Paul Bauer, M.A., Ph.D.
Paul Bauer’s research interests cover the geography of borders and national identities, the social issues of commemorative policies in Central Europe, and the question of transdisciplinarity in social sciences. He is currently working on the socio-geographic aspects of conflictual and shared heritages in Central Europe with a special focus on the political and scientific issues of the musealization of violent pasts and its role in the (re)framing of post-war victim/perpetrator relations.
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Cultural Geography, Ph.D., 2010 Contemporary History and Political Science, Ph.D., 2014
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Master of History, 2005
Steering Committee of the CEFRES Research Platform in Prague (Charles University, Czech Academy of Sciences, CNRS)
Center for Western European Studies, IMS FSV UK
Research Group (GDR) “Knowledge of Central Europe”, Paris IV Sorbonne, Paris.
Associate researcher at the Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European studies (Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre européen - CERCEC), UMR EHESS-CNRS 8083.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Studia Territorialia.
2014-2016: Co-applicant of the research project: The role of collective memory in transatlantic relations after 1990, GACR, responsible Kryštof Kozák, Hosted at the IMS FSV UK.
2012-2014: Research project Social space: a transdisciplinary issue of knowledge in the area studies, IMS FSV UK, Postdoctoral program for young foreign researchers, Financed by the Charles University.
2012-2014: Co-applicant of the research project Territory and social memory in Bohemian borderlands after 1990: The post socialist management of tangible and intangible traces of the German past; (GACR) P404/12/P927, hosted at the ISS FSV UK.
2009-2010: Coordinator of the research program “scientific discourses and national minorities in Central Europe” financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, University of Strasbourg, CEFRES Prague, Faculty of Social Science of University ELTE Budapest.
2009-2012: ANR (National Research Agency, France), member of the research programme ALDETEC: „Action locale et développement territorial en Europe centrale", (Local Policy and Territorial Development in Central Europe)
June 2016: “Making Transatlantic Shared Memories?: War Commemorations in France, 2014-2015”
Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), University
of San Diego in San Diego, CA.
May 2014: „The musealization of the German heritage in Germany “, Musealization of violence in Central and Eastern Europe", University Paris IV Sorbonne and EHESS, Paris, France.
April 2014: “Remembering the Germans in the Czech lands: The memorial functions of the cultural space at the former iron curtain”, Association for the Study of nationalities (ASN), Harriman Institute,
Columbia University, New York City.
November 2013: « Paysage culturel, patrimoine et passé allemand dans les pays tchèques après 1989, », journées d’étude internationales Patrimonialisation du passé allemand en Europe centrale
Enjeux de (re)présentation, Université de Strasbourg.
October 2013: “A „Stone“ in Nový Bor: An Opened Plebiscite About the Collective Memory”, international konference, Die Transformation der Erinnerung nach 1945 Stadt, Migration und
Erinnerung im europäischen Vergleich, Collegium Carolinum (Munich), University Pavol Jozef
Šafárik, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ERNS), Slovakia.
Books and journals thematic issues
Paul Bauer and Barbora Spalová, (eds.), Passés et sociétés en Europe centrale, une ethnographie du savoir sur le « passé allemand », Revue d’étude comparatives Est-Ouest, n°1-2, forthcoming.
Bauer P., Jacques C., Plesiat M., Zombory M., (eds), (2011), Les minorities nationales en Europe central: démocratie, discours scientifiques, enjeux de représentation [National Minorities in Central Europe after 1990: Democracy, Scientific discourses, Issues of representation], Cefres press, Prague. 251 p.
Bauer P. & Darley M. (eds.), 2007, Borders of the European Union: Strategies of Crossing and Resistance, Dokořan, Prague. 289 p.
Articles in books and peer-reviewed journals
Bauer P. (2016), « Migrations forcées d’après guerre et héritage culturel : les musées des Allemands sudètes », Bechtel Delphine & Jurgenson Luba, muséographie des violences en Europe centrale et exURSS, Paris : éditions Kimé.
Bauer P. and Spalová B., (2016), „Introduction“ in Paul Bauer and Barbora Spalová, (eds.), Passés et sociétés en Europe centrale, une ethnographie du savoir sur le « passé allemand », Revue d’étude comparatives Est-Ouest, n°1-2.
Bauer P., (2015) « Muséaliser le passé allemand en Bohême: enjeux de représentation géographique et sociétale », in Christian Jacques & Pascal Fagot (sous la dir.), La patrimonialisation du « passé allemand » en Europe centrale, Revue d’Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande, n°2 Tome 47, pp. 423-437.
Bauer P., (2014), “Territory and memory in Bohemia : Post-socialist handling of the German past along the Czech-German Border”, Annals of French Geographers http://www.cairn.info.gate3.inist.fr/
Bauer P., (2012), « Territoire et mémoire en Bohême: la gestion post socialiste du passé allemand le long de la frontière germano-tchèque » [Territory and memory : the post socialist management of the german past at the Czech German Border], Annales de Géographie. 4/2012 (n° 686), p. 367-386.
Bauer P., (2012), « Culture espace et mémoire le long de la frontière de l’ancien rideau de fer » [Culture, space and memory at the former Iron Curtain] Revue d’Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande, Tome 44, n°2, 199-218.
Bauer P., (2012), “The Rusin revival in Slovakia or how to create a nationality at the margin of Europe”, Visegrad Insight, vol.2, pp. 63-66.
Bauer P., (2011), « Resacralisation de l’espace dans les régions frontalières tchèques ? Enjeux de mémoire à la frontière germano-tchèque » [Resacralization at Bohemian borderlands after 1990? Memorial issues at Czech German Border], Cahiers du Cefres, Prague.
Bauer P., (2011), « Discours scientifiques et nationalité ruthène en Slovaquie après 1990 »[Scientific discourses and Ruthenian nationality in Slovakia after 1990], in Bauer P., Jacques C., Plesiat M., Zombory M., (Eds), Les minorités nationales en Europe central: démocratie, discours scientifiques, enjeux de représentation, [National Minorities in Central Europe after 1990: Democracy, Scientific discourses, Issues of representation] Cefres Press, Dorkořan, Prague, pp. 205-229.
Bauer P.,(2008), « Enjeux mémoriels et développement local dans les régions frontalières de Bohême » [Memorial Issues and Local Development in Bohemian Borderlands] in Béatrice von HIRSCHHAUSEN et Guillaume LACQUEMENT (eds) : Le développement local en Europe centrale, Revue d’Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest. Vol. 39, n°4 pp. 165-184.
Bauer P., 2006. “Revisiting Territorial memories in North Bohemian Borderlands”, in Anthropology at Borders: Power, Culture, Memories. Barbora Spalová, Jakub Grygar (eds.). Praha: FHS UK, MKC Praha, pp. 39-46.
