Investigating Political, Economic and Social History in The 19th and 20th Centuries
The Department of Historical Sciences is one of the established departments of the Faculty of Arts. It is not only the creative work and other activities, but also the internationalisation and international cooperation of the members of the Department that focuses primarily on several areas of modern political, economic and social history – the history of the Far East in the 19th and 20th centuries (Kodet, Skřivan, Skřivan), the history of migration (Boček) or Eastern issues in the 19th century (Vyčichlo), regional history of Western Bohemia (Lhoták), the history of Czechoslovakia with an emphasis on the First Czechoslovak Republic (Novotný), the history of the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries (Valkoun) or environmental history (Urban). In the spring of 2018, the Centre for Japanese Studies (headed by Dr Kodet) was established at the Department to promote Japanese history to the Czech public in both a scholarly and popular form (currently there are agreements with Doshisha University, Kyoto and Kokushikan University, Kyoto). The Department also publishes an international scholarly journal indexed in the Scopus database in cooperation with the University of Hamburg.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Research projects on this topic:
Czech Science Foundation (2020–2023): project Zdravotní systém první Československé republiky v kontextu národnostního a sociálního složení – centrum vs. periferie (The Health System of the First Czechoslovak Republic in the Context of National and Social Composition – Centre vs. Periphery) (No. 20-09470S)
Japan Foundation – Japanese Studies Overseas and Intellectual Exchange Research Program, Research Fellowship: project Western Perception of Japan in the Bakumatsu Period (2020–2021)
CONTACT OUR RESEARCHERS
Mgr. Martin Boček, Ph.D.
PhDr. Roman Kodet, Ph.D.
PhDr. Jan Lhoták, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Lukáš Novotný, Ph.D.
prof. PhDr. Ing. Aleš Skřivan, Ph.D.
Mgr. Martin Urban, Ph.D.
PhDr. Jaroslav Valkoun, Ph.D.
Mgr. Jiří Vyčichlo, Ph.D.
WRITTEN ABOUT US
„S nadějí za oceán? Z knihy o cestách do vysněné země mrazí“, Deník CZ, 12. 9. 2019
Recenze: S nadějí za oceán, aneb „cesta do Ameriky s pohřbem v ceně“, BlogujnaFF, 22. 11. 2021
Politický život německé menšiny v první Československé republice představí Lukáš Novotný, Info.zcu.cz, 24. 4. 2017
Úspěch katedry historických věd Fakulty filozofické. Publikace popisuje britsko-dominiální vztahy, Info.zcu.cz, 1. 3. 2021
Jaký byl život samurajů? Roman Kodet nechává nahlédnout do tajemného světa, Plzeňský Deník CZ, 15. 1. 2021