Anna Kolářová
Anna Kolářová
QUALIFICATIONS
2022 M.A., Public History and Culture, University of Regensburg
2019 Bc., Ethnology, History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Tourism and Landscape; Environmental History; Historical Anthropology of Borders; Memory and Heritage; Public History; Musealization and Representation of Minorities; Czech-German Culture of Remembrance
RESEARCH PROFILE
In my previous research, I focused primarily on the role of folklorism and regional history in the formation of local identities, as well as on the musealization of Czech Germans in both the Czech Republic and Germany. Public history, museum exhibitions, and Czech-German or Czech-Bavarian cultures of remembrance continue to be important areas of my academic interest.
In my doctoral project, I explore tourism in the Bohemian and the Bavarian Forest before the Iron Curtain. I focus in particular on the formation and perception of different types of borders and on the environmental and cultural aspects of tourism. I also examine the potential of posthumanist approaches to historical research and seek to connect historical and anthropological perspectives on forests and landscapes. I further develop these topics within the Land Gone Wild project at the IE CAS.
I am a member of the international research network European Conservation Humanities Network.
Journal Articles
2024 Navigating Nature's Transitions: The Bohemian Forest and Its Temporalities in Early Tourist Literature. Český lid 111 (3): 323–346.
2019 „Dudy + fezy + motocykly = Strakonice“. Oslavy výročí města jako příležitost ke konstrukci lokální identity [“Bagpipes + Fezes + Motorbikes = Strakonice”. Celebrations of the Anniversary of a Town as an Opportunity for Constructing Local Identity]. Marginalia Historica 10 (2): 93–111.
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2025–2028 The Land Gone Wild: Archaeology and Transdisciplinary Research of Resilience Strategies in 20th Century, Archaeology of Memory and Cultural Heritage, financed by the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic. Member of the research team.
Invited Talks, Public Lectures or Roundtables
2025 February, 5. Tourismus und Grenze(n) im Böhmerwald und Bayerischen Wald 1870–1950 [Tourism and Border(s) in the Bohemian and Bavarian Forest 1870–1950]. Collegium Carolinum, Munich.
2024 December, 4. Grenze, Wald, Nation. Tourismus im Bayerischen Wald und Böhmerwald 1870–1950 [Border, Forest, Nation. Tourism in the Bavarian and Bohemian Forest 1870–1950]. Kolloquium Public History & Erinnerungskultur, University of Regensburg.
May, 25. Roundtable Museen und Geschichtspolitik [Museums and the Politics of History] (with Machcewicz, Paweł – Zimmermann, Volker – Mix, Andreas). Conference Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit in Museen und Gedenkstätten [The Presence of the Past in Museums and Memorials], Ravensbrück.
2022 November, 24. Stálá expozice „Naši Němci“ v Muzeu města Ústí nad Labem [The Permanent Exhibition “Naši Němci/Our Germans” in the Municipal Museum of Ústí nad Labem]. Discussion Forum of the Joint Czech-German Commission for Textbooks, Masaryk Institute and the Archives of the CAS, Prague.
June, 16. Public History. Workshop Tvorba a hodnocení výstav a expozic [The Creation and Evaluation of Exhibitions]. Museum Historians Commission of the Association of Museums and Galleries of the Czech Republic, Domažlice.
Teaching Experience
2023 External Lecturer, Institute of Social and Economic History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
2023 October, 25–26. Digital Studies of Culture in Central Eastern Europe. Workshop, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. (co-organisers Šima, Karel – Daniel, Ondřej)
August, 17–20. ISHA Summer Seminar History and Tourism. International Students of History Association, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. (co-organisers Šimák, Vojtěch – Glazov, Vjačeslav – Vašík, Miroslav – Rottiers. Charlotte – Cola, Valentina – Testini, Barbara – Boechat Machado, Julia)
2017 November, 7–9. Beyond the Revolution in Russia. Narratives – Spaces – Concepts. 100 Years since the Event. Ffabula, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, and Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. (co-organisers Mrňka, Jaromír – Crhák, Ondřej – Harasimowicz, Marta – Studený, Luboš – Cisler, Richard)
