Prof. Alice Koubová
Czech Republic
Prof. Alice Koubova's academic career has a focus on philosophy, communication, and performance. She has held multiple positions in the Czech Academy of Sciences, including serving as Coordinator of the Strategy 21 Programme "Resilient Society for the 21st Century" in 2021-2022 and "Forms and Functions of Communication" in 2020-2021. Since 2019, she has been the Vice-head of the Department of the Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. Additionally, she is currently the Vice-dean for research at the Theatre Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague. Her research domains include performance philosophy, artistic research, poststructuralism, ethics, corporeality, identity, and applied philosophy. Prof. Koubova has also been a lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague since 2008 and was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague from 2005-2008.
She has widely published in internationally recognised journals and publishing houses. She is the author of the monographs Self-Identity and Powerlessness (2013, Brill), Beyond the Principle of Identity (2007, Filosofia), and To Think from Second Place. On Performance Philosophy (2019, NAMU) and Donald Winnicott and Political Philosophy (2020 with Petr Urban). She received the Award of the President of the Academy of Sciences for popularization (2019), popularization award (2017), Otto Wichterle Award (2014), Libellus Primus Award (2008) and Josef Hlávka Award (2000).
Professional experience
Prof. Alice Koubova has extensive experience in professional associations and is holding various positions, including Head of the Attestation Committee and member of the Editorial Board for several journals. She is also a Core convener of the Performance Philosophy network and a member of the Academic Board for Theory and Criticism and Authorial Acting and Pedagogy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Prof. Koubova has taught various courses related to philosophy, art, ethics, and theater at several universities in the Czech Republic and has led courses in hermeneutics, contact improvisation, and dialogical acting. She has also participated in various summer schools, including the Francophone summer school "Action" in Prague and the Summer school in Architecture in Liberec.
Education
Prof. Alice Koubova received her PhD in Philosophy from the University Paris X Nanterre and Charles University in Prague in December 2005, where her thesis was titled "Au-delà du principe d’identité - compréhension et être au monde" and was awarded summa cum laude. In 2004, she obtained a DEA (Diplôme des études approfondies) in Philosophy of the Person, Phenomenology, Epistemology, and Ethics from the University of Geneva. Prior to her philosophical studies, she also earned a PhD in Mathematics (Flow dynamics and mathematical modeling) from Charles University, Prague in 2001, with a summa cum laude distinction.
Czech Republic
- Place of affiliation
- Lagaay, A., Bebek, C., Holkenbrink, J., Koubová, A., Makhali, S., & Seitz, A. (2017). The Conference as Performance Manifesto for the 3rd Biennial Performance Philosophy Conference in Prague 2017:“How does Performance Philosophy act?–Ethos, Ethics, Ethnography”. transcript-Verlag.
- Lagaay, A., Bebek, C., Holkenbrink, J., Koubová, A., Makhali, S., & Seitz, A. (2017). The Conference as Performance Manifesto for the 3rd Biennial Performance Philosophy Conference in Prague 2017:“How does Performance Philosophy act?–Ethos, Ethics, Ethnography”. transcript-Verlag.
- Koubova, A. (2016). Ludic principle: reinterpreting the concept of well-being. CESKOSLOVENSKA PSYCHOLOGIE, 60, 31-40.
- Koubová, A. (2014). Invisible excess of sense in social interaction. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 1081.
- Koubova, A. (2014). The Ethics of the Rejected and the Victim's Morality: On Human and Inhuman in Adorno, Butler and Amery. Filozofia, 69(7), 549-557.
- Lagaay, A., & Koubová, A. (2014). Performing the Impossible in Philosophy. Encounters in Performance Philosophy, 39-62.
- Koubova, A. (2013). Experimental Investigation of the Structure of Experience.
- Koubová, A. (2011). The non-signifying gesture of the living body. Biosemiotics, 4(2), 127-147.
- Koubova, A. (2010). Dream, body and spirit. The topology of experience.
