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Stefaniia Demchuk – Research & CV

Spaces of Prayer and Sensory Experience: The Boim and Kampiany Chapels in Early Modern Lviv

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

Contact: stephanierom07@gmail.com

Stefaniia Demchuk, an art historian and Associate Professor at the Department of Art History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, joins CEFRES for the 2026–2027 academic year. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Text and Image: Essential Problems in Art History and co-leader of the “Materialities” Working Group within the COST Action Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe, 1500–1800. Her research focuses on early modern art and visual culture in Central and Eastern Europe, the historiography and theory of art, the circulation of artistic forms across cultural and confessional boundaries, and the relationship between images, materiality, and religious experience. Drawing on approaches from entangled and horizontal art history, intermediality studies, and sensory and material culture studies, her work seeks to situate the art of present-day Ukraine within wider European networks of exchange.

Her publications have addressed the reception of the Vienna School of Art History in Soviet and post-Soviet scholarship, the historiography of Mannerism, religious imagery and Eucharistic controversy during the Reformation, gastronomic motives in early modern Netherlandish art, and the decolonisation of Ukrainian art history. She is co-editor, with Illia Levchenko, of Entangled Art Histories in Ukraine (Routledge, 2025) and the author of Stillleben mit Agave: Alexis Gritchenko (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2024). Her current research also explores early modern devotional imagery and practices, Antwerp Mannerism, and the intersections between food, visual culture, and social history.

During her fellowship, she will develop the project Spaces of Prayer and Sensory Experience: The Boim and Kampiany Chapels in Early Modern Lviv. The project examines two major late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century chapels as spaces designed to shape devotional practice, sensory perception, and encounters between the living and the dead. It asks what visitors were expected to see and experience and how architecture, sculpture, inscriptions, light, colour, materials, textures, and devotional texts worked together to guide attention, movement, memory, and affect. Combining spatial and iconographic analysis with archival research, early modern descriptions of Lviv, and comparative examples from Western and Central Europe, the project places these monuments within the multicultural and multi-confessional environment of early modern Lviv and within broader networks through which Renaissance artistic and architectural forms circulated, were adapted, and acquired new local meanings.

CV

Education

2016: PhD in History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

2012: MA in History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

2010: BA in History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Awards and research funding

2025: Max Weber Foundation International Research Award

2024–2025: Bibliographical Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles

2024: Historians of Netherlandish Art Fellowship for a research stay in Brussels and Bruges

2023: Getty Library Research Grant, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

2023: Coimbra Group Research Fellowship, KU Leuven

2022–2024: Research Fellowship, Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno

2019: Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities Fellowship, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Employment history

Since 2023: Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Since 2023: Part-time Lecturer, Kyiv School of Economics

2022–2024: Research Fellow, Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno

2017–2023: Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

2016–2017: Junior Research Fellow, Faculty of History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Professional experience

Since 2026: Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Text and Image: Essential Problems in Art History

Since 2024: Co-leader of Working Group 4, ‘Materialities’, COST Action CA23137, Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe, 1500–1800

Since 2023: Teaching at the Kyiv School of Economics

International research experience

2024–2025: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles

2024: Research stay in Brussels and Bruges, supported by Historians of Netherlandish Art

2023: Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

2023: Department of Art History, KU Leuven

2022–2024: Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno

2019: Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Selected publications

Demchuk, Stefaniia, and Illia Levchenko, eds. Entangled Art Histories in Ukraine. London and New York: Routledge, 2025.

Demchuk, Stefaniia. Stillleben mit Agave: Alexis Gritchenko. Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2024.

‘Words for Pictures: Ekphrasis as a Heuristic Tool in Alois Riegl’s Art History.’ Edgar Wind Journal 9 (2025): 74–88. https://doi.org/10.53245/EWJ-00048.

With Illia Levchenko. ‘Decolonizing Ukrainian Art History.’ Nationalities Papers (2024): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2024.58.

‘Food, Family, and the Reformation: From Family to Banquet Portrait in the Art of Early Modern Netherlands’ (in Ukrainian). Ukrainian Historical Review (2023), Vol. 2, 61 – 80.

With Illia Levchenko. ‘Ukrainian Baroque: Art, Myth, and National Identity.’ Histoire de l’art 91 (2023): 85–96.

‘The Mannerist “Revolution”, Dvořák and Soviet Art History.’ Journal of Art Historiography 25 (2021): 1–15.

‘The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History on Soviet and Post-Soviet Historiography: Bruegel’s Case.’ Journal of Art Historiography 23 (2020): 1–19.

‘Two Suppers: Illustrations by Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen to Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (1523) and the Eucharistic Controversy of the Early Reformation.’ Modus: Prace z historii sztuki 18 (2018): 35–48.

Magdaléna Hadjiisky – Research & CV

Everyday Experiences of Politics: A Study in Two Ordinary Cities in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic

Research Areas 2 and 3: Norms & Transgressions and Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Contact: mhadjiisky@cefres.cz

A Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Sciences Po Strasbourg since September 2005, Magdaléna Hadjiisky teaches comparative politics, the Sociology of International Relations and European Studies. Both her teaching and her research focus on the processes of creating and representing the political and the public sphere, with a dual empirical specialisation centred on Central and Eastern Europe and international organisations.

In recent years, she has been in charge of the Master’s programme in European and International Studies at Sciences Po Strasbourg, as well as the new specialisation created in 2024 (‘European Politics and Governance’). She founded the Observatory of European Political Societies, for which she holds the position of scientific director. https://mastereurope.fr/observatoire/.

Her time at CEFRES will be devoted to a new area of research in her career: the analysis of secular politics in smaller towns. She will conduct her empirical research through observation, documentary analysis and interviews in the two towns selected for this project, in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. In line with one of CEFRES’s missions – which is to build networks between researchers in France and the Czech Republic, as well as in other Central European countries – she plans to organise academic events on the theme of ‘Secular Experiences of Politics: European Perspectives’, with the aim of facilitating exchange between researchers from France, Central Europe and the Balkans.

Hadjiisky’s research career began at CEFRES and in the Czech Republic. Defended at Sciences Po Paris, her thesis, “From Citizen Mobilisation to Party Democracy: Political Participation and Delegation in the New Czech Democracy (1989–1996)”, analyses the social and political mobilisations and demobilisations that accompanied the political transformation and the demand for democracy in the Czech Republic between 1989 and the mid-1990s.

The research that formed the basis of this work required learning the Czech language (at INALCO and then at Česká škola in Prague) and a research fellowship at CEFRES from 1994 to 1997, in order to carry out fieldwork in Prague, Brno and Ostrava. Combining the sociology of mobilization with the localised sociology of partisan circles, this research analyses the collective actions of 1989 and 1990 in the Czech lands, the emergence and internal evolution of the Civic Forum, its paradoxical partial transformation into the ODS, alongside the gradual ‘partisanisation’ of the Czech political scene in the 1990s. This research has resulted in several publications in French, English and Czech (Hadjiisky, 1999, 2001a, 2007a, 2007c, 2008b, 2008c, 2005a, 2011, 2019a).

At the same time, Hadjiisky has developed a second area of specialisation focusing on the transformations of the post-communist state, through research into the (short-lived) reform of the Czech civil service in the 1990s and 2000s. Although seemingly technical, the question surrounding the status of the central civil service takes on considerable political significance in the post-communist context. She analyses the morphology of the state and its place in society as indicators that reflect the transformation of the frameworks through which the political and the communal are understood in post-socialist societies (Hadjiisky, 2004). In exploring this area of research, Hadjiisky has examined the role played by certain international actors, as well as the context of pre-accession to the European Union, in shaping the way in which civil service reform was carried out in the Czech Republic (Hadjiisky, 2007b, 2008d).

Her subsequent work led her to the sociology of international relations, with a view to situating political change within its relationship to international directives and support (Hadjiisky, 2020a, 2017a, 2017b, 2023). By studying in detail the work of the SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management) programme (Hadjiisky, 2017e) and the emergence of the OECD’s PUMA (Public Management) Programme (Hadjiisky, 2016a, 2017c), she sought to capture the gradual transformation of a democratic state project into an expert-led endeavour – a process she had previously explored in her thesis by reconstructing the dynamics of the actors mobilised in Prague, Brno and Ostrava. As with her doctoral thesis, she has focused her empirical research on actors at the middle hierarchy level – those ‘go-betweens’ through whom the narrative becomes real, moves beyond pre-constructed teleological narratives, and reintroduces uncertainty and randomness, even within institutionally constrained environments.

By uncovering certain paradoxes and tensions within international aid, her research – like her teaching at Sciences Po Strasbourg – has encouraged her to return to Central and Eastern Europe to continue exploring the various meanings, practices and uses of ‘democracy’. Thus, having explored democracy and the rule of law in the Czech national and political context, and subsequently from the perspective of their international expert assessment within the OECD and SIGMA-EU, she now wishes to analyse everyday politics within secular social contexts, in order to compare Central and Eastern European social transformations with international imperatives and, ultimately, to offer a reflection on the tensions within contemporary European governance.

CV

EDUCATION

2004 : Doctorat de science politique, Institut d’Etudes Politiques (I.E.P.) de Paris, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (C.E.R.I.).

Intitulé de la thèse : De la mobilisation citoyenne à la démocratie de partis. Participation et délégation politiques dans la nouvelle démocratie tchèque (1989-1996), sous la direction de Jacques Rupnik, directeur de recherche au C.E.R.I., F.N.S.P.

Jury de soutenance : Jean-Michel DE WAELE, Professeur de science politique, Université Libre de Bruxelles ; Pierre GREMION, Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Centre de sociologie des organisations ; Erik NEVEU, Professeur de science politique, IEP de Rennes ; Miroslav NOVÁK, Professeur de science politique à l’Université Charles (Prague)

Mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury à l’unanimité et soutien à la publication, accompagnée du label « thèse européenne ».

1998 : Boursière Robert Schuman de la Fondation Robert Schuman, Paris.

1997 : Boursière Lavoisier du Ministère français des Affaires étrangères, Paris.

1993 – 1997 : Séjour de recherches doctorales en République Tchèque accueillie au Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (C.E.F.R.E.S.), Prague.

1993 : D.E.A. de science politique, I.E.P. de Paris, cycle d’Etudes est-européennes.

Titre du mémoire : L’imaginaire de l’Occident chez les migrants potentiels bulgares après 1989, dirigé par Anne de Tinguy (C.E.R.I.), Mention très bien avec félicitations du jury.

1993 : Maîtrise de science politique, Université Paris I – Sorbonne.

CAREER PATH

Since 2005 :

Maîtresse de Conférences en Science Politique à l’Université de Strasbourg (Sciences Po Strasbourg)

Membre du laboratoire SAGE (Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe, UMR 7363 – CNRS-Université de Strasbourg), hébergé à la MISHA (Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme d’Alsace, USR 3227).

2024-2026 : Co-Responsable du Parcours Politique européenne et Gouvernances (GOV) du Master 2 Etudes européennes et internationales, Sciences Po Strasbourg

Sept. 2023-Sept 2025 : Directrice de la mention Etudes européennes et internationales (EEI), Sciences Po, Université de Strasbourg.

Scientific responsibilities and collaborative activities (since 2016)

2021 – 2025 : Membre nommée de la Section 40 (Politique, Pouvoir, Organisation) du Comité national de la Recherche Scientifique. A ce titre, participation aux 2 sessions annuelles de suivi des carrières de chercheurs et chercheuses, et aux jurys de recrutement au concours de chargé.e de recherche sur la base de l’examen préalable des dossiers.

2021 – : Membre des commissions formation et recherche de l’Institut Thématique Interdisciplinaire MAKeRS sur « La Fabrique de la société européenne »

2022-2025 : Membre du Conseil scientifique du CEFRES (Centre français de recherches en sciences sociales, Prague)

2017-2023 : Co-Responsable, avec Wiebke Keim (CNRS), de l’Axe 3 de SAGE, « Production, circulation et critique des savoirs » et organisatrice du Séminaire de l’Axe 3. Organisation d’un séminaire de recherche mensuel

27-29 June 2018, directrice de l’IOGLOB project, Reviewing Workshop “MicroPolitics in International Organizations: Shaping Governance in an Era of Globalization” Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme d’Alsace. Université de Strasbourg

Since 2024 : membre du réseau de recherche international LoCi (Lower classes and institutions) coordonné par Vincent Dubois (Sciences Po Strasbourg-SAGE), https://lowerclassinstitutions.com/events/.

Since 2018 : Membre du réseau de recherche international Policy Diffusion. Partenaire de l’organisation et des travaux de International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation, Sao Paulo, 16-19 mai 2018. https://policydiffusion.com/ et Sao Paulo 25-27 mai 2020 : https://policydiffusion.com/icpddc-2020/ Coopération avec les Universités de Liverpool, Carleton (Canada), South Australia, Alberto Urtado (Chili), PUC (Pérou)…

2018-2019 : Lauréate et responsable du Programme MISHA « Construction et circulation des savoirs “experts” sur l’action publique dans l’espace européen : le rôle des organisations internationales ». Budget de 6000 Euros par an.

Dans ce cadre, partenaire de la Journée d’Etudes « Le registre scientifique des Organisations internationales », Lyon, 6-7 juillet 2018.

2016 : organisatrice et responsable scientifique, avec Romuald Normand et David Dolowitz, du Colloque international IOGLOB, International Organizations and the Globalization of Public Instruments and Ideas : Micro-Processes and Actors’ Configurations, 1-3 September 2016, MISHA, Strasbourg

A selection of educational initiatives

2024- : Cours Decentralising the Classroom, decentring the social sciences. Democracy and the people, here and there. Cours optionnel de 4è année du diplôme de Sciences Po. Cours monté avec Wiebke Keim (CR CNRS, SAGE) et, à Santiago (Chili) et à Brasilia (Brésil), avec Leandro Rodriguez Medina (Professor, Center for the Study of Science, Technology and Society, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile) et Stefan Klein (Professor, Department and Graduate Programme of Sociology, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil). Dispositif inspiré de la pédagogie de l’apprentissage en expérimentant (learning by doing) visant à l’internationalisation et à la dé-standardisation des contenus.

2024- : « Incubateur d’innovations publiques et politiques », M2 Politique européenne et Gouvernances. Dispositif tutoré autour d’un cas pratique d’actualité, élaboré et mis en oeuvre en étroite collaboration avec des praticiens de l’UE (CJUE, CE), visant à la professionnalisation par l’expérimentation directe encadrée par des praticiens et par des pédagogues, en français et en anglais. Associé à l’Incubateur : séjour d’étude à Luxembourg pour assister à l’audience de l’affaire étudiée à la CJUE, où plaide l’un des praticiens engagés dans l’Incubateur.

POPULARISING RESEARCH

11 Septembre 2025 : organisation, à Sciences Po Strasbourg, du lancement de l’Observatoire des sociétés politiques européennes, par une table ronde ouverte au public, sur « Conservatismes en action : tensions sociales, fractures électorales et recompositions européennes » : deux parties : 1/ Le Parlement européen et la droite radicale : Stratégies de vote européennes et nationales ; 2/ Migrations contestées, sociétés fracturées ? Entre politiques d’accueil, discours médiatiques et réalités sociales. https://mastereurope.fr/11-septembre-2025-lancement-officiel-de-lobservatoire-des-societes-politiques-europeennes/

22 Septembre et 10 décembre 2025 : organisation de deux conférences inaugurales du Master Etudes européennes de Sciences Po, sur le thème « Les sciences sociales face aux sociétés en guerre ». Conférence 1 sur l’Ukraine (22 septembre) ; Conférence 2 sur Gaza et la Cisjordanie (10 décembre). https://www.sciencespo-strasbourg.fr/agenda/evenement/conferences-de-rentree-du-master-etudes-europeennes-et-internationales-de-sciences-po-strasbourg

Novembre 2023 : participation à l’organisation d’une série de conférences sur le thème des universités en exil, à l’occasion des « Temps fort » du Jardin des Sciences « Libertés scientifiques et exil », en partenariat avec la Caravane des libertés scientifiques pour la libération de Fariba Adelkhah (http://www.fasopo.org/caravane).

https://www.misha.fr/agenda/evenement/libertes-scientifiques-et-exil

2 novembre 2022 : Interviewée dans l’émission de France Culture, Sans oser le demander, « Comment renverser un régime sans verser de sang ? », 58 minutes d’interview https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/sans-oser-le-demander/revolution-de-velours-comment-renverser-un-regime-sans-verser-de-sang-9338900

15 et 24 mars 2022 : organisation et participation à deux conférences-débats ouvertes au public pour décrypter la situation ouverte par l’attaque armée de la Russie contre l’Ukraine : « Décryptage interdisciplinaire : le conflit armé en Ukraine » et « Des voix de l’Est sur la situation en Ukraine » – cette dernière conférence avec le concours, en visioconférence, des collègues centre-est européens de Pologne, Bulgarie, Roumanie. https://evenements.unistra.fr/agenda-unistra/detail-evenement/19811-decryptage-interdisciplinaire-conflit-arme-en-ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIAcrmmL4nU

https://evenements.unistra.fr/agenda-unistra/detail-evenement/19875-des-voix-de-lest-sur-la-situation-en-ukraine

17 novembre 2020 : Interview accordée à Radio Praha à l’occasion de la commémoration de la « révolution de velours » : https://francais.radio.cz/a-la-difference-de-la-pologne-ou-de-la-hongrie-1989-reste-globalement-une-8700311

13 février 2020 : organisation d’une conférence-débat dédiée à Fariba Adelkhah (FNSP-CERI) et Roland Marchal (CNRS-CERI), « Chercher en terrain « miné » ? Accès aux sources et liberté de la recherche », MISHA.

2019 : Organisation d’une série de trois conférences sur « Retour sur le ‘clivage Est-Ouest’, 30 ans après », en coopération avec les Jeunes Européens de Strasbourg et le Grand Continent.

PUBLICATIONS

Books or special issues of journals

(with David Dolowitz and Romuald Normand, eds.), Shaping Policy Agendas. The Micro-Politics of International Economic Organizations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020a. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/shaping-policy-agendas-9781788976985.html

(with Leslie A. Pal, Christopher Walker, eds.), Public Policy Transfer. Micro-Dynamics and Macro-Effects, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017a, 360p. http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/public-policy-transfer

(avec Claire Visier), Circulation des modèles d’administration, numéro spécial, Revue française d’administration publique, vol. 161, no. 1, 2017b, 234 p. http://www.ena.fr/Recherche-et-documentation/publications/rfap

Politix, « Les hommes d’affaires en politique », coordonné avec Jean-Louis Briquet, 21 (84), 2008a https://www.cairn.info/revue-politix-2008-4.htm

ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS)

“Explorando una conversión. La Nueva Gestión Pública en la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE), entre 1970 y 1980 », Estudios Sociales del Estado – volumen 3, número 5, pp. 55 a 98, 2017c, p.55-98. http://www.estudiossocialesdelestado.org/index.php/ese/article/view/107/78

(avec Visier Claire), « Circulation internationale et fabrique européenne de l’administration publique », Revue française d’administration publique, vol. 161, no. 1, 2017d, pp. 5-18. http://www.ena.fr/Recherche-et-documentation/publications/rfap

« SIGMA : un programme international de renforcement des capacités administratives en terres européennes (1992-2012) », Revue française d’administration publique, vol. 161, no. 1, 2017e, pp. 73-88. https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-administration-publique-2017-1-page-73.htm

« La better regulation entre coordination européenne et relations triangulaires : OCDE, États membres et Union européenne », Revue française d’administration publique, vol. 158, no. 2, 2016a, pp. 561-575. https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-administration-publique-2016-2-page-561.htm

“Občanská demokratická strana a prosazení stranickosti v české demokracii devadesátých let” [The Civic Democratic Party and the Ascendance of the Professional Party Organisation in the Czech Democracy in the 1990s], Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 2011, 47 (1), p.89-114. . http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/en/issue/116-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-1-2011/2101

« De la mobilisation citoyenne à la délégation partisane. L’émergence du Parti civique démocratique (ODS) en République tchèque », Transitions, numéro spécial Les élites intermédiaires dans les partis politiques d’Europe centrale et orientale, XLVIII (1), 2008b, p.57-84. http://dev.ulb.ac.be/cevipol/dossiers_fichiers/4-hadjiisky.pdf

« The Failure of Participatory Democracy in the Czech Republic », West European Politics, 24 (3), July 2001a, p.43-64. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01402380108425452

« La démocratie par le marché. Le cas tchèque (1989-1996) », in Changer de régime, dossier coordonné par A. Collovald et B. Gaïti, Politix, (47) automne 1999, p.63-88. http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/polix_0295-2319_1999_num_12_47_1793

« République tchèque : la fin annoncée du ‘miracle tchèque’ de Vaclav Klaus ? », Revue internationale et stratégique, in Europe de l’Est, la nouvelle donne, dossier dirigé par E. Kulesza, (26) été 1997, p.75-87.

« L’image de l’« Occident » chez les migrants bulgares », Migrations société, 5 (27), 1993a, p.55-63.

« La Bulgarie et la recherche sur l’histoire du temps présent », Bulletin de l’Institut d’histoire du temps présent, 54, décembre 1993b, p.27-41.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE WORKS, INCLUDING HANDBOOKS

(avec Muriel Surdez) “L’internationalisation des problèmes publics : reconsidérer l’articulation entre organisations internationales et espaces nationaux », in Collovald Annie, Guionnet Christine, Le Bart Christian, Renou Gildas, Pour une science politique nomade. Autour des travaux d’Erik Neveu, Rennes, PUR, à paraître 2026, p. 122-137

« Political Analysis », in Radaelli C., De Francesco F., Edward Elgar Companion to the OECD, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Northampton 2023, p.50-66.

« International Organizations as complex agents in policy transfer processes », in O. Porto de Oliveira, dir., Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Northampton, 2021a, p.121-154.

(avec O. Porto de Oliveira et P. Hassenteufel) « Circulação internacional e comparação transnacional de políticas públicas », in O. Porto de Oliveira, P. Hassenteufel, dirs., Sociologia Política da Ação Pública. Teorias, Abordagens e Conceitos, Escola Nacional de Administração Pública, 2021b, p.315-334.

(with David Dolowitz and Romuald Normand), “Introduction”, in Shaping Policy Agendas. The Micro-Politics of International Economic Organizations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020b, p.1-14.

(with David Dolowitz and Romuald Normand), “Conclusion”, Shaping Policy Agendas. The Micro-Politics of International Economic Organizations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020c, p.184-194.

“When Prophecy Succeeds. The Political Failure of Dissidents in the New Czech Democracy”, in Fillieule Olivier and Neveu Erik, eds., Activists Forever? Long-Term Impacts of Political Activism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019a, p.224-250.

“Le rôle des organisations internationales dans la diffusion du New Public Management”, in N. Matyjasik et M. Guenoun, dirs., En finir avec le New Public Management ?, Paris, Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, 2019b, p.29-46.  https://books.openedition.org/igpde/5798

(with Leslie A. Pal, Christopher Walker, eds.), “Traversing the terrain of policy transfer: Theory, methods, and overview”, in Public Policy Transfer. Micro-Dynamics and Macro-Effects, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017f, p.1-26.

(with Leslie A. Pal, Christopher Walker, eds.), “Conclusion”, Public Policy Transfer. Micro-Dynamics and Macro-Effects, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017g, p.271-278.

“Policy Tranfers in Europe. The European Union and Beyond”, in Normand Romuald, Derouet Jean-Louis, European politics of Education? Perspectives from Sociology, Policy Studies and Politics, Routledge, 2016b, p.31-51

« Circulation des modèles d’action publique », in E. Lambert Abdelgawad, H. Michel, dirs., Dictionnaire des acteurs de l’Europe, Bruxelles, Editions Larcier, 2015, p.63-66
« Circulation of  Policy Models », in E. Lambert Abdelgawad, H. Michel, eds., Dictionary of European Actors, Brussels, Larcier, 2015a, pp.48-50

« Assistance internationale », in E. Lambert Abdelgawad, H. Michel, dirs., Dictionnaire des acteurs de l’Europe, Bruxelles, Editions Larcier, 2015b, p.32-36 ; « International Assistance », in E. Lambert Abdelgawad, H. Michel, eds., Dictionary of European Actors, Brussels, Larcier, 2015b, pp.191-194

« Vznik Obcanske demockraticke strany : pokus o sociologickou analyzu » [L’émergence du Parti civique démocratique : essai d’analyse sociologique], in A. Gjuricova, M. Kopecek (eds.), Kapitoly z dejin Ceske demokracie po roce 1989 [Chapitres de l’histoire de la démocratie tchèque après 1989], Paseka, Praha, Litomysl, 2008c, p.70-90. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00364063

« Europe et réforme de l’administration : le statut des agents de l’Etat en République tchèque », in J. Beck, F. Thedieck, The European Dimension of Administrative Culture, Nomos, Baden Baden, 2008d, p.309-328. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00364039

« Les économistes au pouvoir. De l’usage d’une expertise professionnelle dans la construction des nouvelles démocraties centre-européennes », in W. Andreff, La transition vers le marché et la démocratie, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 2007a, p. 146-172. http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=DEC_ANDRE_2006_01_0146

« Européanisation et réforme de l’Etat. L’influence de l’Union européenne sur la réforme des administrations publiques centrales tchèques (1993-2004) », in R. Pasquier, O. Baisnée (dirs.), L’Europe telle qu’elle se fait. Européanisation et sociétés politiques nationales, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2007b, p.167-193. http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00307250/fr/

« La culture ‘civique’ en Pays tchèques. Généalogie d’une référence politique », in C. Neveu (dir.), Cultures et pratiques participatives. Perspectives comparatives. Paris, L’Harmattan, Logiques politiques, 2007c, p.331-351.

« Des leaders ‘sans parti’. Engagement résistant et désengagement dirigeant : les anciens dissidents en République tchèque », in L. Arnaud, C. Guionnet (dirs.), Les frontières du politique, 2005, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005a, p.293-323. http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00307364/fr/

« ‘Démocratiser’ un système administratif. Les paradoxes de la réforme des administrations publiques centrales en République tchèque (1989-1998) », in F. Dreyfus (dir.), L’Administration dans les processus de transition démocratique, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004, p.91-138. http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00307377/fr/

« République tchèque », in P. Perrineau, D. Reynié (dirs.), Le Dictionnaire du Vote, Presses Universitaires de France, 2001b, p.895-898.

« Pologne, Hongrie, Bulgarie : victoires et limites du ’pragmatisme’ », in G. Hermet, L. Marcou (dirs.), Des partis comme les autres ? Les anciens communistes en Europe de l’Est. Editions Complexe, coll. Espace international, 1998, p.33-75.

Other Publications

« Vaclav Havel : portrait de l’homme politique en prophète », Savoir/Agir, 19, mars 2012.

« Europeanisation and the reform of the State: The influence of the European Union in the reform of the Czech public administration (1993-2004) », Working Paper, GSPE-PRISME, 27/01/2009. http://prisme.u-strasbg.fr/workingpapers/WPHadjiisky.pdf

« Les formes de la démocratie en Europe post-communiste. Le débat tchèque », Transcontinentales, 1, 2ème semestre 2005b, p.107-124. http://www.revues.msh-paris.fr/Modele2/articlesite/resume.asp?id_pub=1416&id_perio=71

« La fin du Forum civique et la naissance du Parti civique démocratique : la construction d’une entreprise politique et le reniement du mouvement civique de 1989 » Documents de travail du CEFRES (6) mai 1996, 53 p.

« L’émigration des intellectuels bulgares : entre l’exode professionnel et le retrait du politique » L’Autre Europe, 1995.

« La Bulgarie : le problème des Turcs et la tentation de l’ailleurs » et « Portrait de l’émigrant bulgare », Panoramiques, in Est : ces immigrés qui viendraient du froid… dossier coordonné par C. Withol de Wenden et A. de Tinguy, 1994 (14), p.48-52 et p.53-63.

Eliška D. Härtelová – Research & CV

(Im)possible Projection of the World in Poetic Speech

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

Contact: e.hartelova@icloud.com

Eliška D. Härtelová is a doctoral candidate at the Charles University in Prague. Her research on lyric poetry falls within the field of literary theory. Its objective is to describe the nature of poetic utterance in the connection with the question of how poems relate to the world. The ways in which the world and its space are represented, modeled, or reconstructed in language fundamentally influence how we, as readers, relate to our world and society through poetry. Several modalities may be considered—poems can describe the world, they can actively influence it, or they can create possible imaginary scenarios of this world. The project focuses on the third modality and explores ways of modeling the possible in lyric poetry.

The concept of the possible has a firm place in the theory of fictional possible worlds, but it is not typically considered in lyric poetry, which does not fall under the category of fiction and does not usually create a coherent fictional space. The ability to articulate the (im)possible is, however, a general feature of language that is employed, for example, in planning or in the conditional tense, which raises the question of what makes it specific in the case of lyric poetry.

Methodologically, this work is grounded in the theory of lyric poetry, which is contrasted with the theory of fictional worlds; another major area of focus is classical rhetoric and studies devoted to the figurative nature of language. From the perspective of modeling the possible, the imagery of poetry—and the related issue of the persuasiveness of speech—takes center stage. Figurative language plays a crucial role in poetry’s ability to project a vision of the world that, while we recognize as exaggerated or unrealistic, we are nonetheless able to accept (even if only for the duration of reading the poem) and find meaningful. A typical example is the figure of the apostrophe, in which the poet addresses inanimate objects, places, or natural phenomena—a seemingly absurd practice that nevertheless frequently allows for a new perspective on the segment of the world being addressed. This mechanism results in a fundamentally different role for the reader than in the case of fiction. Reading poetry is not an immersive experience; rather, it leads to critical evaluation. Many poems aim to have us commit their messages to memory and, with their help, rearticulate our relationship to the world with each new reading. They enable readers to continually rethink our world through the confrontation of values and imaginative perspectives they offer.

CV

Education

  • from 2019 till present: PhD Candidate in Comparative literature at Charles University
  • 2015–2018: Comparative literature (Mgr.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University
  • 2013–2018: Ecumenical Theology (Bc.), Protestant Theological Faculty, Charles University
  • 2012–2015: Czech Language and Literature (Bc.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Teaching experience

  • Spring Semester 2021/22, seminar Poem in the Classroom, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
  • Fall Semester 2021/22, seminar Creative Writing and Reading of Poems, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
  • Spring Semester 2020/21, seminar Interpretation of Contemporary Czech Texts, Institute of Czech and Deaf Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
  • Jan 2019 – Sept 2022, Teacher of Czech Language and Literature, New PORG high school, Prague

Recent academic activities

Recent publications

Zuzana Goleinová – Research & CV

Documentary Nonplaces

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

Contact: zuzanagoleinova@gmail.com

My doctoral research focuses on the aesthetics of documentary nonplaces in contemporary Slovak cinema, particularly in hybrid film forms and essay films. While there are numerous theoretical approaches to the concept of space, my research focuses on nonplaces and liminal spaces in particular, as these concepts profoundly resonate with the sentiments of my generation, characterised by feelings of displacement, alienation, and perpetual uncertainty.

Such places are transitional in nature, losing, acquiring or changing their original identity according to their relationship with humans. The growing interest in artistic reflection, or even online exploration, of such locations corresponds to the spatial crisis experienced by many today. In order to comprehend the absent or changing identity of individual places, this research employs the term ‘nonplace’ in a broadly defined sense, yet with consideration for the fundamental theoretical foundations of the concept.

The aim of my dissertation, entitled Documentary Nonplaces, is to conduct case studies of five Slovak films: FREM (2019, dir. Viera Čákanyová), Seablindness (2025, dir. Tereza Smetanová), Photophobia (2023, dir. Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík), A Spectre is Haunting Europe (2024, dir. Robert Mihály) and Chronicle (2025, dir. Martin Kollar). The objective of this research is to identify the relationships between the films and the documentary spaces in which they are set, and to explore how they portray actual, documentary locations, which are in the work identified as nonplaces. The subsequent analysis will examine the representation of the depicted spaces, the statements conveyed, and the relationships delineated between the depicted or undepicted individual and the allotted space.

The films selected are not of a conventional nature, occupying the intersection between fiction and non-fiction. These include film essays, documentary poems and documentary drama. In my dissertation, I categorise the film analyses into chapters according to the identity of individual film locations: Dystopian spaces, Transitional spaces, Temporary spaces, Crisis spaces, and Liminal spaces. These chapters are conceptualised as case studies, in which I analyse and contextualise the film’s message in relation to the depiction of their documentary (non)places. The conclusion of the film analyses using case studies is to show how films depict certain spaces and why I identify these places in my own expanded definition of nonplaces.

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Education

2024–present: PhD candidate. Thesis title: Documentary Nonplaces. Art Research Centre, Institute of Theatre and Film Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.

2019–2024: Master’s degree in Film Studies. Film and Television Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava.

Recent academic activities

2026–2025: Member of a research team for the VEGA programme (Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education in Slovakia) at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Project: VEGA no. 2/0055/24: Dystopian Narrative in Film.

2026: Slovak Film Institute’s panel conference Slovak Film Day. Paper title: The Spaces of Documentary Poems.

2026: International Doctoral conference On Essayism, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and FilmEU. Paper title: Thinking Essay, Writing Theory. Essayistic Method in Film Studies Doctoral Research.

2025: International conference Norm and Deviation, the 22nd Czech-Slovak Filmological Conference in Krpáčovo. Paper title: The Essay as a Deviation from Genre Norms. The tradition of the film essay in Slovakia.

2025: International Conference Real and Imagined Spaces in Film, University of Zaragoza, Spain. Paper title: The Dystopian Space of the Antarctic Landscape in the Films of Viera Čákanyová.

Recent publications

A study ‘A Space of Virtuality and Anxiety: An Eco-Dystopian Narrative of Antarctica’. In Slovenské divadlo (The Slovak Theatre: Review of Dramatic Arts), 2025, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 346-358. ISSN 0037-699X. https://doi.org/10.31577/sd-2025-0025.

An article ‘How does one define a film essay?’ In Kino – Ikon. A Journal for Film and Moving Image, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2024), pp. 157-178. ISSN 1335-1893.

An article ‘Fascination of Mountain Film: narrative understanding and emotional engagement’. In Nature, Culture, Film: Conference proceedings from 21st Czecho-Slovak filmological conference. Editor: Martin Kaňuch. Bratislava: Slovak Film Institute, 2024, pp. 66-77. ISBN 978-80-974868-0-8.