Director Library University of Amsterdam (UvA) / Amsterdam University of Applied Science (HvA)
Associate Professor (East) European studies
Professional profile
Carlos Reijnen is an academic of East West relations in and beyond Europe, with a strong inclination towards questions of the accesibility of information and data, and of logistical dimensions of research and eduction.
Academic profile
He specializes in European integration and Central and Eastern European history and politics. His current research interests focus on East West relations in Europe and on the construction of European public sphere(s). Previous projects include the Czech Stalinist nationalism and Czech perceptions of Europe and European integration. The latter project resulted in the dissertation Op de drempel van Europa. De Tsjechen en Europa in de twintigste eeuw (At the Threshold of Europe. The Czechs and Europe in the Twentieth Century, Leiden, 2005, with distinction).
Research focus
Political and Intellectual History
Germany, Poland, Czech & Slovak Republic, Hungary, Balkans
European Public Sphere(s)
East-West relations in Europe
External Relations of the European Union
Projects
European spaces of cultural and intellectual exchange
Competing memories of the European past
The East in the formation of the post Cold War self-definition of Europe and the EU
Reijnen, C. (2018). Discourse Beyond Borders: Periodicals, Dissidents, and European Cultural Spaces. Journal of European Periodical Studies, 3(2), 7-22.