Zora Hesová

Domaine(s) d’activités: Balkans contemporains, Islam : histoire, arts et anthropologie

Liens vers page professionnelle :

https://upol.ff.cuni.cz/en/zora-hesova/

https://opf.flu.cas.cz/en/10-lide/345-zora-hesova-en

Zora Hesová is assistant professor at the Department for Political Science at Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in Prague, and a research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. She works on Islamic thought and modern Islam in Europe, and, more generally, on religion in contemporary politics, with a particular focus on Central and South-Eastern Europe. She led research projects on culture wars in Central Europe and on the consequences of societal polarisation. She has published and edited books on the philosophy of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and on Abdolkarim Soroush, and on “Central European Culture Wars” and research articles on contemporary Islam in Bosnia, Central European political conflicts, and Islamophobia.

Zora Hesová est maîtresse de conférences au Département de sciences politiques de la Faculté des lettres de l'Université Charles à Prague et chercheuse à l'Institut de philosophie de l'Académie tchèque des sciences. Elle travaille sur la traditoin intellectuelle islamique et l'islam moderne en Europe et, plus généralement, sur la religion dans la politique contemporaine, avec une attention particulière pour l'Europe centrale et du Sud-Est. Elle a dirigé des projets de recherche sur les guerres culturelles en Europe centrale et sur les conséquences de la polarisation sociétale. Elle a publié et édité des ouvrages sur la philosophie d'Abu Hamid al-Ghazali et sur Abdolkarim Soroush, ainsi que sur les "Guerres culturelles en Europe centrale", et des articles de recherche sur l'islam contemporain en Bosnie, les conflits politiques en Europe centrale et l'islamophobie.

Email: Zora.Hesova@ff.cuni.cz

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7760-7941

Intérêts scientifiques / Scientific interests

Contemporary Islam, Islam in the Balkans, religion in politics, politics of Central Europe and the Balkans

Islam contemporain, Islam dans les Balkans, religion et politique, politique en Europe centrale et dnas les Balkans

Champs / Research fields

Political science, political theory, area studies (Balkan), Islam studies

Enseignements / Teaching activities

BA,  MA and PhD courses

Supervision of doctoral theses enc ours:

J. Gajić: Education of Muslim Girls in Socialism and Postsocialist Transformation

Tadeáš Vala: Interreligious relations on the Iberian Peninsula during the Reconquista period

E. Svobodová: New secularism

Publications

Books

BARŠA, P., HESOVÁ, Z., SLAČÁLEK, O. (eds.) Central European Culture Wars: Beyond Post-Communism and Populism, Prague: Faculty of Arts Press, 2021

HESOVÁ, Zora (ed.): Abdolkarím Sorúš. Náboženství, modernita a sekularismus v současné íránské filosofii [Abdolkarim Soroush. Religion, modernity and secularism in contemporary Iranian philosophy]; Prague: Filosofia, 2021

NĚMEC, Damián and HESOVÁ, Zora. Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Czech Republic, Leiden: Brill 2021

HESOVÁ, Zora, Ghazálího Výklenek světel a význam osvícení v islámské filosofii, [Al-Ghazāli’s Niche of Lights and the Meaning of Illumination in Islamic Philosophy, with a translation of Mishkāt al-Anwār], Prague: Academia, 2012

Articles

HESOVÁ, Zora. Islamophobia in Czech Republic: National Report 2021, in: Enes Bayraklı & Farid Hafez, European Islamophobia Report 2021, Istanbul, SETA, 2022

HESOVÁ, Zora. Wahhabis and Salafis, daije and alimi: Bosnian neo-Salafis between contestation and integration, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 4/2021, pp. 593-614, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2021.1994209

HESOVÁ, Zora. Three Types of Culture Wars and the Populist Strategies in Central Europe, Czech Journal of political science, Vol. 28, Nr. 2, 2021, pp. 115-135.

HESOVÁ, Zora. New politics of morality in Central and Eastern Europe: actors, discourse, and context, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2021, pp. 59-77.

HESOVÁ, Zora. Islamophobia in Czech Republic: National Report 2020, in: Enes Bayraklı & Farid Hafez, European Islamophobia Report 2020, Istanbul, SETA, 2021

HESOVÁ, Z., RAŠIDAGIĆ, E. K., The Changing Role of the Traditional Islamic Organization: Three Challenges to the Restored Bosnian Islamic Community, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2021, Vol. 40, Nr. , 2020., pp. 707-724.

RAŠIDAGIĆ, E. K, HESOVÁ, Z. Development of Turkish Foreign Policy Towards the Western Balkans with Focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian International Relations Review, XXVI:86 2020, pp. 96-129.

HESOVÁ, Zora, „Islamische Tradition“: Fragen an das bosnische Modell, Islam und Ghristlicher glaube. Zeitschrift des Instituts für Islamfragen (IfI), 2019

HESOVÁ, Zora. Secular, Islamic or Muslim feminism? The places of religion in women’s perspectives on equality in Islam, Gender and Research, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2019, pp. 26-46.

HESOVÁ, Zora. „Islamic tradition”: questioning the Bosnian model, Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe, Vol 29, Nr. 5, 2019, pp. 128-139.

Book chapters (in English):

HESOVÁ, Zora. Culture Wars in Central Europe: A Different Playbook with Evolving Actors, in Kováts, Eszter (ed.): Culture Wars in Europe, Washington DC: George Washington University, 2023

HESOVÁ, Zora. Culture Wars Are a Dead End. In: Tungul, L. (ed.). Shaping EU Presidency Priorities: National Challenges in a European Context A Path Forward Under New Political Realities, 2022

HESOVÁ, Zora. Restoring the house rules: governing religious pluralism in Bosnia-Herzegovina after 1990, in: Račius, E., Yemelianova, G. (eds.), Muslims of post-Communist Eurasia, Routledge 2022

HESOVÁ, Zora. Towards secularity: Autonomy and modernisation of Bosnian Islamic institutions under Austro-Hungarian administration, in : F. Šístek (ed.), Central Europe and Balkan Muslims: Relations and Representations, New York, Berghahn 2021.

HESOVÁ, Zora. The Paradoxes of a Return of Religion to Public Debates and Political Discourses, in: Blagojević, M., Todorović, D.(eds.), Traditional and non-traditional religiosity, Belgrade: Institute of Social Sciences, 2019.

HESOVÁ, Zora. Re-imagining the Balkans: The Other Side of a Periphery, in: Hudson, R., Dodovski, I., Amdeva, M.: Europe and the Balkans, AUC: Skopje 2018.

HESOVÁ, Zora. Human Rights and Islam: Constitutional Debates in Egypt and Tunisia, in: Petr Drulák, Š. Moravcová (eds.): Non-Western Reflection on Politics, Peter Lang 2013.

Projets collectifs / Collective projects

2023–2028 Senior Researcher at CoRe - Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague (CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004595)

2022–2024 Principal investigator of OliPol (Ochrana lidských práv v polarizovaném kontextu). Norway Funds

2017–2022 Senior Researcher at KREAS. Creativity and adaptability as conditions for the success of Europe in an interrelated world, European Regional Development Fund (No CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16 _019/0000734).

2018–2020 Czech Science Foundation Grant: Culture wars and national trajectories of secularization in Central Europe (co-investigator)

Autres activités scientifiques / Other scientific activities

Membre de comités de rédaction / Member of advisory board :

Slovanský přehled / Slavic Review, journal published by the Czech Academy of Sciences

https://www.hiu.cas.cz/periodika/slovansky-prehled

Croatian International Relations Review

https://cirrj.org/editorial-team/

Journal of Balkan Studies

www.balkanjournal.org

Animation de groupes / Leadership of research groups

PRAKULT - Prague Culture Wars Research Group (together with Ondřej Slačálek)

Balkanstudies at the Charles University (together with Prof. Kateřina Králová)