Courses by Visiting Professors Offer a Wide Range of Specialized Topics
From colonialism and migration to the history of friendship—complemented by lectures on various branches of philosophy. This is the range of courses offered in the summer semester by visiting professors who will be teaching over the coming months at four departments of the Faculty of Arts at UHK. Their classes are open to both Czech and international students.
Dr. Andrew Lamb, Department of Archaeology - Great Britain
Dr. Andrew William Lamb, who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Leicester and is a member of several international scholarly societies, focuses, among other things, on the Iron Age. He has returned to the Department of Archaeology for the second time and is currently teaching the course The Archaeology of Migrations.
Dr. Peter Tuck, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences - Great Britain
Another scholar from the United Kingdom is Peter Nicholas Tuck, Ph.D., who completed his doctoral studies at the University of Pardubice, where he focused primarily on research and teaching in metaethics and descriptive ethics. At the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, he has expanded the curriculum with a course titled The Branches of Ethics, which offers students insight into four types of contemporary ethical research.
Dr. Zala Pavšič , Institute of History - Slovenia
Each semester, the Institute of History also hosts international experts. This time, they welcomed Dr. Zala Pavšič, a Slovenian historian specializing in the contemporary history of Southeastern Europe. For students of the Faculty of Arts at UHK, she has prepared a course entitled The History of Friendship: Intimacy, Loyalty, and Love Across Time.
Dr. Leevina Morgana Iyer, Department of Political Science - South African Republic
The group of four visiting professors is completed by Dr. Leevina Morgana Iyer, who has come to Hradec Králové from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Her research interests include decoloniality, postcolonial identity, and interdisciplinarity. As part of the Department of Political Science’s curriculum, she teaches the course Europe and the Global South in the Age of Empire.
