Name

Lasse Kristensen

Country of residence

Czech Republic

Professional position

Freelance educator and guide

Academic degree

Cand.Mag.

Institution / Place of work

Freelance

Personal website

www.prag.unas.cz

E-mail

lasse @ post.cz

Language skills

Scandinavian, English, Czech, French

Area of interest (region, country)

Czech lands and Central Europe

Area of interest (thematic interests)

Coming to terms with the past(s) (e.g. Communism and Nationalism)

Personal data

of Danish nationality; born by left-wing parents in the year of the founding of the liberal human-rights organization Charta 77; live in the Czech Republic since president Klaus introduced his neo-conservative nationalism in 03.

Education

Cand.Mag. in European Ethnology, University of Copenhagen; degree program in History of Ideas, University of Oslo; Central European Studies Program and language programs, Masaryk University, Brno

Work Experience

Editorial assistant at the internet-magazine Transitions Online, www.tol.org; tourist guide; language teacher

Participation in conferences and seminars

29. Nordiske Etnolog- og Folkloristkongres, Helsingør 2003, presentation: "Will the Czech Republic still be a Sovereign Country?"; UNICA Studentconference Unity and Diversity in Europe, Amsterdam 2004; The 7. Days of Polyphonic Ethnology, Warszawa 2004; research training course "The Concept of Time in Post-Soviet Studies", Tallinn 2005.

2003. "Studier i postkommunistisk hverdag" Politiken. 26. januar 2003, uddannelsestillæg

2004. "Will the Czech Republic still be a Sovereign Country?" Nord Nytt - nordisk tidsskrift for etnologi og folkloristik.  Nr. 91. p. 43-61

2005. "Den nye kejsers klæder - Horní Benesovs transatlantiske og historiske tråde" Jordens Folk - etnografisk tidsskrift. Nr. 1

2005. "Tjekkoslovakiets eksempel" Arbejderhistorie - tidsskrift for historie, kultur og politik. Forthcoming.

2005. "Ungkommunistisk entusiasme og begyndelsen på Den kolde krig" historie-nu.dk - netmagasinet. Forthcoming.