Email: lucie.valentinova@upce.cz
Telefon: +420 608 619 328
Kancelář: 10 018, budova G
Konzultační hodiny / Office hours: osobně v pondělí 14.30-16.00 (po předchozí dohodě emailem, místnost G-10018); nebo online prostředictvím ms teams úterý / čtvrtek.
web: https://upce.academia.edu/LucieValentinova
Odborné zaměření / Research interests
- religionistické teorie; vizuální kultura / theories of religious studies; visual culture
- mínójská kréta, řecko archaické doby / minoan crete; archaic greece
Currently
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of Pardubice (since 2021, since 2020 lecturer)
- Head of Religious Studies (Deputy head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, since 2020)
- Principal investigator Minoan Frescoes and the Archaic Greek Cosmos: Visual Imagery in Early Greek Thought, Czech Science Foundation, with Vojtěch Hladký and František R. Václavík (2026–2028)
Education
- 2016–2021 Ph.D., Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Thesis and reports: The Shield of Achilles: Minoan Representational Conventions in Early Greek Poetry and Thought.
- 2005–2008 Mgr. (M.A.), Religious Studies. Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Thesis: The Boundaries of the Self in Attic Tragedy (in Czech).
- 2000–2003 Bc. (B.A.), Liberal Arts and Humanities, Charles University. Thesis: Heraclitus, fragment B 125 DK (in Czech).
Outside academia positions
- 2016–2018 Consortium of Migrant-Assisting Organizations in the Czech Republic
- 2013–2016 Science and Research Department, Centre for Doctoral Studies, The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- 2009–2013 ExOriente: Academic Publisher, translator, editor
- 2009–2012 Maternal leave
- 2005–2007 Head of the Library, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Charles University in Prague
Research stays abroad
- Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete; 2018–2025, 11 months in total
- IKY scholarship (Greek Government), University of Crete; 10/2023; 09/2007–02/2008, 6 months in total
Professional membership and activities
- Czech Association for the Study of Religions, Secretary, member of the Executive Committee
Publications
- [in preparation] Seeing the Divine in Minoan Crete: The Monotheism-Polytheism Debate and the Visual Ontology of Apparitions.
Articles, book chapters
- „Miniature Crowd Frescoes from Knossos: A Topography of the World Seen“, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 35/2, 2022: 169–197.https://doi.org/10.1558/jma.25521
- "Mají brazilští domorodci právo zabíjet své děti? Lidská práva, kulturní relativismus a 'jinakost' v religionistice" (Do Brazilian Indigenous Peoples Have the Right to Kill their Children? Human Rights, Cultural Relativism, and the ‚Otherness‘ in Religious Studies), Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 32/1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5817/Rel2024-37602
- „The 'Seated Woman' of the Adorants Fresco from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera: Female Initiation or Non-Narrative Absorption?“ In: U. Günkel-Maschek, C. Murphy, F. Blakolmer, and D. Panagiotopoulos (eds.), Gesture, Stance, and Movement. Communicating Bodies in the Aegean Bronze Age. Heidelberg: Propylaeum eBooks, 2024, p. 119-127. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1309.c19822
- "Continuity and discontinuity of Minoan visual representations in Homeric Epics: The spirals of Okeanos." Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Cretan Studies (Agios Nikolaos, 5-9 October 2022), p. 1-13, ISBN: 978-960-9480-55-0.
Book translations into Czech
- Stephenson, B., Stručný úvod do teorie rituálu, Praha: ExOriente, 2022 / Ritual: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Segal, R., Stručný úvod do teorie mýtu, Praha: ExOriente, 2017 / Myth: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Pals, D. L., Osm teorií náboženství, Praha: ExOriente, 2015 / Eight Theories of Religion, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Presentations
- "Odysseův zelený strach, Médeiny zelenavé slzy: barva v mnohosmyslové obraznosti řeckého světa," XIII. Pardubické bienále: Od krásy k užitku aneb zelená a zeleň na všechny pády, Pardubice 24.–25. 4. 2025.
- "Úskalí interpretací mínójské freskové malby. Sekundární narativizace jako způsob kulturní apropriace," Ústav české literatury a komparatistiky FF UK, 2024.
- Invited panel member, "About the past and future of religious studies in Czechia: Panel discussion," 30th Anniversary of the Founding of Religious Studies in Masaryk University (Brno, Czechia, in Czech), 15. 11. 2023. Report for Religio: A Journal for the Study of Religions 32/1, 2024, 225.–228.
- „Continuity and Discontinuity of Minoan Representational Conventions in the Homeric Epics", 13th International Congress of Cretan Studies, Agios Nikolaos, 5.–9. 10. 2022.
- "Non-narrative rendering of individual identity: the diagramming of femaleness in the Adorants fresco", Gesture - Stance - Movement: Communication Bodies in the Aegean Bronze Age, 11.–13.11. 2021 [online conference; poster].
Grants and project activities
- 2026–2028 Minoan Frescoes and the Archaic Greek Cosmos: Visual Imagery in Early Greek Thought, Czech Science Foundation, principal investigator
- 2025, Research and development of tools for detecting and mitigating epistemic injustice in AI systems for identifying misleading information, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, team member.
- 2024, „Podpora Pregraduální Přípravy Budoucích Učitelek a Učitelů, Oblast: výuka náboženství a religionistiky“, OP JAK (Disciplinary competence framework for teachers of religion, Programme Johannes Amos Comenius), professional collaborator.
- 2014–2016, IPN KREDO. Quality, Relevance, Efficiency, Diversification and Openness of Higher Education in the Czech Republic (Preparation of Higher Education Strategy to 2020 in relation to Europe 2020 and the new Act on Higher Education), professional collaborator.
Membership in evaluation boards
- 2024–2025, Member of the Expert Commission, Internal Evaluation Board, University of Pardubice
Teaching
Courses taught regularly
- Teorie rituálu; Výzkum vizuálních pramenů: náboženství a vizuální kultura; Praktikum odborné četby 1-6; Jak zkoumat starověké kultury (s Františkem Válkem); Seminář vědecké práce; Seminář k bakalářské práci
Courses taught formerly (regularly)
- Teorie mýtu; Jak zkoumat náboženství I, II; Náboženské tradice minulosti; Náboženské tradice současnosti; Písemná práce; Odborný překlad; Akademické dovednosti; Seminář katedry filosofie a religionsitiky
Courses tought formerly at Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
- Technika religionsitické práce I, II; Náboženství a společnosti mínójské Kréty: interpretace vizuálních reprezentací