research focus
- Czech political and cultural history of the 20th century
- History of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
- Czech-German relations in the 20th century
- Nazi and Communist propaganda
- history of jazz music in the Czech lands
- culture of remembrance
- the image of historical events in a feature film
- Czech film history
Contact
E-mail: koura.petr@seznam.cz, petr.koura@pedf.cuni.cz
professional curriculum
Education
- 2002-2010 - postgraduate studies (Ph.D.), Institute of Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, study programme Historical Sciences/Czech History; dissertation topic: the Swing Youth and the Occupation Power in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, supervisor prof. Jan Kuklík, doc. Prof. Jana Čechurová
- 2003 - rigorous examination (PhDr.), Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague
- 1996-2002 - Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, major in history - political science, specialization cycle II - recent Czech history; thesis topic: the personality of Lieutenant Colonel Josef Balabán in the Czechoslovak anti-Nazi resistance, supervisor prof. Robert Kvaček
- 1992-1996 - Gymnasium of Jaroslav Vrchlický, Klatovy
previous employment and experience:
- since May 2017 - Director of Collegium Bohemicum, Ústí nad Labem
- since September 2014 - Department of History and Didactics of History, Assistant Professor
- September 2013 - May 2015 - Živá paměť, o. p. s., working on the project of the online educational platform Forced Labour 1939-1945 (in cooperation with Freie Universität in Berlin, project supported by the German foundation Erinnerung - Verantwortung - Zukunft)
- January 2012 - December 2014 - FF UK, Department of Czech History, postdoctoral researcher under GAČR postdoctoral grant
- April 2006 - December 2011 - FF UK, Department of Czech History, research fellow (part-time)
- June 2009 - December 2011 - Forschungsstelle für die böhmischen Länder Collegium Carolinum in Munich; Fellow, project Musealisierung der Erinnerung
- September 2008 - March 2009 - Collegium Bohemicum, a cultural, educational and scientific society in Ústí nad Labem, scholarship holder
- January 2007 - May 2008 - Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, then Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes; Head of the Publications Department and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Memory and History
- February 2003 - January 2007 - Institute for Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Researcher, Department for the History of World War II, Occupation and Resistance
- March 2001 - January 2003 - Czech-German Fund for the Future - Office for Victims of Nazism, clerk, verification of applications for compensation for forced labour during the Second World War
Awards
- award in the UK High Quality Monographs Competition (2018) for the publication Swingers and Grebes in the Protectorate Night
- Miroslav Ivanov Prize in the main category for young authors under 39 (2017, for the publication Swingers and Grebes in the Protectorate Night)
- Neuron Foundation Award for Young Scientists in the Social Sciences category for 2015
- award in the competition of high-quality monographs of the Charles University (2012, together with Pavlina Kourova for the publication Czech Christmas from the establishment of the republic to the Velvet Revolution)
- Jan Palach Prize of the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University for the publication Podplukovník Josef Balabán. The Life and Death of the Commander of the Legendary Resistance Group "Three Kings" (2004)
popularization activities
- cooperation with Czech Television and Czech Radio on programmes with historical themes(History is Forever Alive, History.cs)
- several dozens of popularization articles in periodicals and daily press - Lidové noviny ( Orientation supplement), Mladá fronta Dnes ( Kavárna supplement), Respekt, Kulturní týdeník A2, Reflex, Xantypa, Echo 24
cooperation on film projects
- Screenwriter of four episodes of the series Heydrich - the Final Solution (CT, 2011-2012)
- Expert advisor for the series České století (Czech Century, 2013-2014), Bohéma ( Czech Television, 2016)
- Expert advisor for feature films, e.g. Lost in Munich ( 2015), Code Name Holec ( 2016), Jan Palach (2018), The Last Race ( 2021)
cooperation on theatre projects
- Expert advisor for the production of Pankrác 45 (2015), Švandovo divadlo
- Expert consultant for the production of 28 October Day by Day (2018), Studio Ypsilon
- Expert advisor for the production of Burnt 16 (2019), Studio Ypsilon