Luďa Klusáková remembered ****************************************************************************************** * Colleagues, fellow historians, students remember Luďa Klusáková ****************************************************************************************** Professor Luďa Klusáková worked at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, for more tha contributed in no small part to the founding of the Institute of Global History and its sc pedagogical success; she also helped enormously in building strong international ties. Many colleagues, historians as well as students expressed their sadness upon hearing the n 2020 but also gratitude and highest respect. We have taken the opportunity to re-publish s responses here but be sure to visit the Faculty of Arts directly for the full article [ UR www.ff.cuni.cz/2020/05/memories-friends-colleagues-prof-luda-klusakova-1950-2020/"] or to [ URL "https://www.ff.cuni.cz/2020/04/eminent-historian-professor-institute-world-history- klusakova-passed/"] . Luďa Klusáková is sorely missed. Michal Pullman, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University Along with her exceptional overview of European cultural history, her tireless organisatio within the European framework and her overall gracious approach, I had great respect for a qualities: the conviction to be herself. She wasn’t one to worry whether she held the “rig belonged to the “right” groups, or used the “right” language. She was an immense personali be missed very much by us all. Gábor Czoch (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) For me, Luďa was the paragon of an eminent scholar with a large European horizon, committe international cooperation in historical research, and, above all, dedicated to university I first met Luďa at the beginning of the preparation of the TEMA European Territories: Ide Development Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme in 2007. She represented Charles the consortium with Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, University of Catania and the Éc Sciences Sociales, Paris. Education in the TEMA European Master Course started in 2010 and under the name TEMA+. This unparalleled and successful international project simply could without Luďa’s exceptional organization skills and commitment. Over the past few years, I have witnessed the organization of series of international rese and conferences by her with seemingly inexhaustible energies from which I, along with many benefited myself, and for which I am grateful to her. She was exemplary in her dedication the comparative and interdisciplinary approach of urban history. I was deeply impressed by knowledge and understanding of the past and contemporary problems of the Central European was a joy to discuss them with her in Prague, in Budapest and elsewhere over a coffee or d For nearly ten years, we taught the TEMA program students from all around the world togeth could see how she related to teaching. For me, this was the most intense impression she ma generosity and special attention with which she turned to each of her students. She deeply future, the development of their studies, their careers, and this was more important for h else. It is very painful that she passed away, but Luďa was a personality whose memory will live friends, colleagues, and disciples. Marjatta Hietala (Professor of General History (emerita), University of Tampere, Finland) I have lost a good friend and Tampere University an excellent scholar and teacher. In 2016, Luďa wrote in our guestbook that her visit to Helsinki in 2016 was her sixth visi met for the first time at the first meeting of European Association of Urban Historians (E Amsterdam and the visit to Helsinki was connected to the conference of EAUH in Helsinki. L developed her research activities in an international context, and we can be thankful for to Professor Miroslav Hroch, whom my professor Aira Kemiläinen invited to Finland at the e they had in common was nationalism and comparative history. In December 1994, Professor Miroslav Hroch invited me to participate in a round table disc Development. This was my first visit to Prague. On my first day in Prague, I heard that I to an Independence Day celebration hosted by President Martti Ahtisaari. I needed a long e husband’s tailcoat was waiting at home. Luďa kindly accompanied me to the shops and I was Czech evening dress to the President’s party. Professor Luďa Klusáková continued with the cooperation between Finland and Czech Republic research fields on nationalism. Her research interests also focused on the area of compara urban history. She was interested in the modernisation of European cities, in problems of an aspect of the modernisation and the process of perception and interpretation of the cha In a broad context, she has been interested in the issue of cultural identities and percep “othernesses”. We all have enjoyed on Luďa’s extensive networks and bilateral contacts which covered the of Europe, from Prague to Tampere, Finland, and from Prague to Paris and Newcastle. We hav her effective coordination skills as she coordinated several research groups and exchange ERASMUS/SOCRATES, and research groups like, TEMA, CLIOHRES.net and Tensions of Europe. The possibilities for scholars and students to participate in seminars and workshops as well a in Prague. The ERASMUS network consisted also of exchanges of teachers. Many of us had the lecture at Charles University and we will never forget the stunning views of the Castle. Luďa gave several lectures at the University of Tampere. Our students remember her lecture “The Road to Constantinople. The Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Towns through Christian Eyes” b Habilitationschrift. Her starting point was to look at how a traveller, “a person from a C or Northern World perceived a society organised on an entirely different principles to his We also had several common sessions at conferences. I want to particularly mention her pre XXI. Amsterdam Conference of International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS)/Comité Sciences Historiques (CISH). Luďa gave a presentation in my session The City as Culture/La culturel in 2010. Owing to her wide competence in the fields of history, she inspired our students and got t comparative research. In Prague, she held a regular research seminar for PhD students whic to MA and post-doctoral students. Since the 2000s, my students participated in this semina interest in innovative communities (her presentation at the XIV. Economic History Conferen 2006) was very close to my own interests in innovations. I would like to mention two concrete cases where Luďa’s knowledge and role have been cruci helpful guidance to my student Riikka Nisonen-Trnka (Palonkorpi) for her dissertation on “ a Human Face: the Activity of the Czechoslovak Scientists Frantisek Sorm and Otto Wichterl Cold War” (2012, in Czech 2017). Luďa was also asked to be the opponent for Tanja Vahtikar dissertation “Valuing World Heritage Cities” at Tampere University. The book was published 2017. During the EAUH conference in Helsinki in 2016, we made a weekend trip with Luďa to our su is on an island in Vesanto, in Central Finland, 400 kilometres from Helsinki. This made he to Finland memorable. The summer 2016 was full of sun and berries. We picked lingonberries fish from the lake, went to sauna, swam in the lake, and had many interesting conversation towns, peripheral regions and backwardness. I met Luďa last time in March 2019 when I lect seminar. I had a wonderful time in Prague with her. In 2019, she was elected the External Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Simon Gunn (Professor of Urban History and co-editor Urban History, Centre for Urban Histo Leicester) The first thing that struck me about Luďa was her ferocious intelligence. She seemed to ta intellectually and she must have appeared daunting to many. But she was also an exceptiona and gentle person in her relations with younger scholars and doctoral students, who she at significant numbers. A similar duality marked her scholarly work: on the one hand, a commi of Czech urban history and heritage, on the other a cosmopolitan Francophile who helped to Institute of World History at Charles University. I got a glimpse of a younger Luďa when s walk around Prague, showing me where she had gone to parties in her youth, mixing with dis and publishers. Luďa was a woman of many parts, a formidable scholar who was admired inter who touched everyone who had the great fortune to know her. Article in Czech at iForum CZ [ URL "https://iforum.cuni.cz/IFORUM-16782.html"]