Anglo-American University in Prague Research Coffee Series
In 2018, AAU introduced a new series called “Research Coffee”, which are events aimed to be a platform for discussions about publications, projects, and working papers of the AAU Faculty as well as AAU students. In case of interest in presenting, please contact us.
List of sessions:
| DATE | Author(s) | Title of paper / project | Discussant |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 16, 2022 | Jan Mošovský | A New Approach Towards Tobacco Legislation: The Case for Harm Reduction in CEE and the EU | TBC |
| May 6, 2022 | Mgr. Daniela Lencéš Chalániová, Ph.D. | Trust us! We’re what you call ‘experts’ | Jacob Maze, Ph.D. |
| April 22, 2022 | Pelin Ayan Musil, Ph.D., Salim Cevik, Ph.D. | Democratic Transitions that did not end with Consolidation in the Muslim World: Turkey (2002-2011) and Tunisia (2011-2021) | Clement Steuer Ph.D. |
| March 11, 2022 | Gerald Power, Ph.D. | The Making of a Sultan: The Secret History of the British Council and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, 1956-70 | Pelin Ayan Musil, Ph.D., Ebru Akcasu, Ph.D. |
| December 10, 2021 | Pelin Ayan Musil, Ph.D. | Understanding the Formation of Oppositional Alliances against Populist-Authoritarian Governments: The Cases of Hungary and Turkey | Alexei Anisin, Ph.D. |
| November 26, 2021 | Alexei Anisin, Ph.D. | Tracking and Tracing COVID-19 and the Solidification Surveillance Capitalism | Jacob Maze, Ph.D. |
| November 5, 2021 | Mark Andrew Brandon, Ph.D. | The Safest Guide and Savior: Science, Morality and Race in the 20th Century | Prof. Ivo Budil, doc Jiří Kašný |
| October 22, 2021 | Peter Bolcha, Michael Fanta, Pavla Vozárová | Transport Infrastructure Expenditure in Czechia: Law Compliance in the Public Procurement | Dr. Filip Pertold, Mr. David Ondráčka |
| April 30, 2021 | Joshua Hayden | Spiritual Leadership in Social Movements: The Beloved Community and the Solidarity of the Shaken | Gerald Power, Ph.D., Daniel Padolsky, M.A |
| April 9, 2021 | Mark Andrew Brandon, Ph.D. | The Secret History of the Hrdlička Museum of Man | Prof. Ivo T. Budil, Metropolitan University Prague |
| March 19, 2021 | Gerald Power, Ph.D. | Cultural Diplomacy and its Limits: The British Council in the Arab Gulf, 1955-68 | Ebru Akcasu, Ph.D., Prof. Milada Polišenská |
| April 24, 2020 | Mark Andrew Brandon, Ph.D | The Last Great Biological Reserve of the White Race: An American Immigrant’s Racial Understanding of the Soviet Union | Prof. Ivo T. Budil, Metropolitan University Prague, Prof. Milada Polišenská |
| February 28, 2020 | Andrew L. Giarelli, Ph.D. | Cheyennes and Folklorists: 130 Years of Fieldwork | Prof. Eva Eckert, Ph.D., Dr. Jan Hornát, Charles University |
| November 8, 2019 | Mark A. Brandon | Science or Fake News? Aleš Hrdlička And Czech Propaganda in World War I | Prof. Ivo T. Budil, Metropolitan University Prague, Prof. Milada Polišenská |
| October 4, 2019 | Gerald Power, Ph.D. | The Necessity of “Soft Power” in Britain’s Cold War: Establishing the British Council in Kuwait, 1952-55′. | Prof. Milada Polišenská |
| April 26, 2019 | Mark A. Brandon | What are the Czechoslovaks: Aleš Hrdlička and the Racial Reorganization of Central Europe | Prof. Eva Eckert |
| March 15, 2019 | doc. Irena Jindřichovská, Ph.D. and Armend Qerimi | Use of Information Systems for Strategy and Management in Czech Hospitality Segment: Balanced Scorecard Approach | Joe Weintraub |
| February 15, 2019 | Gabriele Meissner | Business as Usual: When Business Facilitates Wars | Joe Weintraub |
| December 7, 2018 | Mihaela Stratulat | Impression Management During a Crisis Event: Case Study of Volkswagen; Reporting Good and Bad News: Case of the Pharmaceutical Industry | doc. Irena Jindřichovská Peter Bolcha, PhD |
| November 23, 2018 | Mgr. Zuzana Fellegi, LL.M. | Lost in Translation? Effects of the European gender regulations in the Czech Republic | Dr. Blanka Nyklova, Institute of Sociology, CAS |
| November 23, 2018 | Prof. Milada Polišenská | The World of Two Legations: Establishing Czechoslovak – U.S. Diplomatic Relations and the Role of Institutional Experience by prof. | George Hays II, PhD |
| October 19, 2018 | Andrew L. Giarelli, Ph.D. | From Murder to Miscegenation: Mark Twain’s Nevada Newspaper Hoaxes as 19th century ‘Fake News’ | Kryštof Kozák, Ph.D., Charles University |
| October 19, 2018 | Prof. Eva Eckert, Ph.D. | Letters sustaining cross-atlantic migrations: From Frenštát, Moravia to Frenstat, Texas in the decades following the Civil War | doc. Markéta Křížová, Charles University |
| September 14, 2018 | Alexei Anisin, Ph.D. and Pelin Ayan Musil, Ph.D. | When Does Military Side with Rebels? | Jacob Maze, MA, Charles University |