ESPRIT Fellow (2024–2027)

Ivana Ryška Vajdová is ESPRIT Fellow (2024–2027) at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. She holds an M.A. in History and Civic Education (2008) from the University of Prešov (Slovakia) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy and History of Science (2022) from Charles University, Prague. Her list of study visits abroad includes UCL London, Freie Universität Berlin, and Jagiellonian University Krakow as well as research stays in Nijmegen, Zurich, and archives in Basel and Ascona. She is the author of the monograph Idea Nevědomí. Filosofické kořeny C.G. Junga (The Idea of the Unconscious: The Philosophical Roots of C.G. Jung; Vyšehrad 2023). Her doctoral research focused on the philosophical predetermination of psychological concepts, specifically examining how key psychological notions of C. G. Jung were influenced by the philosophical ideas of Kant, Schopenhauer, Leibniz, Carus etc. As an ESPRIT Fellow, she is developing this multidisciplinary framework for the study of a specific phenomenon, which is interpersonal hatred.