PhDr. Tomáš Petrů, Ph.D.

• Czech Maverick: On the Centennial of Harry J. Benda, the Founding Father of ISEAS. Konference EUROSEAS 2019, Humboldt Universität, Berlín, Německo. 2019
• From bahasa revolusi to bahasa reformasi and beyond: Indonesian as a vital political and state-making tool. Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., USA. 2018
• Islamic Vigilantes in Indonesia: A Serious Threat or a Spent Force?, AAS-in-Asia Annual Conference, Korea University, Seoul, Jižní Korea. 2017
• Limited possibilities for Chinese public diplomacy in Malaysia, konference The Asian and the Central European models tested: learning from the past, sharing for the future, Oriental Business and Innovation Center, Budapest Business School, 17.-18. května 2017
• Walking a fine line: reflections on China´s cultural diplomacy in Malaysia. NFU Conference 2016: Beyond North and South: Constructing Global Governance for the 21st Century, panel Asian Transformations, 24.-25. listopadu 2016, University of Oslo
• A curious trajectory of inter-race relations: the transformation of “cosmopolitan” Malay port polities into the multiethnic divisions of modern Malaysia. Conference on Asian Studies, 4. listopadu 2016, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
• The Impact of Political Ideologies on the Lexical Development of Indonesian: From bahasa revolusi to bahasa pejabat, konference Language, Power and Identity in Asia: Creating and Crossing Language Boundaries, 14.-16. března 2016, IIAS Leiden, Nizozemsko
  
• Islamic Vigilantes in Indonesia: A Serious Threat or a Spent Force?, EUROSEAS Conference, 11.-14. srpna 2015, Vídeň
  
• The Malay World as Part of the Persian Cosmopolis. Intra-Asian Connections: Interactions, Flows, Landscape. 22.-24. října 2014 Asian Dynamics Initiative, University of Copenhagen
  
• Indonesia´s controversial image(-building): between ostensible pluralism and the harsh realities of religious intolerance. ASEASUK 2014 Conference, 12.14. září 2014, University of Brighton
  
• Islamic Vigilantes in Indonesia: a Threat for the Democratic Discourse or a Spent Force? 3rd Annual Symposium on Southeast Asian Studies, 21.-23. března 2014, Keble College, University of Oxford
  
• Bahasa Indonesia as a Political Tool: From the Language of the Revolution to Bureaucratic Officialese. 17.-19. června 2013, International Symposium on Language and Communication: Exploring Novelties, Izmir University.
  
• The Curious Trajectory of Inter-Ethnic Relations in Malaysia, 2ndAnnual Symposium on Southeast Asian Studies, 9.- 10. března 2013, Project Southeast Asia, St Anne´s College, University of Oxford.
  
• The Evolution of the Indonesian Jago: from Bandits to Gangsters to Vigilantes, 13. června 2012, Orientalisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln (zvaná přednáška).
  
• The Transformation of Cosmopolitan Malay Port Polities into The Multiethnic Divisions Of Modern Malaysia, ISEAC Cosmopolitan Conference 2012, 16.-18. února 2012, Australian National University, Canberra.
  
• Indonesia´s Democracy under Threat? Gangsters and Vigilantes and Their Impact on the Crisis of Governance. Workshop ´State and Statehood of the Global South´, at Rethinking Global Inequalities: Development (Studies) in Discourse, Critique and Practice Conference, 28.-29. října 2011, Wien Universität.
  
• Gangsters and Vigilantes as a Threat for Indonesia´s Democracy and Plurality, 20. května 2011, ICIRD 2011, Thammasat University, Bangkok.
• Indonesia´s Post-1998 Transformation, International Colloqium, 16. září 2009, University of Aarhus.

• 11/2016-10/2019 – ‘Fostering multi-lateral knowledge networks of transdisciplinary studies to tackle global challenges’ (KNOTS) – grant ERASMUS+
• 1/2015-12/2017 – China´s Cultural Diplomacy: Role of Non-State Actors and Regional Variations, grant GAČR reg. č. 15-21829S
• 2/2012-1/2014 – grant RESAREAS – Síť spolupráce pro výzkum mimoevropských zemí – pracovník asijského týmu MUP pro organizaci mezinárodních konferencí a seminářů

Zvané přednášky

• 2019. “The Rise of Hardline Islam in Indonesia”. Academia Sinica, Center for Pacific-Asian Studies (CAPAS), Tchaj-pej, Tchaj-wan.
• 2019. “Czech Maverick: on the Centennial of Harry J. Benda, a Not-to-be-forgotten Legend of Southeast Asian Studies”. ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapur.
• 2018. hlavní řečník (keynote speaker). “From bahasa revolusi to bahasa reformasi and beyond: Indonesian as a vital political and state-making tool”. 2nd International Linguistic Conference of Universitas Airlangga: Language Phenomena in Multimodal Communication, Surabaya, Indonésie.
• 2016. “The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Maritime Southeast Asia.” Wien Universität, Vídeň, Rakousko.
• 2015. “Ferdinand Blumentritt, an outstanding scholar and an iconic figure of Czech-Philippine ties”. University of the Philippines Diliman, Asian Center, Quezon City, Filipíny.

Organizace konferencí a seminářů

• 2018. “Towards a New Malaysia”. An international seminar. AKC, Praha.
• 2018. “After Soeharto: Twenty Years of Indonesia´s Democratic Transformation”. AV ČR, Praha.
• 2016. “6th Prague Conference on Southeats Asian Studies: Power and Strategies of Political Order in Southeast Asia”. AV ČR, Praha.
   

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