ALICE KOUBOVÁ

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Deputy Head of Department

Alice Koubová is a senior researcher, deputy head, leader of the Systems of Resilience working group in Systemic Risk Institute, and co-investigator of the HORIZON INSPIRE project. Her research focuses on resilience, political psychology, performance, ethics, and artistic research. She has been teaching at art schools in the Czech Republic and abroad for many years. From 2021 to 2024 she was Vice Dean for Science and Research at the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts, and from 2021 to 2022 she was Ethical Mediator at the same institution. She is the author and editor of nine monographs, dozens of academic articles and a large number of contributions to cultural magazines, public media and newspapers (Deník N, Tvar, Host, Salón Práva, Heroine, Alarm). She regularly constributes to the discussions in public space, collaborates with artistic and cultural institutions and is the author of several theatre performances. She is also the recipient of the President of the Academy of Sciences Award for Popularisation, two awards for popularisation of philosophy at the Philosophical Institute CAS, the Otto Wichterle Prize, the Libellus Primus Award and the Josef Hlávka Award.

 Curriculum vitae here.

  

 


Research Interests:

Resilience, Political Psychology, Relational Ethics, Performativity and Performance, Phenomenology of corporeality
 

Selected publications:

  1. Koubová, Alice, Self-Identity and Powerlessness. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
  2. Urban, Petr, & Koubová, Alice. Beyond the Individualistic Paradigm of the Self with Donald Winnicott and Carol Gilligan, HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies, 12(36), 170-188, 2019.
  3. Koubová Alice, Urban Petr, Maclean Malcolm, Russell, Wendy (Eds) Play and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives, London and New York: Routledge, 2021.
  4. Koubová Alice, Baronová Barbora, Odolná společnost. Mezi bezmocí a tyranií. Wo-men, 2023.
  5. Koubová, Alice, Rokem, Freddie, Ludic Turns: Challenging the Tragedy/Comedy Dichotomy. In (Mosse R.; Street A. eds) Genre Transgressions. Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy, London and New York: Routledge, 128-146, 2024.
  6. Koubová, Alice, Ontology of Play and the Ambivalence of Resilience. In (Stakland, S. ed) The Phenomenology of Play. Encountering Eugen Fink. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 137-146, 2024.
  7. A. Kaim, S. Kimhi, M. Siman-Tov, D. Bankauskaite, M. Baran, T. Baran, A. Cosciug, Y. Eshel, S. Dumbadze, M. Gabashvili, G. Jiglau, K. Kaniasty, A. Koubova, H. Marciano, M. Renata, M. Matichescu, S. Naomi, D. Teperik, J. Sukhashvili, B. Adini, From compassion to controversy: Unraveling the impact of societal resilience on the tapestry of attitudes towards Ukrainian refugees, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104326.
  8. Koubová, A., Kimhi, S. Prediction of individual, community and societal resilience in the Czech Republic compared to Slovakia during the war in Ukraine. BMC Public Health 24, 583, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18075-y
  9. Koubová, A.: Which Resilience? Thinking Democratic Subjectivity in the Polycrisis, FILOZOFIA, 79, No 10, 1129 – 1143, 2024.

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