Mgr. Kateřina Kolářová, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** • Kancelář: 2.39 • e-mail: katerina.kolarova@fhs.cuni.cz • telefon: 224 271 450 *========================================================================================= * Konzultační hodiny: *========================================================================================= Viz SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/kdojekdo/index.php?do=detailuc&kuc=14752"] . Kateřina Kolářová received her PhD in Anglo-American Literary Studies and an MA in History American Studies and History from Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (research Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Konstanz, Studienkolleg zu Berlin) ****************************************************************************************** * Research Profile ****************************************************************************************** Feminist Queer Crip theories and methodologies, Disability studies Feminist Transnationalisms Postsocialism, Postcoloniality and Decolonial critiques Social studies of Medicine Environmental humanities Postsocialism and cultural and social transformations Methodologies of Intersectionality, and intersectional Research, Microbiopolitics, and More-than-human ontologies ****************************************************************************************** * Most recent projects ****************************************************************************************** Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Gender, Sexuality, Disability, Race in Eastern Europe, Ann A Michigan University Press, forthcoming in 2025 Tobin Siebers Prize 2019  https://press.umich.edu/Books/R/Rehabilitative-Postsocialism2 [ URL "https://press.umich. Rehabilitative-Postsocialism2"] Rehabilitative Postsocialism names disability, sexuality, and race as central yet invisibl of the postsocialist consensus. Kola?r?ova? presents postsocialism as an analytic that sho bear to understand cultural politics, economic formations, and state politics through the Drawing from a rich and varied archive, Rehabilitative Postsocialism maps the formation of of inequalities and social imaginaries of wellness, merit, and justice in order to underst articulations of global disenchantment with democracy, social justice, and solidarity. The makes clear that disability, race, and ethnicity continue to circulate in depictions of Ea suspended in a chronic developmental “delay.” Rehabilitative Postsocialism both situates t within its political and historical formation and offers the analytical tools to challenge deployment. Podcast Studio Porucha [ URL "https://institutuzkosti.cz/studio-porucha/"] : O životě lidí “normálním” světě, ve kterém nabouráváme témata “jinakosti” a “normality”. Přestože velká část z nás má s jinakostí, nebo postižením, zkušenost vlastní, či přeneseno blízké, lidí, které máme rádi, žijeme s ni a blízko nich – tzv. postižení zůstává jinakost společnost znepokojuje, děsí, a snad i odpuzuje. Proč si většina z nás myslí, že lidé s postižením by stejně raději chtěli být „normální“, symetričtí, stejně by raději nebyly autistkami, nežily by s chronickou bolestí, neměli by dítě by nežilo s Downovým syndromem? Proč si většina z nás myslí, že když lidé potřebují m lékařskou péči či osobní asistenci, znamená to, že jejich život je smutný, omezený, tragic takový, který bychom nikdy rozhodně nechtěli žít? Proč se dojímáme u filmů, které nám pořá trháky Million dollar baby, Hlas moře, nebo Než jsem tě poznala, vysvětlují, že je lepší n těle, které se nehýbe, které potřebuje péči ostatních? Kolářová, K., M. Winkler (eds.). 2021. Re/Imaginations of Disability in State Socialism: V Frustrations. Frankfurt a/M: Campus Verlag. In Re/imaginations of Disability in State Socialism, an interdisciplinary group of scholar disability has been conceptualized and treated in socialist states throughout global histo intersectional theories that set disability in conversation with other identity categories age, gender, and sexuality, this book offers a unique approach to this crucial issue. How did the socialist visions of universal happiness and humanity embrace disability? How that advocated all-encompassing visions of justice and, at the same time, made work a mora approach physical, mental and/or intellectual differences? How did disability arrest, tran the promises of a perfect society? And, finally, how did disability register and reveal th such utopian visions and plans for building socialist societies? These are some of the que this book. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo123166621.html [ URL "https://pr ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo123166621.html"] *========================================================================================= * Works-in-progress *========================================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Crip and Queer Intimacies Special issue: Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture (Issue 16, 2026) Kateřina Kolářová, PhD (Charles University) Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, PhD (University of Lodz) “Intimacy is more than sex and romantic love. Intimacy is an ever-expanding universe compo of heavenly bodies. Intimacy is about relationships within a person’s self, with others, w with nature and beyond”—writes Alice Wong (10), who in her recent edited volume Disability on Love, Care, and Desire creates a space where contributors offer insights into forty way intimacy. Following Wong, we perceive intimacy as a quality that grows in various kinds of and connections based on love, sex, desire, friendship, kinship, partnership, community, c solidarity and often despite war, precarity, disposession, and other debilitating conditio We believe these reflections should not center only on Western cultures and perspectives. they be limited to private spaces and personal relationships. Therefore, we also encourage of communal intimacies, drawing on what Maria Törnqvist describes as “a sociality of close is bound . . . to an inclusive relational infrastructure characterized by the strength of ties” (273). Importantly, crip and queer intimacies extend beyond the (inter-)human realm. especially welcome proposals that explore intimate forms of companionship with more-than-h including non-human animals and objects which have traditionally been denied animacy and a Read more here: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters Biological Citizenship and Chronic Embodiments: Living with HIV/AIDS in  postsocialist Cze This project builds off of my explorations of neoliberal governance of (non-normative/disa sexualities through examining HIV and AIDS as sites of individual and collective identity ‘imagined communities’ become realised as ‘imagined (biological, viral and sexual/ised) vu I am also exploring the methodological and political valences crip theory could draw from notion of insignificance (HIV and AIDS have never achieved a level of an epidemic in the C and relative periphery (to the global HIV/AIDS crisis). In particular, I am interested in of chronicity, its uses in the (local and transnational) biomedical knowledge and strategi HIV positive people (dis)identifying with/from the hegemonic knowledges of HIV/AIDS in art ‘positive identity’. To contextualise discourses of chronicity against the backdrop of tra global political economy of health with its racialised and gendered implications, I also e in which narratives of ‘chronic positive life’, or ‘pozitude’ relate to white supremacy an exclusion. Sympoietic Becoming: Porous Bodies in Compromised Environment This project explores the porous boundaries of human corporeality; or how we become enviro environments become ‘us’. In particular I explore experiences of people living with inflam metabolism, or experiencing sensitivity and reaction to chemicals, toxins and other pollut in which they articulate their connection to the irritants, to other (more than human) liv navigate life in bodies that they experience as extremely porous and leaky with regard to the environment. Beyond academia I strongly believe in the necessity to bridge university spaces with other spheres of crit social justice and divesting ableist, gendered and racialised privileges. Since 2008, I ha organising a transnational queer film class in collaboration with Prof. Robert McRuer (Geo University) and the queer film festival Mezipatra. I love to cooperate with artivists and Most recently, I have collaborated with the Biennale The Matter or Art, with Meetfactory a with Display – Association for research and collective practice on Multilogues on the Now: (curated by Zuzana Jakalová in 2017) and Multilogues on the Now: On Health, work and emoti Zuzana Jakalová and Hana Janečková in 2018) or served as co-curator for the disability art exhibition Disabled by Normality hosted by Gallery for Contemporary Art DOX (2013) etc. *========================================================================================= * Further Publications: *========================================================================================= ‘Crip Notes on the Idea of Development’, co-authored with Katharina Wiedlack, Somatechnics 125-141. [currently listed as one of the ‘most read’ on the Somatechnics website, http://www.euppub abs/10.3366/soma.2016.0187] The essay presents the global/transnational disability studies critiques of the concept of offers a crip approach to urgent issues in development studies including, but not limited labour, capitalism, migration, gentrification, neo-liberalism and globality. It considers projects impact upon the bodies, lives, communities and cultures of those implicated by id and practices of development. Questions about time, geo-politics and subjectivity are cent discussion of crip theory of develipment. “Death by Choice, Life by Privilege: Biopolitical Circuits of Vitality and Debility in the Empire.” Foucault and Government of Disability. Ed. Shelley Tremain. Ann Arbor: The Univer Press (second and enlarged edition), 2015. 396-424 The text discusses the contemporary proliferation of cultural narratives of incapacitation dementia) as a sign of an acute cultural anxiety provoked by biological precarity. The tex debates around end-of-life decision-making and ‘assisted dying’ (Sterbehilfe) that circula images of biological precarity. The text then in turn contextualizes these debates within political context of Empire (Hardt and Negri 2000) to reveal how discourses of disability, dementia motivate cultural narratives that offer affective release through fantasies of so resolutions of these biological failings of the Global North. This chapter constitutes an ways in which biological precarity—as currently construed in relation to disability and de global North— motivates and revitalizes ideologies of Empire and whiteness. “Grandpa lives in paradise now’: Biological Precarity and Global Economy of Debility”, Fem Special issue on Debility and Frailty. Guest Editors: Sadie Wearing, Yasmin Gunaratnam and 111.3. (2015): 75-87 Building off of my earlier research into end-of-life decision-making and biological precar theorizes its relationships to discourses and practices of transnational economy of care. the European (in particular German) public discourse on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, media representations of dementia against those of Baan Kamlangchay, Thailand, a care home care for older people with dementia from the global North. Arguing that Baan Kamlangchay r concrete example of emerging circuits of transnational care/reproductive labour, the text power dynamics in the relationships between the racialised and gendered care workers and ( residents. It further situates the care practices against larger historical context of tra knowledges of disability and global economy, and theorises the interrelations between disa global bio-political inequalities. “The Inarticulate Post-Socialist Crip. On the Cruel Optimism of Neoliberal Transformations Republic” Cripistemologies. Special Issue of The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Guest Editors: Merri Lisa Johnson and Robert McRuer. 8.3(2014):263-280; The essay was chosen for reprint in Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters Between Disa and Cultural Studies (Disability Studies: Body - Power - Difference), Moritz Ingwersen, An Eds. Transcript Verlag, 2017; and is being translated into German to appear in Maria Mesne Mesquita (eds.) Eine emotionale Geschichte: Geschlecht im Zentrum der Politik der Affekte, Verlag, Wien 2017). The article discusses the ways in which disability semantics and ideological structures of health and able-bodiedness served to fuel the optimism of the first post-revolutionary yea socialist Czechoslovakia. It offers conceptualisations of ‘capitalist rehabilitation’—a st feeling, a moral discourse framing the process of ‘rehabilitation’ of a formerly socialist allowed its ideological ‘enfoldings’ back to the European future. It reveals the ways in w possibility of critical disability (crip) epistemologies were foreclosed by formations of citizenship. To speak to this inaccessibility of critical disability epistemologies, I coi ‘inarticulate crip’. Czech translation (shortened and edited) available here: http://artalk.cz/2018/06/25/neart postsocialisticke-crip-vize/ Alterity—Disability—Critique: The Disability Theory Reader [Jinakost - postižení - kritika konstrukty nezpůsobilosti a hendikepu: Antologie textů z oboru disability studies], Praha: Publishing (SLON), 2013. 581 pgs. [reviews in Gender and Research; Lidové noviny; Týdeník A2 and on several national radio s This anthology brings together canonical essays that articulate the theoretical, conceptua methodological positions of disability studies. As the first ever collection of disability Czech, the book is widely cited and contributes crucially to the foundation of the field i academia. Further import of the book lies in its disciplinary diversity, breadth of presen perspectives and cultural contexts and its potential for the classroom. The book is widely used in classrooms across a variety of disciplinary settings (from cultural studies, cultu to sociology) and levels of higher education. *========================================================================================= * GRANTS AND AWARDS *========================================================================================= 2018–2020: Humboldt Research Fellowships for experienced researchers (under review) with project: “Post-socialist Rehabilitations: Disability, Race, Gender and the Limits of National Belonging“ May-July 2018: DAAD Research Fellowship at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zentrum für tra Geschlechterstudien and Universität Potsdam. Project: HIV/AIDS: Chronic Embodiments and Bi Citizenship in the Postsocialist Czech Republic. 2017–2019: (Post-)socialist modernity and social and cultural politics of disability and d international research grant jointly awarded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Foundation (GAČR); principal applicant and researcher, leader of the Czech research team 2017–2019: “Imagining the “other”: Collective representations and the politics of social e ( VS 260 468); member of the research team and a mentor to students, internal-grant awarde University 2013–2015: Biological citizenship: forms of governance and resistance tobiomedical knowled Republic; research grant awarded by Czech Science Foundation (GAČR 13-18411S), principal a researcher, leader of research team 2013: De-colonising Disability Theory; international cooperation between Department of Gen Charles University and Gender Research Office, Universität Wien; awarded by Aktion: The Cz fund; principal applicant 2009–2011: Cultural Representations of Disability and its Transformations; research grant Agency of Czech Academy of Science (KJB 908080902); principal applicant and researcher 2009–2011: Transformation of Gender Culture in Czech Society, 1948-89; research grant awar Science Foundation; research team member January–December 2011: Gender as a tool of interdisciplinary Analysis; member of the resea internal-grant awarded by School of Humanities, Charles University January–December 2010: Disability and Bodily Difference in Interdisciplinary Perspective: awarded by School of Humanities; member of the research team and tutor of students’ partic *========================================================================================= * FELLOWSHIPS AND VISITING POSITIONS *========================================================================================= July 2010–present: Affiliation with Bodies of Work, University of Illinois at Chicago April 2015: Visiting Lecturer, Linköping University, Sweden WS 2014: Visiting Scholar, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, University of Illinois a May 2014: Visiting Lecturer, research stay co-sponsored by GEXcel (Center of Gender Excell University, Sweden May 2013: Visiting Lecturer, Gender Research Office, Universität Wien, Austria May 2012: Visiting Lecturer, Erasmus Mundus – Master in Special Education Needs (SEN), WS 2011: Visiting Professor, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Austria January 2010: Visiting Scholar, English Department, George Washington University, Washingt January-September 2009: Fellowship at Center of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Integra Konstanz Full CV