Institute of Contemporary History

Research interests:

• visual history, digital history, media communication in the 20th century, postsocialism and postcolonialism, decolonization in Central and Eastern Europe

Education:

• 2012 – 2018: Ph.D., Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, doctoral program Sociology Doctoral thesis: Traces of Memory: Transformation of Dynamics of the Cultural Memory in Relation to Visual Culture
• 2009 – 2012: Mgr., Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities, MA program Electronic culture and semiotics
• 2006 – 2009: Bc., Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities, BA program Humanities

Employment (selection):

• since 3/2022: associate professor, department of sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
• since 5/2019: postdoc researcher, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• since 9/2011: founder and director of the Platform for the Study of Visual Culture(s) Fresh Eye

Positions and memberships in organization:

• since 2022: member of the editorial board of the academic journal ArteActa

Study and Research Stays Abroad:

• 2/2023 – 2/2023: Center for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton, VB
• 11/2018 – 12/2018: Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA
• 8/2015 – 2/2016: Fulbright Fellowship, New York University, Media, Culture & Communication – Pratt Institute, Critical & Visual Studies, New York City, USA (supervision: Marita Sturken, Ricardo B. Brown)
• 6/2013: Georg Eckert Institute Fellowship

Research projects:

• 2022–2024: Re-articulation of the Totalitarian Past and Polarization of Society: Local Forms of International Emancipatory Movements and Their Reception Online (GAČR 22-34744S), head researcher
• 2019–2022: Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-WW II Europe, (HERA) www.victor-e.eu, research team member
• 2018–2020: Development and Forms of the Online Participation of Czech Citizens Regarding the European Migration (GAČR 17-17085S), research team member
• 2018–2021: HistoryLab: Using Digital Technology to Foster Historical Literacy, (TAČR TL01000046) www.historylab.cz, research team member
• 2016–2019: Laterna Magika. History and contemporary times, documentation, accessibility and preservation. NAKI II www.laterna-research.com, head researcher
• 2013–2015: History Textbooks: Factories of Collective Memory? Charles University Doctoral Grant, head researcher

Books:

• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2024): V zajetí obrazů. Vizuální politika 21. století. Praha: Akropolis.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. & Catanese, R. (2023) Curating History Online. Frames of Reconstruction. In Česálková, L., Rhein, J., Val, P. & Villa, P. (eds.) Non-fiction Cinema and the Postwar Visual Culture in Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2022) Dotknout se Lenina. Muzeum Vladimíra Iljiče Lenina ve filmu. In Kavka, T., Vogelová P. & Tothová, J. (eds.) Sbírky a politika. Praha: Národní muzeum. 169 – 189.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A., Vochocová, L., Rosenfeldová, J., Fousek Krobová, T. & Zápotocký, J. (2021) Na moři, za plotem, na síti. Digitální média a debata o migraci v Česku. Zlín: Kniha Zlín.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2021) From Representation to Visual Activism. In Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies, ed. Purgar, K. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 687 – 702.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. & Hrůza, T. (2019) We Have Never Been Earth. Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press.
  Průchová, A. (2018): „Význam vizuální komunikace v učebnicích dějepisu“ (kapitola 1.2) in Najbert, J. (ed.): Promýšlet dějepis v 21. století, online publikace. Dostupné na: https://historylab.cz/metodika/kapitola/ucebnice-a-historicke-vzdelavani-pro-21-stoleti/vyznam-vizualni-komunikace-v-ucebnicich-dejepisu/.
• Průchová, A. (2018): Crossing the (Visual) Lines. Conceptualization of the Notion of Occupation in the Czech Modern History through Visual Representations in Kleemola, O. & Pitkänen, S. (eds.): Photographs and History. Turku: University of Turku Publishing House, Cultural History series.
• Průchová, A. (2017): Visual Representations of the First Czechoslovak President TGM in History Textbooks of Communist and Post-Communist Production in Tsirlina-Spady, T. (ed.): Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks from Around the World. New York City, NY: Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-94-024-0975-8. s. 53-72.
• Průchová, A. (2015): Re-Reading the Monuments of the Past in Mitroiu, S. (ed.): Life Writing and Politics of Rememberance in Eastern Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-48551-9. s. 86-104.

Editorial work:

• 4/2021 – současnost: editor of the academic journal Mediální studia/Media Studies

 Articles:

• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2023): From Ruptures to Continuities: Czechoslovak Cultural Heritage in Non-fiction Cinema 1948-1956. In Studies in Eastern European Cinema.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. & Česálková, L. (2023): Visual Culture and Hybrid Practices in Digital Public History: Contextualizing the “Frames of Reconstruction” online exhibition. In Moderní dějiny 31(2), 53-78.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. & Zápotocký, J. (2021) Seemingly Innocent Pictures. Visual Representations of Migrants and Refugees Circulating through the Czech Facebook Nationalistic Universe. In Visual Studies.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2021) Od „co“ k „jak“. Výzvy uměleckého výzkumu pro tvůrčí a akademické sféry 21. století. In ArteActa (6), s. 109–124.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2020) What Is the Image of Refugees in Central European Media? In European Journal of Cultural Studies. 24/1, s. 240-258.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. & Hrůza, T. (2020): New Utopias. Fotograf Magazine. Guest editors of the contemporary art journal.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2020): Theory versus Practice. A Notice to Appear. In The Contemporary Journal. 3/Radical Pedagogies.

Conference and workshops (selection):

• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2023), Protect, Remove! The Statue War in the Czech Online Media. Brno Czechia Intervene, 29. 6. 2023 CEECOM.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2023), Reparative vs Repetitive Histories. Statue Wars as the Realm of Intersection of the Post-Colonial and the Post-Socialist Discourse. Memory Studies Association, Newcastle UK, 7. 7. 2023.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2022): Kurátorství digitální vizuální historie: Nástroje, možnosti a nástrahy. Dějiny ve veřejném prostoru III. Praha, 21. 10. 2022.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2022): Researching Black Lives Matter in the Czech Republic. Pluralistic Methodological Approach. Methods of Social Movement Research, Berlín, 16. 9. 2022.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2022): New Nationalism as a Response to Fearing the New Emancipatory Totality. BLM and DTP on the Czech Internet. Communication, Capitalism and Critique: Critical Media Sociology in the 21st Century, European Sociological Association, Turín, 1. 9. 2022.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2021): Restoring the Cultural Heritage. Media networks and memorial strategies. Les ruines de guerre : écrire, figurer, recomposer (XXe et XXIe siècles), Paříž, 16. 10. 2021.
• Průchová Hrůzová, A. (2021): Visual Tropes of the Czechoslovak Wartime Ruins in the Liberal and Communist Era. Memory Studies Association Annual Conference, Warsaw – online, 4. 6. 2021.
• Průchová, A. (2018): Visual Culture Studies Curriculum, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, USA, 1.12. 2018.
• Průchová, A. (2018): Who Is Allowed to See? With-In-Out Academia: Strategy of Teaching Visual Literacy Across Institutions. International Association of Visual Culture, „Visual Literacy“ Conference, London, 13. – 15. 9. 2018.
• Průchová, A. (2017): Remediation of Historical Photos of “Occupation“ in the Czech Modern History. Conference paper at The 4th Annual Conference of International Federation for Public History, Ravenna, Italy, 5. – 9. 6. 2017.
• Průchová, A. (2017): Becoming Monument. The Visual Representation of the First Czechoslovak President T. G. Masaryk in Communist and Post-communist Textbooks. Conference CIES 2017 “Problematizing (In)Equality“, Atlanta, USA, 5. – 9. 3. 2017.
• Průchová, A. (2016): The Representation of Poles in the Czech Visual Culture 2012-2016. Krótkie Filmy na Marszalkowskiej, Warsaw, Poland. 10. 12. 2016.
• Průchová, A. (2016): Visual Literacy – Visual Democracy. Prague College Visiting Artist Lecture Series VALS. 24. 11. 2016. http://vals.praguecollege.cz/events/andrea-pruchova.
• Průchová, A. (2016): How Does Central Europe Imagine a Refugee? Visual Analysis of Media Representations of Immigrants in Times of ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Countries of the Visegrad Group. Přednáška v rámci konference The 4th International Association for Visual Culture Conference, 29. 9. – 1. 10. 2016, Boston, USA.
• Průchová, A. (2016): Photography as a Source – A Challenge for Historians? Invited discussant of the panel Photography as a Source – A Challenge for Historians?, European Social Science History Conference, 30. 3. – 2. 4. 2016, Valencia, Spain.
• Průchová, A. (2015): Picturing the Political Violence in Children’s Educational Materials. Conference paper at The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past. 3. – 5. 12. 2015, Columbia University, New York City.
• Průchová, A. (2015): From Magic to Paradox to Multiplicity: A Transformation of Images Towards Virtual Reality. Lecture at New York University, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, 19. 11. 2015, New York City.
• Průchová, A. (2015): What Next? Critical Visual Studies in Public Pedagogy. Lecture at Pratt Institute, School of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, 17. 11. 2015, New York City.
• Průchová, A. (2015): Where Are the Borders of Space? Performative Strategies for Researching Public Space. Lecture & workshop at Pratt Institute, School of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, 14. 10. 2015, New York City.