Mgr. Eliška Švarná

Education:

• since 2019: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Czech History, PhD candidate
• 2014–2017: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies (Master’s Degree, MA)
• 2011–2014: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies (Bachelor’s Degree, BA)
  
  

Research interests:

• Czech contemporary history
• environmental history (water dams, transformation of nature in the 20th century)
• cultural history (19th and 20th century)
• modern Latin palaeography
  
  

Research projects:

• 2023–souč.: NAKI III: Heritage and society in the Czech lands between 1900 and 1960: professional and personal strategies of heritage preservationists
• since 2021: Strategy AV21 Water for life: Images of water. South Bohemian dams and their mark on the landscape and society
• 2019–2022: NAKI II: The development of modern parliamentary culture in the Bohemian Lands and in the Czechoslovakia
  
  

Fellowships abroad:

• 03–04/2023: Utrecht University, Centre for Environmental Humanities, Netherlands (Erasmus+)
• 03–08/2019: Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich, Germany (Erasmus+)
• 10/2014–02/2015: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Erasmus+)
  
  

Teaching Practice:

• since 2020 – Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Czech History
• 2017–2019 – Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies
  
   

Publications:

Exhibition catalogue

• Kurz, Michal; Pácha, Martin; Švarná, Eliška. Obrazy vody. Jihočeské přehrady a jejich otisk v krajině a společnosti (České Budějovice 4. 6. – 2. 7. 2023; Horní Planá, 4. 7. – 2. 8. 2023; hrad Zvíkov, 4. 8. – 4. 9. 2023; Písek, 6. 9. – 4. 10. 2023). Praha: MÚA, 2023.

Reviews

• Doubravka Olšáková – Jiří Janáč, Kult jednoty. Stalinský plán přetvoření přírody v Československu 1948–1964, Historie – Otázky – Problémy, 10 (2), pp. 173–175.
• Libri civitatis 1–3, 5–10, Studia Źródłoznawcze. Commentationes, 57 (2019), pp. 243–245.