Alice Koubová works as a senior researcher at the Academy of Sciences, vise-dean at the Academy of Performing Arts, active performer and dramaturgist. As a phenomenologist and post-structuralist thinker, she authored among others Play and Democracy (Routledge), Self-Identity and Powerlessness (Brill), Artistic Research- Is there Some Method? (NAMU) and several diviced theatre performances and performance lectures. For 2 last years she has developed and coordinated several scientific, philosophical, activist and artistic projects on resilience.