Mgr. et Mgr. František Válek

 

Email: frantisek.valek@upce.cz 

Telephone: + 420 773 089 671

Office hours: Wednesday 13:00-14:00, last Wednesdays od each month 11:00-12:00 (and via email)

 

Research interests

Religions of the Ancient Near East, Anthropology of Religion, Digital Humanities

 

Professional experience 

2023–present – Researcher, Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

2022–present – Assistant, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice

2020–2023 – Junior Researcher and Data Analyst in Digital Humanities, National Library of the Czech Republic (Projects DL4DH and DigiLab)

2020–2023 – Grant Advisor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

2019–2023 – Member of the editorial board of the student religious studies journal Sacra

2019–2020Assistant coordinator of Salesian camps, Salesian Youth Centre, České Budějovice

2016–2019 – Student assistant, Library of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

 

Education

2019–present – Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

2019–2022 – M.A. in Egypt and the Ancient Near East, specialisation Assyriology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University 

2017–2019 – M.A. in Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

2013–2017 – B.A. in Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

 

Grants

2023–2025 – team member; Archaeology of Texts. Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in the Ancient Near East (GAČR 23-05181S, principal investigator doc. PhDr. Jana Mynářová, Ph.D.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University

 

Publications

2023 Válek, F. a Hajič J. Jr., "Problems of Authorship Classification: Recognising the Author Style or a Book?" Digital Humanities Quarterly 17/4.

2023 „Cultural Transfer in Light of Seth Baˁal and Their Relationship.“ In Robert Rollinger, Irene Madreiter, Martin Lang and Cinzia Pappi (eds.), The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16-20, 2018 (Melammu Symposia 12), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023, 443–458.

2022 František V., Mokrý M. et al. (eds.) Sacra 2022 (20/1): Bohové, démoni a lidé východního Středomoří ve starověku.

2021 „Foreigners and Religion at Ugarit.“ Studia Orientalia Electronica 9/2, 47–66.

 

Reviews

2021 „Tugendhaft, Aaron. The idols of ISIS: from Assyria to the Internet.“ Religio 2021 (29/1), 98–100.

2020 „Yelle, R. A. (2019). Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion.“ Sacra 2020 (18/1), 54–55.

2018 „Sedláček, T. (2017). Doklady raného náboženstva Churritov v starovekom Urkeši.“ Sacra 2018 (16/2), 67–70.

 

Other results

2023 Válek, F. 3D Reconstruction of the Temple of Baˁal at Ugarit. [online: https://github.com/valekfrantisek/DigitalReligion-Ugarit/tree/main/3DTempleOfBaal ]

2022 Válek, F.; Vozár, Z.; Zbíral, D.; Bežová, M.; Hrzinová, J.; Novák, D.; Religionistická mapa literárních významů: Citace Bible v prvorepublikovém tisku [online; https://dl4dh.nkp.cz/]

2022 Lehečka, B., Novák, D., Kersch, F., Hladík, R., Bíšková, J., Sekyrová, K., Válek, F., Vozár, Z., Bodnár, N., Sekan, P., Bežová, M., Žabička, P., Lhoták, M., Straňák, P. 2022 Metodika přípravy dat z digitálních knihoven pro využití v digitálních humanitních vědách. Knihovna AV ČR, v. v. i., Certifikovaná metodika DG20P02OVV002.

2022 Válek, F., Hajič, J., Holub, M., Szromek, J., & Vozár, Z. AuthorGuesserhttps://github.com/DigilabNLCR/AuthorGuesser

2022 Vozár, Z., Holomek, J., Holub, M., Hajič, J., Válek, F., Charypar, M., Szromek, J., Habětínová, P., Skoupá, I., & Bilwachs, M. AuthorshipAttributionLinehttps://github.com/DigilabNLCR/AuthorshipAttributionLine

2021– Near Eastern Royal Epics, The NERE Project [http://oracc.org/nere/]