A NNA D U RNO VÁ
Dr. (Political Science)
Ph. D. (Comparative Philology)
Born: 31.8.1980 in Brno (CZ)
Email: anna.durnova@univie.ac.at
R ESEARCH INTERESTS
Discourse Studies, Interpretive Methods, Policy Studies, Governance & Healthcare policies, European
Politics, Contemporary Political Theory,
T RAINING
2009 Doctor, Political Science, University of Vienna
“Towards a Politics of Intimacy: Policies on Dying in European Societies.”
Advisor: Herbert Gottweis
Doctor, Comparative Philology, Masaryk University, Brno 2008
“A la recherche d’une frontière. Philippe Jaccottet et Reiner Kunze en tant que poètes et traducteurs“.
Advisor: Petr Kyloušek,
2005
2004
Master, Political Science, University of Vienna
Master, French and German Philology, Masaryk University, Brno
2003 Maîtrise de Linguistique et Littérature Française, Université Paris - Sorbonne Nouvelle
A CADEMIC A WARDS
2005 “Prix Gallica”, Award of the Czech National Association of French Studies for the best Diploma Thesis 2004/2005
A CADEMIC & P ROFESSIONAL A PPOINTMENTS
Since October
2012
January - April
2012
July 2010
- September 2012
July 2010
July 2009
- June 2010
Postdoctoral Researcher – Hertha Firnberg
Austrian Funding Agency / Department of Political Science,
University of Vienna
Visiting Research Fellow
Department of Government, University of Essex
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Life-Science Governance Research Platform, University of Vienna
Visiting Lecturer, University of Belgrade, Serbia
(The concept of Body in Social Sciences)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Laboratoire des Economies des Transport, ENTPE,
Université de Lyon, France
Lecturer, National School for Public Policy (ENTPE), France, April – June 2010
(Methods in Social Sciences)
March – June 2009 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Charles University Prague,
(Discourse & Policy Analysis, Chapters of Biopolitics)
since 2009 Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Department of Romanistic Studies,
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November 2009
October 2008
since October 2006 since February
2006
October 2005
-February 2009
Masaryk University, Brno, (Interpretation & Discourse Studies)
Visiting Lecturer, Department for Studies of Eastern Asia,
University of Vienna (Methodology of Social Science: Interpretation)
Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS),
King’s College London, (Philosophy of Social Sciences)
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna,
(Comparative Political Science, Discourse Approaches &
Policy Studies, Emotions and Policy Studies)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Romanistic Studies,
Masaryk University Brno, (Theory of Language & Discourse Studies)
Doctoral Research Fellow,
Life-Science-Governance Research Platform, University of Vienna
March
-September 2005
September 2004
-February 2005
September 2006
December 2004
Research & Teaching Assistance,
Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
Administrative Manager & Contract Researcher
Research Group Transformation In Public Policy (TIPP),
University of Vienna
A CADEMIC F ELLOWSHIPS
December 2009
March – June 2009
Fellowship of the Political Studies Association (Official Representative,
Political Studies Association, New Zealand Political Studies Association
Annual Meeting 2009, University of Auckland)
MOEL- Fellowship, Austrian Science Society (ÖFG), Charles University
Prague, Department of Political Science
Fellowship of German Academic Exchange Agency (DAAD)
Neuphilologische Fakultät, Karl-Eberhard Universität , Tübingen
Research Fellow of the French Government (Boursière du Gouvernement
Français), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
C ONFERENCES & I NVITED TALKS S ELECTION
17 th – 20 th
October 2012
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8 th th
– 7 th July 2012
April 2012 th
25
– 7
February 2012 th -27 th th
August 2011
Joint Meeting of the European Association of Studies in Science and
Technology (EAST) and Society for Social Study of Science (4S) hosted by the University of Copenhagen, Paper giver “Politics of Intimacy:
Rethinking the End-of-Life Controversy.”
7 th Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference hosted by University of Tilburg.
Panel convenor : [together with Michael Orsini] Emotions in Policy Analysis
PSA General Conference, hosted by the University of Belfast,
Panel convenor: [together with Mathias Delori] “Re-visiting Language-Based
Approaches to Policy Analysis” & Discussant
Invited Talk, Department of Government, University of Essex:
“Governing Through Intimacy”
6 th ECPR General Conference, University of Reykjavik, Iceland. Panel convenor: [together with Mathias Delori] “Re-visiting Language-Based
Approaches to Policy Analysis”. Paper: “It is the other stupid. Explanatory
Value of French Discourse Linguistics for Policy Analysis”
Essex Critical Political Theory Conference,
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15 th – 17 th
June 2011
2 nd -5 th
September 2010
University of Essex, Colchester: Paper: “‘It is the other stupid.’ Explanatory
Value of French Discourse Linguistics for Poststructuralist Political Theory.”
Annual Meeting of American Political Studies Association,
Washington D.C. Section “Critical Policy Studies”, Paper:
“Governing Through Intimacy: Sharing Meanings
3 rd
November 2010
In Healthcare Policy Formulations”
Université Franche-Comté Besancon, Invited Talk:
“S’en laver les mains: A propos du mariage de raison entre Science et Politique.”
[Washing hands: Marriage of Reason between Science and Politics]
30 th
– 1
November st
2009
December
NZPSA 2009, Conference of the New Zealand Political Studies Association, hosted by the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland,
NZ. Paper: “Towards emotion sensitive policy analysis – example of politics of intimacy”
28 th October
-2 nd November
2009
Annual Meeting, Society for Social Study of Science,
Washington, DC, USA. Paper: “Investigating Intimacy in the Social Study of
Science: Policies on Dying.”
21 st – 23
2009 rd June
4 th Conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis, University of Kassel,
Germany: Panel Convenor & Chair: Emotions in Policy Analysis: Theory and
Interpretation. Paper: “Investigating Intimacy: Research on Dying Policies”.
7 th -9 th
April 2009
59 th Political Studies Association Annual Conference,
University of Manchester. Panel Convenor: “Emotions as political and interpretative triggers”, Paper: “(Re)searching a political space for emotions: the case of end-of-life policies.”
19 th – 21 st June
2008
3rd International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis,
University of Essex, UK. Paper: “Pragmatic Linguistics Re-visited within the
Interpretative Policy Analysis: Discourses on Dying”.
6th – 9th
September 2007
4 th General Conference of European Consortium of Political Research
(ECPR), University of Pisa. Paper: “To die or not to die: Professionalizing the
Empathy as a New Practice for End-of-life Policy.”
C OORDINATED P ROJECTS
Since October
2012
September 2009
-June 2010
Coordinator: “Negotiating Truth: Discourses on Hand Washing Semmelweis and Politics of Emotions” funded by Hertha-Firnberg Programme, Austrian
Funding agency
Budget: 180. 000 €
Coordinator [together with Philippe Zittoun], 5 th International Interpretive
Policy Analysis Conference, Institute of Political Studies, Grenoble, France.
[Funding: French Political Science Association,
PACTE – Research Center for Public Policy Grenoble, Institute of Political
Studies of Grenoble, University of Lyon, City of Grenoble, “Rhônes-Alpes“ ]
Budget 65.000€
2008 - 2009
June 2007
-November 2007
Coordinator of the Serie of Methodological Workshops,
Faculty of Social Sciences “Methodenwerkstatt”, University of Vienna
[External Funding by Austrian Ministry of Science: 10.000€]
Budget: 30.800€
Coordinator of the International Conference: „Testing Genes, profiling DNA:
Global Governance of Genomics between hopes, duties and security“, Brno,
Czech Republic. Cooperation with Mendel Centre in Brno, Charles University
Prague, Central European University Budapest.
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[External Funding: “ASO”, Centre for Social Innovation, Vienna: 6.000€]
Budget: 15.000€ since 2008
2007 - 2008
2006 - 2008
O THER COOPERATION since 2011 University of Amsterdam (Dvora Yanow), University de Montfort (Steven
Griggs), CESES, Charles University Prague (Martin Nekola and Martin
Potůček): Prague Workshop in Interpretive Policy Analysis since 2010 European Institute, Florence (Matthias Delori): Organisation of panel series
“Revisiting language-based approaches to Policy Analysis” convened at 61 st PSA
Annual Meeting in London 2011 and the 6 th ECPR conference 2011, hosted by University of Reykjavik
Europhilosophie, Université Tolouse II -Mirail (Jean-Christophe Goddard,
Arnaud François, Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc): Lecturer in the Annual Summer
Academy on Philosophy and Social Sciences,
“Organisation of Francophone Research in Social Sciences” (OFFRES)
Max F. Perutz Laboratories (Erwin Heberle-Bors) & Medical University
of Vienna (Georg Weitzer): Life-Science-Governance Seminar,
Interdisciplinary seminar for MA students
Centre for Applied Ethics, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany & EUBIOS
Ethics Institute: Vice-Coordinator of the European Summer Academy of
Bioethics, under the patronage of UNESCO’s International Bioethics
Committee [teaching workshops on end-of-life issues, dissemination, assistance in organization of keynote addresses]
R EVIEWS & A CADEMIC F UNCTIONS
Reviews for Journals: Evidence & Policy; Central European Journal of Public Policy;
Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy; Critical Policy Studies;
Politologická Revue
Other Reviews: National Funding Agency of Czech Republic (GAČR);
Diploma Thesis Award of Austrian Association of Political Science (ÖGPW);
Austrian Academic Exchange Society (ÖAAD)
Spokesperson of POWI 04: the Initiative for Graduates, Austrian Association of Political Science
Editor: Austrian Journal for Political Science (ÖZP), Critical Policy Studies (Book Review Editor)
Special Guest Editor: Austrian Journal for Political Science (1/2010), Revue Française de Science
Politique (4/2011) ; European Political Science
Advisory Board Member: 5 th Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference Grenoble
Organizing Committee Member: 6 th Interpretive Policy Analysis Cardiff; 5 th Interpretive Policy
Analysis Conference Grenoble
O THER
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Since 2008
July 2008
2005 - 2008
Columnist on European Politics (social policy, health care policy, populism)
Hospodářské Noviny, Týden
Lecturer at “KinderUni”, Summer University for Children, University of Vienna.
Course “What does it mean to be at the end of life?” (Summary diffused on
Österreich1, 1 st November 2009)
Interpreter: Moravian Gallery Brno (German), E.ON (German), Wahr-Falsch
Pallaver 2006 (German), Podium discussion organized by Graduate Centre of the
University of Vienna (English)
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