Mgr. Václav Sixta (*1989)

Contact information (landline, work email address)

+420 221 008 435, vaclav.sixta@ustrcr.cz

Professional Specializations (research themes)

  • The Pedagogy of Contemporary History
  • Civic Education
  • The Museum as an Institution of Memory
  • Historical Biography

Education

  • 2015–present: doctoral studies at the Institute of Czech History, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University
  • 2012–2014: Master’s studies in Social History at the Institute of Economic and Social History, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University, Prague
  • 2009–2012: Bachelor’s in History, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University in Prague
  • 2012–2013: ERASMUS study at Jagellonian University Cracow, Faculty of History

Professional Experience

  • 9/2014–1/2017: Magdaléna, o. p. s., Center for Primary Prevention, Lecturer in primary prevention of risky behavior, deputy head of the Center of Primary Prevention
  • 1/2014–11/2014: Charles University Institute of History and Charles University Archive, creation and production of the exhibit “LISTOPADY k výročí 17. listopadu 1989”

Conferences

2015: Participation in the Memory in Southern and Western Slavic Countries conference in Warsaw, presentation: “Museum and Memory: Diverse Paths of Reception”

2017: Participation in the Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History conference, presentation: “Virtual museums and their publics”

2018: Participation on The 11th Congess of Czech Historians 13-15 September 2017 in Olomouc. Presentation: Contemporary history and Civic Education

Bibliography (selected)

Studies and chapters in collections

  • SIXTA,Václav, Zápletky Václava Havla, Historie – otázky – problémy, 1/2016, 159 – 170.
  • SIXTA, Václav, Minulost a výchova k občanství v učebnicích (The Past and Civic Education in Textbooks), Historie - otázky – problémy, 1/2018, s. 73 – 88.