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Position:
Professor
and
Director
of the Centre for
Ibero-American
Studies
Speciality:
American
History
Charles University
Institute of
Ibero-American
Studies
Hybernská 3,
110 00 Prague 1,
Czech Republic
Tel.:
00420 221619514
Fax:
00420 221619528
opatrny@reccma.es |
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Josef Opatrný
Training and professional experience
Born in The Czech Republic. Magister in History, specialized in General History (1968). PhD in History at Charles University in Prague in 1978.
- Between 1968 and 1990, he carried out research at vaious levels at the Centro de Estudios Ibero-Americanos of Charles University, where he has held the position of Director since 1990.
- Director of the Editorial Board of the yearly book Ibero-Americana Pragensia(published by Charles University) since 1990.
- As an invited researcher and lecturer he visited universities and research centres in Spain, Cuba France, USA, Mexico, Poland, Slovakia, Germany, Austria and Panama in addition to those in the Czech Republic.
- Member of the Advisory Boards of various scientific journals worldwide.
- Author of numerous books, scientific monographs and book chaptersand Symposiums Acts, as well as over 60 collectively or individually written essays featured in both Czech and international journals.
- Author of contributions to over 40 scientific congresses worldwide.
Research lines
As Head Teacher of the Centre for Ibero-American Studies he is coordinating research into the relationships between Central Europe and the Hispanic World in combination with two other projects funded by the Czech Ministry of Education. His research is particularly focussed on migratory processes, Czech migration in Latin America and cultural and economic relations between Europe and Hispanic America. Regarding American History, his main line focuses on USA-Latin America relations, cultural identities, race and nation-building issues. He has established close international scientific links as he coordinates the Caribbean Team's activities within the AHILA.
Projects
- Relations between Bohemia and Latin America, FF UK 04694, 1993-1994
- The publishing of Historia Sedicionum, Grant Agency of the Czeck Republic, 404/94/0032, 1994-1995.
- The image of America in Czeck society, Grant Agency of the Czeck Republic, 404/95/0195, 1995-1997.
- Certain issures of the history of the study of Latin America, Charles University, 101/97/1-HN/FF, 1997-1998.
Research projects led by Consuelo Naranjo Orovio from the Insitute of History (CSIC) under the Plan Nacional:
Selected Publications:
- Opatrný, J., Antecedentes históricos de la formación de la nación cubana, Prague, 1986, 254 pp.
- Opatrný, J., US Expansionism and Cuban Annexationism in the 1850s, Queenston, Lampeter, 1993, 318 pp.
- Opatrný, J. (ed.) Cuba. Algunos Problemas de su Historia. Ibero-Americana, Prague, 1995, 178 pp.
- Opatrný, J. Amerika v proměních staletí, Prague, 1998, 841 pp.
- Opatrný, J., La conciencia común en Cuba, siglo XIX“, Nation Building in Nineteenth Century Latin America. Dilemas and Conflicts, Konig, H-J. and Wiesebron, M. (eds.), Research, Leiden, 1998, 335-347 pp.
- Opatrný, J. (ed.), Emigración centroeuropea a América Latina, Prague 2000.
- Opatrný, J. (ed.), El Caribe Hispano. Sujeto y objeto en política internacional, Prague, 2001, 358 pp.
- Opatrný, J., “La identidad de los criollos en Cuba del siglo XIX“, Kultur-Diskurs: Kontinuitat und Wandel der Diskussion um Identitaten in Lateinamerika im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert, Riekengerg, M., Rinke, S., Schmidt, P. (eds, Stuttgart 2001, 259-278 pp.
- Opatrný, J., Kuba, Praguea, 2002, 100 pp.
- Opatrný, J., Mexiko, Prague, 2003, 212 pp.
- Opatrný, J. (ed.), Emigración centroeuropea a América Latina, II, Prague, 2003, 213 pp.
- Opatrný, J., Panama, Prague, 2004, 140 pp.
- Opatrný, J., “La historia frente al desafío de las nuevas tendencias en el americanismo”, in: Anuario Americanista Europeo, 2004, 2, pp. 73-96.
- Opatrný, J. (ed.), Cambios y revoluciones en el Caribe hispano de los siglos XIX y XX, Prague, 2004, 296 pp.
- Opatrný, J., “La cubanidad y la nación cubana: José Antonio Saco y José Martí”, En torno a las Antillas Hispánicas. Ensayos en homenaje a Paul Estrade. Puerto Rosario, Revista TEBETO. Anuario del Archivo histórico insular de Fuerteventura. Anexo V, 2004, pp. 93-107.
- Opatrný, J. (ed.), Emigración centroeuropea a América Latina, III, Prague, 2005, 190 pp.
- Opatrný, J., “Política colonial de Gran Bretana en la argumentación de José Antonio Saco. El caso de Paralelo entre la Isla de Cuba y algunas colonias inglesas”, Las Antillas en la era de las Luces y la Revolución, Piqueras, J. A. (ed.), Madrid, 2005, 365-380 pp.
- González-Ripoll, Mª D., Opatrný, J. et al, El rumor de Haití en Cuba: temor, raza y rebeldía, 1789-1844, Madrid, 2004, 457 pp.
- Opatrný, J., “La imagen cambiante de América en la sociedad de Bohemia entre 1500 y 1848”, Pieper, R. y Schmidt, P. (eds), The Atlantic World and Latin America - América Latina en el mundo atlántico. Essays in the honor of Horst Pietschmann, Vienna, Cologne, 2005, pp. 97-113.
- Opatrný, J., (ed.), Nación y cultura nacional en el Caribe hispano, Prague, 2006, 371 pp.
- Opatrný, J., Palau M., Soler E., (eds), El paraíso ilustrado. Malaspina y Haenke en el Nuevo Mundo, Madrid, 2006, 232 pp.
- Caribe/Caribes, Ibero-Americana Praga, Supplementum 18, Praha 2006 (ed.)
- Pensamiento caribeno - siglos XIX - XX, Ibero-Americana Praga, Supplementum
19, 2007, (ed.)
- Opatrný, J., "'El otro' y la formación de las nacionalidades en El Caribe. El caso de Cuba", María Teresa Cortés Zavala, (coord.), Prácticas políticas y cultura criolla en el Caribe Hispano. El fenómeno nacional en siglo XIX, 2007, 97-114.
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