Jaromír Mřnka

Research Interests

2016–present: Researcher/Historian Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

2013–2017: Charles University, Prague, Modern Economic and Social History (2017, Ph.D., Politics and Social Practice of Collective Violence in Bohemian Lands 1944–1946)
2015–2016: Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, East European History (2015–2016, Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies)
2014 Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta – Hospodářské a sociální dějiny – rigorózní zkouška

Collegium Carolinum – Research Institute for the History of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, Munich 2014, Visiting Fellow
LMU, Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Munich/Regensburg 2015–2016, DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, Visiting Research Fellow

MRŇKA, Jaromír. A Stubborn Periphery. Everyday life of KSČ-Dictatorhip and Czech Borderlands 1945-1960. Bremen, 2017.
MRŇKA, Jaromír. Swept away by a Rage of the People. Public Acts of Collective Violence in the Bohemian Lands 1938-1945. Prague, 2016.
MRŇKA, Jaromír. Kollektive Gewalt in Böhmischen Länder 1935–1955. Hamburg, 2016.
MRŇKA, Jaromír. The Bloody End of War. Collective Violence as Politics, Culture and Social Practice in the Czech Lands during 1945. CEVRO Institut, Vysoká škola, Prague, 2015.
MRŇKA, Jaromír. Crucial Events – Critical Experience – Radical Action. Was the Society of the Czech Lands radicalized by experiences of crisis and war during 1930’s and 1940’s?. Bielefeld, 2015.
MRŇKA, Jaromír. Hegemony of ‘Dutiful Work’. (Trans-) Formation of hegemonic Discourses and Post-war Czech Society between Nationalism and Socialism 1945-1960. Regensburg, 2015.

Czech Science Foundation GA ČR, GJ15-19437Y, Cesta k technokratickému socialismu: Politika a koncepty řízení společnosti v Československu (1953–1975) External Researcher, Technocratic thought in Czechoslovak Agriculture
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes Udavačství jako sociální praxe / Informing as Social Practice, Principal Researcher

Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts – Institute for Economic and Social History: 2013–present, External Lecturer. Courses: Economic and Social History since 1945 (bachelor); Historiography (bachelor); Methodology of Social History (master) o East and Central European Studies, program for exchange students (USA);
Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts: 2017–present, Professor of History Courses: Czechs in the Age of Extremes, Czech Society between Nationalism and Dictatorship in the long 20th Century

Monograph

MRŇKA, Jaromír, Limity lidskosti, Politika a sociální praxe kolektivního násilí v českých zemích 1944–1946 [Limits of Humanity, Politics and Social Practice of Collective Violence in Bohemian Lands 1944–1946] –planned publication, 2018.
MRŇKA, Jaromír, Svéhlavá periferie, Každodennost diktatury KSČ na příkladu Šumperska a Zábřežska 1945–1960 [Stubborn Periphery, Everyday Life of KSČ-Dictatorship as illustrated by Šumperk and Zábřeh Regions 1945–1960], Praha 2015, 218 p.

Articles and Contributions in Collective Monograph

MRŇKA, Jaromír. “V naší zemi bude konec války psán krví.” Kolektivní násilí roku 1945 v českých zemích jako politika, kultura a sociální praxe, [“In our land, the end of the war will be written by blood.” Collective Violence of the year 1945 in Bohemian Lands as politics, culture and social practice] in: Střed/Centre, Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Vol. 2/2016, p. 66–91. ISSN 1803-9243.
MRŇKA, Jaromír, Mládež nová, mládež Gottwaldova? Období poloviny šedesátých let a obrodný proces v Československu jako generační zlom [New Youth, Gottwald’s Youth? The Middle of 1960’s and Social Renewal in Czechoslovakia as a Generational Break], in: Předjaří, Československo 1963–1967 [Early Spring, Czechoslovakia 1963–1967], PETRÁŠ, J. – SVOBODA, L., Eds., Praha 2016, s. 154–164.