PhD Contemporary European Cultural History












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            The aim of the PhD Programme of Contemporary European Cultural History is the scientific p

            experts for the thematically wide-ranging research of history and cultural history, includ
            heritage and traditions from 1918 to the most current (moving) present day. The area cover
            discipline is Europe, including the Czech Republic, or rather its predecessor Czechoslovak

            to the researched/discussed topics is supraregional, interdisciplinary, and if possible co

            The Contemporary European Cultural History Study Programme is defined in the paradigm of t

            and “new” cultural history, including the cultural aspects of the whole social reality, or
            cultural sovereignty or, on the contrary, autonomy in the public sphere.


            The basis of PhD teaching is an intensive familiarisation with modern trends in methodolog
            comparative science). This is followed by optional courses of critical applications of con

            methods to written, oral and material sources (methods of archival research, use of statis
            including critical research of public opinion polls), also the work with products of high 
            culture (radio recordings, film) and the use of information from media and belles lettres,

            is placed on the interdisciplinarity, and the complementarity of approaches in order to ob
            comprehensive and most rounded picture of the past.


            The Contemporary European Cultural History Study Programme is the only historical discipli
            Republic that focuses specifically on the thematisation of contemporary cultural history, 
            the European level. Today, the cultural component is perceived as an essential aspect of a

            historiography areas. It is not only about “new cultural history”, but also about “new pol
            i.e. about issues of politically connotated struggles for cultural dominance or, on the co
            etc. The candidate must obtain reliable methodological background, factual support and, if

            practical experience verified by student projects and workshops to be able to study and in
            aspects of the historical process.


            The programme is designed in such a way that the graduate is prepared for independent scie
            within the relevant area of the theoretical interest of the branch and is able to work pro
            the academic world, both at home and abroad.





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            Guarantor of the Study Programme: prof. PhDr. Jiří Pešek, CSc. [ URL "https://ekdd.fhs.cun
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