Mgr. Olga Čejková

Email: olga.cejkova@upce.cz
Telephone: +420 776 874 424
Office room: 10 018, budova G
Office hours: středa 12:00-13:00 (po předchozí dohodě e-mailem)

Research interests:

  • anthropology and sociology of religion
  • fieldwork research
  • religioust elements in czech hunting and game keeping tradition 
  • religion and art
  • migration studies
  • intercultural librarianship

Professional experience: 

2024 – today Assistant, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice
2022 – today Head of Department for Marketing and Culture-Education Services, Jiří Mahen Library Brno
2020 – 2022 Project manager, Jiří Mahen Library Brno
2018 – today Art curator, Schrott Gallery Brno
2019 – 2020 Evaluation researcher in social services, IQ Roma servis, z.s.  
2019 – 7/2020 Expert for the Integration of foreigners in South Moravian Region, Association for Integration and Migration Prague
2016 – 2018 Researcher in the field of social inclusion, social services and integration of foreigners, SocioFactor, s.r.o. Ostrava
11/2013 – 6/2016 Editor-in-chief, Sacra Journal, Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno

Education: 

2020 – today Ph.D. study, Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, research topic: Religioust elements in Czech hunting and game keeping tradition
2017 – 2019 M.A. Study of Religions, Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno, thesis: Milk controversy: Eating regulations in the Hare Krishna movement
2008 – 2013 B.A. Study of Religions and History of Arts, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Brno

Publications:

Conferences:

  • 2024, Myslivost: lov mezi tradicí a náboženstvím / Czech hunting and game-keeping tradition: between tradition and religion, Holešov: Seminář Nové výzvy myslivosti, Lesnicko dřevařský vzdělávací institut.
  • 2023, Lovecká magie v moderní myslivosti / Hunting magic in the modern hunting and game-keeping tradition, Brno: Šťastná hodina VII, Knihovna Jiřího Mahena.
  • 2017, Nakládání s jídlem v hnutí Haré Kršna: jednání jako obraz sociálního řádu / Food in the Hare Krishna movement: acting as an image of social order, Olomouc: Sociologická konference, Palackého univerzita.
  • 2017, Spor o mléko: způsoby regulace stravování jako důvod k vnitřním konfliktům v rámci hnutí Haré Kršna v České republice / Milk controversies: ways of regulating eating as a reason for internal conflicts within the Hare Krishna movement in the Czech Republic, Olomouc: Palackého Univerzita.
  • 2017, Opouštění asketické praxe a jeho motivace zachycené ve výpovědích současných jogínů a mystiků / Abandoning ascetic practice and its motivation captured in the statements of contemporary yogis and mystics, Praha: Gnose a mystická cesta k Bohu, Karlova univerzita.

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