Ing. Ivo Plšek, M.A., M. P. P., Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Person

• Ing. Ivo Plšek, M.A.,M.P.P, Ph.D.
  

Department

• Department of Japanese Studies
  Masaryk University
  Faculty of Arts
  Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno
  

Employment - Position

• Assistant Professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley (political science)
  M.A. University of California at Berkeley (political science)
  M.P.P. KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Seoul (international relations and development)
  Ing. University of Economics, Prague (international relations and diplomacy)
  B.c. University of Economics, Prague (economics)
  (LL.M. incomplete) Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague (3 years of study)

Employment

• Masaryk University, Department of Japanese Studies (2017 - present)
  

Other professional stays:

• Nanzan University, Nagoya - Visiting professor (Fall 2021)
  The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science - The Japan Foundation Fellow (2011 – 2012 and in 2017)
  Johns Hopkins University - American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Harry & Helen Gray/AICGS Reconciliation Fellow (2016)
  Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics, Tokyo - The JSPS Fellow and Waseda Anniversary Junior Visiting Research Fellow (2013 - 2015)
  Free University of Berlin, Friedrich Meinecke Institute DAAD Research Fellow (2012 - 2013)
  

Teaching

• War, Memory and Politics in East Asia
  Contemporary Japan: Selected Topics in Politics, History and Culture
  History and Politics of Modern East Asia
  World War II in Japanese Cinema
  Japan in 21st Century: From the Bubble Burst to Tokyo Olympics
  Japonská společnost (Japanese Society)
  Výzkumné metody a psaní vědecké práce (Research Methods)
  

Research areas

• Comparative politics and international relations (with focus on East Asia)
  Modern Japan (society, culture and politics)
  Memory Studies
  Japanese postwar cinema
  

Languages (fluent)

• Czech
  English
  German
  Japanese
  

2022/02/10