The Seminar of Modern History was created during the transformation of former historical departments into institutes and seminars in the early 1990s and was originally called the Seminar of the History of International Relations and World Politics. The current name was acquired only after a new, chronological division of the whole institute. The seminar focuses on the period of the 16^th century up until the 19^th century, while geographically its members focus on the history of Europe, North America and the colonies of European states. In recent years, its staff has published several books and studies dealing with the history of international relations between the 18th and 20th centuries, the development of nobility and elites, Austro-Hungarian diplomacy and colonial history. They are also members of the Humanities Research Centres, specifically the Centre for the Study of Mankind and Society, the Research Group for Central European Elites in a Changing Society (16th-20th Century) and they participate in grant projects.

Head of the Modern History Seminar

prof. PhDr. Jan Županič, Ph.D.   jan.zupanic@ff.cuni.cz    Room 306 Profile

Seminar members

doc. PhDr. František Stellner, Ph.D.   frantisek.stellner@ff.cuni.cz    Room 306 Profile
PhDr. Jaroslav Valkoun, Ph.D.   jaroslav.valkoun@ff.cuni.cz    Room 206 Profile

PhD students

Mgr. Eliška Bažantová Anti-apartheid Movement in the 1980s. bazantova.elska@gmail.com
Mgr. Lenka Hrdinová The Kinsky Family in the 20th Century.   lenka.hrdinova@ff.cuni.cz
Mgr. et Mgr. Anežka Kotoučová   The development of the russian society in years 1762-1881 from the civilization and modernization point of view.   hrebikova@mua.cas.cz
Mgr. Pavla Chmelíková The Succession to the English Throne: The Search for a New Pretender (1685–1714).   pavla.chmelikova@ff.cuni.cz
Mgr. Ivana Králiková The role of the Japanese aristocracy in the political life of society in modern history. Why the aristocracy lost political power. kralikovasan@seznam.cz
Mgr. Martin Liška   Relations between Brandenburg and Sweden during years 1660 – 1701.
Mgr. Daniel Lochman    A Fading Friendship: Czechoslovak-Japanese Political and Diplomatic Relations 1929-1939.
Mgr. Marie Michlová The Phenomenon of Death in Great Britain 1815-1855.
Mgr. Kristýna Nitschová Analysis of cure with opium, morphine and cocaine in lunatics asylums in Cisleithania in period from 1867 to 1918.   Kristyna.Nitschova@seznam.cz
PhDr. Anna Rozsypal Pajerová   From Scandinavism to Nordic Regionalism.   Anna.RozsypalPajerova@ff.cuni.cz
PhDr. Lenka Vašková Duchy of Courland as an Object of Russian Policy in the Years 1740 – 1763.   lenka.vaskova@ruk.cuni.cz
Mgr. Lukáš Vokřínek Johann Sporck.   Lukas.Vokrinek@seznam.cz