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CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES |
Ivo Budil - Candidate for University President
Docent Ivo Budil, Vice President of SVU, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, is a
candidate for President of the University of West Bohemia in Plzen, Czech Republic.
A native of Prague, he has been associated with the University for seven years. He
studied natural sciences at Charles University (RNDr.,1990), in 1994 was awarded
Ph.D. in sociology, and in 2001 was named Docent in sociology. Between 1991 and 1996
he was associated with the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague
and since 1996 has been teaching at the University of West Bohemia. In 1998 he
became Head of the Department of Social amd Cultural Anthropology and in 1999 and
again in 2002 was elected Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.
He is a member of several science boards of the University of West Bohemia,
Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, Faculty of Humanity Studies of Charles
University, as well as that of University of Pardubice, and Pedagogic Faculty of the
University of West Bohemia. In 2002 he was elected a member of the Academic Senate
of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic amd since 2002 served as a member
of expert commission for social sciences in the Council for Research and
Development, associated with the Government of the Czech Republic.
He is the author of numerous publications, including Mytus, jazyk a kulturni
antropologie (1992,1995,1998, 2003), Za obzor Zapadu (2001) and Od prvotniho jazyka
k rase (2002). He lives in Plzen with his wife Pavla and three children.
Dr. Budil was one of the key players in organizing the very successful SVU World
Congress in Plzen in 2002. The following year the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and
Sciences elected him as SVU Fellow.
SVU Press Release
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