Dr Jan Culik

Senior Lecturer in Czech (School of Modern Languages & Cultures)

telephone: 01413305588
email: Jan.Culik@glasgow.ac.uk

R325 Level 3, Slavonic Studies, Hetherington Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Research interests

Award:

"Dr Jan Culik and Dr Mirna Solic, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, received the International KE Commendation for their partnership with the Human Rights Watch. The project uncovered the abuse and intimidation of Syrian refugees which was extensively reported in the European media and within 48hr hours, led to the Czech government reversing its policy of marking refuges with numbers and detaining them in camps at the refugees expense. Whilst the refugee crisis is far from resolved, this project has made an significant difference to large number of individuals and families."

6th October 2016

More information here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_488711_en.html

Research interests:

Emigré Czech Literature 1971- 1989, Contemporary Czech Literature, Czech Cinema, in particular since 1989, contemporary Czech media, society and politics.

Recent book publications:

Čulík, J. (2013, second edition 2014) A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film. Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, UK. ISBN 9781845195519
Čulík, J. (ed.) (2013) National Mythologies in Central European TV Series: How J.R. Won the Cold War. Sussex Academic Press, Eastbourne, UK. ISBN 9781845195960

Editorial work:

Jan Čulík edited Professor Martin Štoll´s monograph Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia, Bloomsbury, New York, 2018. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/television-and-totalitarianism-in-czechoslovakia-9781501324758/
in cooperation with Professor Jiří Holý of Charles University, holder of the European 2008 Humboldt Prize for Academic Excellence, JČ co-translated, edited and published Holý´s Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature since 1945 (2007) – first English language history of Czech Literature published in 35 years.
Jan Čulík is Editor of the Czech entries on 20th century literature for three volumes of the American Dictionary of Literary Biography, New York, London and Boston (vols. 215, 232, 353).
Jan Čulík provided editorial assistance to Richard Askwith, award-winning journalist from the Independent newspaper, for his book Today we Die a Little: The Rise and Fall of Emil Zátopek, the Olympic Legend. Yellow Jersey, Press, London, 2016, ISBN 978-0-224-10034-2

A member of the Glasgow University Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies.

Jan Čulík's endorsements of recent Slavonic monographs by Professor Martin Štoll (see above) and Karen von Kunes (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498510806/Milan-Kundera's-Fiction-A-Critical-Approach-to-Existential-Betrayals) have been published on the covers of these publications and on their websites.

Jan Čulík´s article on Czech President Miloš Zeman, Meet Miloš Zeman – the Czech Republic’s answer to Donald Trump, published in The Conversation on 9th December, 2015, has been quoted and referenced in Patrick Kingsley´s high profile publication The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe´s Refugee Crisis. Guardian Books and Faber and Faber, Ltd., London 2016, ISBN 9-78183-351053

Jan Čulík´s monograph chapter on Václav Havel, published in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 232, pp. 110-130, and his critical assessment of Václav Havel´s film "Leaving" (2011) , published in Britské listy, are referenced in Kieran William´s monograph Critical Lives: Václav Havel (Reaktion Books, London, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78023-665-0) as are several other articles on Václav Havel from Britské listy, a Czech language cultural and political website edited by Jan Čulík

Czech philosopher Martin Škabraha in his publication Sokrates vrací úder (Socrates hits back, Novela Bohemica, Prague, 2015, ISBN 978-80-87683-50-7) thanks Jan Čulík and the Britské listy website for "giving me freedom to write without censorship at the beginning of my writing career" (p. 12).

Glasgow University Film Studies students produced a film portrait of Jan Čulík and Czech Studies in Glasgow in November 2019.

Publications

Grants

Supervision

Supervision:

Karolína Ondrušková, PhD, the creation of Czech and Slovak national identity in 19th century Czech and Slovak fiction, started September 2023.

Earlier Supervision:

Beatrice Michalovska, PhD, German emigrés in Prague in 1989 started in October 2018, successfully defendeed May 2022

Kenneth Ward, PhD, Czech Cinema (start date 01/10/2017) (Madeleine Albright Scholarship in Czech Studies) - succesfuly defended, PhD awarded in May 2022

Gareth Storrie, PhD, Czech attitudes towards African immigrants (Start date 1/1/2017) (Madeleine Albright Scholarship in Czech Studies) - successfully defended, PhD awarded in May 2022

Kirsteen Anderson, PhD, Post-communist reforms of the Czech Educational System (Start date: 01/10/2014, completed, PhD awarded, May 2020)

Sam Beaton, PhD, Czech documentary cinema (Start date: 01/10/2012, completed, doctorate awarded May 2018) (Madeleine Albright Scholarship in Czech Studies)

Kenneth Ward, MPhil, Czech Cinema (completed September 2017) (Josef Fronek scholarship)

Beatrice Michalovska, MPhil, German emigres in Prague in 1989 (Completed October 2017)

Metodi Metodiev, PhD, Relations between writers and politicians in Bulgaria and Czech Republic during the communist era (Start date: 09/09/2011, doctorate awarded 2016)

James Alan Cathro Smith, MPhil, Czech popular music in the period of "normalisation" (Completed November 2014)

Julia Secklehner, MPhil, Photographic work by Irena Bluhova and Tina Modotti (Completed September 2013) (Josef Fronek MPhil scholarship)

Jitka Perinova, PhD The novels of Emil Hakl and Jan Balaban (Completed, doctorate awarded June 2015)

Hana Tomsu MPhil, The Winter Guest and Of Children and Parents, a comparison of the value system of a Scottish and a Czech feature film (Completed Feb. 2013 )

Jakub Žytek, MPhil, Old Czech books of travel (2009)

Marta Filipová, PhD, The construction of national identity in the historiography of Czech art (Completed 2008)

Jan Matonoha, MPhil, Outside of a logocentric discourse?: the case of (post)modern Czech "women's" writing (2007)

Teaching

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

2016: International KE Commendation (University of Glasgow)

Editorial boards

2018: Slavonica

Selected international presentations

2022: Threat Defuser (https://threat-defuser.org/ (Prague, Czech Republic)
3rd, Dec. 2021: Karel Čapek’s Vision and his Impact on the World: Interdisciplinary Approach (ASEEES convention, USA, online)
7th May, 2021: "The Benefits and Burdens of the Invisible Suitcase" (ASN 2021 Convention. USA, online)
6th November 2020: Betrayal, Anxiety, and Rebellion in Milan Kundera and in Contemporary Czech Literature (ASEEES convention, USA, online)
2019: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (New Orleans, LA, USA)
2018: JIhlava International Film Festival of Documentary Film (Jihlava, Czech Republic)
2018: Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (Boston, MA, USA)
2018: 100th Anniversary of the Foundation of Czechoslovakia (British Library, London)
2018: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (Washington, DC, USA)
2018: 30th anniversary of the 1968 Prague Spring (Cambridge University, UK)
2016: Catholic University of Budapest (Budapest, Hungary)
2016: Secondos Conference, Zagreb University (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
2015: Recherche et transmission des cultures étrangères (Orléans, France)
2014: Prague Writers' Festival (Prague, Czech Republic)
2014: Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Havlíčkův Brod, Czech Republic)
2014: The Role of kitsch in the mythology of contemporary Czech politics, University of South Bohemia (České Budějovice, Czech Republic)
2013: "AUTOR-VIZE-MEZE-TELEVIZE" (Bratislava, Slovakia)
2013: "AUTOR-VIZE-MEZE-TELEVIZE" (Prague, Czech Republic)

Supplementary

On 22nd April, 2022, Jan Čulík gave a lecture to the Threat Defuser (https://threat-defuser.org/) seminar in Prague. The project Threat Defuser deals with hybrid warfare and a plan to safeguard societies. It explores the role of "soft" information strategies propagated through mass and social media that constitute hybrid warfare. Text and a video excerpt of the lecture is here: https://blisty.cz/art/108022-will-putin-manage-to-destabilise-central-europe-the-threat-is-more-real-than-we-think.html On 7th February 2022, Jan Čulík was interviewed in the 30 minute programme "Z prvej ruky (First Hand Information)", broadcast by Slovak public service radio, about Boris Johnson's scandals, about the impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom and about the worsening economic situation in Britain. Link here: https://www.rtvs.sk/radio/archiv/1175/1741584 On 3rd February, 2022, Jan Čulík was interviewed by Czech television station TV Nova in the TN Live programme for about 12 minutes about Boris Johnson's scandals. See here: https://blisty.cz/art/106830-jan-culik-o-skandalech-borise-johnsona-v-tv-nova.html On 20th January 2022, Jan Čulík gave a one-hour lecture on the Czech film maker Věra Chytilová before the screening of her film Inheritance (1992) in the cinema of the German Film Musem, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. On 13th January 2022, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the public service Slovak Radio about the problems of the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.: https://www.rtvs.sk/radio/archiv/1123/1723290# On 9th January, 2022, Jan Čulík as a specialist in Czech studies at the University of Glasgow was quoted in the Observer newspaper: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/09/lack-of-english-speakers-embarrasses-czech-coalition On 19th December, 2021, Jan Čulík was interviewed by Czech commercial TV station Nova TV in their report about the problems of Boris Johnson: https://voyo.nova.cz/titul/10-strepiny On 23th June, 2019, on the occasion of a large anti-government demonstration in Prague, Jan Čulík was interviewed live on Al Jazeera Television, which is broadcasting from Doha, Qatar, as a Czech Studies expert to provide context and analysis. The broadcast was of a global importance . Pictures are here: https://blisty.cz/art/95985-prazske-demonstrace-v-televizi-al-jazeera.html audio of the interview is here: https://blisty.cz/video/alJazeera.wav Jan Čulík is frequently interviewed and quoted and consulted by both UK and international media. These include The Observer, UK; BBC World Television; BBC TV News Channel; BBC Radio Scotland; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC World Service; BBC Radio Four; ITV, UK; National Public Radio, USA, Channel 4 News, UK, Radio France Internationale,,The Independent, UK, Wall Street Journal, USA, the Daily Express, UK, The Express Tribune, Pakistan, Al Jazeera, Qatar, Vice News, USA, The National, Scotland, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Czech public service Radio, Slovak public service Radio, Slovak public service TV. Most of these media appearances are listed here, often along with the recordings: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/janculik/#/additionalinformation,researchinterests Since April 2015, Jan Čulík has been broadcasting weekly 15-minute Britské listy Interviews on the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz. All these interviews have been archived on YouTube: http://blisty.cz/topics/464-rozhovory-britskych-listu * * * - In February 2019, Jan Čulík was invited to work as a Czech Studies expert within the Appointing Panel for the appointment of a new Professor of Czech Studies at the University of Oxford, England. - In February 2019, Jan Čulík was asked by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro for permission to have his article "In search of authenticity: Věra Chytilová's films from two eras" (Studies in East European Cinema, 2018) translated into Portugese to be included in a catalogue for a Věra Chytilová retrospective in Rio de Janeiro. - In January 2019, Jan Čulík was asked for a public endorsement to be printed on the cover of a monograph by Karen von Kunes, "Milan Kundera's Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals", due to be published by Lexington Books, USA, in May 2019. - In 2018, Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, included Jan Čulík's public endorsement on the cover of Martin Štoll's monograph "Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia" https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/television-and-totalitarianism-in-czechoslovakia-9781501324758/ - Quotes from Jan Čulík's work and public acknowledgments have been included in Patrick Kingsley´s high profile publication The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe´s Refugee Crisis. Guardian Books and Faber and Faber, Ltd., London 2016, ISBN 9-78183-351053, Kieran Williams' monograph Critical Lives: Václav Havel, Reaktion Books, London, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78023-665-0, in award winning journalist Richard Askwith's book Today we Die a Little: The Rise and Fall of Emil Zátopek, the Olympic Legend, Yellow Jersey, Press, London, 2016, ISBN 978-0-224-10034-2, and Czech philosopher Martin Škabraha's publication Sokrates vrací úder (Socrates hits back), Novela Bohemica, Prague, 2015, ISBN 978-80-87683-50-7. Britské listy, blisty.cz, the widely read Czech cultural and political internet daily, edited by Jan Čulík since 1996, and its work has been mentioned in the novel Konec světa (The End of the World) by Czech writer Emil Hakl, Prague, 2015, and by other authors. - In October 2018, Jan Čulík was invited to participate in a public debate with Sir John Tusa, the former Head of the BBC World Service, at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. - In October 2018, Jan Čulík was invited to give a lecture about the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, as recorded on film, at the British Library Knowledge Centre. - In April 2018, Jan Čulík was invited to chaired a session at a conference devoted to the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Prague Spring, which took place at Jesus College, Cambridge University. - In September 2017, Jan Čulík was invited to take part in a debate on Brexit: The View from Europe at the Wighton Book Festival. The other participants were former BBC journalists Gavin Esler and Angus Roxburgh. In December, 2016, Jan Čulík was invited to give a presentation "EU citizens in the UK and Brexit" to the meeting dealing with "The Legal and Human Rights Implications of Brexit on EU Migration" organised by JUSTICE Scotland and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The event took place at The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland. * * * Jan Čulík is frequently asked to peer review books intended for publication. Most recently, he peer reviewed Karen von Kunes's "Milan Kundera's Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals" for Lexington Books, Martin Štoll's "Television and Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia" for Bloomsbury Books and Anna Koch's "Characters as Social Beings: Social Performance in the French and Czechoslovak New Waves" for Oxford University Press. He also peer reviews research proposals for the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (the local equivalent of AHRC).

Additional information

Aine Allardyce of the Glasgow University Media Office has provided some rather stunning information about Jan Culik's media impact:

Sent: 13 August 2024 14:51
Subject: RE: Media appearances

I did a search from 1 May to 13 August 2024 through our online media cuttings service. Which gave the following return for media/online articles.

Headline figures are 58 mentions (or online/digital articles or pieces of coverage); 24.7 million impressions (a simple measurement of the approximate audience your media content has reached) and finally the Advertising value equivalency (AVE) is £512.3K (which is used in PR to measure the monetary value of media coverage of a PR campaign). Please be aware this particular service can only quantify online coverage so it is a conservative figure given that many many of these articles will have also appeared in print. It doesn’t also capture radio and TV appearances.

On 5th August, 2024, Jan Čulík was interviewed by Slovak public service radio, by Slovak public service television and by the Slovak commercial TV station Joj on right-wing violence in the United Kingdom.

On Saturday 25th May, 2024, Jan Čulík was interviewed by Slovak TV about the UK election campaign, from minute 29.30: https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/20110/468031#1793

On Friday 9th September 2022, Jan Čulík was interviewed both by Slovak TV and by Slovak radio at length about the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Slovak television here, from minute 27: https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/19166/353592#1894, Slovak Radio (a whole half hour programme Z prvej ruky - First Hand Info) here: https://www.rtvs.sk/radio/archiv/1175/1884224

On Sunday 4th September, 2022, The Guardian newspaper quoted two paragraphs from a comment published in Czech in Britské listy, a website Jan Čulík edits:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/04/czech-republic-prague-protest-sanctions-energy-crisis-gas-russia

On Tuesday 16th August, 2022, Jan Čulík was interviewed by Slovak TV about UK´s post-Brexit problems: https://blisty.cz/art/109339-jan-culik-ve-slovenske-televizi-o-pobrexitovych-problemech-britanie.html

On 22nd April, 2022, Jan Čulík gave a lecture to the Threat Defuser (https://threat-defuser.org/) seminar in Prague. The project Threat Defuser deals with hybrid warfare and a plan to safeguard societies. It explores the role of "soft" information strategies propagated through mass and social media that constitute hybrid warfare. Text and a video excerpt of the lecture is here: https://blisty.cz/art/108022-will-putin-manage-to-destabilise-central-europe-the-threat-is-more-real-than-we-think.html

On 3rd February, 2022, Jan Čulík was interviewed by Czech television station TV Nova in the TN Live programme for about 12 minutes about Boris Johnson's scandals.

On 20th January 2022, Jan Čulík gave a one-hour lecture on the Czech film maker Věra Chytilová before the screening of her film Inheritace (1992) in the cinema of the German Film Musem, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

On 13th January 2022, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the public service Slovak Radio about the problems of the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.: https://www.rtvs.sk/radio/archiv/1123/1723290#

On 9th January, 2022, Jan Čulík as a specialist in Czech studies at the University of Glasgow was quoted in the Observer newspaper: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/09/lack-of-english-speakers-embarrasses-czech-coalition

On Sunday 19th December 2021, Jan Čulík was interviewed by commercial, terrestrial Nova TV , the most widely followed TV station in the Czech Republic, in their prime time programme Střepiny (Broken Glass) about the travails of the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The recording of the programme: https://novaplus.nova.cz/porad/strepiny/epizoda/167392-19-12-2021 (the Boris Johnson report is from about minute 17). A comment on the programme: https://blisty.cz/art/106291-boris-johnson-nic-jsem-neplatil-a-ta-castka-je-taky-nespravna.html

(Jan Čulík is frequently interviewed by Slovak public service radio on developments in British and Scottish politics, recently especially about Brexit, the weak UK government and issues concerning possible Scottish independence.)

On 17th June 2020, Jan Čulík participated in a half hour debate broadcast by ČRo Plus (Czech public service radio) in the Pro a proti (For and Against) programme on whether Winston Churchill was a racist. Listen to the debate (in Czech): https://plus.rozhlas.cz/kdyby-churchill-nemel-tak-brutalni-nazory-mozna-i-cesi-byli-vyhlazeni-veri-8228553

On 24th May 2020, Jan Čulík was quoted by the widely read Argentinian newspaper infobae.com about Czech politics: https://www.infobae.com/america/mundo/2020/05/24/quien-es-zdenek-hrib-el-alcalde-pirata-que-enfurece-a-rusia-y-china/

“Hay una presión abierta sobre la República Checa no solo de Rusia, sino particularmente de China. Un político checo local ha muerto recientemente de un ataque al corazón después de haber sido objeto de chantaje por parte de funcionarios chinos a quienes no les gustaban sus contactos con Taiwán. Hay varios oligarcas checos que comercian en Rusia y en China y tienen muy buenas relaciones con sus autoridades. A través de ellos, ambos países están empezando a ejercer influencia política y económica. Estas presiones son reales, por lo que no es sorprendente que gente como Zdenek Hrib tome una postura firme para defender la independencia checa. Hay muchos políticos en Praga perfectamente dispuestos a colaborar tanto con Rusia como con China y a dar paso a su colonización política y económica a cambio de un beneficio personal”, explicó Jan Culík, investigador del Centro de Estudios de Rusia, Europa Central y Oriental de la Universidad de Glasgow, consultado por Infobae.

On 20th February 2020, Jan Čulík took part in a half-hour live debate on Radio Slovakia, in the Z prvej ruky (First Hand) programme, dealing with the newly proposed drastic UK immigration rules: https://blisty.cz/video/Slovensko200220.mp3

On 31st January 2020, Jan Čulík took part in a half-hour live debate on Radio Slovakia, in the Z prvej ruky (First Hand) programme, on Brexit: http://radio-arch-pp.stv.livebox.sk/a520/00/0021/002170/00217067-1.mp3, or https://www.blisty.cz/video/slovensko310120.mp3

On 13th December, 2019, Jan Čulík took part in a half-hour live debate on Radio Slovakia, in the Z prvej ruky (First Hand) programme, on Brexit: https://www.rtvs.sk/radio/archiv/1175/1246029

(Apart from analytical articles on this topic by Jan Čulík, which can be found in his bibliography, continuous information in English about the developments of the discourse on the refugee crisis, particularly in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, can be found at www.blisty.cz/topics/480-refugee-crisis-in-europe)

On Friday, 22nd November, 2019, Jan Čulík took part in an event at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, looking back at the 1990 Points East conference, organised by the Glasgow-based Third Eye Centre in December 1990, in which Jan Čulík participated.

Marking the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, Jan Čulík organised and presented lectures by Czech journalist Jan Macháček and Director of New York University, Prague, Jiří Pehe and his translator Gerald Turner on 6th and 13th November 2019, respectively. This is a video clip from the latter event.

On 16th November 2019, Jan Čulík gave a lecture in Edinburgh marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of communism. The event was organised by the Czech School, Scotland.

Glasgow University Film Studies students produced a film portrait of Jan Čulík and Czech Studies in Glasgow in November 2019.

On 23rd June, 2019, Jan Culik was interviewed live by the Qatar-based, global news and current affairs TV station Al Jazeera during an anti-government demonstration in Prague: https://blisty.cz/art/95985-prazske-demonstrace-v-televizi-al-jazeera.html; (the English language audio of the interview: https://blisty.cz/video/alJazeera.wav).

Shortly prior to that, the US website The Globe Post commissioned Jan Culik to write an an analysis of the current Czech political situation (13^th June 2019,https://theglobepost.com/2019/06/13/czech-republic-babis/).

He was also interviewed by the Bulgarian newspaper Dnevnik (26th June 2019, https://www.dnevnik.bg/evropa/2019/06/26/3928375_bez_alternativa_na_teflona_protest_na_250_000_chehi_ne/) and for the Spanish newspaper La Razón (28th June, 2019).

On 7th March 2019, Jan Čulík was interviewed for the programme An Sgrudaire about issues of freedom of speech, see the video from about minute 5.30. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00034y1/an-sgrudaire-series-2-episode-1
The programme was broacast on BBC Alba on Thursday 7th March at 10 pm.

On Sunday 6th January 2019, Jan Čulík was quoted in an important investigative piece by Robert Tait about debt slavery in the Czech Repubic, published by the Observer newspaper. He participated in organising this article:
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/czech-democracy-threat-debt-crisis The article was widely quoted in most of the Czech media on that day, see for instance here:

www.idnes.cz/zpravy/zahranicni/ceska-demokracie-exekuce-dluhy-obyvatel-zahranici-denik-the-guardian.A190106_151933_zahranicni_baje

On Sunday 28th October, 2018, Jan Čulík participated in a BBC Radio Scotland special half-hour programme devoted to the centenary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia on 28th October 1918. The programme also featured Karl von Habsburg, a grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian Emperor, Jan Čulík, Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at Glasgow University, Adam Koziczowski from Warsaw, who wrote The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary, and Anka Dragu from Bratislava of Radio Slovakia International. Watch a recording of the programme.

On Thursday 18th October 2018, Jan Culik was interviewed for the US radio station National Public Radio´s feature on the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia:

www.npr.org/2018/10/18/658570673/prague-1968-reforming-a-soviet-communist-regime?t=1539966748004, audio also here: https://blisty.cz/video/20181018_atc_prague_1968_reforming_a_soviet_communist_regime.mp3

On Friday 5th October 2018, Channel 4 News ran a report on racism in the North Bohemia city of Most, which was based on this article by Jan Čulík.

On 24th September 2018, Jan Čulík was interviewed by Radio Slovakia about the current situation re Brexit. The half-hour programme is here:

https://www.rtvs.sk/radio/archiv/1175/996870

On 21^st August 2018, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the English Service of Radio France Internationale about his experiences of the invasion:

https://soundcloud.com/radiofranceinternationale/czechs-and-slovaks-remember-crushing-of-prague-spring-wierdly-people-got-into-a-strange-euphoria

On 1st March, 2018, the Independent newspaper quoted Britské listy, a Czech cultural and political website edited by Jan Čulík:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pensioner-charged-czech-republic-train-accidents-arabic-messages-muslim-backlash-a8234901.htm

“Despite causing no injuries, the crashes triggered a wave of xenophobia and Islamophobia on social media in the central European country, Czech news website Britske listy reported.”

On 27th January 2018, Jan Čulík was interviewed for an article published in Wall Street Journal, USA, on the second round of the Czech presidential election:

https://twitter.com/JanCulik/status/964167529118818304

On 13th January, 2018, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the programme Good Morning, Scotland on BBC Radio Scotland about the Czech presidential election. Audio here:

www.blisty.cz/video/Slavonic/radioscotland1.wav

On 11th January, 2018, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the Daily Express about the forthcoming Czech presidential election:

www.express.co.uk/news/world/903402/Czech-election-2018-plunge-EU-Czech-Republic-chaos

On 18^th December 2017, the second article quoting Jan Čulík was published by the Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribune: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1586884/3-far-rights-eu-politicians-band-together-islam-encourage-trump-style-travel-ban

On 15th and on 17th December 2017, Jan Čulík was interviewed by Al Jazeera in connection with a congress of European extreme right wing activists which took place in Prague:

www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/europe-hails-trump-slams-eu-islam-migrants-171217152352526.html

www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/leaders-meet-prague-171215191614697.html

On 30^th November 2017, Jan Čulík was interviewed by Vice News about death threats on Facebook in the Czech Republic, which the social network is not removing from its website:

“Facebook has a problem with death threats in the Czech Republic and is failing to fix it”

On 31st October, 2017, Jan Čulík was interviewed by BBC World Service "World Business Report" about the recent election victory of Andrej Babiš.

On 4^th April, 2017, Jan Čulík was interviewed by The National newspaper about the separation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Listen to the interview.

On 12th March 2017, Jan Čulík was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live about Central and East European attitudes to Brexit. The other participants were Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, a Polish research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, and Stefanie Bolzen, a German journalist for Die WELT & WELT am Sonntag newspapers. The programme is here: http://blisty.cz/video/radio5live_12.03.17.wav

On 18th January, 2017, Jan Čulík was interviewed by BBC Radio Scotland about Theresa May´s speech about her Brexit strategy. He was interviewed by Slovak public service radio on the same topic on 17th January, 2017.

On 8th October, 2016, Jan Čulík was interviewed by BBC Radio Scotland in the "Good Morning, Scotland" programme about the Czech graphic artist and painter Alphonse Mucha on the occasion of the opening of a Mucha exhibition at the Kelvingrove Gallery and Museum, Glasgow. www.blisty.cz/video/muchaPiece.mp3

On 29th June, 2016, Jan Čulík was interviewed by BBC Radio Scotland about the impact of Brexit on Scotland and its Universities. http://blisty.cz/video/JC_sikorski_29.06.16.mp3

On 14^th May, 2016, Jan Čulík was interviewed by The BBC World Service “Newshour” programme about the 700^th anniversary of the birth of Charles IV (1316-1378), the Czech Holy Roman Emperor www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tbwg1 (from minute 11.18) also see http://blisty.cz/video/charlesIV_onBBC.mp3

On 6^th May, 2016, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about contemporary Czech politics https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pglxVL4aRV, also see http://blisty.cz/video/australianCzechiaPiece.mp3

On 16 April 2016, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the "PM" programme on BBC Radio Four about the proposed adoption of the name "Czechia" for the Czech Republic. www.blisty.cz/video/czechia.mp3

On 26 October 2015, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the "World Business Report" programme on BBC World Television about the results of the general election in Poland. The video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_uVLLs1YiY

On 26 October 2015, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the "Business Daily" programme on BBC World Radio about the results of the general election in Poland. Audio here: http://blisty.cz/video/Voice0004.aac

On 15th September 2015, Jan Čulík was interviewed by the BBC TV News Channel about the European refugee crisis. The video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnDuzA5sv7A

Regular television interviews. Jan Čulík has been asked to broadcast regular weekly 15-minute television interviews on current Czech political and social issues for the Regionální televize cable and satellite television station. The interviews are available here:

http://blisty.cz/topics/464-rozhovory-britskych-listu

In 2014-2015, Jan Čulík worked as a script and editorial consultant for Dominika Švecová´s longitudinal two part Czech Television documentary Pouť důvěry (A Pilgrimage of Trust) about the international ecumenical meeting organized by the Taizé community, which took place in Prague between 29th December 2014 and 2nd January 2015. Part One of the film was broadcast by Czech Television on Sunday 1st March 2015, Part Two was broadcast by Czech Television on Sunday 8th March 2015. Both films are here:

www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10964914294-pout-duvery/314298380100001

www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10964914294-pout-duvery/314298380100002/

Kopecký, Čestmír, and Špaček, Radim, et al "Pod dlažbou je pláž"("There is a beach under that pavement", 2013, Czech TV documentary, 52 mins.). Along with former BBC Chief Executive Greg Dyke, Jan Čulík is one of the media specialists interviewed here. The film is available here:

www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/10558218896-pod-dlazbou-je-plaz/

Jan Čulík interviewed for Czech TV documentary "Národ mystifikace". ("The Mystification Nation". 2012, Czech TV documentary, 52 mins.) The film is available here:

www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10388792415-narod-mystifikace/31129434016/video/

Jan Čulík on films at the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. An interview with Czech Public Service television. An article and a video is available here:

www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/kultura/184849-festival-ve-varech-ocima-jana-culika/?mobileRedirect=off

An interview with Jan Čulík on the death of Czech President Václav Havel. Sky News, 18th December 2011, 17.20. The interview is available here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=95yoQ9Uh5hU&feature=youtu.be

An interview with Jan Čulík for Czech television. The "Pred pulnoci"("Before Midnight") programme, 4th May 2010, 28 minutes. The interview is available here:

www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10095690193-pred-pulnoci/410231100252034/

An interview with Jan Čulík in the "Tonight" programme with Trevor McDonald, in "Stags in the City", a documentary film, ITV, 9th September, 2005, 28 minutes. The programme is available here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3ZFI4B81LU

An interview with Jan Čulík for Czech Television, "Klub Netopýr", 3rd December 2002.

An interview with Jan Čulík for Czech Television, "Klub Netopýr": "Je nezávislost České televize ohrožena?"("Is the Independence of Czech Television under threat?") 16th May, 2000. Full transcript is here:

http://www.britskelisty.cz/0005/20000518f.html

The programme is available here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ2u0nAh0N8

An interview with Jan Čulík for Czech Television, "Klub Netopýr": "Co není v novinách"("What the Papers do not Write about"), 9th September, 1997. Full transcript is here:

http://www.britskelisty.cz/9709/19970915a.html#01;

http://www.britskelisty.cz/9709/19970916b.html

The programme is available here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJJk44solBs

In 1995, Czech Television broadcast a report on Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow, video is here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdWrqyaA9Y

In 1995, Czech Television broadcast a film about the island of Iona, which includes an interview with Jan Čulík. The video is here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4AvLEZCVKs

In June 1995 Jan Čulík made a report about the danger of asbestos for Nova TV in the Czech Republic. The video is here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4InTXgGA1tw

In 1984, Jan Čulík wrote, produced and partially filmed a Channel Four documentary Orpheus through the Ages, which was first broadcast by Channel Four in January 1985. The documentary formed a package with Lesley Keen´s animated film Orpheus and Eurydice (1984), which was invited for screening in the main programme of the 1985 Cannes Film Festival as the only British short that year. In 1986, the documentary Orpheus through the Ages and the animated film Orpheus and Eurydice received the TRIC award (the Scottish equivalent of BAFTA) for the best television work that year in the Music and Arts category.

The animation Orpheus and Eurydice is here:

www.totallyimmersed.com/orpheus/index.html

Educational and information videos:

Four video interviews on Czech history, literature and economy, made for Humbox

A video interview with Martin Pilař, Ostrava University, on 19th century Czech literature, also available for download from Humbox
A video interview with Martin Myant on Czech economics since the fall of communism is also available to download
A video interview with Jan Čulík on Czech history is also available in Humbox
A video interview with Jan Čulík on twentieth-century Czech literature is also available in Humbox

Public lectures:

On Friday 8th February 2019, Jan Čulík was invited to give a lecture on “Poetics and Semantic Content of Věra Chytilová’s Films in the Normalization Period.” at the AATSEEL international convention of Slavonic Studies scholars in New Orleans, USA.

https://www.aatseel.org/cfp_program_fri_2019#FRI-A

Jan Čulík was invited to chair a panel on "Prague Spring Resisting: The Soviet Invasion and Its Aftermath on Screen and Literature" within the ASEEES international convention of Slavonic Studies scholars in Boston, USA. The panel took place on Saturday 8th December, 2018. On Sunday 9th December, 2018, Jan Čulík gave a lecture on the 1968 Prague Spring in post-communist feature films at the ASEEES international convention in Boston:

https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees18/index.php?PHPSESSID=sbs0td2ft4d8bt7m1ofhui01a6&cmd=Online+Program+Search&program_focus=fulltext_search&search_mode=content&offset=0&search_text=Culik

On Saturday 27th October, 2018, Jan Čulík gave a lecture about the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, as recorded on film, at the British Library Knowledge Centre HERE: www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/~/media/bl/global/whats%20on/events/2018/october/new-europe-and-film-programme-and-times.pdf

On Friday 26th October, 2018 Jan Čulík took part in a debate with Sir John Tusa about the future of journalism at the Jihlava Intertnational Documentary film festival. Further information HERE: www.ji-hlava.com/akce/john-tusa-a-hoste-o-zurnalistice

On Saturday 28th April 2018, Jan Čulík chaired a session at a conference devoted to the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Prague Spring, which took place at Jesus College, Cambridge University. Pictures here: https://blisty.cz/art/90796-konference-k-50-vyroci-prazskeho-jara-na-cambridgske-univerzite.html

Jan Čulík was invited to give a lecture about how contemporary Czech literature deals with global issues at the international Slavonic conference in Washington, run by AATSEEL, United States. The lecture took place on 1st February, 2018.

Jan Čulík took part in a debate on Brexit: The View from Europe at the Wighton Book Festival. The debate took place on 22nd September, 2017.

On 8th December, 2016, Jan Čulík have a presentation "EU citizens in the UK and Brexit" to the meeting dealing with "The Legal and Human Rights Implications of Brexit on EU Migration" organised by JUSTICE Scotland and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The event took place at The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland.

On 20th May, 2016, Jan Čulík gave a paper entitled "New Media as a New Source of Censorship?" at the Catholic University in Budapest as a part of an annual research forum devoted to issues of censorship.

On 14th April, 2016, Jan Čulík gave a lecture to the "Secondos" conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which was organised by Zagreb University and by Graz University, about how "small" languages and cultures might be effectively taught at commercially-minded universities in the English speaking countries.

"Recherche et transmission des cultures étrangères : quelle utilité dans l’université d’aujourd’hu ?" / "The uses of teaching and researching foreign cultures in today's universities: what seems to be the problem?"

Jan Čulík gave a key-note lecture at the conference entitled "Recherche et transmission des cultures étrangères : quelle utilité dans l’université d’aujourd’hui?" at the University of Orléans, France, on 11th-13th June 2015. The video of this lecture is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1uVoYrSaes

Seventh CRCEES Annual Research Forum, Glasgow University, 4^th-5^th June, 2015

Jan Čulík, The Impact of current Russian foreign policy on developments in the Czech Republic

A Prague Writers´s Festival debates, The Upper House of the Czech Parliament, 2nd and 3rd October, 2014

On 2nd October, 2014, during the Prague Writers' Festival, Jan Čulík took part in a public debate with the Morrocan writers Salah El Ouadie and Bensalem Himmich discussing the theme "Love and Hate".

On 3rd October, 2014, during the Prague Writers' Festival, Jan Čulík chaired a public debate with Moroccan authors Mahi Binebine and Fatéma Chahid, with the former Czech Foreign Secretary and United Nations Chairman Jan Kavan and the Czech writer Tomáš Zmeškal.

The two gala evenings, which were televised, are available in video from the Czech public service TV website from here:

www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/kultura/287880-sledujte-na-webu-ct24-cteni-a-diskuse-z-festivalu-spisovatelu/

Debate of 2nd October is available from approx. minute 88, Debate of 3rd October is available from approx. minute 60.

"The Role of kitsch in the mythology of contemporary Czech politics". Karel Havlíček Summer School of Journalism, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Havlíčkův Brod, Czech Republic, 23rd August 2014

A lecture by Jan Čulík, given at the Karel Havlíček Summer School of Journalism, sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. A video of the lecture is here (instructions and the lecture are in Czech:)

www.blisty.cz/art/74533.html

"The Role of kitsch in the mythology of contemporary Czech politics". University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, 9th June, 2014

A lecture by Jan Čulík, given at the summer school "Representation, Literature and Power", which took place as part of the research project "Examining Patters of Literary Discourses" funded by the European Social Fund and the Government of the Czech Republic (OPVK CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0125)

"Karel Čapek: A Writer for our Times?" Czech Embassy, London, 15th May, 2014
A lecture by Jan Čulík given at an event, organised by the Karel Čapek Memorial, Strž, Czech Republic and the Embassy of the Czech Republic, London, on the occasion of the anniversary of the publication of an English translation of Čapek´s Letters from England. The other participants included Daniel Herman, the Czech Culture Secretary, and Monsignor Tomáš Halík, the holder of the 2014 Templeton Prize.

Scottish Ensemble, OneTouch Theatre, Eden Court, 21 February 2014
A lecture by Jan Čulík on composers Antonin Dvořák, Josef Suk and Pavel Haas

CRCEES, Glasgow University, a research meeting in Prague, 10-11 February 2014
A research meeting to discuss the current state of affairs of research into the value system of Czech and Slovak TV series, organised and chaired by Jan Čulík, with participants from Charles University, Prague, Palacký University, Olomouc, The Film and TV Faculty of the Fine Arts University, Bratislava, Czech Television.

British-Czechoslovak Society, UCL, London, 28 January, 2014
"Ostalgie in the Czech Republic". A lecture by Jan Čulík, based on his recent research of this issue.

AUTOR-VIZE-MEZE-TELEVIZE". The Film and TV Faculty of the Fine Arts University, Bratislava, 28th November, 2013
"Television in the United Kingdom in the multiplex era". A lecture, given by Jan Čulík at a conference dealing with aspect of Czech and Slovak television broadcasting, organized by the Literary Academy, Prague, The Film and TV Faculty of the Fine Arts University, Bratislava, and by Czech Television.

"AUTOR-VIZE-MEZE-TELEVIZE". Literary Academy, Prague, 9 October, 2013
"Television in the United Kingdom in the multiplex era". A keynote lecture, given by Jan Čulík at a conference dealing with aspect of Czech and Slovak television broadcasting, organized by the Literary Academy, Prague, The Film and TV Faculty of the Fine Arts University, Bratislava, and by Czech Television.

University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, 17-18 June 2013
"The Construction of Reality in the communist TV series Žena za pultem", a paper given by Jan Čulík at an international conference organised by the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, within the research project "Examining Patters of Literary Discourses" funded by the European Social Fund and the Government of the Czech Republic (OPVK CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0125)

How do selected post-communist countries construct the image of the communist era?
CRCEES, University of Glasgow, 21-22 February 2013
An international seminar, organised and chaired by Jan Čulík

www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_249363_en.pdf

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