Our members
RNDr. Artur Boháč, Ph. D.
Dr. Boháč is an expert in political and cultural geography. His research focuses on the situation of ethnic and religious minorities and their conflicts and co-existence in the Middle East. Besides being the author of a number of articles on these issues, he also participated in a project focusing on the analysis of European cross-border co-operation. He is also interested in the phenomenon of divided cities in Europe.
doc. Mgr. Hynek Böhm, Ph.D.
Doc. Böhm's main fields of research are cross-border, intergovernmental and interregional co-operation and regional development.
Mgr. Emil Drápela, Ph.D.
Dr. Drápela is an expert of regional geography, with special interests in cross-border co-operation, infrastructures of transportation, marginal(ized) areas, and the intersection of these topics. He also has dealt with reasons of depopulation and possible ways to counteract them, and has experience both as a cartographer and in transportation research and planning.
Sándor Klapcsik, Ph.D.
Dr. Klapcsik conducts research on acculturation and stereotypes in migrant and diasporic cinema. His recent articles focus on the complex issues of ethnic identity, transnationalism, return migration, exile, and border crossing. These issues are detected in the French-Iranian animated autobiography Persepolis, as well as in Southeast-European, British-Asian and US-Latino films.
Mgr. Michaela Marková, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Dr. Michaela Marková took a Ph.D. at the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. Her dissertation discussed narrative strategies in contemporary Northern Irish Troubles fiction. Her research interests are contemporary Northern Irish literature in English, urban anthropology and psychogeography, including borders and migration.
Dr.phil. Michaela Mudure
Dr. Mudure is a member of the advisory boards of several academic journals, including Women in Judaism and the Journal of Multicultural Discourses, and has published extensively on issues of Jewish, Latino and African-American literature, minority cultures and migration.
PhDr. Magda Nišponská, Ph.D.
Dr. Nišponská's main research area lies in the use of narrative psychology, narrative therapy and mentalization, and their use in intercultural education, coping with the past, and with traumas, including those related to migration and minority existence.
Mgr. Kateřina Portmann, Ph.D.
Dr. Portmann's research interests include the history of the Sudetenland, Czech-German co-existence before, during and immediately after the Second World War, the Czechoslovak expatriation of Germans, as well as the German prosecution of Jews. She is the author of two book-length studies and numerous articles.
doc. PhDr. Milan Svoboda, Ph.D.
Besides being an expert on the Redern and Clam-Gallas families, doc. Svoboda studies the deserted cemeteries of expatriated Germans in the Sudetenland.
Mgr. Zénó Vernyik, Ph.D.
Dr. Vernyik focuses on the British immigrant writer Arthur Koestler, and discusses issues of minority and expatriate existence, as well as terrorism and migration in his oeuvre. In addition, he analyzes the role Koestler’s migrant status plays in the reception of his work in Britain and Hungary.
apl. Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Tilo Weber, Ph.D.
Prof. Weber’s research, amongst others, focuses on issues of bilingualism and multilingualism, knowledge transfer, social interaction, and transdisciplinarity, also in terms of one’s identity, social and cultural position.