Keynote Speakers

Stephen Brain, Mississippi State University, USA

Dr. Brain is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. His research interests include Soviet and Russian History, Environmental History, and Forest History. He is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics. He is also Co-Editor of Environmental History, the journal of the American Society for Environmental History and the Society for Forest History, and a Fulbright Scholar.

Doubravka Olšáková Charles University, Czechia

Doubravka Olšáková is a Czech historian. She specializes in Czech and European history of the 19th and 20th centuries. She studied political science and international territorial studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. She focuses on the period of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, but also on the present in a historical context. She is also the author of a number of professional studies and monographs.

Updated: 16. 12. 2025