Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
Katarína Očková, MSc., PhD., AFHEA
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Očková
I.2 - Name
Katarína
I.3 - Degrees
MSc., PhD., AFHEA
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Institute of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynské luhy 4, 821 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
I.7 - Position
Lecturer
I.8 - E-mail address
katarina.ockova@fses.uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/33266?do=filterForm-submit&surname=O%C4%8Dkov%C3%A1&sort=surname&employment_state=yes&filter=Vyh%C4%BEada%C5%A5
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Social Anthropology
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0001-6196-2156

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2010
II.c - Study field and programme
Social Anthropology
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
II.b - Year
2011
II.c - Study field and programme
Social and Cultural Anthropology
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
University of Edinburgh
II.b - Year
2020
II.c - Study field and programme
Social Anthropology
II.4 - Associate professor
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Lecturer Comenius University in Bratislava 2022 - present
Research Fellow Comenius University in Bratislava 2020 - 2022

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
The title of "AFHEA" - Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy - awarded The Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom 2016

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Contemporary anthropological theories Social Anthropology BA Social Anthropology
Research project and field research Social Anthropology BA Social Anthropology
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
2
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
2
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
6
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
5
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Analysis and data coding Social Anthropology BA Social Anthropology
Anthropology of Eastern Europe Social Anthropology BA Social Anthropology
Anthropology of Kinship Social Anthropology MA Social Anthropology
Applied Anthropology Social Anthropology BA Social Anthropology
Ethnography of Power and Livelihood Social Anthropology MA Social Anthropology

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
2
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
2
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
1
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
1
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Očková, K. (2022) „Nikomu to nehovor“: Rodinné tajomstvá, pocit neistoty a navigovanie „odlišnosti“ u židovskej minority na Slovensku. [“Don’t Tell Anyone”: Family Secrets, Sense of Uncertainty, and Navigating “Otherness” Among the Jewish Minority in Slovakia.] Národopisná Revue. Vol. 32 (1): 22-31.

2

Očková, K. (2023) 'Tense Interactions in Times of Uncertainty'. Urban People / Lidé města. Vol. 25 (2): 135-137.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

‘Transgenerational Holocaust-memory in Central Europe’ (The International Visegrad Fund) 


Nearly eighty years have passed since the tragedy of the Holocaust. The living, communicative memory of a generation of victims and witnesses is slowly being transformed into patterns of cultural memory. Meanwhile, in Central Europe, there has been no collective confrontation in recent decades, no public and comprehensive open social discourse on the memory of the tragedy. The problems of forgetting and silence range from the persistence of antisemitism, hatred of ethnic, cultural, and sexual minorities, political hatred of refugees, to Holocaust denial, and are still present in Central European societies today. In the three decades since the political regime changes, more detailed Holocaust education has been introduced into school history curricula, and commemorative monuments, museums, archives, books, and films have been created to help remember the Holocaust. However, the question arises as to how all this contributes to the perpetuation of Holocaust remembrance. What meanings does Holocaust remembrance have today among different generations? There has been a lot of excellent historical and quantitative sociological research on this so far. However, this research fails to explore and analyse the local and personal empirical depths of the patterns of memory that are constructed and reconstructed in personal narratives. Thus, the aim of our research is to process and interpret recent meanings of Holocaust memory using qualitative social science methods in Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland.

Research Teams:

  • Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences
  • Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Social Sciences
  • AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Humanities
  • Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities


VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Editor in Social Anthropology journal ‘Anthropologica Slovaca’ ‘Anthropologica Slovaca’ 2021 - present
Guest Editor in academic journal 'Lidé města / Urban People’ Charles University in Prague 2022 - 2023
Editor in ‘The Unfamiliar’, Social Anthropology Journal University of Edinburgh 2011 – 2020

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update
2024-12-15