Conferences

International Interdisciplinary Conference
Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture

Olomouc 2025

Date of event: 2 – 3 October 2025

Venue: Fort Science, Olomouc (https://www.pevnostpoznani.cz/english/)

Conference languages: Czech/Slovak and English

Fee: 50€ (after approval of abstract)

The topics of the conference, which offers an interdisciplinary glance at the phenomenon, intersecting historical, literary, anthropological, art-historical, cartographic and textual perspectives, include:

● possibilities of using maps for research on travelogue texts

● the function of map illustrations in the construction of the fictional world of a literary work

● the topos of the journey in a literary work

● the boundaries between fictional and actual worlds when examining factual and fictional texts

● the use of digital mapping for fictional literature research

● literary cartography and literary theory

Organising partner institutions

● Università degli studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature, comunicazione, formazione e società (Anna Maria Perissutti)

● Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana (Jiří Měsíc)

● Sveučiliště u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za zapadnoslavenske jezike i književnosti (Matija Ivačić)

● Moravian Library in Brno (Petr Žabička)

● Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Department of Geoinformatics (Vít Voženílek) and Faculty of Arts, Department of Czech Studies (Jiří Hrabal)

The conference is being held as part of the project Research into representations of intercultural contacts in Czech travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities; (DIGEOCAT & Lib.; Cooperation partnership in higher education Erasmus+, 2022-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000085765)

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Contact us

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the main organizer jiri.hrabal@upol.cz

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