Research into representations of intercultural contacts in Czech travelogue texts
from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities
The main project outcome will be a multi-thematic atlas accessible online, connected via themes focusing on intercultural contact with a digital library consisting of the selected body of travelogues – DIGEOCAT & Lib. Other outcomes will use the created digital humanities tool, capable of processing a large volume of data: academic studies, specialised maps, reports and other dissemination activities essential for presenting the usability of the tool in education and research.
(Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc)
– principal project investigator and author of the idea of creating a digital multi-thematic atlas (with digital library) of Czech travelogue texts focusing on the Mediterranean region;
– specialist in the field od narratology, history of literary theory and literary culture of Central Europe and the Western Balkans;
– founder and chief co-ordinator of the “Centre for Research into Travelogues and History of Written Representations of Intercultural Contracts” (www.cvc.upol.cz);
– chief organiser of 9 international academic interdisciplinary symposia “Central European Arts and Culture” (2011-2019);
– another accomplished scientific project: „Czech adaptations of Robinson Crusoe and their role in Czech culture and society since the end of the 18th century“ (2020-2023, individual grant project, GA ČR 20-03868S), principal investigator
– 5 important research outputs in the last 5 years:
● Hrabal, J. (eds.) (2023). Eduard Griez de Ronse a jeho úřední deníky z let 1841 a 1842. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty UP.
● Hrabal, J. (2022). Češki putopisni tekstovi iz Kraljevine Dalmacije. Književna smotra 54, 204(2), 53-64.
● Hrabal, J. (2022). “Český příběh” o Robinsonu Crusoeovi v 19. století v kontextu tehdejší cestopisné literatury. Slovo a smysl 19, 40, 46-64.
● Hrabal, J. (2022). Siegfried Kapper and the South Slavic Literary Culture of the Western Balkans. In Hrabal, J. – Trojková, N. (eds.) Jewish Literature and Culture in Central Europe. Slovo a smysl 19, 39 (Special Issue), 39-58.
● Hrabal, J. (2020). Ostrov Robinsona Crusoe v české literární kultuře. In Hrabal, J. (eds.) Ostrov v literaturách a kulturách střední Evropy. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty UP, 11-33.
(Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of Geography and History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
– Specialist in the cultural history of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with an interest in the history of travel and tourism, migration and exile, cross-border workers, transborder radio broadcasting and other transnational and global phenomena. A long-time research focus has been on Czech travelogues to South European and non-European regions from the 19th century to the Second World War.
– Co-founder and main coordinator of REIECO, the Spanish Network for Research on Central and Eastern Europe [Red española de Investigación sobre Europa Central y Oriental]
– Member of the editorial team of the academic journal Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea.
– Another accomplished scientific project: “Cross-border workers in Europe during the Cold War: A microhistory of temporary migrations” (Comunidad de Madrid, PR 65/19-22442), 2020-2023. Principal Investigator.
5 important research outputs in the last 5 years:
– Lemmen, Sarah: ‘Who’s speaking? Eastern European Exile in Franco’s Spain and the Cold War propaganda battle’, in: Gutmaro Gómez Bravo, José M. Faraldo (eds.): Interacting Francoism. Entanglement, Comparison and Transfer between Dictatorships in the 20th Century, London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 179-199.
– Lemmen, Sarah: ‘Travelling second class. Czech tourists between national identity and Europeanness in Cairo, 1890s-1930s’, Journal of Tourism History 15/1 (2023), pp. 3-19.
– Lemmen, Sarah, and Le Normand, Brigitte (eds.): Ports in State Socialism – or why the Cold War Matters to Maritime History (= Special Issue of International Journal of Maritime History 33/1 (February 2021)).
– Lemmen, Sarah: ‘Beyond the League of Nations: Public Debates on International Relations in Czechoslovakia during the Interwar Period’, in: Peter Becker and Natasha Wheatley (eds.): Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020 (The history and theory of international law), pp. 343-362.
– Lemmen, Sarah: Tschechen auf Reisen. Repräsentationen der außereuropäischen Welt und nationale Identität in Ostmitteleuropa 1890-1938 [Travelling Czechs. Representations of the non-European world and national identity in East Central Europe, 1890-1938], Köln-Wien: Böhlau, 2018.
(Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc)
– teacher, editor, translator and popularizer of science (educational podcast with over 50 000 subscribers)
– specialist in the history of spiritual/Christian literature and literary theory of postmodern era (post-structuralism, Frankfurt School and critical theory)
– long time co-organizer and national coordinator of the EU-funded Erasmus+ program „YIA-IYC“ (Youth in Action – International Youth Camp)
– 5 important publications in the last 5 years:
(Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc)
– specialist in the field of literary history of the 19th century, focused on woman writing and and ancient influences in Czech literature
– another accomplished scientific project:
– 5 important research outputs in the last 5 years:
(Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Head of the Kurt and Ursula Schubert Center for Jewish Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc)
– specialist in the field of Czech and German Jewish literature, German Jewish literature in Israel, image and legacy of the Shoah in literature and film, history of Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia
– another accomplished scientific project: “Jewish Cultural and Intellectual history of Olomouc II – Specialized Printed Map The development of the Jewish settlement of Olomouc: Geographical and socio-economic structure of the Jewish population in the period 1180-2021” (IGA_FF_2021_026, MŠMT)
– chief organiser of the international summer school Schismatics, Heretics, and Religious Crisis: Frankism and the Turbulent 18th Century in East Central European Jewry. EAJS. 11. – 21. 8. 2022, Palacký University Olomouc.
– chief organiser of the international online workshop Olomouc – Jerusalem Week 2021, Kurt and Ursula Schubert Center for Jewish Studies, Palacký University Olomouc and Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 24. – 27. 5. 2021, ONLINE
– co-organiser of the regular popular science multi-genre festival Days of Jewish Culture Olomouc – Palacký University Olomouc, Museum of Arts Olomouc, Jewish Community of Olomouc (16 volumes)
– 5 important research outputs in the last 5 years:
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
– specialist in the field of medieval and early modern literature, focused on Latin literature of renaissance humanism
– another accomplished scientific project:
5 important research outputs in the last 5 years:
(prof. Dr., Full Professor, Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc)
– principal project investigator and author of the idea of creating a digital multi-thematic atlas (with digital library) of Czech travelogue texts focusing on the Mediterranean region;
– specialist in geovisualization, thematic and atlas cartography;
– founder and head of the Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc (www.geoinformatics.upol.cz);
– chief organiser of annual „Cartographic Days in Olomouc” (https://kartografickyden.upol.cz/) (since 2007);
– vice-president of the International Cartographic Association (https://www.icaci.org/) (since 2015);
– vice-president of the Czech Cartographic Society (https://www.cartography.cz/) (since 2013);
– selected scientific project:
– 5 important research outputs in the last 5 years:
(Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc)
(Ph.D. candidate, researcher, Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc)
(Ph.D., Assistant Professor Czech Language, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Udine)
– DIGEOCAT Italian team co-ordinator;
– specialist in the field linguistics, semantics and syntax of Czech, acquisition of Czech as a second language, translation;
– founder and chief co-ordinator of the European Project Wrilab2 Online Reading and Writing Laboratory for Czech, German, Italian and Slovenian as L2, 2013-2016, agreement number 2013- 3701 /001-001; project number 543551- LLP-1-2013-1-IT-KA2-KA2MP (www.wrilab2.eu);
– founder and chief co-ordinator of the Departmental Project Translab, Multilanguage Translation Laboratory, 2017-2019, (www.translab-project.eu);
– Member of the international project „The Humanities and the historical and cultural context of Central and Eastern Europe in the XXth century“, (2019-2020), coordinated by prof. Annalisa Cosentino from Sapienza University, Rome;
– 5 important research outputs in the last 5 years:
Associate Professor
Member of the research untit
Francesco Visentin is a cultural geographer and teaches Human geography and Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Languages and Literature, Communication Education and Society of the University of Udine, Italy. His research focuses on water-land-scapes changes especially in Italy, UK, Netherland and Spain and he is currently involved in several projects concerning cultural heritage, landscape evolution and the tourism imaginaries. He took part to EUWATHER project a JPI – Cultural Heritage funded project – concerning the re-evaluating European Minor Rivers and Canals as Cultural Landscapes with the University of Brighton (UK), the University of Leiden (NL) and the University of Girona (ES) – (2015 / 2017). He is also interested in the relationship between art, literature and geography, the narrative of heritageisation processes and the mundane landscapes.
Results last 5 years:
Contract Professor, Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Social Studies, University of Udine
Contract Professor, Department of Literary Studies, Linguistics and Comparatistics, University of Naples “L’Orientale”
research outputs:
member of the University of Udine team;
Fields of interest:
Contemporary Czech poetry, Czech poetry of 1930s, Sound/phonic orchestration in poetry and its analysis according Červenka’s theories.
(Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of English and German Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Granada)
– 5 important outputs in the last 5 years:
Měsíc, J. (2021). Las huellas del Mesías en la corrida de toros. Revista de Estudios Taurinos, 47, 251–275.
Měsíc, J. (2021). Leonard Cohen, the ‘Sufi’ Mystic. In G. Gregory, & M. Dines (Eds.), Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music: Beatified Beats (pp. 29–47). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Měsíc, J. (2021). Gertruda Steinová: Mluvit a naslouchat (2 ed. & trans.). Prague, Czech Republic: Éditions Fra.
Měsíc, J. (2020). Leonard Cohen, the Modern Troubadour. Olomouc, Czech Republic: Palacký University Press.
Měsíc, J. (2020). John Pass: Větrná zvonkohra (ed. & trans.) Ostrava, Czech Republic: Protimluv.
(Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Greek and Slavic Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Granada)
– Selection from his most relevant publications related to the Czech language:
Calero Díaz, J.A. La Fuerza Ilocutiva Socialmente Reprochable en el Léxico. Analisis Contrastivo Checo-Español. Linguo-Cultural Competence and Phraseological Motivation. Band. 2011.
Calero Díaz, J.A. Lexikální Šablony Role And Reference Grammar (Příspěvek k výzkumu českých sloves mluvení). Studie z Korpusové Lingvistiky. str. 166–173. 2011.
Calero Díaz, J.A. “La valoración de lo metalingüístico a través de verbos de habla checos.” Eslavística Complutense. 12, pp. 105–116. 2012.
Calero Díaz, J.A. “Los verbos zoomorficos de habla como representacion lexica de la fuerza ilocutiva en checo.” Eslavistica Complutense. 2012.
Calero Díaz, J.A.“La expresividad y la ironía verbal. (estudio sobre la valoracion negativa en el verbo checo).” Tonos Digital, Nº24, 2013.
(Assistant Professor, Department of West Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
– specialist in the field of Czech post-war literature, contemporary Czech literature, literary translation, Czech-Croatian literary relations
– membership in the organizational and programme committee of The International Scientific Conference on the Occasion of the 55th Anniversary of the Independent Study Programme in Czech Language and Literature in Zagreb (17-18.9.2021)
– member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Književna smotra: Časopis za svjetsku književnost
– another scientific projects in progress: Contemporary Czech Prose II (1990-2000) (2022-, institutional project, 11-933-1024), project manager
– another accomplished scientific project:
– Contemporary Czech Prose I (1990-2000) (2022, institutional project, 11-931-1032), project manager
– A Game-Changing Year: Czechoslovakia and Europe in 1968 (2018-2020, Europe for Citizens Programme), project coordinator
– Canons and Stereotypes. West Slavic Literatures from the Croatian Perspective (Ministry of Science and Education, Republic of Croatia, 130-1301070-1053, 2008-2011), researcher
– 5 important research outputs in the last 5 years:
(Associate Professor, Department of West Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
– team member;
– specialist in the field of contemporary Czech literature, feminist/gender literary criticism, Czech popular literature, Czech 19th century literature;
– participant in Croatian national scientific project Canons and Stereotypes. West Slavic Literatures from the Croatian Perspective (2007 – 2012); institutional faculty project Contemporary Czech Literature (2022 – ); participant in the EACEA project (Europe for Citizens Programme of the EU) A game Changing Year: Czechoslovakia and Europe in 1968 (2018 – 2020); participant in the BIP Erasmus + project Czech-in to Literary Culture (2023);
– chief organiser of the first Croatian conference on Czech Studies, comemorating 55 years of independent study program in Czech language and literature at the University of Zagreb (2021);
– important research outputs in the last 5 years:
Research into representations of intercultural contacts
in Czech travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities.
2022-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000085765