PhDr. Ondřej Matějka, Ph.D.

Ondřej Matějka studied modern European history (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University; Princeton University; École Normale Supérieure, Paris; University of Geneva) and the sociology of religion (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), which form the basis of his original research and teaching interests: social science methodology, the history of religious communities, and transnational phenomena in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2010, he has undertaken several psychotherapy training programmes, and since 2022 he has been a candidate in the Czech Psychoanalytical Society (IPA). He is therefore currently engaged with topics at the intersection of his two key areas of interest (the history of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and the application of psychoanalytic thinking in the social sciences). He also works in private psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic practice.

Transnational history of Central Europe in the 20th century; social history of religion in the Czech lands; contemporary history of France; psychoanalysis and social sciences

Monographs

• Pešek J., Bečka J., Emler D., Filipová L., Kolenovská D., Lach J., Lohmann N., Matějka O., Nigrin T., Svobodný P., & Vykoukal J. (2013). Napříč kontinentem soudobých dějin. Evropská historiografie po konci studené války. Argo.

Chapters in monographs

• Matějka O. (2007). L'histoire en Republique tcheque. Guide de l'etudiant europeen en sciences sociales (pp. 291-301).
• Matějka O. (2009). Čeští luteráni 1861-1918 : od emancipace k unii. Luteráni v českých zemích v proměnách staletí (pp. 219-309).
• Matějka O. (2009). Die tschechischen protestantischen Kirchen. Handbuch der Religions- und Kirchengeschichte der bohmischen Lander und Tschechiens im 20. Jahrhundert (pp. 147-164).
• Matějka O. (2011). History in the Czech Republic. A student's guide to European universities: sociology, political science, geography and history (pp. 73-83).
• Matějka O., Maršálek J., & Monteil G. (2011). The university system in the Czech Republic. A student's guide to European universities: sociology, political science, geography and history (pp. 63-71).
• Matějka O. (2012). Entre les sciences sociales et la construction de la "société socialiste". Une perspective générationnelle. Individus sous controle (pp. 105-153).
• Matějka O. (2016). Erziehung zur "Weltbürgerlichkeit" Der Einfluss des YMCA auf die tschechoslowakische Jugend der Zwischenkriegszeit. Jugend in der Tschechoslowakei : Konzepte und Lebenswelten (1918-1989) (pp. 153-179).
• Matějka O. (2017). Dialogues on Religion in a "Socialist Society" under Construction: Marxist Social Scientists and Czech Protestants, 1940s-60s. (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968: Senses of Belonging Below, Beyond and Within the Nation-State (pp. 238-259).
• Matějka O. (2017). Skleněný dům. Farář a jeho rodina v českém evangelickém prostředí 1861-1918. Poslední staročech : k 70. narozeninám Jiřího Raka (pp. 163-177).
• Matějka O. (2018). Social Engineering and Alienation between East and West: Czech Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the 1960s from the National Level to the Global Arena. Planning in Cold War Europe : Competition, Cooperation, Circulations (1950s-1970s) (pp. 165-186).
• Matějka O. (2013). Uses of a "Generation": The Case of the Czech "68ers". History by Generations: Generational Dynamics in Modern History (pp. 258-278).
• Matějka O. (2022). Between Simplification and Absurdity: The Czech Protestant Milieu, "New Orientation" and the Secret Police. The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe (pp. 192-209).
• Matějka O. (2021). Forging a "Winning Spirit": The North American YMCA and the Czechoslovak Army, 1918-1921. In the Shadow of the Great War : Physical Violence in East-Central Europe (pp. 142-162).
• Matějka O. (2022). 'The 'Proton Pseudos' of Our Life After May 1945': Czech Protestants and the Expulsion of Sudeten Germans. Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe, 1944-48: Reshaping the Nation (pp. 165-194).
• Matějka O. (2024). Josef Lukl Hromádka. Biografický slovník českých zemí: Hr-Hüb (pp. 211-212).
• Christian M., Kott S., & Matějka O. (2018). Planning in Cold War Europe: Introduction. Planning in Cold War Europe : Competition, Cooperation, Circulations (1950s-1970s) (pp. 1-18).

Articles

• Matějka O. (2007). Apprendre a vivre dans une dictature : le milieu protestant tcheque et le regime communiste 1948-1956. Transitions, 47(2), 13-31.
• Matějka O. (2007). "Jsou to berani, ale můžeme je využít" : čeští evangelíci a komunistický režim v 1948-1956. Soudobé dějiny, 14(2-3), 305-340.
• Matějka O. (2011). Michal Kopeček, Hledání ztraceného smyslu revoluce. Zrod a počátky marxistického revizionismu ve střední Evropě 1953-1960. Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Studia Territorialia, 11(2), 105-108.
• Matějka O. (2013). Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Jurgen Kocka (ed.): Comparative and Transnational History. Central European Approaches and New Perspectives. Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Zürich, Neuveden(2/2013), 155-156.
• Matějka O. (2014). To už se nedá poslouchat: Instrumentalizace rodinné paměti v rodinné dynamice. Biograf, Neuveden(59), 67-72.
• Matějka O. (2016). Havelka, Miloš a kolektiv: Víra, kultura a společnost. Náboženské kultury v českých zemích 19. a 20. století. Bohemia: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kunst der böhmischen Länder, 55(2), 409-411.
• Matějka O. (2020). Unique connections. Uses of the transnational social capital of Czech pastors in the Cold War 1940s-1960s. Cultural and Social History, 17(1), 113-130. UT-WOS link
• Matějka O. (2019). Un mur contre le bolchevisme? La Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) dans la Tchécoslovaquie de l'entre-deux-guerres. Mouvement Social, neuveden(267), 25-46. UT-WOS link
• Matějka O. (2019). Editorial. Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Studia Territorialia, 19(1), 7-9.
• Matějka O., & Sailerová V. (2024). Práce s tělem, práce v těle – otázky nad kontexty a možnostmi p(r)otkávání terapeutických teritorií biosyntézy a psychoanalýzy. Psychoterapie, 18(2), 1-12.
• Christian M., Kott S., & Matějka O. (2017). International Organizations in the Cold War: The Circulation of Experts Beyond the East-West Divide. Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Studia Territorialia, 17(1), 35-60.

Contributions in the conference proceedings

• Matějka O. (2019). A Long Evangelical Spring? The Czech Protestant Milieu and Communist Reformers between 1963 and 1977. The Prague Spring as a Laboratory (pp. 143-162).

PROGRES

2014-2015 SCIEX fellowship: Transnational History of Central European Modernisation in Interwar Period: Case Study on the Czechoslovak YMCA
2015-2019 Fonds national suisse project – “Shared or Competing Modernities. Europe between East and West 1920s-1970s”
2015-2016 Partnerhsip Fund (University of Geneva): “Transfer of knowledge and new methodologies in the area of research on contemporary European history from transnational perspective"