Monika Brenišínová

Reading history between the brushstrokes and the silences: Making history less macho

CV


Education
2011-2017                  Centre for Ibero-American Studies (hearafter SIAS FF UK), Faculty of 
                                            Arts, Charles University, Prague, doctoral studies 
2009-2011                  SIAS FF UK, Master’s studies
2003-2008                  Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Bachelor’s studies
1997-2003                  Jan Neruda Gymnasium, Prague, bilingual Czech-French section, study  
                                           of selected subjects in French
Work experience

2022-present   Deputy Head of SIAS FF UK, Prague
2022-present   Member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Faculty of Arts,
                                  Charles University.
2019-present   Teaching staff at SIAS FF UK, Prague
2017-2018         Researcher at SIAS FF UK, Prague
2015-present    Executive editor of the Ibero-Americana Pragensia, SIAS FF UK,          
                                   Prague
Research stays, fellowships & internships
2024                           Research stay, Iberoamerikanishes Institut Berlin, Germany
2024                           Research stay, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, 
                                       Spain

2023                           Research stay, Archivo General de la Nación, CDMX, México
2022                           Field research (doctrinal architecture of Boyacá) and research stay,
                                       Archivo General de la Nación, Bogotá, Archivo de Pamplona, Colombia
2022                           Research stay, Iberoamerikanishes Institut Berlin, Germany
2021                           Research stay, Iberoamerikanishes Institut Berlin, Germany
2020                           Research stay, Iberoamerikanishes Institut Berlin, Germany
2019                           Research stay, Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain
2019                           Field research, monastic architecture, Romania         
2019                           Research stay, Archivo General de la Nación, Universidad Javeriana,
                                       Unversidad de los  Andes, Universidad de Antioquía, Colombia

2019                           Research stay, Iberoamerikanishes Institut Berlin, Germany
2018                           Research stay, Archivo General de la Nación, CDMX, México
2018                           Research stay, General Franciscan Archives, Roma, Italy
2018                           Erasmus+, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2017                           Research stay, Iberoamerikanishes Institut Berlin, Germany
2015                           Research stay, Archivo General de la Nación and Archivo Histórico de
                                       BNAH (Fondo Franciscano), CDMX, México

2015                           Research stay, Iberoamerikanishes Institut Berlin, Germany
2013                           Research stay and field research (monastic architecture and art),
                                       Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, México
2013                           Research stay, Iberoamerikanishes Institut Berlin, Germany
2010                           Study stay and field research (monastic architecture and art), Instituto 
                                       Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México
Conferences (organised)
2025   Search for Indigenous America 8, international conference on indigenous people
               
of  Americas organized with SIAS and Comenius University in Bratislava, Praga. Co-
               organizer
2024  Uncovering History: Women in the Era of Conquest and Colonization of the New   
              World
, international conference on gender history in colonial America organised   
               with University of Ostrava, Salamanca, Valladolid, Prague. Main organizer
2024  Search for Indigenous America 7”, international conference on native cultures of   
                the Americas with Comenius University in Bratislava, Prague. Co-organizer
2023    Jak Indián (ne)přišel o I [How the Indian (Maybe) Lost the I], interdisciplinary
                workshop
with the Center for Strategic Regions FF UK, Prague. Main organizer
2022  Historia Oculta. La representación de la mujer en el viejo y nuevo mundo a nivel
               local y
global
, international workshop on gender history, with Centre for Brazilian
               Studies, University of Salamanca and University of Ostrava, Salamanca.
               Co-organizer
2022  Habsburg Spheres between Spain, Central Europe, and Colonial Latin America     
               1500-1700
, international workshop on Habsburg global history, with University of         
               South Bohemia and University of Salamanca, Prague. Co-organizer
2021.  III. Kongres Asociace brazilianistů v Evropě [III. Congress of the Association of
               Brazilianists in Europe]
, International Conference (virtual conference), ABRE and 
               Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. Co-
               organizer
2019   Research in Non-European Countries, International workshop, in collaboration   
               with SIAS FF UK, KREAS-funded project, University of St. Cyril and Methodius in
               Trnava, and Center for Mesoamerican Studies, Comenius University in Bratislava, 
                Prague. Main organizer
2019   Latin American Crafts: Biocultural Heritage, Women's Work, and Neoliberal
                Socionatures
, International workshop, in collaboration with SIAS FF UK, the
                KREAS-funded project, and El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Prague. Main organizer
2019    Utopia and the New World, International conference, in collaboration with SIAS
                FF UK, Autonomous University of Madrid, Grupo Histopía, and the KREAS project,
                Prague. Co-organizer
2018  (Trans)Missions: Monasteries As Sites Of Cultural Transfers (with Jozsef 
              Laszlovszky as a keynote speaker
), international workshop on monasteries as           
              interdisciplinary research sites, with CEFRES and Czech Academy of Sciences,   
              Prague. Co-organizer
2017  Género, España e Iberoamérica: una perspectiva a largo plazo, international
              workshop on gender history, with University of Madrid, Prague. Co-organizer
Conferences (attended)

2025    “Misioneros en las fronteras del Imperio Habsburgo: los 26 mártires de Japón entre 
                  el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo”, 58th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF
                  AMERICANISTS ICA2025
, Novi Sad, Serbia
2025    “The representation of the native inhabitants in the Codex pictoricus Mexicanus by     
                 the Bohemian Jesuit Ignacio Tirsch”,XLVII CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE DI   
                  AMERICANISTICA
, Perugia, Italy
2024    “Vida temprana de “El Lirio de Bogotá”: mujeres fundadoras, mujeres santas”, VI
                 Congreso Internacional: El monacato femenino en América, España y Portugal
,
                  Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
2024    “Hidden Voices: (Indigenous) Women in the Inquisition Sources of Colonial New
                  Spain,” international conferenceSearch for Indigenous America 7, in collaboration
                  with SIAS FF UK and the Center for Mesoamerican Studies of the Faculty of Arts
                  at Comenius University in Bratislava, Prague
2023      “Representation of Indigenous Peoples in 16th Century New Spain Mural Painting,
                  international conference”, international conference Search for Indigenous
                  America
6, in collaboration with SIAS FF UK, the Center for Mesoamerican Studies
                  of the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava, University of
                  Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic
2023     “Opening remarks,” workshop Jak Indián přišel o I [How the Indian Lost the “i”], in
                  collaboration with SIAS and the Center for Strategic Regions, Charles University,
                  Prague, Czech Republic
2022      “The representation of women in colonial art: the case of the funeral portraits of 
                  Sister María Gertrudis, ‘the Lily of Bogotá’,” international workshop Hidden
                  History. The representation of women in the old and new worlds at the local and 
                  global levels
, in collaboration with SIAS FF UK, Center for Brazilian Studies of
                  Salamanca, University of Salamanca, and University of Ostrava, Salamanca, Spain 2022     „Porque muriendo, ¿qué resta, sino vivir y gozarme?: radiografía de un cuerpo
                  poseído“, international conference Caminos del Hispanismo II / Meeting of       
                  Hispanists 2022
, Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of
                  Ostrava, Czech Republic
2022    „Indianizace křesťanského umění: unikátní apokalyptický cyklus v Tecamachalcu“ 
                 [The Indianization of Christian Art: A Unique Apocalyptic Cycle in Tecamachalco],
                 workshop The Apocalypse and Apocalyptic Thought in the Middle Ages, in
                 collaboration with the Institute of Art History, and the Center for Medieval
                 Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
2022     "Hidden History. Representation of Women in the Era of Conquest and
                  Colonization of the New World: Brief Presentation of the Grant Project,"   
                  international workshop Habsburg Spheres between Spain, Central Europe, and 
                  Colonial Latin America 1500-1700
, in collaboration with SIAS FF UK, the
                  University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, and the University of
                  Salamanca, Prague, Czech Republic
2022      “Walls that Talk. Bogotá's Street Art,” international conference Search for 
                  Indigenous America
5, in collaboration with the Department of Ethnology and 
                  Non-European Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of St. Cyril and
                  Methodius in Trnava, the Center for Mesoamerican Studies of the Faculty of Arts
                  of Comenius University in Bratislava, and the University of Pardubice, Pardubice,
                  Czech Republic
2020      "Mexican Monasteries of New Spain 16th Century. Time and Religious
                  Celebrations", international conference Search for Indigenous America  4, in
                  collaboration with the Department of Ethnology and Non-European Studies of the
                  Faculty of Arts of the University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava and the
                   Center for Mesoamerican Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in       
                  Bratislava, Trnava, Slovak Republic
2019     “Las misiones agustinas en la Nueva España del siglo XVI: Entre la vida y la utopía”,
                 international conference Utopia and the New World, in collaboration with SIAS
                  FF UK, the Autonomous University of Madrid, and the HISTOPÍA research group,   
                 Prague, Czech Republic
2019     „Barbarství a civilizace. Nástěnné malby v Ixmiquilpanu “ [Barbarism and
                  Civilization. Murals in Ixmiquilpan], international conference Search for
                  Indigenous America
3, in collaboration with the Department of Ethnology and
                  Non-European Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University
                  of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava and the Center for Mesoamerican Studies of
                  the Faculty of Letters of Comenius University in Bratislava, Trnava, Slovakia
2019      „Conventos mexicanos y su a arte desde la perspectiva interdisciplinaria“, 
                 international conference XIX Congress of the International Federation of Latin
                  American and Caribbean Studies
, Szeged, Hungary
2019     "Historiography of Latin American Art: Reassessing Terms and Concepts,"
                 international workshop Latin American Craft: Biocultural Heritage, Women's
                  Work, and Neoliberal Socionatures
, in collaboration with SIAS FF UK, the 
                  European research project KREAS, and Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Mexico),
                  Prague, Czech Republic
2019     "Mesoamerican Ballgame as a Tool for Cultural Revitalization of Contemporary
                  Mayan Nations," international conference Sport, Indigeneity, and Globalization
                  (IUAES – Commission on the Anthropology of Sport)
, Poznań, Poland
2019     "Imperial Propaganda and Representation of Otherness in the Mural Paintings of
                 Ixmiquilpan," international conference Visualizing the Other in Late Medieval and
                 Early Modern Art (1300–1550)
, Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts,
                 University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2018     "The History of Colonial Art in the Mirror of Modernity: The Case of Mexico,"       
                 international conference Multiple Modernities in Latin America, Department of         
                 Romance Studies, Metropolitan University Prague, and European research project    
                 KREAS, Prague, Czech Republic
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Editorial activities 
Special issues of Ibero-Americana Pragensia:
  • Bohemia after the Battle of White Mountain (48/1, 2020)
  • Europa Central y América Latina en 1968 (48/2, 2022)
  • Research in Non-European Areas (49/1, 2024)
2012-2017,  editor of Člověk: Časopis pro humanitní a společenské vědy [Human: Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences], an interdisciplinary academic journal (ISSN 1801-8785).
Conferences (invited)

2024    Historia oculta: representación de la mujer en la conquista y colonización del nuevo 
                 mundo
[Hidden History: Representation of Women in the Conquest and 
                 Colonisation of the New World], Doctoral Seminar, Beyond Borders Women's   
                 Voices and Faces in Colonial America, a Central European Perspective
, University 
                  of Valladolid and Simancas University, Spain
2023    La representación de las mujeres nativas en la Nueva España del Siglo XVI:
                fórmulas y temas
[The Representation of Native Women in 16th Century New     
                 Spain: Formulas and  Themes], invited lecture, The VIII National Symposium on
                 Literary Studies
, University of Tolima, Columbia
2020    Conventos novohispanos y su arte. Una mirada antropológica [New Sain Convents
                 and their Art. An Anthropological View], invited contribution, The XXV
                 International Congress of Ibero-American Anthropology (CIAI 2020)
, University of 
                 Salamanca, Spain
Media appearances
2024                Commentary „Mileniálský autoritarismus „cool diktátora“ sklízí úspěch.
                            Bukele si jde pro drtivé vítězství“, CT 24
2023                Commentary „Muž tvrdé ruky, který bojuje s gangy. Bukele posouvá Slavador
                            směrem k diktatuře“ [A Man with a Hard Hand who Fights Gangs. Bukele
                            Moves Slavador Towards Dictature], CT 24
2022                Podcast „Tajemství kultury Nazca: Linie a obrazce jsou do peruánské pouště vyryté už dva tisíce let“ [Secrets of the Nazca culture: lines and patterns have been carved into the Peruvian desert for two thousand years], Planetárium ČRo Sever
2019                „Objevy českých archeologů na Yucatánu“ [Discoveries of Czech 
                              archaeologists in Yucatán], Studio ČT 24
2019                 „Běh s Býky“ [Running with the Bulls], Studio ČT 24
Journalism 
Contributed to: Revue Prostor, Deník Referendum
Popularization
Contributed to: Dějiny a současnost, Živá historie, Re:vize