jana laslavikova

Jana Laslavíková (PhD studies in musicology under Vladimír Zvara) during her studies of musicology in the University of Comenius in Bratislava visited the University of Vienna and attended lectures on music history by Gernot Gruber, Herbert Seifer and Birgit Lodes. In her dissertation she devoted herself to the history of the Municipal Theatre in Pressburg in 1886-1920, following the research of historians on collective identities and memory of the city. As part of her postdoctoral studies, she attended four-month programs at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2017 and 2019. In 2016, she collaborated with the Bratislava City Gallery in preparing an exhibition about the Municipal Theatre in Pressburg. Currently, she works at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, on the Institute of History. In her scientific research, focuses mainly on theatrical life in Pressburg in the 18th and 19th century in the context of the cultural, social and historical changes in the town.