Calendar of events and courses for PhD candidates

With lecturers from the Academic Writing Center of the Academy of Sciences, we invite you to a free series of seminars to publish scientific articles in English.

The first part, Writing for publication 1, will introduce writing for publication in English. We will cover differences between writing cultures and the writing and publication processes. As part of our workshop, we will also focus on writing abstracts as planning tools and explore rhetorical moves in abstracts. Finally, we will touch upon letters to an editor.

The seminar will be held in English.

Date: 22. 3. 2022

Time: 9:30 - 13:00 including pauses

Registration: Educational Portal

Place: online ZOOM

Lecturer: Dáša Frančíková, PhD

Dáša studied a combined major in History and Women’s Studies in a PhD program at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and received her PhD in 2011. From 2011 to 2014 she taught interdisciplinary history courses on gender, sexuality, social inequality and digital feminism at the Department of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara. Currently, she also teaches English and academic writing. Her research interests include modern history, comparative and global history, women’s history as well as history of medicine, anthropological history and online education. She has published articles in academic journals and has participated in conferences and workshops. In 2017, Lexington Books published her book Women as Essential Imaginary Citizens in the Czech National Movement focusing on the role of women in the Czech society in the first half of 19th century.