Dr. Benjamin Tallis

Seniorní nerezidentní výzkumník, Ústav mezinárodních vztahů


Přehled


Zaměstnání

2015–současnost: výzkumný pracovník, ÚMV, Praha
2015–2016: koordinátor Centra pro evropskou bezpečnost
2014: externí spolupracovník ÚMV, koordinátor Centra pro evropskou bezpečnost, ÚMV, Praha   
2014–současnost: šéfredaktor New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central & East European Politics and International Relations
2011–současnost: lektor mezinárodních vztahů, Anglo-American University, Praha
2008–současnost: žurnalista na volné noze, autor článků a komentátor pro různé evropské mediální zdroje
2006–2007: referent pro strategii, plánování a výkon (ekvivalent P3, diplomatický status),  Mise EU pro asistenci s hranicemi v Moldávii a na Ukrajině (EUBAM), Oděsa, Ukrajina
2004–2005: strategický analytik a projektový manažér (ekvivalent P3, diplomatický status), Policejní mise EU (EUPOL) „Proxima“, Skopje
2003: analytik, policejní rozvojová jednotka, Mise OBSE monitorující přelévání (spillover) pro Skopje
2001–2002: analytik, finance investičního bankovnictví, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Londýn

 Vzdělání

2010–2015: Doktorské studium (získaný titul: PhD) v oboru Mezinárodní politika, University of Manchester. Plně financované stipendium od ESRC. Diplomová práce: ‘A Moveable East: Identities, Borders & Orders in the Enlarged EU and Its Eastern Neighbourhood’ (Pohyblivý východ: Identity, hranice a řády v rozšířené EU a jejím východním sousedství).
2009–2010: Magisterské studium (získaný titul: MA) v oboru Mezinárodní politika (International Relations Pathway) s vědecko-výzkumnou průpravou, University of Manchester.
2002–2003: Magisterské studium (získaný titul: MA) v oboru Současná evropská studia (Euromasters), University of Bath a Karlova univerzita v Praze.
1998–2001: Bakalářské studium (získaný titul: BA Hons) v oboru Ekonomie, University of Sheffield

 Jazyky

angličtina – plynule, rodilý mluvčí
čeština – střední znalost
němčina – nižší střední znalost
ruština – základní/pasivní znalost

 Oblasti zájmu

Evropská bezpečnost
Hranice, politika hranic a jejich vytváření (politics of bordering)
Kritická geopolitika a politická geografie
Politika střední a východní Evropy
Post-komunismus a politika tranzice
Zahraniční, bezpečnostní, a sousedská politika a politika spravedlnosti a vnitřních věcí EU
Političnost kultury, zvlášť architektonická a materiální politika paměti
Kritický pragmatismus a interpretativní metodologie výzkumu

 Členství

  • 2010–současnost: Člen International Studies Association (ISA) a ISA International Political Sociology (IPS) a jejich sekcí pro postkomunistické státy.
  • 2010–2014: Člen skupiny ‘Poststructuralist and Critical Thought Cluster’ (Skupina pro poststrukturalistické a kritické myšlení) v University of Manchester.
  • 2013–současnost: Člen European International Studies Association (EISA).

 Pedagogická činnost

Garant a přednášející kurzů

  • Human Security & Terrorism - Perspectives on Contemporary Security (taught 5 times at AAU – 2012-2016) BA/MA
  • Humans on the Move: current aspects of migration in Europe (Charles University, 2015) MA
  • Theories of International Relations (3 times at AAU – 2011-2013). MA
  • Critical & Alternative Approaches to International Politics (AAU, 2012) BA/MA
  • Power Structures - Architecture, Politics & The City (AAU, 2013). BA/MA


Přednášející kurzů

  • Politics of Globalisation – University of Manchester 2013-14 BA
  • Politics of Development University of Manchester 2013-14 BA

 Další profesní aktivity

  • 2015–současnost: Pravidelné  a časté konzultace pro ministerstva České republiky, ambasády EU, severoamerických a asijských zemí, také pro politiky a média z celého světa.
  • 2014: Svolal panel při ISA Annual Convention 2014 (Každoroční konference ISA pro rok 2014) v Torontu s názvem Putting Research in Its Place: Critical Pragmatism and the Negotiation of Proximity in the Production of Useful Knowledge (Zkoumat na správném místě: Kritický pragmatismus a vyjednávání blízkosti v produkci užitečných vědomostí).
  • 2013: Pozvaný přednášející při události ‘Creative Mornings: Prague’ (Kreativní rána: Praha). Zde mluvil k veřejnému publiku o způsobech, jak lze rozumět prostoru a hranicím. Jeho přednáška byla předmětem hlavní zprávy v globálním zpravodaji Creative Mornings Newsletter, který se aktuálně posílá 30,000 lidem po celém světě.
  • 2013: Organizoval The 2nd Prague Security Conference – Security & the City (2. pražská bezpečnostní konference – Bezpečnost a město) v Anglo-American University v Praze. Konference měla 5 panelů s hostujícími referenty z University of Manchester a Central European University v Budapešti. Projekt byl podporován Visegradským fondem.
  • 2013: Vítěz soutěže ‘Images of Research’ (Obrazy výzkumu) při Manchester Science Festival (Manchesterský festival vědy).
  • 2012: Organizoval The 1st Prague Security Conference – Security Now! Perspectives on Contemporary Security (1. pražská bezpečnostní konference – Bezpečnost teď! Perspektivy na současnou bezpečnost) v Anglo-American University v Praze. Konference měla 4 panely a hlavní projev od hostujícího přednášejícího z University of Manchester Dr. Emmanuela-Pierra Guitteta.
  • 2012: Svolal panel při ISA Annual Convention 2012 (Každoroční konference ISA za rok 2012) v San Diegu s názvem Into the Borderscape: Operationalising the Borderscape Concept .

 Publikace

Knihy a kapitoly knih

  • (2014): The Unbearable Lightness of Being Ignored; Panel Stories. In: Armand, Louis (ed.) Abolishing Prague. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia (re-printed in a new edited collection).
  • (2013): Panel Stories: Public Lies & Private Lives in Paneláks and Sídlištěs. Vlak 4, Prague, London, New York, Melbourne, Paris, Amsterdam: Eqqus Press.
  • (2012): The Unbearable Lightness of Being Ignored: Czech Brutalist Architecture. Vlak 3, Prague, London, New York, Melbourne, Paris, Amsterdam: Eqqus Press.

Odborné články (impaktované a recenzované)

Ostatní odborné texty

  • (2018): Editorial: ‘The World is (Not) Heated’ (editorial). New Perspectives, 1/2018.
  • (2017): Editorial: Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light. New Perspectives 01/2017, available also at http://ceenewperspectives.iir.cz/2017/05/16/waiting-for-the-dark-waiting-for-the-light/
  • Šimečka, Michal – Tallis, Benjamin (2016): Czech Strategic Partnerships: A Practice in Need of a Vision. Policy paper of the IIR, September 2016.
  • Beneš, Vít – Kratochvíl, Petr – Šimečka, Michal –Tallis, Benjamin (2015): The EU and the Refugees: The Way Forward. Policy paper Prague European Summit, s. 28–37.
  • (2015): Migration as a (future) challenge for V4 countries. Preparation of Section on Schengen and Common EU Border and Migration Challenges for Think Visegrad Report, 11/2015.
  • (2015): Migration as a (future) challenge for V4 countries: The Czech Republic - for Think Visegrad Project, 11/2015.
  • Šimečka, Michal – Tallis, Benjamin (2015): Migration in the Contemporary Context: Potential Consequences for Czech and Slovak Societies. VI Czech-Slovak (MFA) discussion forum, 11/2015.
  • Šimečka, Michal – Tallis, Benjamin (2015): Polish and Czech security policy: A (no) discrepancy report. Warsaw: CSM, Reports 08/2015.
  • Šimečka, Michal – Tallis, Benjamin (2015): Toward a European Global Strategy: Scope for Visegrad Cooperation. Prepared for CZ MFA, 07/2015.
  • Šimečka, Michal – Tallis, Benjamin (2015): A New Security Strategy for Europe: Framing the Discussion. Prepared for Seminar at CZ MFA, 18. 3 . 2015.
  • (2015): EU Response to the Migration Crisis: Too Little, But Not Too Late. European Security Spotlight, No. 12.
  • Tallis, Benjamin – Wittichová, Markéta: Offshoring Security: Protecting Migrants and the Schengen Zone. European Security Spotlight, No. 11.
  • (2015): Security Tri-lemma: The UK’s Nuclear Deterrent. European Security Spotlight, No.9.
  • (2015): Ukrainian Mobility: An Opportunity Not a Threat to the EU. European Security Spotlight, No. 8.
  • (2015): From Vicious to Virtuous: Transforming the Ukraine Crisis. European Security Spotlight, No. 6.

 Publicistika a vybraná mediální vystoupení

2018

2017

2016

Starší

  • I slunce vychází. Reportér, 12/2015.
  • The Sun Also Rises. Reporter, 12/2015.
  • Where would mooted  Mini-Schengen leave states like Czech Republic. Radio Prague, 20. 11. 2015.
  • A Migrant's Story. Reporter, 10/2015.
  • Czech stance on refugees could risk gains of last 25 years. Radio Prague, 5. 10. 2015.
  • Fighting the wrong battle: Central Europe’s crisis is one of liberal democracy, not migration. OpenDemocracy, London UK, 4. 9. 2015. (spoluautor Michal Šimečka).
  • Discussing migration. Horizont ČT24, 18. 8. 2015.
  • Discussing migration. Slovak National Radio News, 19. 5. 2015.
  • Discussing migration. Slovak National Radio News, 18. 5. 2015.
  • Tallis, Benjamin – Daniel, Jan – Šimečka, Michal (2015): Europe’s Migration Crisis: Central Europe’s Dangerous Game. Open Democracy, London, UK, 18. 5. 2015.
  • Tallis, Benjamin – Daniel, Jan – Šimečka, Michal (2015): Europe’s Migration Crisis: An Alternative View from Central Europe. Visegrad Insight, Warsaw, Poland, 13. 5. 2015.
  • Tallis, Benjamin – Daniel, Jan – Šimečka, Michal (2015): Evropská unie by přežila ve vládě i Tomia Okamuru. Respekt, 7. 5. 2015.
  • Discussing migration. Horizont ČT24, 23. 4. 2015.
  • No end of history, no end of politics, but limits to critique? Visegrad Insight, 2. 2. 2015.
  • Shine on: Bat’a, Zlin and the Spirit of Modernism. The Modernist, UK, 12/2014.
  • Nanovo: From the Cosy Dens of Another Time. The Modernist, UK, 2014.
  • Divided Heaven: The Prague TV Tower. The Modernist, UK, 10/2014.
  • 2013 – One of three expert interviewees contributing the bulk of a feature programme on EU Borders after the introduction and expansion of the Schengen zone on Czech Radio (Český Rozhlas). 20 7.  2013. http://www.rozhlas.cz/plus/cizinci (Zase pasy? Reforma Schengenu a Politika Hranic EU).
  • 2013 – Featured expert interviewee in a feature article in Danish Newspaper Weekendavisen on ‘Eastern Europe: Perceptions and Realities’.
  • 2013 – 2014: My blog, ‘Torn Curtain’ blog has been viewed more than 8,000 times  - www.ceethrough.wordpress.com
  • Karel Teige& The Lost Soul of Modernism. The Modernist, UK, 2013.
  • Velvet Underground: The Prague Metro System’, The Modernist, UK, 2013.
  • The Continuation of Warsaw by Other Means’, The Modernist, UK, 2013.
  • Indecent Exposure: The Czechoslovak Expo ’58 Pavillion, The Modernist, UK, 2012.
  • Concrete Schoolyards: Czech Housing Estates’, The Modernist, UK, 2012.
  • Faith, Hope& Charity: Out of Their Labours and Into Our Lives in Eisenhuettenstadt, Umelec, Czech Republic, 2009
  • 2008 – 2012: Numerous Articles and Opinion Pieces in The Prague Post on Central & East European Politics, Security, Societies and Cultures.

 Příspěvky na seminářích a odborných konferencích

  • EISA Rapallo Exploratory Symposia on Interdisciplinary Work in IR, 31. 10.-2.11.2018.
  • Analytical Foresight’ Workshop, Dahrendorf Forum, LSE and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, 25. 10. 2018.
  • Identities, Borderscapes, (Dis)orders: Understanding the EU’s Migration and Neighbourhood Crises. University of Bielefeld, 24. 10. 2018. https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/worldpolitics/news/files/Plakat_Tallis_24_10.pdf
  • Closed high-level working group on 'Connectivity', SWP Berlin, 2. 10. 2018.
  • Borders and Territories II: Spatial Representations of Connections and Disconnections, 27. 9. 2018. https://www.ancb.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=18596079#.W-Q8tOKNyUl
  • 12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Prague, 12. - 15. 9. 2018. http://www.eisapec18.org/
    • S38G: Post-Critical IR? Practices of Post-Critique.
    • S30B:Secrecy and Methodology in Security Research: Challenges and Strategies.
    • S52V: Still Fog in the Channel: British and European IR.
    • S42F: Europe's Inland Empires: Central and Eastern Europe.
  • Re-Moveable East? Central Europe’s Shifting Identities, Borderscapes and Orders. Eastern Europe – Global Area / Das östliche Europa in globalen Bezügen, 3.- 5. 7. 2018.
  • “A (Re-)Movable East: Central Europe’s migrations to and from the EU-European Core”. “Mobility, migration and the remaking of East European identities in a post-Brexit Europe”, Leipzig, 27. 6. 2018.
  • The Rule of Law Under Threat in Central and Eastern Europe. CEELI INSTITUTE ANNUAL MEETING 2018, 25. 6. 2018.
  • Doppelmensch: Split-Subjectivity, Reflexivity and Creativity and in Post-Critical Security Research. International Political Sociology Seminar, Geneva, 21. 6. 2018.
  • Manufacturing Dissent. the ‘Prague Micro Festival’, 25. 5. and 26. 5. 2018.
  • 5th EISA European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Programme Chair and Organiser (together with Benjamin Herborth of RUG), Groningen, June 06-09, 2018.
  • WS K: Beyond “Campfire IR” – Multiplicity as a new common ground for IR theory. 5th EISA European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Groningen, June 06-09, 2018.
  • Making Fieldwork Work: Even in Insecure & Secure Places and with Difficult or Powerful People. Institute of International Relations Prague, 25. 5. 2018.
  • A Portrait of a Syrian Torturer. Institute of International Relations Prague, 24. 5. 2018.
  • Presentation to a delegation of the French Ministry of Interior, 2/2018.
  • ‘Post-Critical IR?’ Copenhagen, 15.-16.3.2018.
  • ‘World Political Compositions’ San Francisco, 3. 4. 2018.
  • Co-convener: Roundtable TD36: Re-Uses of the Other: New Perspectives on the Return of "the East" in European Geopolitical Imaginaries. ISA's 59th Annual Convention, San Francisco, 4.–7. 4. 2018.
  • What is a Borderscape? Conceptualising the Borderscape to Realise the Potential of Critical Border Studies. Öffentlicher Vortrag im Kolloquium des Centers for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO), Universität Erfurt, 16. 11. 2017.
  • Institutskolloquium: What is a Borderspace? Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, 15. 11. 2017.
  • What is a Borderscape? Conceptualising the Borderscape to Address Problems of Critical Border Studies, EEGA, Leipzig, 13. 11. 2017.
  • Building Europe through Democratic Processes. Schebek Palace, Prague, 18. 9. 2017.
  • Lost Futures, Lost Worlds: (Central) Europe and ‘the (Post) International’. 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: "The Politics of International Studies in an Age of Crises," Barcelona, 13.-16.9. 2017.
  • Worlds Known to we who dwell in/on them: Re(dis)covering Landscape in Social and Political Research. 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: "The Politics of International Studies in an Age of Crises," Barcelona, 13.-16.9. 2017.
  • What is a Borderscape? 4th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), Cardiff, 7. -10. 6. 2017.
  • What happens after finding refuge? The integration of Syrian refugees in Germany and Turkey, Global Turkey in Europe, Berlin, 8. 5. 2017.
  • Defending the City of the Future. Urban (in)securities, Berlin, 16. 3. 2017.
  • The Pre-History of the Czech Post-International. ISA Annual Convention 2017, Baltimore, 22.-25. 2. 2017.
  • Normativities in International Relations roundtable. ISA Annual Convention 2017, Baltimore, 22.-25. 2. 2017.
  • Organized the panel: (Re-)Interpreting the Encounter, (Re-)Encountering the Interpreter: New Perspectives on CEE encounters in Europe and the Wider World . ISA Annual Convention 2017, Baltimore, 22.-25. 2. 2017.
  • Organized the roundtable: New Perspectives on Central & Eastern Europe’s Role in the Migration Crisis: Responses and Reactions from States, People, Civil Society and the EU. ISA Annual Convention 2017, Baltimore, 22.-25. 2. 2017.
  • Making Europe (inte–) Great again: Recovering Europe‘s Lost Future(s). Jak bude vypadat Evropa a svět za dvacet let. Ústav mezinárodních vztahů. 9. 11. 2016.
  • The End of Normative Power Europe? Institute of International Relations Prague, 10. 10. 2016.
  • Czech Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times 2. 8th International Symposium "Czech Foreign Policy". Czernin Palace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, 22. 9. 2016.
  • The Czech-German Strategic Relationship. 8th International Symposium "Czech Foreign Policy". Czernin Palace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, 21. 9. 2016.
  • After the Bratislava Summit: the State of the Political Dialogue on Europe. 8th International Symposium "Czech Foreign Policy". Czernin Palace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, 21. 9. 2016.
    The Czech-Polish Strategic Relationship. 8th International Symposium "Czech Foreign Policy". Czernin Palace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, 21. 9. 2016.
  • The International, Cosmopolitanism & The Possibility of an Avant Garde. Prague Microfestival, 13. 5. 2016.
  • Conference on Euroscepticism & Migration. Institute for Politics and Society. Prague, 7. 5. 2016.
  • Finding Strategy, Losing Identity/ Assembling Strategy, Assembling Identity. The European International Studies Association (EISA)- European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS). Germany, 6–8. 4. 2016.
  • Twilight Zones.  ISA Annual Convention 2016, Atlanta, Georgia 16–19. 3. 2016.
  • Protect me from What I want. ISA Annual Convention 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, 16–19. 3. 2016.
  • Chair at two pannels at ISA Annual Convention 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, 16–19. 3. 2016.
  • Chair & Discussan: Europe’s Migration and Refugee Crisis: Impacts on Euroatlantic Security and Solidarity.  Euroatlantic Security: A Pre-Warsaw Assessment, Czernin Palace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, 29. 2. 2016.
  • Chair and Discussant: Central Europe in the Future EU: A Non-Visegrad Perspective. The 25th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Visegrad Cooperation, Czernin Palace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, 18. 2. 2016.
  • Decentralization and mobility in the post-communist state. From Inspiration to Implementation: Europeanisation Process in Ukraine (InIm), Chernivtsi, Ukraine 22–23. 1. 2016
  • New Fences/Nove Ploty 2015. Presentation on 'Europe Re-divided?' Migration, Schengen and the EU, 17. 11. 2015.
  • The Mediterranean: How to prevent human tragedies at sea and adopt a viable and sustainable European immigration policy. Prague European Summit 2015, 13. 11. 2015.
  • New Perspectives On Pluridisciplinarity In Central And Eastern Europe. Chair and Discussant. ESA, Prague 25. 8. 2015.
  • Uncanny Territory: How the EU has made Ukraine into both a Buffer Zone and an Unheimlich Borderland. EISA 2015, Sicily, 24. 8. 2015.
  • Innovations in IR theory and the EU’s external relations: Poststructuralism/ IPS 2.0'. EISA 2015, Sicily, (spoluautorka Xymena Kurowska), 24. 8. 2015.
  • Russo-Ukrainian Crisis and the Consequences for the EU. Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí ČR, 11. 6. 2015.
  • A Moveable East: Identities, Borders & Orders in the Enlarged EU and Its Eastern Neighbourhood. Public Lecture at Anglo-Amercian University, Prague, 12. 5. 2015.
  • Lost at Sea: Human Tragedy, Heightened Expecta ons & Low Politics in EU Migration Management in the Mediterranean, ISA 2015, New Orelans, 18. 2. 2015.
  • Storming the Opera House and Other Ways of Getting it Wrong in Ukraine. ISA 2015, New Orelans. 18. 2. 2015.
  • Baguettes, Knife-Fights and Borders: How EU Bordering Contributed to the 2014 Ukraine Crisis. Symposium on Externalised Bordering in Europe and North America (Sympózium o realizovaném vytváření hranic v Evropě a Severní Americe), EU Centre of Excellence (Centrum EU pro excelenci), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2014.
  • Sixth Senses and Fifth Columns: A Practitioner Turned Researcher Returns to the Field of European Security. ISA Annual Convention 2014, Toronto.
  • Eastern Promises Gone West? The Spatial, Temporal and Social Lives of EU Borders in Central & Eastern Europe. ISA Annual Convention 2014, Toronto.
  • EU Borders, Limit Fetish & The Squeezed Ukrainian Middle: How Security and Fundamental Rights Agendas Combine to Limit Mobility for Ukrainians. 8th Pan European Conference on International Relations - EISA, Varšava, 2013.
  • Brutalised Brutalism: A Politics of Architectural Memory and Postcommunist Subjectivity in Czech Republic. 8th Pan European Conference on International Relations - EISA, Varšava, 2013.
  • Stuck in the Middle with You: Critical Pragmatism and Intersubjective Authenticity in Central & Eastern European Security Research. 8th Pan European Conference on International Relations - EISA, Varšava, 2013.
  • Lines, Traces & Tidemarks in the Borderscapes of the Enlarged EU & Its Eastern Neighbourhood. ISA Annual Convention 2013, San Francisco.
  • Into the Borderscape: Towards a Geopolitical Ethnography. ISA Annual Convention 2012, San Diego.
  • Scaling the Digital Fortress: Control as Power and Resistance in the Emerging Hypersocial World. ISA Annual Convention 2011, Montreal.

 Výzkumné projekty

  • 2016: ČR, NATO a budoucnost kolektivní obrany v éře hybridního válčení. Projekt TA ČR Obsahová analýza vybraných oblastí zahraniční politiky ČR č. TB940MZV005 - MP05, hlavní řešitel.
  • 2016: Externí aspekty migrační krize: evropské politiky a příspěvek ČR. Projekt TA ČR BETA č. TB940MZV003 - MP05, hlavní řešitel.
  • 2016: Návrh perspektiv budoucí spolupráce v česko-německém strategickém dialogu a hodnocení jeho realizace. Projekt TA ČR BETA č. TB050MZV008, hlavní řešitel.
  • 2016: Globální strategie EU pro zahraniční a bezpečnostní politiku: proces, obsah a role ČR. Projekt TA ČR BETA č. TB940MZV003 - MP03, spoluřešitel.
  • 2016: Strategická partnerství v zahraniční politice ČR. Projekt TA ČR BETA č. TB940MZV003 - MP04, spoluřešitel.
  • Migration As A (Future) Challenge For V4 Countries. Grantový projekt Think Visegrad (spoluřešitel).




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