Institute of Contemporary History

Research interests:

• intellectual history
• political Catholicism, fascism, political emigration
• research integrity
• European integration

Education:

• 2016–2023: Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Contemporary European History (Ph.D.)

Appointments:

• since 2025: postdoc researcher, Institut of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• since 2025: secretary of the Czech Academy of Sciences Internal Funding Program Strategy AV21 “The power of objects: Materiality between past and future”, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• since 2024: secretary of the Czech Academy of Sciences Internal Funding Program Strategy AV21, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2023–2025: chair of the ENRIO WG „Research Integrity Definitions “, (with Helene Ingierd and Loreta Tauginienė)
• 2022–2025: ENRIO Secretary (European Network of Research Integrity Offices)
• 2020–2024: secretary of the Czech Academy of Sciences Internal Funding Program Strategy AV21 “City as a Laboratory of Change”, Institute of Contemporary History
• 2015–2021: research assistant, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2018–2019: research assistant, Masaryk University
• 2015–2017: research assistant, Charles University

Fellowships:

• 2023: Junior Fellow; Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences/KFG Universalism and Particularism; LMU, Munich
• 2022: research fellowship, German Historical Institute, Warsaw
• 2014: internship, Erasmus+, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

Grants and Research Projects:

• 2025-2027: Parliament in the Age of Europeanisation: The Czech Republic and Slovenia (ParlAgE); GAČR, postdoc researcher
• 2023: Between Particular Nationalism and Universal Human Rights: Štefan Polakovič and Slovak Catholic Nationalism after the 1970s; (DFG), KFG Universalism and Particularism, LMU, Munich
• 2019–2021: Evolutionism, Nationalism and Racism in Czech and Slovak Science; (CSF), Institute of Contemporary History, research assistant
• 2018–2020: History of European Urbanism in the 20th Century (UrbanHist), H2020-EU, research assistant
• 2018–2019: Eco-friendly Tendencies in Czechoslovak Urban and Regional Planning, (CSF), Masaryk University, research assistant
• 2017: Intellectual culture of the Slovak state: Štefan Polakovič and the Slovak philosophical scene during the Second World War), (Progress Q20), Charles University
• 2015–2017: The Road to Technocratic Socialism: Concepts of Governance in Czechoslovakia, (CSF), Institute of Contemporary History, research assistant
• 2015–2017: The Expert Roots of Post-Socialism, 1980-2000, (CSF), Charles University, research assistant

Articles & book chapters:

• LENČÉŠOVÁ, Michaela: „Za Boha, za národ“. Koncept národa v slovenskom katolíckom myslení. In: HURBANIČ M. – IVANČÍK M. – ZUPKA D. (eds.): Stredná Európa v premenách času. Štúdie k sociálnym dejinám. Prvý zväzok, Bratislava 2023, pp. 439-462.
• DUCHÁČEK, Milan – LENČÉŠOVÁ, Michaela: Sborník Rovnocennost evropských plemen a cesty k jejich ušlechťování jako křižovatka československé meziválečné antropologie. In. DUCHÁČEK, M.: Za rovnocennost evropských plemen. Československá antropologie tváří v tvář rasismu a nacismu. Praha: NLN, 2023, pp. 6-41.
• LENČÉŠOVÁ, Michaela: The Concept of “Nation” and “National Community” in the Thinking of Štefan Polakovič: A Case of the Nazi Idea of Volksgemeinschaft Spread within Slovak Catholic Nationalism. In Forum Historiae, 1, 2022, pp. 69-87.
• LENČÉŠOVÁ, Michaela: K nacionálnym koncepciám Štefana Polakoviča, Maximiliána Chladného Hanoša a Alexandra Hirnera v období slovenského štátu. In KABEŠOVÁ M., BEKERA M., HOLUB O.: České, slovenské a československé dějiny 20. století. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2019, pp. 175-188.
• LENČÉŠOVÁ, Michaela: Comeback Štefana Polakoviča po vzniku Slovenskej republiky: K Polakovičovmu hľadaniu zmyslu slovenských dejín 20. storočia. In PALÁRIK M.: Míľniky 20. storočia v regióne Nitrianskeho kraja. Nitra: MV SR, Štátny archív v Nitre, 2018, pp. 214-227.
• LENČÉŠOVÁ, Michaela: Peripetie Karola Sidora počas jeho diplomatického pôsobenia vo Vatikáne. In KOLÁŘ O.: Studia Iuvenilia. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, 2016, pp. 133-138.

Conferences, workshops, lectures:

• Intersection of the Human Rights Language with the Legacy of the Wartime Slovak State. Conference: Remembrance, Religion, and Secularity, Warsaw, Varšavská univerzita, 13.–15. 6. 2024
• Interpretation of Anticommunism in the Thinking og the Slovak Postwar Catholic Right-Wing Emigration. Workshop: Connecting Catholics in a Divided World (Collegium Carolinum, Munich, 3.–4. 5. 2024)
• The Concept of the Right to National Self-Determination as a Fundamental Human Right in Slovak Catholic Thinking After the 1970s. Kolokvium, KFG-Universalism and Particularism, (LMU, Munich, 6. 12. 2023)
• From the Theory of Slovak Race to the Concept of the Human Rights. Lecture, Institute Day, (Collegium Carolinum, Munich, 23. 10. 2023)
• s Helga Nolte: European Network of Research Integrity Offices: How ENRIO is promoting a responsible research culture? Closing event of the OBUA project | Abschlussveranstaltung des OBUA-Projekts, (Freie Universität Berlin, 12. 10. 2023)
• Between Papal Critique of Racism and Nazi Vision of New Europe: Catholic Philosopher Štefan Polakovič and the Theory of Slovak Race. Conference: Rethinking Intellectual History in East Central Europe. Transformation of Identities in Central Europe and Politicisation of the Masses, (Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava, 2.–4. 9. 2022)
• Nation in Slovak and Polish Catholic Thought. Lecture. (Německý historický institut, Warsaw, 27. 4. 2022)
• Blondelizmus ako palingenetický projekt „totálneho katolicizmu“ Štefana Polakoviča. Conference: Církve a krize v průběhu staletí, (Prague, Zoom: 8.–9. 11. 2021)
• Politický katolicizmus v období slovenského štátu. Lecture, (Masarykův ústav a archiv, Prague, 27. 5. 2019)
• Ako Štefan Polakovič slovenských filozofov „štengroval“. K vplyvu Štefana Polakoviča na profesionalizáciu slovenskej katolíckej filozofie v období slovenského štátu. Conference: České, slovenské a československé dějiny 20. století (Hradec Králové, FF UHK, 2.–4. 4. 2019)
• Comeback Štefana Polakoviča po vzniku Slovenskej republiky. Conference: Míľniky 20. storočia v regióne Nitrianskeho kraja (Nitra, Katedra histórie Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa: 24. 10. 2018)
• Štefan Polakovič a Úrad propagandy. Conference. České, slovenské a československé dějiny 20. století (Hradec Králové: 11.–12. 4. 2017)