Ludek Broz

 

 

 

Personal data

Name: Ludek Broz

Date and place of birth: 24 November 1975, Prague, Czech Republic

Status: single

Address: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH, UK

Phone: +447817908339 (cell)

E-mail: lb288@cam.ac.uk

http://www.innerasiaresearch.org/broz.htm

 

 

Education

 

2003-             PhD candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK

 

2003              Master of Philosophy – Social Anthropological Analysis, Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK, Thesis titled, ÒDo We Need a ÔStrong ProgrammeÕ in the Anthropology of the Supernatural? On the usefulness of science studies in the anthropology of religionÓ

 

2002              Master of Arts in Ethnology, Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Thesis titled, ÒRelatives For a Season: Incorporating Au Pairs Into Host FamiliesÓ

 

2000                          Bachelor of Arts in Ethnology, Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

 

 

Specialisations

 

Ethnographic areas: Siberia, Inner Asia, East Central Europe, Western Europe

 

Concentrations: kinship, stratification and commodification of reproductive labour, science studies, symmetrical anthropology, anthropology of religion

 

Languages: Czech (first language), Altai, English, Russian

 

 

Fieldwork

 

2004-05        PhD thesis research on explanatory practices, Altai Republic, Russian Federation (12 months)

 

2000-01        Master's thesis research on au pairs in England, UK (6 months)

 

1998              Bachelor's thesis research on Telengits, Altai Republic, Russian Federation (3 months)


Honours and grant awards

 

2004-05        Research Grant – Richards Fund

 

2004-05        Anthony Wilkin Studentship

 

2004-05        Corpus Christi College Travel Grant

 

2004-05        Grant in Aid of Research – Committee for Central and Inner Asia

 

2004-05        Travel Grant – Committee for Central and Inner Asia

 

2002-05        Cambridge Overseas Scholarship

 

2002-05        Corpus Christi Research Scholarship

 

2002-05        Overseas Research Studentship

 

2002              Scholarship of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Fundation VISION 97

 

 

Publications

 

Articles

 

2001                          IT v antropologii. Cargo – journal of socio-cultural anthropology 1,2:134-42. (Information Technology in Anthropology; in Czech).

 

1999              Sixth International Anthropological Congress of Aleš Hrdlička. Cargo – journal of socio-cultural anthropology 3,4:252-3. (Conference Report; in Czech).

 

Reviews

 

2003                          Cultural Analysis of Kinship. The Legacy of David M. Schneider. Cargo – journal of socio-cultural anthropology 1,2:132-37. (Review essay; in Czech).

 

2001                          Cultures of Relatedness. New Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Edited by Janet Carsten. Cargo – journal of socio-cultural anthropology 3,4:150-62. (Review essay; in Czech).

 

2000                          Už je to tady. Biograf – journal for reflexive and biographical sociology 21:129-33. (Review essay on two contemporary textbooks on academic writing; in Czech).

 

Interviews

 

2001              Interview with Professor Martin Ottenheimer. Cargo – journal of socio-cultural anthropology 3,4:110-26.


Presentations

 

2005              ÒI told you, he is not my brother, he is my brotherÉÓ On Altai Kin Terminology and its Interpretations. 48th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Moscow. July 11.

 

2004              Relatively Relatives: On the Status of Au Pairs in English Families and British Kinship Studies Graduate seminar: Artefacts in Fieldwork & Theory, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. May 17.

 

2003              ÔWhy so easy?Õ or ÔWhy so late?Õ: Collapse of Late Socialism from Post-Communist Perspectives. Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. April 29.

 

2001              Information Technology in Anthropology. Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. December 3.

 

2001                          Do we need a Ôstrong programmeÕ in the anthropology of the supernatural? Presented at the First Working Seminar of the Young European Scholars of Siberia, Borek u Suchomast, Czech Republic. September 23.

 

2001                          Relatives with no genealogy? The heterogeneous construction of au pairs. Presented at the Sixth Biograf Conference, Borek u Suchomast, Czech Republic. May 26.

 

1998              Telengits of the UstÕ-Ulagan district. National Museum – Naprstek Museum of African, American and Asian Cultures. Libechov, Czech Republic. November 12.


Related professional experience

 

Editing

 

1999-                        Co-founder and editorial board member of Cargo - journal of socio-cultural anthropology, Prague, Czech Republic

 

Co-ordinator

 

2004              Co-ordinator of Symposium on Inner Asian Statecraft and technologies of governance, Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. March 18.-19.

 

2002              Organiser of lecture series by Dr. Alexander King (University of California, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology) Anthropology of Koryaks. Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. March 13.-15.

 

2001-02        Co-ordinator of non-periodical publications module, NGO Cargo Publishers, Prague, Czech Republic

 

2001                          Main co-organiser of The First Working Seminar of the Young European Scholars of Siberia with Agnieszka Halemba (University of Cambridge). September 22-24 (see www.antropologie.cz/siberia )

 

Exhibitions

 

1998                          Pictures from the Orient. Authorship exhibition of photos from Iran, Pakistan and India. National Museum – Naprstek Museum of African, American, and Asian Cultures. Libechov, Czech Republic. April – August.

 

1996                          Enigmatic Island. Joint exhibition of photos from Iceland with Tomas Hoch and Vaclav Syba. Manes gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. May – June.


References

 

Professor Caroline Humphrey

Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RF, UK

Phone: +441223334588

E-mail: ch10001@cam.ac.uk

http://www.innerasiaresearch.org/caroline_humphrey.htm

 

Dr. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov

Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RF, UK

Phone: +44122333

E-mail: ns267@cam.ac.uk

 

Doc. PhDr. Frantisek Vrhel, CSc

Department of Ethnology, Charles University

Celetna 20, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Phone: +420224491455

E-mail: frantisek.vrhel@ff.cuni.cz

 

Doc. Zdenek Konopasek, PhD

Center for Theoretical Study

Charles University and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Jilska 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Phone: +420221416933

E-mail: konopasek@cts.cuni.cz

http://www.cts.cuni.cz/~konopas/