Religious beliefs in precolonial Vietnam, Vietnamese history.
Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia
Academic Posts
10/2015: assistant lecturer, Institute of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
1/2017: researcher, Institute of Sociological Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
Education
2012 – present: graduate student of Ph.D. program in Asian and African History and Culture, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
2009–2012: master (title Mgr.) in Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
2005–2009: bachelor (title Bc.) in Ethnology with Specialization in Vietnamese Studies; Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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 Speaker Lectures
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
2017 – Co-researcher in the Czech Science Foundation project “Innovations in Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Emerging Everyday Multiculturalism. Vietnamese Diaspora in the Czech Republic”, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
2017 – “KNOTS – Fostering multi-lateral knowledge networks of transdisciplinary studies to tackle global challenges” Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education project, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, coordinated by the University of Vienna
Main Publications
Monographs
Freidingerová, T. – Jirková B., V příhodný čas na příhodném místě: geografie Vietnamců a Vietnamek, in: Pospíšilová, L., – Osman, R. (eds), Geografie okraje, Praha: Karolinum (v tisku).
Jirková, B., Kult hory Đồng Cổ – od nadpřirozeného ochránce panovníka k pokleslé pověře, in: Pcha, L. (ed.) Materiální a duchovní kultura Východu v proměnách času, Plzeň: Filozofická fakulta Západočeské univerzity v Plzni, 2012, s. 39-44. ISBN 978-80-261-0330-1.
Jirková, B., Spiritualita Vietnamců u nás, in Dingir: religionistický časopis o současné náboženské scéně, No. 1, 2012, Vol. 15, p. 19-21. ISSN 1212-1371.
