Institute of Contemporary History

Research focus:

Social anthropologist. He is interested in the social life of things and architecture, the relationship between politics and aesthetics, the city, its inner peripheries and urban nature, as well as post-communist nationalism and war conflicts.

Education:

• 2011: Ph.D. in Social Sciences, University College London (UCL). Dissertation on: How War Was Hatched from Peace: Political Aesthetics, Mass Performance and Ecstasy of the Post-Communist Ethnic Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia and in the Caucasus.
• 1999-2000: Visiting student at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, London
• 1996-1997: Visiting student at the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, USA
• 1998:  Mgr.(MA) in General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities /Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Republic
• 1995: Mgr.(MSc) in Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University

Work experience:

• 2011-7 and 2019-present: Researcher at the Center for Theoretical Study, Joint Research Institute of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2025–present: Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2010–2014: Lecturer of social sciences at the Centre of Audio-Visual Studies FAMU
• 2004–2010: Lecturer at the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
• 2007–2009: Lecturer at New York University, Prague Campus, Czech Republic
• 2004–2006: Lecturer at CERGE-EI, program UPCES
• 1997: the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences conducted research on project Our fellow countrymen abroad in the aftermath Bosnia
• 1990–2002: As a social anthropologist and war reporter, he worked in post-communist ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus

Research projects:

• 2020–2022 grant GAČR – A Big House as a Traditional Response to the Challenges of Modernity: Tensions and paradoxes of the villas of ethnic minorities in the Western Balkans
• In 2013–2020, he led the long-term transdisciplinary project The City Inside Out: Terrain vague, inner periphery, and places in-between at the Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University
• 2016–2018: Project Big House – Big Dream: Houses of the “rich poor“ as embodiment of the tensions of a globalized world. The Neuron Foundation/ Expedition Neuron
• His long-term research into ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus in the 1990s first resulted in his doctoral dissertation at University College London and then in the monograph Why Do Boys Go to War  awarded in 2020 in the Charles University High-Quality Monograph Competition

Monographs:

• Haluzík, Radan (2025): Turbo-venkov: Plné krajiny a prázdné domy (nejen) na Balkáně. Praha: Academia. 360 s. (-in print)
• Haluzík, Radan ed. a kol. (2020 a 2021): Město naruby: Vágní terén, vnitřní periferie a místa mezi místy. Praha: Academia. 400 s.
• Haluzík, Radan (2018): Proč jdou chlapi do války: Emoce a estetika u počátku etnických konfliktů. Praha: Dokořán. 456 s.

Other selected publications:

• Haluzík, Radan (2024): „Dům z jablek: Diskurzy v podhoubí jednoho superorganismu: Jablko-plantážo-dům“ In: Fulínová, Eliška a Kvíčalová, Anna (eds. a kol.) Antropocennosti: průvodce světem antropocénu. Praha: Academia 2024. s. 140-153.
• Haluzík, Radan (2022): Self-Made Men – Architects of the Self: The New Houses and New Landscapes of the Western Balkans. In: Český lid/ Czech Ethnological Journal 109: 299-327.
• Haluzík, Radan (2020): „It Was All a Big Theatre“: Velvet revolutions, ethnic conflicts, and conspiracy theories in Eastern Europe. In: Diogenes – Vol. 62, issue 3-4, pp. 89-100. SAGE Journals.
• Haluzík, Radan (2020): Venkov v antropocénu: Lokální domy v čase globálních sítí. In: Pokorný P. a Storch D. (eds.) a kol. Antropocén. Praha: Academia, s. 476-507.
• Haluzík, Radan (2017): O ambivalentní moci a násilí pouličního dramatu: od politiky karnevalu ke karnevalu politiky In: Loewenstein Bedřich W., Hlavačka Milan, Šístek František – Násilí: jiná moderna. Praha: Historický ústav AVČR. s. 51-86.
• Haluzík, Radan (2016): “Qui y a-t-il derriére tout ça?”: Révolutions et théries du complot en Europe de l’est. Diogéne: Revue internationale des sciences humaines. No 249-250 (2015).
• Haluzík, Radan (2008): Kolaps nastává výbuchem: populární metafory pádu komunismu. In: Pokorný Petr, Bárta Miroslav 2008. Něco překrásného se končí: kolapsy v přírodě i společnosti. Praha: Dokořán. s. 157-175.
• Haluzík, Radan (2007): Hana Červinková: Playing Soldiers in Bohemia: An Ethnography of NATO Membership. Recenze in: Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological review 2007, 43 (1): 238-241.
• Kužel, Stanislav a Haluzík, Radan (2000): Čeští obyvatelé severobosenských vesnic ve světle archivních a terénních výzkumů. In.: Hrubý, K. – Brouček, S. Češi za hranicemi na přelomu 20. a 21. století: Sympozium o českém vystěhovalectví, exulantství a vztazích zahraničních Čechů k domovu 29.-30.6.1998. UK Praha, EÚ AV ČR: Praha 2000, s. 74-88.