Articles by Hana Kubátová

June 18, 2024

⛓️ Scholarly societies and political crises: the case for neutrality as academic freedom

Hana Kubátová

Political statements hinder the difficult conversations central to the mission of institutions of higher learning and scholarly associations. When institutions like ECPR speak collectively on political controversies, Hana Kubátová argues, they take academic freedom away from individual scholars and their dissenting views. Now is the time for institutional neutrality

Hana Kubátová

Assistant Professor, Charles University, Prague

Hana is a political scholar and historian specialising in political violence, majority-minority relations, and genocides.

She is currently researching how historical narratives underpin domestic and foreign political decisions across eastern and western Europe.

Hana is a former member of the ECPR Executive Committee, and co-editor, with Daniela Irrera, of The Loop’s ⛓ Constraints on Academic Freedom blog series.

Her book Christian Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

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