Miroslav Vaněk
Professor of Czech and Czechoslovak History, Head of the Department of Oral History and Contemporary History, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague; Director of the Center of Oral History in the Institute for Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Dr. Vaněk has worked as a Senior Researcher in ICH since 1992. In 2000, he gained experience with US university academic and students’ environment at UNC at Chapel Hill as a Visiting Professor. Dr. Vaněk serves as a Member of Scientific Council of the Institute for Contemporary History, as a Member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin 98-Monthly for the nonprofit sector. His research focuses mainly on following topics: Environmental problems in Czechoslovakia 1969-1989, Student’s movement under socialism, Young generation in 80’s, and Oral history methods. Since 2010, he is a president of the International Oral History Association.
Czech History of the 20th Century: An Oral History Project
The main goal of this course is to familiarize students with development of the Czech society in the 20th century and to provide thus a necessary background for the oral history project students will participate in. The course focuses on the key crossroads of modern Czech history (emergence of an independent state, Nazi occupation, establishment of the Communist regime, Prague Spring, Velvet Revolution).
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