Barbora Nováková

 

Research Interests

  • Religious ideas of pre-colonial Vietnam, the relation between the state and the community in religious perspective
  • Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia

 

  

 

Employment

  • since 2021: assistant professor, Institute of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Education

  • 2012–2020: doctor (title Ph.D.) in Asian and African History and Culture, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
  • 2009–2012: master (title Mgr.) in Etnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
  • 2005–2009: bachelor (title Bc.) in Etnology (Vietnamese Studies), Faculty of Arts, Charles University

International Stays and Fellowships

  • 10/2017 – 11/2017: École franҫaise d’Extrême Orient, Hanoi Centre
  • 10/2015 – 11/2015: École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
  • 10/2014 – 11/2014: Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
  • 10/2012 – 1/2013: Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
  • 2/2011 – 6/2011: Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
  • 9/2010 – 12/2010: Faculty of Philosophy, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
  • 9/2008 – 12/2008: Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

International Conferences and Invited Lectures

  • Grygar, J., Nováková B. “Recognition and Othering: Enacting cosmopolitanism in Vietnamese bistros in Prague“. UrLAB Workshop, EHU, Vilnius, 11. 12. 2019. 
  • Grygar, J., Nováková B. “Innovations in Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Emerging Everyday Multiculturalism. Vietnamese Diaspora in the Czech Republic”. Guest lecture at the Migration Seminar, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. 9. 12. 2019. 
  • Nováková, B., Freidingerová, T. “Searching for Community: Young Vietnamese Grassroots Activities in Czechia“. 10th EuroSEAS conference 2019 in Berlin, 10.-13. 9. 2019. 
  • Nováková, B., Lopatková, M. “Importing Foreign Labour to Czech Republic“. KNOTS Summer School, Chiang Mai, 18. 7. 2018. 
  • Jirková, B., Cộng đông người Việt tại Cộng Hòa Séc (Vietnamská komunita v České republice), Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, 27. 11. 2017.
  • Jirková, B., Water Deities – Confucian Exemplars: The Cult of Tam Giang Dai Vuong in Nguyen Vietnam, 6th French Network for Asian Studies International Conference, 26. 6. 2017.
  • Jirková, B.,Local Deities and State Power (19th and early 20th century), 6th Prague Conference on Southeast Asian Studies: Power and Strategies of Political Order in Southeast Asia, 13. 10. 2016.
  • Jirková, B., Righteous Deities, Depraved Deities: The North Vietnamese Supernatural Landscape under the Nguyễn Dynasty, 3rd ITASEAS Conference, University of Naples, L’Orientale, 21. 6. 2016.
  • Jirková, B., Water Deities in 19th Century Vietnam: Evidence from Administrative Geography, Southeast Asian Studies Symposium 2016, University of Oxford, 14. 4. 2016.

Research Grants

  • Since 2021: Co-researcher in the Czech Science Foundation project: Migrant integration in non-metropolitan areas at individual, diasporic and institutional levels. Vietnamese settled in the Czech borderlands. Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University 

Main Publications

Chapters in monographs:

  • NOVÁKOVÁ, Barbora a Marta LOPATKOVÁ. „Wir werden nicht die Spätis übernehmen“. In Ist Zuhause da, wo die Sternfrüchte süß sind?: Viet deutsche Lebensrealitäten im Wandel. Regiospectra Verlag Berlin, 2020, pp. 107–117. 
  • FREIDINGEROVÁ, Tereza a Barbora NOVÁKOVÁ. V příhodný čas na příhodném místě: geografie Vietnamců a Vietnamek. In POSPÍŠILOVÁ, Lucie a Robert OSMAN (eds), Geografie „okrajem“. Praha: Karolinum, 2019, pp. 299–330.
  • JIRKOVÁ, Barbora. Kult hory Đồng Cổ – od nadpřirozeného ochránce panovníka k pokleslé pověře. In PECHA, Lukáš (ed.), Materiální a duchovní kultura Východu v proměnách času. Plzeň: Filozofická fakulta Západočeské univerzity v Plzni, 2012, pp. 39–44.