Arcadie (2018) d’Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam : le corps en Bildung », in : Silène, 2025. (publication to come)
  • « La vengeance au féminin : Civico et Burnier sous la tutelle de Despentes », collective volume under the supervision of Katarzyna Gadomska and Tomasz Kaczmarek, Lausanne : Peter Lang, 2024.
  • “Failing as a Literary Form of Queering”, collective volume codirected by Stefanie Mayer and Alex Lachkar, Vienna: Transcript, 2024.
  • « Floutage des frontières de genre : écrire le corps queer », collective volume under the supervision of Robert Karul and Andrea Turekova, Prague : Svet literatury 2024.
  • „Corporealita: tělo pod kapitálem“, in: Glosolalia, vol. 6, 2024.
  • „Co nenapíšu, to se nezavrší“, in: A2, 2024.
  • „Michel Houellebecq: islamofob a pornohvězda na poloviční úvazek“, in : Alarm, 2023.
  • « Hors centre et périphérie : La convergence littéraire dans l’univers de Vernon Subutex (2015 – 2017) de Virginie Despentes », in : Ostium, 2023.
  • „Marginalizace, patriarchát a emancipační boj u Virginie Despentes“, in : Alarm, 2023.
  • „Annie Ernaux: tělo a třídní boj”, in : Host, 2023.
  • „Marcel Proust a tajemství času”, in : Host, 2022.
  • „Emile Zola proti sociální slepotě“, in : H7O, 2022.

Conference(s), presentation(s), summer school(s)

  • (November 2025) International conference on the theme “Negotiating Safety. Literary and Cinematic Stagings of Tensions and Conflicts in Queer Spaces Since 1900” at the University of Vienna; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2025), “Queers at the Family Table: Negotiating the Self and the Family Through Space”.
  • (September 2025) Interdisciplinary workshop on “Rethinking the Emotions from a Historical Perspective” organised by Charles University; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2025), “Feelings of Class Shame in Contemporary Literature: Failing to Feel Right”.
  • (August 2025) Interdisciplinary summer school of the theme “Guerre-Conflit-Résilience” in Štěkeň, organised by par the Jan Hus Association; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2025), « Refuser la résilience : le récit du mal-être comme échec à résister à la négativité ». (publication to come)
  • (June 2025) International conference on the theme “Esthétiques queer et enjeux sociaux : décentrement”, organised by Clermont Auvergne University; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2025), « L’intimité éco-queer : « faire l’amour aux rochers, baiser les arbres ». (publication to come)
  • (May 2025) International conference on the theme “Colères féminines”, organised by the University of Amiens; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2025), « On se lève et on se casse : le concept de la colère féministe chez Virginie Despentes et Wendy Delorme ». (publication to come)
  • (October 2024) International conference on the theme “Bildungsroman à l’épreuve des identités sexuelles” organised by Paris Nanterre University; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2024), « Le chronotope de devenir-queer dans Arcadie (2018) d’Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam : le corps en Bildung », 24th October, Paris.
  • (August 2024) Interdisciplinary summer school on the theme “Déchets et fragments” in Kosice (University of Kosice) organised by the Jan Hus Association; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2024), « La poétique du fragment dans Le Corps lesbien de Monique Wittig », 5th July, Kosice.
  • (July 2024) Summer school in Poitiers (University of Poitiers), organised by OFFRES; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2024), « Lecture phénoménologique queer de la jeune fille dans les récits de formation : devenir dans le monde », 5th July, Poitiers.
  • (April 2024) Presentation of a thesis chapter at Vassar College; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2024), “The (Young) Girl as Contemporary Character: Becoming War Machine”, 22th April, New York.
  • (March 2024) Doctoral seminar on the theme “Écrire contre” organised by Sorbonne Nouvelle University; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2024), “Virginie Despentes and Literary Queering”, International conference “Queer/Feminist Relations in Fiction”, 15th March, Paris (online).
  • (October 2023) International conference on the theme “Queer Feminist Relations in Fiction” at the University of Vienna; Michaela RUMPIKOVA (2023), “Virginie Despentes and Literary Queering”, International conference “Queer/Feminist Relations in Fiction”, 28th October, Vienna.
  • (August 2023) Interdisciplinary summer school on the theme “Le Flou” in Krahule organised by the Jan Hus Association.
CEFRES Team

Sophie Raehme – Research & CV

“Visualizing Resistance: The Traveling Graffiti “Las Cuchas Tienen la Razón” and the Ghostly Presence of Forcibly Disappeared Colombians in Europe”

Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

My research broadly examines how state and non-state actors, as well as victim-survivors themselves, negotiate concepts of collective reparation for gendered, intersectional, and relational harm. I focus in particular on the possibilities and limitations of collective reparations within official processes of victim subject recognition. Using a relational ontological lens, I explore how frameworks of collective victimization are constructed and contested within transitional justice discourses and beyond and in particularly in relation to territorial memory, art, and resistance in the context of Colombia’s urban territorial peace. My work is grounded in critical, decolonial, queer, and feminist approaches to transitional justice, reparations, gender, and human rights. Between 2022 and 2024, I collaborated closely on participatory documentary projects with a women’s searcher collective and an LGBT group in Medellín. One of these projects is currently being re-edited and is planned for submission to a human rights film festival.

During my fellowship at CEFRES, I will explore the transnational dimensions of memory activism through the traveling graffiti “Las cuchas tienen la razón”, originally created by youth graffiti artists and women searchers in Medellín, Colombia. The project investigates how this visual intervention, symbolizing territorial resistance and youth and women-led struggles for truth, justice, and reparations, has been reinterpreted within the Latin American diaspora in European cities such as Vienna, Berlin and London. To study these translocated territorial memories in traveling graffiti, I adopt an exploratory methodology using the metaphor of ghosts. “Ghost ethnography” offers a conceptual framework to examine how trauma and absence are inscribed on bodies and urban spaces, particularly through muralism and graffiti. These forms of street art function as living archives of resistance, often overlooked in mainstream historiography and ethnography, yet central to grassroots memory practices. I will complement this with semi-structured interviews conducted with graffiti artists and women searchers.

At CEFRES, I aim to contribute primarily to Research Area 3, “Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces.” During my stay, I will present findings from my PhD research and screen the upcoming participatory documentary “Women Walking for Truth – Transforming Voices and Territorial Resistance” (2025).

CV

I hold a Master’s in Philosophy (2019) from Goethe University (Frankfurt) and a Master’s in International Studies / Peace and Conflict Research (2020) from the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 2024, I taught courses on feminist theory, climate repair, and art-based methodologies as a Global Teaching Fellow at the Department of Political Science and Global Studies at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). In 2025, I was a visiting PhD researcher at the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (Florence).

CEFRES Team

Nina Papcunová – Research & CV

“Nature in Modernism”

Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Contact: nina.papcunova@savba.sk

Nina Papcunová is a doctoral student at the Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Her dissertation, entitled Nature in Modernism, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3.

The main objective of the thesis is to explore the cultural function of nature in Slovak literature between 1890 and 1925, corresponding to the poetic line of naturalism-symbolism-modernism. The research also focuses on the environmental awareness of modernist literature and its response to contemporary changes in the relationship between humans and nature (industrialization, war). The psychological aspects of the representation of nature will be equally relevant to the research. Thematically, the research will focus on motifs of natural disasters and destructive human interventions in nature, with an emphasis on their literary representation, aesthetic and functional use, and overall signification. The research will work with prose and poetic texts from a defined period and will cover many authors in the aim of capturing as many different approaches to the aforementioned themes and motifs as possible.

The methodology of the research is based on the theories of ecocriticism and ecopoetics (écopoétique; writing about nature – écrire la nature) applied to the study of modernism. Both theories focus on representations of nature in literary texts. While ecocriticism focuses primarily on the presence of nature in literature, ecopoetics examines in depth the aesthetic forms and shapes in which nature is captured in literature. Modernism as a period is often associated with the development of urbanization and thus also with urban space. Although nature appears in Slovak modernist texts, its depictions have not yet received significant attention from experts. My research presents an innovative approach to the defined issue on two levels: the core of the research is the representation of nature in a literary period that has so far been characterized by an interest in the city, and the research will be based on the use of ecocriticism and ecopoetics, which have not yet been significantly applied in literary research in our geographical area.

CV

Education

2024 – present: PhD candidate; Thesis: Príroda v modernizme (Nature in Modernism; La nature dans le modernisme), Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), Bratislava

2019-2024: Master’s in Slovak and French language and culture with a specialisation in translation and interpretation, Comenius University, Bratislava

Additional education

2022-2024: Supplementary pedagogical studies focusing on teaching French – extension module, Comenius University in Bratislava

Recent publications

– Review in English of a publication by author Peter Adkins: The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes (2024), SLOVENSKÁ LITERATÚRA (in print)

– Recenzia pri príležitosti vydania publikácie od autorky Mgr. Silvia Rybárová, PhD.: Dejiny, pamäť a osobný príbeh v súčasnej francúzskej próze (2024), SLOVENSKÁ LITERATÚRA, zv. 72, 2025, č.3

CEFRES Team

PhD Fellows | 2024-2025

Josefina Formanová

Contact: josefina.formanova(@)cefres.cz

is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Her PhD thesis, entitled Philosophy of Failure: Negativity and Error in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, contributes to CEFRES research area 2. She received a CEFRES Platform fellowship for the academic year 2024–2025.

Vera Guseynova

Contact: vera.guseynova[@]cefres.cz

Is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris). Her PhD project entitled The Internationalization of Russian Art, 1957–1991: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Artistic Transfers and Circulations, the Case of Unofficial Art contributes to CEFRES research areas 1 et 2. She received a „France & Visegrád“ fellowship for the academic year 2024–2025. Continue reading PhD Fellows | 2024-2025 →

CEFRES Team, Non classé

Ruslana Koziienko – Research & CV

“The effects and affects of the (im)mobility of men during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine”

Contact : Koziienko_Ruslana@phd.ceu.edu

Research Area 2 : Norms and Transgressions

Ruslana Koziienko is a social anthropologist and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University (Vienna). Her doctoral research explores the experiences of Ukrainian adult civilian men as affected by the limited mobility—outside, due to the travel ban, and within the country, due to the mobilization processes—under martial law, which was introduced in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The project focuses on three interrelated themes. First, it examines the coping strategies civilian men develop under conditions of constrained mobility in order to support and provide for themselves and their families. Second, the research analyzes the transformations of masculinities and sense of manhood civilian men have undergone, especially in the light of the masculinity of the defender occupying the hegemonic position, as well as, more broadly, how the hierarchy of masculinities in Ukrainian society has been reshaped over more than three years of the all-out war. The third theme (and the general framework) of the project explores the transformations of and contestations over citizenship and what it means to be a “good (male) citizen” in times of war. Finally, the research also looks at the dynamics, processes, and regimes at different—national, regional, and international—levels that have shaped the historical moment when the sex-selective travel ban in times of war became possible and supported, or at least tolerated, by many in the first place. Among these are the national gender order, the European migration regime, the international humanitarian regime, and the tension between, on the one hand, state sovereignty and, on the other, the international regime of human rights.

Methodologically, the research draws on online and in-person, in-depth semi-structured interviews with Ukrainian civilian men, as well as, in a few cases, their partners, in Ukraine and across nine countries (Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, the UK, and Canada). Research participants include men who remained in Ukraine, those who left the country, men who left but later returned, and those who were abroad when the full-scale invasion started. The research is also complemented by an analysis of the transformations of the law and regulations governing the border crossing regime and mobilization processes, media materials, and elements of digital ethnography.

CV

Education

  • 2020 – exp. 2026: PhD candidate, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Vienna
  • 2018 – 2020: MA, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest
  • 2011 – 2015: BA, Cultural Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv

Teaching experience

  • 01/2025 – in progress: Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education, Central European University
  • 01/2024 – 04/2024: Teaching Assistant, Central European University, Vienna, Ethnographic Methods, Asst. Prof. Johanna Markkula (MA level)
  • 04/2022 – 06/2022: Mentor, Invisible University for Ukraine, Vienna, Transformation, Conflict, and Migration (mixed levels)

Publications

  • Koziienko, Ruslana. 2023. “Against false solidarity. A call for true solidarity among people with experiences of displacement.” Allegra Lab, March. (Link)
  • Biziukova, Volha, Ruslana Koziienko, and Anna Lazareva. 2023. “‘Arrival’ Infrastructures: Ukrainian Displaced People in Vienna.” IWM Post, no.131 (June). (Link)
  • Koziienko, Ruslana. 2016. “Listening to the Rhythms of Cultural Trauma,” A Visit from Ghosts, 1 (October): 10-12. (Link)

In preparation

  • Biziukova, Volha, Ruslana Koziienko, and Ayşe Çağlar. “Beyond exception: the Ukrainian displaced in Vienna and the mazes of temporary protection in the EU and global contexts.” (Advanced draft; will be submitted to Ethnic and Racial Studies)

Conference presentations

  • 11 – 13/06/2025: Men and Masculinities in Transition, organized by the Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinities, Stockholm University; Panel: Military-2 & Prison; Presentation title: Transformations of civilian masculinities: Ukrainian men and (im)mobility during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.
  • 14 – 15/11/2024: Ukrainian Un/Certainties: Mobilities, Memories and Representations in Times of War, organized by Prisma Ukraїna, Berlin; Panel: Gender and (Im)Mobility; Presentation title: Contesting citizenship: (Im)Mobility of adult civilian men under martial law during the Russian war against Ukraine.
  • 23 – 26/07/2024: EASA2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology, Barcelona; Panel: The Gender of the State; Presentation title: The effects and affects of the (im)mobility of civilian men under martial law during the Russian war against Ukraine.
  • 13 – 14/10/2022: Solidarity, Displacement & the University Workshop, Berlin; Presentation title: Against false solidarity. A call for true solidarity among people with experiences of displacement.

Co-authored conference presentations:

  • 04 – 05/11/2023: Dialogues of the Peripheries, online; Feuerbach 11 conference, organized by the Commons journal; Co-presented with Volha Biziukova and Ayşe Çağlar; Panel: Approved or Refused: How the international refugee system has to work? (Link)
  • 30/09/2023: Migration and Arrival in Turkey: Urban and Spatial Approaches, Istanbul, organized by ReROOT Project; Co-presented with Volha Biziukova and Ayşe Çağlar; Presentation title: Arriving in “perpetual temporariness”: the displaced from Ukraine in Vienna and the mazes of temporary protection.
  • 01 – 02/03/2023: Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Research Symposium, Vienna; Co-presented with Volha Biziukova; Presentation title: “Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna.

Public talks and presentations:

  • 13 – 15/06/2025: Participant, conference Einsam in der Neuen Welt (Lonely in the New World); Project Group Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe, The Evangelical Academy, Tutzing, Germany.
  • 22/02/2024: Invited speaker, public discussion War, Flight and Civil Society. The Ukrainian perspective; Dialogue Office for Civil Society Cooperation, Vienna, Austria.
  • 09/11/2023: Presentation of research findings and invited speaker, public discussion What’s next for Ukrainian refugees? Lived experiences between state “welcome infrastructures” and self-help ecosystems; Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), Vienna, Austria.
  • 22/02/2023: Presentation of key findings of the research “Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna, Central European University, Vienna, Austria; Co-presented with Volha Biziukova, Ayşe Çağlar, and Anna Lazareva.
  • 09/02/2023: Presentation of key findings of the research “Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria; Co-presented with Volha Biziukova. (Video)

Conferences/workshops organized

  • 08/07/2025: Un/Making Protection: The Proliferation of Temporary Protection Regimes Across Space and Time, co-organizer, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria.
  • 17 – 18/10/2024: EthnoDoks: 16th Edition, co-organizer, Vienna, Austria. (Link)

Other work experience

  • 2015 – 2019: Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine; Project manager, researcher, co-curator
  • 2015 – 2016: The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; Research Associate in the Education Department
  • 08/2015 – 10/2015: The School of Kyiv (Kyiv Biennial 2015), Ukraine; Coordinator

Exhibitions

  • 05/2017 – 07/2017: Custodial Settings, co-curator, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv (Link)
  • 11/2016 – 04/2017: Points of Approaching, co-curator, CSM/Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Dnipro-Kharkiv-Kyiv (Link)
  • 11/2016 – 12/2016: KINOTRON: Exhibition of an Unrealized Idea. Felix Sobolev – Stanisław Lem – Viktor Glushkov, co-curator, Visual Culture Research Centre, Kyiv (Link)
  • 08/2016: Olympics’84 in Donetsk, co-curator, Visual Culture Research Centre, Kyiv (Link)
CEFRES Team

Dominika Drobná – Research & CV

“Theory and Practice of Architecture in Bratislava around 1800”

Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Dominika Drobná is a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. Her dissertation, titled Theory and Practice of Architecture in Bratislava around 1800, contributes to Research Area 3 at CEFRES.

The aim of the dissertation is to explore the relationship between architectural theory and practice in Bratislava between 1770 and 1830. The research began with a focus on the development of sacred architecture in western Slovakia during this period, particularly in the context of Theresian and Josephine reforms in the Church and education. These reforms significantly influenced architectural production and led to the discovery of a previously overlooked figure in architectural theory – Johann Nepomuk Schauff. Schauff worked for many years as a drawing teacher at the Normalschule in Bratislava, where he taught drawing to local craftsmen, including masons and stonemasons. These craftsmen increasingly participated in architectural design, particularly in religious and secular buildings, often in collaboration with Viennese architects. Schauff also developed his own theoretical ideas focused on the architecture of the Kingdom of Hungary and published several works in Bratislava related to this topic.

In addition to Schauff, the dissertation focuses on the work of architect Matthäus Walch, who was active in Bratislava especially during the 1770s. Walch played a key role in the construction of several aristocratic palaces, a theatre, and two Evangelical churches built even before the issuance of the 1781 Patent of Toleration.

The core objective of the dissertation is to address the theoretical and practical aspects of architecture – particularly sacred architecture – by analysing the work and ideas of these two important figures. It seeks to trace the stylistic development of architecture in Bratislava during a pivotal transition from the late Baroque to Classicism, and to demonstrate Bratislava’s significance as a secondary centre of architecture and art in the Habsburg monarchy and the Kingdom of Hungary.

The research methodology consists of several phases. The first involved heuristic and critical evaluation of existing literature. This was followed by in-depth analysis of primary historical sources, including archival documents, maps, architectural plans, and historical depictions, especially prints. Special attention is given to Schauff’s theoretical texts, whose interpretation helps illuminate broader architectural discourse around 1800.

The material basis of the study is formed by three key sacred buildings in Bratislava: The Large Evangelical Church (1774–1776), The Small Evangelical Church (1776–1777), and The Roman Catholic Church of St. Ladislaus (1830–1831). Notably, the two Evangelical churches were constructed before the Patent of Toleration in 1781. After a comprehensive analysis of the selected objects, the characteristic features of the architecture of the given period and region will be determined by comparison, and their development and style will be defined. In the final phase, I’m focusing on interpreting the acquired knowledge about sacred architecture. The aim is to highlight the broader context of the issue under investigation within the architecture of the selected period, not only in the territory of present-day Slovakia, but also in the context of the situation in Hungary, the Habsburg Monarchy and Europe.

Education

  • From 2022 till present: PhD. candidate, Art studies, Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
  • 2021–2024: Master, Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno
  • 2019–2021: Master, Art History, Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno
  • 2016–2019: Bachelor, Art History, Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava

Recent publications

  • Šintava a Sereď: premeny stredovekého hradu na renesančnú pevnosť a klasicistický kaštieľ: doklady vo svetle poznatkov z oblasti archeológie, dejín architektúry a pamiatkovej starostlivosti (Šintava and Sereď: transformation of a medieval castle into a Renaissance fortress and a Classicist manor house : evidence in the light of knowledge in the field of archaeology, history of architecture and monument care). In: Studia archaeologica Brunensia, roč. 29, č. 1, 2024, s. 109–151.
  • Vila pro stavitele (Villa for the Builder). In: Tajemství české minulosti, č. 103, 2024, s. 24–27.
  • Bratislavskí stavební majstri a ich vplyv na premeny mesta v druhej polovici 18. storočia (Bratislava’s Master Builders and Their Influence on the Transformation of the City in the Second Half of the 18th Century). In: Umělec a město: sborník příspěvků z odborné konference. Brno 2023, s. 91–104. ISBN 978-80-88145-69-1.
  • Kontexte der Kunst um 1800 aus dem Gebiet der heutigen Slowakei (Contexts of Art around 1800 from the Territory of Present-Day Slovakia). In: Internationales Doktorand/innen Forum Kunstgeschichte des östlichen Europas [elektronický dokument]: Beiträge / Papers 2023. Berlin 2023, s. 1–2.
  • Možnosti inšpirácie architektúrou (Posibilities of Inspiration through Architecture). In: Prostor Zlín, roč. XXX, č. 4, 2023, s. 43–47.
  • Pressburger Baumeister Matthäus Walch a jeho stavebná činnosť v Bratislave (Pressburger Baumeister Matthäus Walch and his building activities in Bratislava). In: Kolbiarz Chmelinová, Katarína – Beňová, Katarína: Umenie a umělci v meste okolo roku 1800. Bratislava 2023, s. 86–112. ISBN 978-80-8127-388-9.
  • Národní divadlo Nitranské župy (National Theatre of the Nitra County). In: Opuscula historiae artium, roč. 70, č.2, 2021, s. 142–153.

Participation in conferences

  • November 2024: “National Styles in Architecture: The Formation of the Hungarian National Columns Order in the European Context“, paper presented in the conference Ex Arte: Fortresses, Bridges and Borders, Masaryk University, Brno
  • October 2023: “Johann Nepomuk Schauff and the Study of the Hungarian National Style in Architecture“, paper presented in the conference Ex Arte: From Material to Theory, Palacký University, Olomouc
  • October 2023: “Bratislava’s Master Buliders and Their Influence on the Transformation of the City“, paper presented in the conference The Artist and the City, Museum of Kroměříž
  • May 2023: “Contexts of Art around 1800 from the Territory of Present-Day Slovakia“, short paper presented in the conference VIII. Internationales Doktorand*innenforum Kunstgeschichte des östlichen Europas, Humboldt-University, Berlin
  • November 2022: “Pressburger Baumeister Matthäus Walch and his building Activities in Bratislava“, paper presented in the conference Art and Artists in the City around 1800, Comenius University, Bratisava