Michal Kopeček (Prague)

Historicum Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Colloquium “Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism”

The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, May 6th, with a lecture by Senior Fellow Michal Kopeček on "Reclaiming the Universal Particular: National Self-Determination in Hungarian and Polish Dissent".

Dr. Michal Kopeček is a historian and Head of the Department of Knowledge, Culture, Expertise at the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague. His research interests include comparative modern intellectual history of East Central Europe, nationalism studies, history of communist dictatorship and post-socialism in Eastern Europe. Among his publications are co-authored Architects of Long-Systemic Change: Expert Roots of Post-Socialism in Czechoslovakia (in Czech, Prague 2019, forthcoming in English in 2026), Czechoslovakism (London 2022) or the multi-volume A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe (Oxford University Press 2016; 2018).

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