Štěpán Rybák
Štěpán Rybák
QUALIFICATIONS
2025 Mgr., History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague
2022 Bc., History, English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Collective Memory; Memory in Digital Age; Memory and War; Memory and Heritage; Politics of Memory; Culture of Remembrance; Public History; Transformations of Post-Socialist Societies
RESEARCH PROFILE
In my previous research, I mostly focused on the symbolic communication of early modern societies in Bohemia and Scotland, especially with regard to the role of crown jewels in how these societies understood power, hierarchy and tradition.
My current interest lies in the transformations of memory in the contemporary Czech Republic. In my doctoral project, I explore how Russia's ongoing full-scale military invasion of Ukraine impacts the memory of the 20th century. Specifically, I examine the development of the remembrance framework of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia into a dominant narrative addressing the war and how the proximity of the past invasion memory to today’s warfare mediation influences what is remembered through what means. The areas where I observe such mnemonic shifts include memory in digital space, memory politics, popular culture or monuments and memoryscape.
Journal Articles
2025 Ruská agrese proti Ukrajině a radikalizace liberální paměti okupace roku 1968 [Russian Aggression against Ukraine and the Radicalisation of the Liberal Memory of the 1968 Occupation of Czechoslovakia]. Historie – Otázky – Problémy 17(1): 37–49.
Book Chapters
2025 „Sprosta jako hladový zvíře“. Identita a kariérní strategie karlštejnských purkrabích. [“Rude As a Hungry Animal”. Identity and Career Strategies of Karlštejn Burgraves]. In: Historie 2023. Sborník z 27. celostátní studentské vědecké konference konané 20. a 21. dubna 2023 v Ostravě. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, pp. 25–39.
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2026–2028 TiCToC: Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis. Humanities in the European Research Area Network (HERA) in collaboration with CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe). Member of the Czech Team.
