Department of Political Science

Dr. Kwame Asah-Asante (for the last time winter semester 2017/2018)

Dr Kwame Asah-Asante is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, which ranks among the best and largest universities in West Africa and in the entire Sub-Saharan Africa. Scientifically, he specializes in media, political communication and electoral behaviour, drawing on the rich experience of his previous journalistic profession.

He lectured at FF UHK for the first time in 2008 and since then he has been regularly returning with lectures focusing mainly on the political development in Ghana and West Africa. Dr Kwame Asah-Asante visits FF UHK thanks to the Erasmus International Credit Mobility funding.

 

Dr. Margarita Jiménez Badillo (winter semester 2017/2018)

Dr Margarita Jiménez Badillo, Doctor of Political Sciences and Sociologist, working at the International Institute of Political Sciences of the Autonomous University of Guerrero (Universidad autónoma de México) in Mexico, visited our Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové (UHK) in March 2017.

This Mexican expert, who has long been involved in the topics of political representation, electoral processes, the quality of democracy and violence, is also a member of the SNI-Conacyt National Research System and participates in the academic staff of Prodep-CA-148: Institutions, Democracy and Political Change within the research of parliamentary elites in Mexico (RELIPAMEX).

During her stay in Hradec Králové she offered students of the Philosophical Faculty the following courses: Legislative Representation in Latin America and Political Resistance: Democratic Institutions of Latin America.

 

Dr. Lars Berge (regularly since 2014/2015)

Dr Lars Berge is the director of the Dalarna University Centre for African Studies (DUCAS), Sweden's leading Africanist centre.

In his lectures, which he has been performing for students of FF UHK since 2014, he mainly focuses on the history of South Africa (where he was staying among others at the Archbishop´s and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu´s within his research) and Ethiopia.

Dr Berge visits FF UHK within the Erasmus cooperation.

 

Mgr. Fátima Zambrana Almaraz (winter semester 2018/2019)

She studied economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Mayor de San Simon University in Cochabamba - Bolivia. She has been a researcher at the Centro de Planificación y Gestión (CEPLAG - UMSS) for nearly three years. She also worked at the Instituto Socio Ambiental Bolivia.
She mainly focuses on developmental models such as extractivism - non-extractivism, studying energy transition and lithium policies in Latin America.

In the winter semester 2018/2019, she teaches the course "Integration of renewable energies in developing economies: Bolivia" at the Philosophical Faculty of the UHK.

 

Dr. Mauricio Barrera-Valencia (all academic year 2019/2020)

Dr. Barrera-Valencia held the courses “Neuropsychology: an Introduction”, “Writing and publishing in Spanish Scientific journals”, “Quantitative Research Methods: basic skills”, and “Etiology of Brain Injury in old people”. 

Dr. Barrera-Valencia is a full professor at the University of Antioquia (Colombia), visiting professor at Texas Tech University (USA), associated editor of Psychology Frontier Journal, and Revista de Psicología, CES Unversity. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the International Neuropsychology Society (INS). His research has been mainly focused to establish the effects of traumatic experience on the childhood brain, describing the emotional and cognitive domains involved in the traumatic response. At the same time, he deals with the relation between behavior and brain, trying to find out what it really could be localizable on the brain. 

He is author of more than 40 articles and chapters, and his work has been presented at international conferences and seminars. This year in collaboration with the Philosophical Faculty, he published an article entitled "Implicit processing of emotional words by children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An fMRI investigation”.

 

Dr. Liliana Calderon-Delgado (winter semester 2019/2020)

Dr. Calderón-Delgado taught affective Neuroscience and Child Neuropsychology courses at the Philosophical Faculty, attended by students of the International Erasmus mobility program. These courses dealt with the development of the brain and its relation with emotion and cognition through childhood. 

Dr. Calderón-Delgado is a Scientific Director of the Psychology Laboratory and Professor of the Psychological Faculty at the CES University in Colombia. She acquired her doctorate degree from Maimonides University in Argentina. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and the International Neuropsychology Society. Her research is mainly focused on the neuropsychological evaluation and rehabilitation, and the development of psychosocial interventions for youth victimized by several forms of violence in Colombia. At the same time, she is involved in an international collaboration project, trying to figure out, what is going on after a traumatic experience into the children and adolescent brain.

Her work has been published in several international journals. Significant publications include Implicit processing of emotional words by children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An fMRI investigation (published by IJCHP, 2020), and Cognitive profiles of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and depression in children and adolescents (published by IJCHP, 2017).

 

Dr. Justo Jesus Tovar Mendoza (winter semester 2020/2021)

Dr. Jesús Tovar is Full Professor at Autonomous University of Mexico State since 2011. He is the current president of Mexican Political Science Association (AMECIP) and Executive Member of the Board of Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores en Campañas Electorales (ALICE); and Coordinator of Latino American Network of Quality of Democracy Studies.

 Dr. Tovar and Professor Leonardo Morlino led an international project about que Quality of Democracy in Latin America during 2009 to 2014. This research project was funded by Idea International and covered 15 Latin American countries and more than 30 researchers from 20 universities in Europe and Latin America. As a result of this research, the book The quality of democracy in Latin America was published in 2017.

During his stay in Hradec Kralove, Prof. Tovar teaches the course: “Comparative Politcs in Latin America” at the Philosophical Faculty of the UHK. His research topic is the democratic waves in Latin America and also works the relationship between democracy and Covid 19 pandemia in these times.

 

As. professor Yuliya Krylova-Grek, PhD. (summer semester 2021/2022)

Prof. Yuliya Krylova-Grek teaches the psycholinguistic aspect of media communication at the Department of Political Science FF UHK. The course deals with media as a political tool of influence on the audience’s consciousness.

Prof. Yuliya Krylova-Grek acquired her doctorate degree from H.S. Kostyuk Institute of Psychology of the NAES of Ukraine. Her research interests are psycholinguistics, media communication, media and information literacy. She gives close attention to methods and tools that are used in media to influence consciousness and shape public opinion. At the same time, Professor deals with the humanitarian aspects of cybersecurity and considers how language is used by social engineers for personal data breach. Her latest research deals with the influence of the mass media on people’s consciousness and behaviour. She is the author of the methodology of psycholinguistic text analysis.

The methodology is used for media text analysis, identification and search for evidence of the existence of hidden hate speech, fake news, disinformation, and manipulation. The methodology was applied within an international project “Free voices: Promoting Independent Media in the Target Region”, featuring the Crimean Human Rights Group.

Professor Krylova-Grek has more than 20 years of teaching experience at Ukrainian universities. Now she both holds the position of an associate professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is affiliated with the H.S. Kostyuk Institute of Psychology of the NAES of Ukraine. She is the author of more than 30 publications on the aforementioned topics, including articles, conference proceedings, and monographs.

She is the director of NGO «The Institute of psycholinguistics research IPLR» and a member of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL).