Assignment:
II. Humans, identities, environments
Address:
Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i., Vlašská 355/9, 118 00 Praha 1
E-mail:
holeckova@usd.cas.cz
Telephone:
604 568 914
ORCID ID:
0009-0000-7298-3083
Fields of research:
- Contemporary social and cultural history
- Cooperative housing
- Urban history
- Student mobility during the Cold War
- Dissent, samizdat and „second culture“
Current position:
- 2021–present: Scientist, Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS
Previous positions:
- 2019–2020: Postdoctoral Researcher Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS (Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
- 2015–2019: Researcher Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS: The Encyclopedia of Czech Samizdat I – Literary Samizdat (GA ČR 15-11880S)
- 2007–2011: Researcher: Mechanisms of Control and Power. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University 1968 – 1989 (Science Foundation of CAS)
- 2008–2017: Parental Leave
Education:
- 2018 PhD in Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
- 2008 MA in Social and Economy History, Faculty of Arts. Charles University Prague
Languages:
- native: Czech; fluent: Spanish, Slovak, English; reading knowledge: French
Projects:
- 2025-2027: Privatization of the Housing Stock and Transformations of Housing Policy in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic 1990-2006, The Czech Science Foundation, Principal Investigator
- 2025: Cultural Diplomacy in the Cold War Era – the Example of Art (Film) Education in Czechoslovakia (with Mikuláš Pešta, Faculty of Arts, Charles University/USD AV and Klára Trsková, NFA), Strategy AV 21, Identity in a World of Wars and Crises
- 2022–2024: Junior Researcher: The History of Charter 77 in Domestic Context and Transnational Perspective (GA ČR 22-05450S)
- 2022–2024: Junior Researcher: In search of the Postmodern City. Transformation of Prague and Bratislava between 1970 and 2000 (Ideas-Policies-Construction) (GA ČR 22-17295S)
- 2021–2024: Junior Researcher: City as a Laboratory of Change; Construction, Historical Heritage and Place for Safe and Quality Life (Strategy AV21)
Select publications:
Monographs
- Holečková, Marta Edith: Příběh zapomenuté univerzity. Universita 17. listopadu (1961–1974) a její místo v československém vzdělávacím systému a společnosti. Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2019, 202 s. Fontes, 26. ISBN 978-80-7308-921-4.
- Přibáň, Michal (ed.): Český literární samizdat 1949 – 1989: edice, časopisy, sborníky. Academia, Praha 2018, s. 616. ISBN 978-80-200-2903-4.
Journal Articles
- Holečková, Marta Edith – Pehe, Veronika: Anatomie jedné další zdrženlivosti. Dokumenty Charty 77 k zemím třetího světa. Soudobé dějiny. Roč. 30, č. 2 (2023), s. 414-442. ISSN 1210-7050.
- Holečková, Marta Edith: On Cooperative Housing in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1959-1970. Architektúra a urbanizmus. Roč. 56, 3/4 (2022), s. 186-195. ISSN 0044-8680.
- Holečková, Marta Edith: The University of 17 November in Prague. Students from Third World Countries in Czechoslovakia, 1961–1974. Cahiers du Monde Russe. Roč. 63, 3/4 (2022), s. 647-668. ISSN 1252-6576.
- Holečková, Marta Edith: “Sukarno’s Students” in Czechoslovakia. A Brief Contribution to Czechoslovak–Indonesian Relations in the 1950s and the 1960s. Securitas imperii, č. 39 (2021), s. 91-105. ISSN 1804-1612.
- Holečková, Marta Edith: Biafra viděná z Prahy. Několik poznámek k africkým studentům v Praze šedesátých let. Paměť a dějiny. Roč. 14, č. 3 (2020), s. 16-23. ISSN 1802-8241.