CURRICULUM VITAE – JAKUB STEJSKAL (14 June 2014

CURRICULUM VITAE – JAKUB STEJSKAL (14 June 2014)
Personal Data:
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Name: Jakub Stejskal
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Address: Vyšehradská 27
12800 Praha 2
Czech Republic
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E-mail: [email protected]
Areas of Specialization: philosophical aesthetics (esp. visual art), art historiography,
comparative methodology of visual art theories, theory of contemporary visual art
Areas of Competence: social philosophy, theories of modernity/modernism,
semiotics/structuralism, Kant and post-Kantian philosophy
Employment
2011 – present Lecturer, Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles
University, Prague.
2011 – present Researcher, Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.
Education
2007 – 2014 Doctoral student, Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles
University, Prague, thesis title: ‘Second Nature: A Contribution to the Social
Philosophy of Art’. Supervisor: Prof. Vlastimil Zuska. Thesis defended May 2014
(external evaluators: Michael Hauser, Marek Hrubec).
2009 – 2010 Visiting PhD fellow at the Department of German, Royal Holloway,
University of London, UK, supervisor: Prof. Andrew Bowie. Grantee of the AngloCzech Educational Fund.
2007 – 2008 Visiting PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, University of
Glasgow, UK, supervisor: Dr Gary Kemp. Funded by the Erasmus Programme.
2002 – 2007 Student of aesthetics, Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts,
Charles University, Prague. Mgr. (equivalent of M.A.) in aesthetics, thesis: Essay on
Enthusiasm – Political Critique of Enthusiastic Aesthetics (Mark: Excellent).
Publications
Research Articles
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“Rancière’s Aesthetic Revolution and Its Modernist Residues” (in Slovenian),
Filozofski vestnik 33, 2012, no. 3, pp. 39–51. (ERIH ranking: NAT)
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“The Deceit of the Park and the Truth of the Garden: Notes on an Expression
by Hegel” (in Czech), in Ondřej Dadejík, Jan Staněk, Karel Stibral (eds.),
Zahrada: Přirozenost a umělost [The garden: Nature and artifice], Prague:
Dokořán 2012, pp. 74–92.
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“Conceptual Art, Evaluative Experience, and Second Nature”, in Art, Emotion
and Value: 5th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics (Cartagena, 2011), pp.
555–562.
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“Art, Ideology and Aesthetics” (in Czech), in Pavel Zahrádka (ed.), Estetika na
přelomu milénia: Vybrané problémy současné estetiky (Aesthetics at the turn
of the millennium: Selected topics of contemporary aesthetics, Brno: Barrister
& Principal, 2011), pp. 279–299.
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“Rancière and Aesthetics” (in Czech), Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny
6–7/2009, pp. 108–124.
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“Second Nature in McDowell II” (in Czech), in Karel Stibral, Ondřej Dadejík,
Bohuslav Binka (eds.), Krása, krajina, příroda II. (Beauty, landscape, nature,
vol. II, Brno: Muni Press, 2009), pp. 41–47.
Edited Volumes
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Fabian Dorsch, John Zeimbekis, Jakub Stejskal (eds.), Proceedings of the
European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 3, 2011, online.
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Ondřej Dadejík, Jakub Stejskal (eds.), The Aesthetic Dimension of Visual
Culture (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2010).
Reviews
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“Peter Osborne: Anywhere or Not at All”, Estetika: The Central European
Journal of Aesthetics 51 (2014): 155–161.
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“Janet Wolff: The Aesthetics of Uncertainty”, Estetika: The Central European
Journal of Aesthetics 46 (2009): 221–229.
Awards, Honours
2013 Receiver of a Faculty of Arts, Charles University internal stipend for under-35
faculty members’ curriculum innovation (Innovation of the subject ‘Theories of the
Visual Arts’).
2009 Anglo-Czech Educational Fund year-long scholarship, Department of German,
Royal Holloway, University of London
Selected Presentations
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“Between Performance and Substitution: Saving the Art-Matrix Theory”,
European Society for Aesthetics Annual Conference, University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands, 29 – 31 May 2014 (refereed).
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“Art-Matrix Theory and Cognitive Distance”, Kent Postgraduate Conference in
Aesthetics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 25 – 26 January 2014
(refereed).
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Comment on Prof. Anthony Savile’s lecture “On Judgements of Taste and
Their Validity”, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, 28
November 2013 (invited).
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“Conceptual
Art,
Evaluative
Experience
and
Second
Nature”,
Vth
Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, Cartagena, Spain, July 2011
(refereed).
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“Ranciere’s
Aesthetic
Revolution
and
Its
Modernist
Residues”,
38 th
International Colloquium of the Slovenian Society of Aesthetics, Koper,
Slovenia, June 2010 (invited).
Teaching (Charles University, since 2008)
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Seminars (in English): Aesthetic Function in Context (Winter 2008/9), Art and
Society (Winter 2010/11), Aesthetic Modernism (Winter 2011/12), Aesthetics
and the Anthropology of Art (Winter 2013/14)
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Lectures (in Czech): Theories of the Visual Arts (2011/12; 2013/14), Semiotics
(Winter 2012/13), 20th-Century Aesthetics (Summer 2013)
Organization of Conferences
2008 – present Co-organizer of annual conferences of the Research Centre of the
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
June 2013 Head of the local organizing committee of the European Society for
Aesthetics annual conference, Prague, Charles University.
2008 – 2012 Co-organizer of the annual conferences of the European Society for
Aesthetics (programme committee).
2010 Co-organizer of the colloquium New Research in Aesthetics in the Czech
Republic and Austria in Pilsen, Czech Rep.
2009 Co-organizer of the international conference The Aesthetic Dimension of Visual
Culture, Prague, Czech Rep.
Research Projects, Grant Acquisitions
2012 – 2016 member of the Programme for the Development of Fields of Study at
Charles University, No. 13: Rationality in Human Sciences, sub-programme
“Knowledge and Normativity” (head researcher: Dr Vojtěch Kolman, Department of
Philosophy and Religious Studies).
2007 – 2010 member of a research group, grant project “The Aesthetic Dimension of
the Visualization of Culture” (Czech Science Foundation Grant GA ČR 408/07/0909)
Editorial Work
2008 – present Associate Editor, Estetika: The Central European Journal of
Aesthetics (international peer-reviewed journal [ERIH ranking: INT2])
2008 – present Associate Editor, Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny (Notebook
for art, theory and related zones, Czech peer-reviewed journal of art theory)
Service to the Profession
2013 – present Member of Charles University’s Faculty of Arts Senate Committee on
Science
2011 – present Member of the Executive Committee of the Czech Society for
Aesthetics.
2008 – 2012 Member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for
Aesthetics.
Language Skills
Czech – mother tongue.
English – fluent.
French – reading skills.
German – reading skills.
Russian – reading skills.