Institute of Contemporary History

Research interests:

• Comparative and Transnational History of Ideas, History of Political Thought, Cultural History of Politics, Comparative History of the Reform Communism in Central Europe, Transnational History of National Socialism, History of the Czech National Socialism

Education:

• 2017–2020:Philosophical Faculty, Department of History, University of Hradec Králové, Study program: History (Ph.D), (Dissertation: The Communist Party of Austria and the Czechoslovakian Reform Communism)
• 2015–2017: Philosophical Faculty, Department of History, University of Hradec Králové, Study program:  History (Mgr.), (Diploma thesis: „On the other line.“ Perception of Socialism by Czechoslovak National Socialist Party)

Professional career:

• 2022: researcher, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

Teaching experiences:

• 2019/2020: Czech History 1918–1945 (seminar)
• 2019/2020: Czechoslovak Republic and the World, 1945–1992 (seminar)
• 2020/2021: Czechoslovak Marxist Humanism in the 1960s (seminar)

Study and research stays abroad:

• 2020: COST Action CA 16213 – New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2019: International Summer School Soviet Otherwise: Affects, Margins and Imaginaries in the Late Soviet Era, University of Tallinn, Estonia
• 2019: Aktion Scholarschip CZE–AUS, Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna (Supervisor prof. Oliver Rathkolb)
• 2018–2019: International Visegrad Fund Scholarship, Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2018: 27th Democracy and Diversity Summer Institute, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, New School for Social Research (NSSR), Wroclaw, Poland (Agnes Heller class)

Research projects:

• 2020-2021: Participation at Grant Project NAKI II, code DG16P02B018 – Alphabet of Czech Culture.

Articles:

• HOLUB, Ondřej. Looking for the Sixth Sense of Marxist Philosophy: The Intellectual Development of Rudolf Šíma as a Reflection of the Potential and Limits of Czechoslovak Marxist Humanism in the 1960s. Kontradikce/Contradictions, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (2021), pp. 45-68.
• HOLUB, Ondřej. Seeking for the Universe in the Bipolar World. The Genesis, the Purpose and the Boundaries of the Technocratic Policy of Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus in the 1960. Střed/Centre, Vol 12, Issue 2/2020, pp. 70–97.
• HOLUB, Ondřej. „To Live not by the Bomb, but by Reason“: The Legal Philosophy of René Marcic and the Marxist Humanism of Ernst Fischer as a Confrontation between Two Perspectives on Civil Society in the Era of Chancellor Josef Klaus (1964–1970). Kontradikce/Contradictions, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (2019), pp. 13–35.
• HOLUB, Ondřej. Emanuel Famíra – the Man who was not longing for the Spring. The Portrait of an orthodox Communist. Soudobé dějiny, Vol. 27, Issue 2, pp. 279–324.

Conference and workshops:

• New Perspectives on History of Labor Movement in the years 1848–1953 in contemporary Czech Historiography, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economic and Social History at Charles University, Prague, 20th April 2021, paper: Theoretical aspects of  researching the history of communist parties and  the Phenomenon of Communism in the Alpine Lands
• Spatiality and Temporality International Conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, 6th to 7th February 2021, paper: The Other Dimension of Alpine Communism – the Radical Utopian Idea in Time and Space of Conservative Hegemony
• 52nd Annual ASEEES Convention, 2020 ASEEES Virtual Convention, November 14–15, 2020. Paper: Austrian Marxist Humanism: Political Platforms, Perspectives and Foundations.
• The Jewish Intelligentsia. The 8th International Conference for Jewish Studies Researchers, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, 14th November 2019, paper: The Power of Comprehension. Austrian and Czechoslovakian Communist Jewish Intellectuals and the political project of Democratic Socialism.
• 4th Socialism on the Bench/Socijalizam na klupi International Conference, Juraj Dobrila University, Pula, Croatia, 26th to 28th of Semtember, paper: The Clash between Utopia and Progress. The Austrian Communist Party during the era of Chancellor Josef Klaus.
• 10th Annual International Student Conference of the Cold War History Research Center, Corvinus University of Budapest, 4th–5th of July, Budapest, Hungary, paper: The Face of Opposition. The Communist Party of Austria, 1956–1966