History of the British Empire and the British Commonwealth of Nations in the 19th and the 20th century
History of the British Imperialism and Colonialism in Africa, particularly Egypt and the Sudan,
History of the institutional and constitutional relations development among the Dominions and Great Britain in the first half of the 20th century
Education
2008–2015: Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague, degree (Ph.D.) in History – General History, Program: Historical Sciences
2008: Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague, degree (PhDr.) in History – General History, Program: Historical Sciences
2006–2008: Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague, degree (Mgr.) in History, Program: History
2003–2006: Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague, degree (Bc.) in History, Program: History
Academic Posts
2015–present: Senior Lecturer, Institute of World History, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague
2015–present: Senior Lecturer, Department of Historical Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen
2010–2015: Junior Lecturer, Institute of World History, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague
International Conferences, Workshops and Visiting Scholar Lectures
15th February 2020 – William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Question of Governors-General’s Institutional Status at the Imperial Conference, 1926, in: 41st Annual Conference in Grainau (pořadatel Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien).
29th October 2019 – Great Britain, the Dominions and the Imperial Foreign Policy in the 1930s, (organizer Łódź University), dr hab. Aneta Pawłowska.
17th October 2019 – The British Empire and the Selected Overseas Problems at the Paris Peace Conference, (organizer University of Heidelberg), Prof. Tanja Penter.
27th September 2019 – The Canadian Attitude to the Article X of the Covenant of the League of Nations, in: The Frustrated Peace? The Versailles Treaty and its Political, Social and Economic Impact on Europe (organizer Faculty of Arts, Charles University; Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
5th June 2019 – The British Empire and Its Position and Interests at the Paris Peace Conference, (organizer Universität Bayreuth, Lehrstuhl für Neueste Geschichte), Prof. Dr. Hermann Joseph Hiery.
15th May 2019 – The Halibut Treaty and the British-Canadian Relations, 1923, (organizer Tambov State University), Prof. Natalia Zhukovskaia.
7th May 2019 – The Paris Peace Conference and the British Empire, (organizer University of Pécs), Prof. Dr. Dömők Csilla.
23rd November 2018 – The Accepting of the Dominion Status as a Way of Reconciliation of British-Irish Disputes?, in: VITRI 2018 Fall workshop (organizer Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)
21st September 2018 – The Conclusion of the American-Canadian Halibut Treaty of 1923 and Its Importance for British-Canadian Constitutional Relations, in: 8th Triennial International Conference of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies (Organizer Charles University, Central European Association for Canadian Studies, Government of Canada)
4th June 2018 – The British Dominions and Their Position and Interests at the Paris Peace Conference, in: Treaties of the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920) (organizer Alba Iulia University, Romania).
20th June 2017 – Conquest of Paradise and the Spanish Explores, (organizer Tomas Bata University, Zlín), Prof. Ing. Roman Prokop, CSc.
20th April 2016 – To the Origin of Ideas of the ‛British Empire’ and the ‛Commonwealth’, (organizer Universität Passau, Lehstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte ), Prof. Dr. Hans-Christof Kraus.
21st April 2015 – The Constitutional Questions and the Position of the Dominions at Paris Peace Conference, (organizer Universität Passau, Lehstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte), Prof. Dr. Hans-Christof Kraus.
22nd June 2014 – The Role of the Dominions at the Paris Peace Conference?, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Überseegeschichte – Junges Forum (organizer Gesellschaft für Überseegeschichte).
3rd June 2014 – Assassination at Sarajevo, (organizer Prachatice Museum), PhDr. František Kubů.
24th May 2013 – Empire or Commonwealth?, Realpolitik in History (organizer Department of Historical Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen).
18th May 2012 – The Sudanese Life of General Charles George Gordon, in: Half-forgotten persons in history (organizer Department of Historical Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen).
26th February 2010 – Drummond-Wolff’s Mission to Constantinople, Orientalia Antiqua Nova 2010 (organizer Centre Middle East Studies, Department of Anthropological and Historical Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen).
3rd July 2009 – British-French Confrontation in the Colonial Sphere – The Fashoda Crisis, 22nd Summer School of History (organizer Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague).
26th August 2009 – Europe and World on the Eve of the Second World War (1939), Summer School of Historians 2009 (organizer Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové).
Important and Fundamental Research Stays Abroad
June/August 2019 – Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa)
August 2018 – Churchill Archive Centre (Cambridge), Cambridge University Library (Cambridge)
July 2018 – The National Archives (London/Kew), League of Nations and United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) Archives (Geneva)
September 2017 – Churchill Archive Centre (Cambridge), Cambridge University Library (Cambridge)
July/August 2017 – The National Archives (London/Kew), The British Library (London), Bodleian Library (Oxford)
November 2016 – Churchill Archive Centre (Cambridge), Cambridge University Library (Cambridge)
July 2016 – The National Archives (London/Kew), The British Library (London)
August 2012 – Churchill Archive Centre (Cambridge), Cambridge University Library (Cambridge)
May/June 2012 – The National Archives (London/Kew), The British Library (London)
Research Projects
2018–2019: SGS-2018-047 British-Dominion Relations, 1907–1931 (Principal investigator of the research project)
2018–present: Research project of the Charles University UNCE 2017: Center for the Transdisciplinary Research of Violence, Trauma and Justice (Junior co- investigator of the research project)
2017–present: Research project of the Charles University Progres Q09: History – The Key to Understanding of Globalized World (Co-investigator of the research project)
2016–2017: SGS-2016-070 The Influence of the Dominions on the forming of the British Empire on the Turn of the 1920s and the 1930s (Principal investigator of the research project)
2014: Project Europe and World: Europe, Africa and (vs.) Asia – Multimedia Documents, No. VS2014_36 (Principal investigator of the research project)
2013–2016: Research project of the Charles University PRVOUK P12 History in interdisciplinary perspective (Co-investigator of the research project)
2012–2013: Research project of the Grant Agency of Charles University (GAUK) No. 609812, The Attitudes of Great Britain and Its Dominions to Constitutional Issues within the British Empire in the Years 1917–1931 (Principal investigator of the research project)
Memberships of Boards and Associations
2019–present: Central European Association for Canadian Studies, Czech Republic (Member of the Association)
2018: Prague Papers on the History of International Relations (Member of the Redaction and the Editorial Board)
2016–2018: Historical Horizon (Member of the Editorial Board)
2016–present: Presidency of the Association of Universities of the Third Age of the Czech Republic (Member of the Presidency of the Association)
2015–present: Centre for Lifelong Learning, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague (Guarantor of the University of the Third Age)
2014–present: Economic Committee Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague (Member of the Committee)
2011–present: Prague Papers on the History of International Relations (Member of the Redaction)
2010–present: Gesellschaft für Überseegeschichte, Germany (Member of the Association)
Main Publications
Monograph
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Great Britain, the Dominions and the Transformation of the British Empire, 1907–1931: The Road to the Statute of Westminster, New York – London: Routledge, 2021, ISBN 978-03-6765-447-4.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Na cestě k Westminsterskému statutu: Velká Británie, dominia a proměna Britského impéria v letech 1907–1931, Praha 2015, ISBN 978-80-7308-557‑5.
Studies in Peer-reviewed Journals
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Accepting Dominion Status as a Way of Reconciliation of British-Irish Disputes?, in: Britain and the World, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2021, s. 1–21, ISSN 2043-8567.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav – FISCHEROVÁ, Eva, Britsko-dominiální vztahy, imperiální preference a imperiální ekonomická konference v Ottawě v roce 1932, in: Moderní dějiny: Časopis pro dějiny 19. a 20. století, roč. 26, č. 1, 2018, s. 91–109, ISSN 1210-6860.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav – URBAN, Martin, Kanada ve Společnosti národů a její postoj k článku 10 Paktu Společnosti národů, in: Acta Historica Universitatis Silesianae Opaviensis, č. 11, 2018, s. 69–80, ISSN 1803-411X.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav – MAZANEC, Jakub, Britové na Nilu a modernizace egyptského zavlažování, in: Historický obzor, roč. 29, č. 7/8, 2018, s. 174–180, ISSN 1210-6097.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Lathamova mise dobré vůle, in: ČECHUROVÁ, Jana – ŽEMLIČKA, Josef a kol., Souboj mečů, idejí a charakterů: K životnímu jubileu prof. Ivana Šedivého, Praha 2019, s. 226–238, ISBN 978-80-7422-725-7.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Zum Ursprung der terminologischen Bestimmung der Begriffe „Britisches Empire“ und „Commonwealth“, in: Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte, Hf. 3/4, 2016, s. 208–2019, ISSN 0250-6459.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Dominions, Great Britain and Questions Related to Imperial Foreign Policy Implementation and Direction in the 1920s and at the Beginning of the 1930s, in: West Bohemian Historical Review, No. 2, 2016, s. 267–292, ISSN 1804-5480.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Cesta k nezávislosti? Britsko-kanadské vztahy a důsledky uzavření americko-kanadské Platýzové smlouvy z roku 1923, in: Dvacáté století – The Twentieth Century, č. 1, 2016, s. 162–171, ISSN 1803-750X.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Konstitucionální postavení dominií v rámci Britského impéria a jejich zájmy na Pařížské mírové konferenci (leden – červen 1919), in: Moderní dějiny: Časopis pro dějiny 19. a 20. století, roč. 23, č. 2, 2015, s. 83–103, ISSN 1210-6860.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Éra lorda Cromera: Britové v Egyptě v letech 1892–1907, in: Historica Olomucensia, č. 46, 2014, s. 91–105, ISSN 1803-9561.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, The Sudanese Life of General Charles George Gordon, in: Acta Fakulty filozofické Západočeské univerzity v Plzni, No. 2, 2013, s. 49–70, ISSN 1802-0364.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Die Haltung der Dominien zu konstitutionellen Fragen im Rahmen des Britischen Empire in den Jahren 1917–1926, in: Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte, Vol. 13, 2013, s. 197–217, ISBN 978-8-447-10254-4, ISSN 1436-6371.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, The British and Egypt in the 1890s, in: Öt kontinens: Az Új- és Jelenkori Egyetemes Történeti Tanszék közleményei / Cinq Continents: Les cahiers du Département d’Histoire moderne et contemporaine, No 2, 2012, Budapest 2013, s. 237–254, ISSN 1589-3839.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Some Remarks on Lord Cromer’s Imperialism and His View on Orient, in: Prague Papers on the History of International Relations, Prague: Institute of World History, No. 2, 2012, s. 57–66, ISSN 1803-7356.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, The British Foreign Policy and Egypt in the 1880s, in: Öt kontinens: Az Új- és Jelenkori Egyetemes Történeti Tanszék közleményei / Cinq Continents: Les cahiers du Département d’Histoire moderne et contemporaine, No 1, 2011, Budapest 2012, s. 107–126, ISSN 1589-3839.
Chapters in Monographs
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery (1873–1955): Odvážný vizionář, smělý reformátor a oddaný služebník impéria, in: BÁRTA, Miroslav – KOVÁŘ, Martin (eds.), Lidé a dějiny: K roli osobnosti v historii v multidisciplinární perspektivě, Praha: Academia, 2017, s. 463–479, ISBN 978-80-200-2716-0.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Leopold Amery a cesta ke vzniku britského ministerstva pro dominiální záležitosti: K dějinám britského kolonialismu a imperialismu na počátku 20. století, in: TUMIS, Stanislav – KOURA, Jan – SOUKUP, Jaromír (eds.), Kapitoly z anglických (britských) a amerických dějin: Profesoru Martinu Kovářovi k padesátým narozeninám, Praha 2015, s. 90–104, ISBN 978-80-7308-574-2.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, Vztahy mezi Velkou Británií a jejími dominii v předvečer první světové války: Příspěvek k dějinám ostrovního státu a jeho impéria na počátku dvacátého století, in: DRŠKA, Václav – KOVÁŘ, Martin (eds.), Kapitoly z obecných dějin: Panu profesorovi s láskou…, Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2014, s. 180–193, ISBN 978-80-7308-521-6.
VALKOUN, Jaroslav, The British Empire or Commonwealth?, in: KODET, Roman – NOVOTNÝ, Lukáš (eds.), The Chapters to the History of “Realpolitik”: Die Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Realpolitik, Pilsen: University of West Bohemia, 2013, s. 39–50, ISBN 978-80-261-0317-2.
