Professional orientation

anthropology and sociology of medicine and body, anthropology of technologies, artificial life, posthumanism, anthropology of art, BioArt, kinship and genography, biopower

Research interests

Eva Šlesingerová is an Assistant Professor in the Social Anthropology program. She lectures following subjects: Kinship and anthropology, Social and Cultural theory, Anthropology of Body and Medicine. She has focused primarily on three four different areas of research and academic interest: 1) sociology and anthropology of body, 2) sociology and anthropology of medicine and technology, 3) ethnic and national identities and 4) visual methodologies and topics. Currently she laborates social consequences of human DNA mapping and postgenomic technologies in the Czech medicine and phenomenon of the BioArt and artificial life as well.

Personal interests

Eva Šlesingerová likes music, especially ambient blues, rock. She likes also fairy stories, gardening and bees.

Selected publications

Books

• ŠMÍDOVÁ, IVA, ŠLESINGEROVÁ, EVA, SLEPIČKOVÁ, LENKA. 2015. Games of Life. Czech Reproductive Medicine. Sociological Perspectives, Masaryk University: Munipress. available online: http://www.academia.edu/14565076/Games_of_Life._Czech_Reproductive_Medicine._Sociological_Perspectives
• ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. 2014. Imaginace genů. Sociologická perspektiva, written in Czech (Imagination of Genes. A Sociological Perspective) SLON: Prague - was published by Sociological Publishing House (Czech leading sociological Publish House)

Guest Editor

• ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva (main guest-editor), JAWORSKY, B. Nadya. 2015. “Visual studies/Encounter Imagination” (Special Issue of Social Studies Journal, SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, in English

Articles

• ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. 2016. BioArt_ proplétání věcí, těl a technologií (written in Czech: BioArt_Entanglements of Things, Bodies and Technologies), forthcoming in 2016, Sešit pro teorii, umění a příbuzné zóny (ERIH plus), AVU, Prague.
• SLEPIČKOVÁ, Lenka, ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva a Iva ŠMÍDOVÁ. 2012. Biomoc a reprodukční biomedicína: konceptuální inspirace pro český kontext (Biopower and Reproductive Medicine: Conceptual Inspiration for the Czech Context). Czech Sociological Review, Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, 48, (1), 85-106.
• ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. 2010. Funes el Memorioso navštěvuje museum aneb vzpomínky na budoucnost (written in Czech: Funes el Memorioso visits the Museum. Remembering the Future). Sociální studia, Brno: Faculty of Social Sciences Masaryk University in Brno, (1), 45-67.
• ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva 2005. Imaginace genů a hranice etnických identifikací. (written in Czech: Imagination of genes and ethnic identification borderlines). In: Sociální studia, Brno: Faculty of Social Studies, (2), p.35-55. 

Chapters in book

• ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva, 2016 (in press). „Iconology of DNA and the Imagenative History of Mankind“. In: Larisa Zambo-Kocic and György E. Szönyi (eds). „Iconicity, History, and the Cultural Imageries of Body and Soul“, Budapest and Szeged: JATEPress, key contribution: M.J.T.Mitchell. 

Invited presentations

• 12 May 2016_ invited lecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, BUT, Czech Republic, Research, Community, Art with Kateřina Šedá
• 23 February 2015: invited lecture Biotechnologies and Visuality in „Teaching visual culture: Methodologies, Challenges, Perspectives“, CEU, Budapest, Centre for Advanced Studies, international workshop, Hungary.