Research into representations of intercultural contacts in Czech travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities

About the project

Name of the project: Research into representations of intercultural contacts in Czech travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities
(acronym: DIGEOCAT & Lib.)

Project solution time: 12/2022 – 12/2025

The project is funded by EU programme “Cooperation partnership in higher education Erasmus+” (2022-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000085765)

Applicant organisation: Palacký University Olomouc (Faculty of Arts / Faculty of Science)

Partner organisations: Universita degli Studi di Udine, Universidad de Granada, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně

The project focused on researching representations of intercultural encounters in the Mediterranean region through an analysis of Czech travelogues written between the 15th century and 1918. Its main objective was to develop a unique digital tool – a multi-thematic atlas interactively linked to a digital library. This tool enables the effective processing of an extensive corpus of texts and the visualization of narrated travel routes, which are connected through thirty key themes (e.g. attitudes towards foreigners, language, the status of women, prejudice, etc.) to selected text excerpts. In this way, the project contributes to the preservation and accessibility of older literary works in digital form.

Further project results can be found in the OUTPUTS

Outputs

The main output of the project is a multi-thematic atlas available online, linked through themes focused on intercultural contact to a digital library consisting of a selected corpus of travelogues – DIGEOCAT & Lib. Additional outputs were produced through the use of, and in the course of developing, this web application: conference papers, scholarly articles and maps, and collective monographs. As part of its implementation in education, the project also resulted in university courses, lectures, workshops, theses, as well as other dissemination activities essential for the public presentation of the project, such as podcasts, video presentations, public lectures, popularizing articles, etc.

  • What is Digeocat & Lib.?

    Digeocat & Lib. is a unique web-based application that links a digital atlas, composed of routes created through the mapping of narrated journeys, with a library of travelogue texts of Czech provenance related to the Mediterranean region, written between the 15th century and 1918.

    Through modern digital tools, the application makes older and often entirely forgotten travelogue texts accessible. Its primary aim is to use travel writing in an innovative way to study representations of intercultural encounters between Czech travellers and the Mediterranean environment during the period under consideration. The library currently contains a representative corpus of more than 120 travelogue texts and is expected to be expanded with additional materials.

    The routes are created by linking locations mentioned in the travelogues either by toponyms, or descriptive references. The marked route thus corresponds to the journey as narrated in the text, not necessarily to the journey actually undertaken by the traveller (if it differs from the narrated one). The primary focus is therefore on travelogue texts themselves, rather than on the history of travel as such.

    Maps and texts are interconnected through a thematic matrix. Each of the thirty selected themes conveys aspects of intercultural contact (e.g. expressions of religiosity, attitudes towards the environment, relations to institutions, literary culture, attitudes towards foreigners, prejudice and superstition, hygiene and health, etc.). The locations marked on the map are tagged to specific excerpts in the texts that address the relevant themes.

    When working with the application, users can move from map visualizations to texts and vice versa. Both the texts and the digital atlas can be searched via a catalogue that filters texts and map areas. Users may select according to travelogue authors, titles, the period in which the travelogues were written or published, or when the journeys themselves took place, as well as according to selected regions or modes of transport. These selection criteria can be freely combined.

    The application can be used, for example, to obtain “answers” to questions such as: “What did travel writers write about local attitudes toward foreigners in Rome in the nineteenth century?”; “Which travelogues published between 1848 and 1898 describe a steamship journey across the Adriatic Sea?”; “What did travel writers write about the status of women and family relations in Jerusalem between 1620 and 1851?”; or “Which travelogues recount a visit to Andalusia?”

    The answers to such queries take the form of lists of links to all relevant excerpts across the entire library of texts, as well as map visualizations of routes in the corresponding areas. The highlighted excerpts can easily be interpreted within the context of the complete travelogue texts.

    Artificial intelligence can also be used to define selection criteria (via the window at the top center of the interface). Queries can be formulated in any language and are subsequently translated into the selection catalogue (on the left-hand side). The criteria generated through AI can then be reviewed and modified directly within the catalogue. A specific geographical area may be selected by entering its name or by manually delineating it as a circle or polygon.

    This application is intended both for researchers, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, and for the general public with an interest in the history of the Czech lands and the Mediterranean, geography or cartography, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, or the history of travel.

    Digeocat & Lib. is the result of scholarly research and interdisciplinary cooperation among geoinformatics and computer science experts, historians, geographers and cartographers, linguists, specialists in the digitization of written heritage, and literary historians and theorists from the Czech Republic (Palacký University Olomouc, Moravian Library in Brno, and OLC Systems s.r.o.), Spain (University of Granada), Croatia (University of Zagreb), and Italy (University of Udine).

    digeocat.mzk.cz

  • CONFERENCE PAPERS

    47 presentations at (international) scholarly conferences

    Hrabal, Jiří: Pictorial Components of Czech Travelogue Texts from the Kingdom of Dalmatia (11.–13. 12. 2025, The Relationship Between Image and Text in Travel Narratives, Split, Institut za povijest umjetnosti – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)

    Hrabal, Jiří: Maps and Literary Culture (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Barvíř, Radek – Koníček, Jakub – Voženílek, Vít: From Narrative to Spatial Data: Web Mapping of Historical Travel Literature (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Kolářová, Jana: Edice staročeských cestopisů v 18. a 19. století [Editions of Old Bohemian Travelogues in the 18th and 19th Centuries] (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Měsíc, Jiří: The Representation of Corrida de Toros in Czech Travel Writing from the 15th to the Early 20th Century (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Calero Diáz, José Alejandro: Vnímání Jihu v díle Jiřího Gutha [The Perception of the South in the work of Jiří Guth] (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Lemmen, Sarah: From Periphery to Periphery. Travellers between the Spanish and Czechoslovak Republics in the 1920s and 1930s (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Peña-Molina, María del Pilar: The Female Traveller: Identity, Agency and the Gendered Gaze in Italian and European Women’s Travel Writing (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Mecco, Martina: From the West to the East: Travelogues in the Review Květy (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Perissutti, Anna Maria: Terst a Benátky v cestopisech českých cestovatelů v letech 1850–1918 [Trieste and Venice in the Travelogues of Czech Travellers between 1850 and 1918] (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Seminara, Gaia: Naples through the Eyes of Czech Travellers: Historiography, Literature and Cliché (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Vrajová, Jana: Obraz Itala v cestopisných textech Anny Řehákové [The Image of the Italian in the Travelogues of Anna Řeháková] (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Kos, Suzana: The Adriatic and Balkans in the Travelogues of Vítězslav Hálek (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Jirsa, David: Vilém Němec – Trickster on the Road (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Ivačić, Matija: „Byli jsme to vskutku v Athénách?“ Cestopis jako intertext (J. J. Svátek, Helládou…) [“Were We Really in Athens?” The Travelogue as Intertext (J. J. Svátek, Helládou…)] (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Hrabal, Jiří: Narrations of Steamship Voyages to Dalmatia in Czech Travelogue Texts of the 19th Century (2.–3. 10. 2025, Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    Hrabal, Jiří: The Construction of Representation of Alterity in Czech Travelogue Texts from the Kingdom of Dalmatia (25.–30. 8. 2025, XVIIe congrès international des slavistes, Paris, Sorbonne Université, Faculté des Lettres, Institut d’études slaves; Comité International des Slavistes)

    Měsíc, Jiří: Las corridas de toros en la literatura de los viajeros checos de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX [Bullfighting in the Literature of Czech Travellers of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries] (2.–4. 6. 2025, 6th International Conference GranaSlavic2025, Granada, Universidad de Granada)

    Lemmen, Sarah: Eastern European exile in Franco’s Spain and the Cold War propaganda battle (2.–4. 6. 2025, 6th International Conference GranaSlavic2025, Granada, Universidad de Granada)

    Jirsa, David: On the question of Colonialism in Czech Travel Literature (2.–4. 6. 2025, 6th International Conference GranaSlavic2025, Granada, Universidad de Granada)

    Calero Díaz, José Alejandro: Lenguas mellizas, los diasistemas español, portugués, checo y eslovaco. Hacia una visión no supremacista en la comparación de las lenguas [Twin Languages: The Spanish, Portuguese, Czech and Slovak Diasystems. Toward a Non-Supremacist View in Language Comparison] (2.–4. 6. 2025, 6th International Conference GranaSlavic2025, Granada, Universidad de Granada)

    Peña-Molina, María del Pilar: I have a Queerstion: an approach to queer narratives in Slavic literatures (2.–4. 6. 2025, 6th International Conference GranaSlavic2025, Granada, Universidad de Granada)

    Barvíř, Radek – Koníček, Jakub – Voženílek, Vít: Digitisation and spatial visualisation of printed travelogues via a Web Mapping Application (17.–19. 9. 2025, 19th ICA Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Praha, Komise pro digitální kartografické dědictví ICA, Přírodovědecká fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, Laboratoř kartografie a geografické analýzy Aristotelovy univerzity v Soluni)

    Barvíř, Radek – Koníček, Jakub – Voženílek, Vít: Webová platforma pro mapování a vizualizaci českých cestopisů do Středomoří [A Web Platform for Mapping and Visualizing Czech Travelogues to the Mediterranean] (10.–12. 9. 2025, 26. kartografická konference, Brno, Česká kartografická společnost)

    Koníček, Jakub: Digitalizace a vizualizace cestopisů prostřednictvím webové mapové aplikace [Digitization and Visualization of Travelogues through a Web-Based Map Application] (5.–6. 3. 2025, GIS Ostrava 2025 (30. ročník), Ostrava, VŠB – Technická univerzita Ostrava, Katedra geoinformatiky)

    Hrabal, Jiří: Mapy a vyprávěný prostor [Maps and Narrated Space] (28. 2. 2025, Kartografie a fiktivní světy, 19. kartografický den, Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Česká kartografická společnost)

    Ivačić, Matija: Cestopisy Josefa Holečka z jihoslovanských zemí [The Travelogues of Josef Holeček from the South Slavic Lands] (13.–14. 1. 2025, mezinárodní konference LXIII. setkání slavistů v Srbsku, Beograd, Filološki fakultet u Beogradu)

    Kos, Suzana: Setkání Východu a Západu v českých cestopisech z 19. století [The Encounter of East and West in Czech Travelogues of the 19th Century] (13.–14. 1. 2025, mezinárodní konference LXIII. setkání slavistů v Srbsku, Beograd, Filološki fakultet u Beogradu)

    Barvíř, Radek – Hrabal, Jiří: Vývoj a využití softwarové aplikace pro výzkum korpusu cestopisných textů [Development and Use of a Software Application for Research on a Corpus of Travel Texts] (8.–9. 11. 2024, konference Humanitní a společenské vědy z pohledu digital humanities II, referát, pořadatel: Filozofická fakulta UP v Olomouci)

    Hrabal, Jiří: Introduction to the DIGEOCAT & Lib. Project (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Měsíc, Jiří: Pavel Durdík and Bullfights (1896) (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Lemmen, Sarah: Travelling off the Beaten Track around 1900. Czech travels to Spain and the margins of Southern Europe (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Barvíř, Radek – Koníček, Jakub – Voženílek, Vít: From Printed Travelogues to Spatial Databases: concept and development (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Seminara, Gaia: Visions of the South: Naples, Pompeii and Ischia in Czech Travelogues from the second half of the 19th Century (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Jirsa, David: Two types of travellers to the Holy Land at the turn of the 19th and 20th Century (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Hrabal, Jiří: Il diario di viaggio per mare di Simon Alois Tudecius de Monte Galea [The Sea Travel Diary of Simon Alois Tudecius de Monte Galea] (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Perissutti, Anna Maria – Visentin, Francesco: “Leggere” Venezia con gli occhi di tre viaggiatori cechi di fine Ottocento [“Reading” Venice through the Eyes of Three Czech Travellers of the Late 19th Century] (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Vrajová, Jana: Ideologizovaný cestopis: Macharův obraz Říma v dobovém kontextu [The Ideologized Travelogue: Machar’s Image of Rome in Its Contemporary Context] (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Kolářová, Jana: Obraz Kréty a Kypru v českých cestopisech do Palestiny v 15. století [The Image of Crete and Cyprus in Czech Travelogues to Palestine in the 15th Century] (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Ivačić, Matija: Istrie v českých cestopisech z 19. století [Istria in Czech Travelogues of the 19th Century] (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Kos, Suzana: Cesty českých cestopisců konce 19. století do Řecka a Athén [Journeys of Czech Travel Writers to Greece and Athens at the End of the 19th Century] (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Calero Díaz, Jose Alejandro: Stylistické vrstvy v díle Karla Čapka „Výlet do Španěl“ (1930) [Stylistic Layers in Karel Čapek’s Výlet do Španěl] (3.–4. 10. 2024, The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature, Udine, Università degli studi di Udine)

    Hrabal, Jiří: Co vypovídají české cestopisné texty z Dalmatského království o imigraci Čechů do Dalmácie? [What Do Czech Travel Texts from the Kingdom of Dalmatia Reveal about the Immigration of Czechs to Dalmatia?] (26.–27. 9. 2024, mezinárodní bohemistická vědecká konference – Migracije, Zagreb, Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu)

    Ivačić, Matija: Obraz(y) Chorvatů v prózách ‚z cest’ Jaroslava Haška [The Image(s) of Croats in Jaroslav Hašek’s Travel-Related Prose] (26.–27. 9. 2024, mezinárodní bohemistická vědecká konference – Migracije, Zagreb, Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu)

    Cahová, Ivana: We love living Jews – neue Möglichkeiten zur Darstellung der Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinschaft am Beispiel von drei Kartenprojekten [We Love Living Jews – New Possibilities for Presenting the History of the Jewish Community, Illustrated by Three Mapping Projects] (23.–25. 9. 2024, Universität trifft Museum: Kunst, Geschichte und jüdisches Leben in Europa, Wien, Universität Wien)

    Hrabal, Jiří: Istraživanje prezentacije alteriteta u češkim putopisnim tekstovima iz Dalmacije do 1918. godine: od književne kulture do digitalne humanistike i natrag [Exploring the Presentation of Alterity in Czech Travel Texts from Dalmatia up to 1918: From Literary Culture to Digital Humanities and Back] (11.–14. 9. 2024, 8. hrvatski slavistički kongres ve Slavonskom Brodu, Slavonski Brod, Hrvatsko filološko društvo, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Slavonskom Brodu)

    46) Hrabal, Jiří: Reprezentace dalmatských měst v českých cestopisných textech 19. století [The Representation of Dalmatian Towns in Czech Travel Texts of the 19th Century] (27.–28. 11. 2023, Město a literatura, Praha, Filosoficý ústav Akademie věd, v.v.i.; Karlova Univerzita; Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci)

    3 presentations at (international) scholarly conferences

    Malá, Markéta: Analýza reprezentací alterity v cestopisech Anny Řehákové Z dalmatského jihu a Alice Lee Moque Delightful Dalmatia [Analysis of Representations of Alterity in the Travelogues of Anna Řeháková Z dalmatského jihu and Alice Lee Moqué Delightful Dalmatia] (25.–26. 9. 2025, mezinárodní konference mladých bohemistů Bohemikon, pořadatel: Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, školitel: Jiří Hrabal)

    Herudková, Lada: Konstrukce alterity v textech Viléma Dušana Lambla z cest do Chorvatska a Dalmácie [The Construction of Alterity in the Texts of Vilém Dušan Lambl from His Travels to Croatia and Dalmatia] (25.–26. 9. 2025, mezinárodní konference mladých bohemistů Bohemikon, pořadatel: Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, školitel: Jiří Hrabal)

    Ratković, Nives: Putevima Jana Kollára u Hrvatskoj [Along the Paths of Jan Kollár in Croatia] (6. 6. 2025, mezinárodní studentská konference „Słowianie, my lubim… podróże!”, Koło Naukowe Slawistów i Bałkanistów UAM, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, školitel: Matija Ivačić)

  • CONFERENCES

    International Interdisciplinary Conference
    Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture
    Olomouc 2025
    Date of event: 2 – 3 October 2025
    Venue: Fort Science, Olomouc
    Conference languages: Czech/Slovak and English

    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
    THE MEDITERRANEAN IN TRAVELOGUE LITERATURE
    Udine, 3–4 October 2024
    Venue: Università degli studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature
    Conference languages: Czech/Italian and English

    Detailed information

  • ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

    Peer-reviewed articles and chapters in monographs by members of the project team:

    1) Perissutti, Anna Maria: “Seeing’ Trieste and ‘Finding one’s Reflection’ in Venice: the two Cities through the Eyes of Czech Travellers between the 19th and 20th Centuries”

    2) Jirsa, David: “Vilém Němec – The Trickster on the Road”

    3) Adámek, Hynek – Voženílek, Vít: “Emil Holub – traveller, writer, cartographer”

    4) Kolářová, Jana: “On Editions of Several Early Modern Czech Travelogues in the 18th, 19th and Early 20th Centuries”

    5) Vrajová, Jana: “Italians in the Travelogues of Anna Řeháková”

    6) Hrabal, Jiří: “Narrations of Steamship Voyages to Dalmatia in Czech Travelogue Texts of the 19th Century”

    7) Měsíc, Jiří: “The Representation of Corrida in Czech Travel Literature from the 15th Century to the Early 20th Century”

    8) Mecco, Martina: “Travelogues in the Review Květy: Frescos of Caucasus and Svatopluk Čech’s Writings about Italy”

    9) Ivačić, Matija: “‘Were We Truly in Athens??!’ Cultural Baggage as a Site of Conflict in Josef Jan Svátek’s Travelogue Through Hellas…”

    10) Lemmen, Sarah: “From Periphery to Periphery. Czechoslovak Travelers to Spain in the 1920s and 1930s”

    11) Kos, Suzana: “The Adriatic and the Balkans in the Travelogues of Vítězslav Hálek”

    [1–11 in: Hrabal, Jiří – Měsíc, Jiří (eds.). 2026. Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada. (forthcoming)]

    12) Měsíc, Jiří. 2026. “Las corridas de toros en la literatura de los viajeros checos del siglo XIX”. In: González-Hidalgo, Inés de los Ángeles – Peña-Molina, María del Pilar – Portnova, Tatjana (eds.): Modern Directions in Slavic Studies: Language, Literature, and Political Discourse. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada. (in press)

    13) Jirsa, David. 2026. “Colonialism without Colonies – The Czech Case”. In: González-Hidalgo, Inés de los Ángeles – Peña-Molina, María del Pilar – Portnova, Tatjana (eds.): Modern Directions in Slavic Studies: Language, Literature, and Political Discourse. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada. (in press)

    14) Hrabal, Jiří. 2026. “Co vypovídají české cestopisné texty z Dalmatského království o imigraci Čechů do Dalmácie?” In: Ivačić, Matija – Kohoutková, Zdeňka – Kos, Suzana – Ribarova, Slavomira – Sajko, Laura – Vuković, Petar (eds.): Migracije. Zbornik radova s Međunarodne bohemističke znanstvene konferencije. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 337–349.

    15) Ivačić, Matija. 2026. “Obrazy (severního) Chorvatska a Chorvatů ve vybraných povídkách Jaroslava Haška” In: Ivačić, Matija – Kohoutková, Zdeňka – Kos, Suzana – Ribarova, Slavomira – Sajko, Laura – Vuković, Petar (eds.): Migracije. Zbornik radova s Međunarodne bohemističke znanstvene konferencije. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 55–72.

    16) Hrabal, Jiří: “The Representation of Alterity in the Mediterranean ‘Maritime’ Travelogue of Šimon Alois Tudecius de Monte Galea from the 17th Century”, 27–49.

    17) Perissutti, Anna Maria – Visentin, Francesco: ” ‘Reading’ Venice through the eyes of three Czech travellers from the late 19th century”, 67–85.

    18) Vrajová, Jana: “Ideological travelogue: Machar’s image of Rome in its historical context”, 87–98.

    19) Seminara, Gaia: “Visions of the South: Naples, Pompeii and Ischia in Czech Travelogues from the second half of the 19th Century”, 99–113.

    20) Ivačić, Matija: “Two Worlds of the 19th Century (on the Example of Selected Czech Travelogues from Istria and Kvarner)”, 115–126.

    21) Lemmen, Sarah: “Off the Beaten Track. Czech travels to Spain around 1900”, 141–154.

    22) Měsíc, Jiří: “A Thematic Analysis of Pavel Durdík’s Book Zápasy s býky (Corrida de toros)”, 155–172.

    23) Kos, Suzana: “Two parallel worlds – different impressions of Greece and Athens in the texts of

    Czech travellers from the end of the 19th century”, 173–181.

    24) Jirsa, David: “Two Types of Travellers to the Holy Land at the Turn of the 20th Century”, 183–192.

    [16–24 in: Perissutti, Anna Maria – Visentin, Francesco – Hrabal, Jiří (eds.). 2025. The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature. Central European travellers in the Mediterranean from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Udine: Forum. ISBN 978-88-3283-540-3 (print); ISBN 978-88-3283-588-5 (the-mediterranean-in-travel-literature.pdf)]

    25) Jirsa, David. 2025. Alterita Orientu v cestopisech Josefa Jana Svátka. Česká literatura LXXIII(6), 691-713. https://doi.org/10.51305/cl.2025.06.01

    26) Ivačić, Matija. 2025. “O ‘apostolskom putovanju’ Jaroslava Hašeka u Hrvatsku”. In: Pavlović, Cvijeta (ed.): Marko Polo i prostori književnosti. Zbornik radova. Komparativna povijest hrvatske književnosti. Knjiga III. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska – Gradski muzej Korčula, 425-442.

    O „apostolskom putovanju“ Jaroslava Hašeka u Hrvatsku

    27) Ivačić, Matija. 2025. Panslavizam Josefa Holečeka kroz hrvatsko sito (Na Černou Horu a Černá Hora koncem věku, 1899.). Slavistika 29(1), 295–306. https://doi.org/10.18485/slavistika.2025.29.1.19

    28) Kos, Suzana.  2025. Susret Istoka i Zapada u izabranim češkim putopisnim tekstovima o Grčkoj i Turskoj iz druge polovice 19. stoljeća. Slavistika 29(1), 338–348. https://doi.org/10.18485/slavistika.2025.29.1.22

    29) Měsíc, Jiří. 2025. Beyond the Red Cape: The Spiritual Odyssey of Antonio Ferrera. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies 20(2), 99–122. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-008X/CGP/v20i02/99-122

    30) Měsíc, Jiří. 2024. La evolución mística de Antonio Ferrera: entre el simbolismo barroco, la cosmovisión maya y el flamenco. Imago Crítica 10, 79-110. https://doi.org/10.30827/ic.32727

  • MONOGRAPHS

    Hrabal, Jiří – Měsíc, Jiří (eds.): Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2026. (forthcoming)

    Měsíc, Jiří: La representación de la tauromaquia en los libros de viaje
    checos desde el siglo XV hasta principios del siglo XX    . Granada:
    Universidad de Granada, 2026. (forthcoming)

    Hrabal, Jiří – Perissutti, Anna Maria – Visentin, Francesco (eds.): The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature. Central European travellers in the Mediterranean from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Udine: Forum, 2025.

    The Mediterranean in Travel Literature

  • IMPLEMENTATION IN EDUCATION

    Semester-long university courses:

    I) Perissutti, Anna Maria: Czech Travel Writing from the Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th Centuries (winter semester, academic year 2025/26, University of Udine – UNIUD; enrolled: 3 students; exam passed: 3 students).

    II) Hrabal, Jiří: Czech Travel Writing from the Mediterranean up to 1918 I (summer semester, academic year 2024/25, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc – UPOL; enrolled: 8 students; credit awarded: 7 BA students).

    III) Hrabal, Jiří: Czech Travel Writing from the Mediterranean up to 1918 II (summer semester, academic year 2023/24, Faculty of Arts, UPOL; enrolled: 11 students; credit awarded: 9 BA students and 1 MA student).

    IV) Hrabal, Jiří: Czech Travel Writing from the Mediterranean up to 1918 I (summer semester, academic year 2022/23, Faculty of Arts, UPOL; enrolled: 18 students; credit awarded: 14 BA students and 2 MA students).

    Workshops for university students:

    I) Winter semester 2025/26 (28 Oct, 4 Nov) Ivačić, Matija: “Češki putopisni tekstovi u prijevodu 3” (workshop for university students, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb – FFZG; 4 participants).

    II) Summer semester 2024/25 (25 Mar, 8 Apr, 10 Apr) Ivačić, Matija: “Češki putopisni tekstovi u prijevodu 2” (workshop for university students, FFZG; 4 participants).

    III) Winter semester 2024/25 “Research on Czech Travel Writing from the Mediterranean from the 15th Century to 1918 Using Digital Humanities Tools” (a series of four 4-hour online workshops organized for university students from all partner institutions involved in the project):

    • (IIIa) 2 Nov 2024 Barvíř, Radek – Hrabal, Jiří: “How to Understand Travel Writing and How to ‘Read’ It Using Digital Humanities Tools?” (Faculty of Arts, UPOL; 33 participating students and faculty from UPOL, FFZG, UNIUD, and UGR).

    • (IIIb) 15 Nov 2024 Jirsa, David – Kolářová, Jana: “Czech Travel Writing from the Levant” (Faculty of Arts, UPOL; 35 participants from UPOL, FFZG, UNIUD, and UGR).

    • (IIIc) 29 Nov 2024 Hrabal, Jiří – Ivačić, Matija: “Czech Travel Writing from the Western Balkans” (Faculty of Arts, UPOL; 36 participants from UPOL, FFZG, UNIUD, and UGR).

    • (IIId) 3 Dec 2024 Měsíc, Jiří – Perissutti, Anna Maria – Vrajová, Jana: “Czech Travel Writing from Italy and Spain” (Faculty of Arts, UPOL; 36 participants from UPOL, FFZG, UNIUD, and UGR).

    [Within this workshop cycle, 20 students who attended all four workshops successfully defended a qualifying credit paper at UPOL and obtained ECTS credits.]

    IV) June 2024 Hrabal, Jiří: “Workshops on Research into Czech Travel Writing from the Mediterranean Region Using Digital Humanities Techniques” (4-hour lecture/workshop, Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw; 12 participating students and faculty).

    V) Summer semester 2023/24 (28 Mar, 8 Apr, 10 Apr) Ivačić, Matija: “Češki putopisni tekstovi u prijevodu 1: izazovi i specifičnosti” (series of three workshops for MA students, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb; 8 participants).

    VI) Summer semester 2023/24 (27 Mar, 3 Apr, 10 Apr) Kos, Suzana: “The Use of Digital Tools in Translating Travel Writing” (series of three workshops for MA students, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb; 7 participants).

    Lectures for university students:

    • 27 Nov 2025 Měsíc, Jiří: La representación de la tauromaquia en los libros de viaje checos desde el siglo XV hasta principios del siglo XX (90-minute lecture, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava).

    • 24 Nov 2025 Měsíc, Jiří: La representación de la tauromaquia en los libros de viaje checos desde el siglo XV hasta principios del siglo XX (90-minute lecture, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague).

    • 8 Apr 2025 Ivačić, Matija: Czech Travel Writing from Istria in the 19th Century (90-minute lecture, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc).

    • 8 May 2024 Hrabal, Jiří: “How to Understand Travel Writing?” (90-minute lecture, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb).

    Lectures and workshops for high school students:

    • 27 Nov 2025 Měsíc, Jiří: Workshop on the representation of Spanish bullfighting in Czech travel literature (Olga Havlová Grammar School, Ostrava, CZ).

    • 11 Feb 2025 Ratković, Nives: Presentation of the Digeocat & Lib. project (Gymnazija Daruvar, HR).

    • 15 Nov 2024 Jirsa, David: The Image of Palestine and Jerusalem in Czech Literature (lecture within FFEST, Aula of the Faculty of Arts, UPOL, Olomouc, CZ).

    • 6 Nov 2024 Vrajová, Jana: Presentation of the Digeocat & Lib. project (Hejčín Grammar School, Olomouc, CZ).

    Successfully defended Master’s theses:

    • 7/2025 Nives Ratković: The Image of Croats in the Works of Jan Kollár (Department of West Slavic Languages and Literatures, FFZG; supervisor: Matija Ivačić).

    • 1/2025 Kristýna Pilařová: A Comparison of Travel Diaries and Published Travelogues by Ludvík Kuba from Dalmatia (Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, UPOL; supervisor: Jiří Hrabal).

    • 1/2025 Zuzana Pečenková: Mediterranean Travel Writing in the Journal Lumír from 1851 to 1914 (Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, UPOL; supervisor: Jiří Hrabal).

    • 6/2024 Vladan Marenčík: The Travelogue of Šimon Alois Tudecius de Monte Galea (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, UPOL; supervisor: Radmila Prchal Pavlíčková).

    Successfully defended Bachelor’s theses:

    • 9/2025 Denis Vatintsev: Cartographic Visualization of Czech Travel Writing from the Mediterranean (Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, UPOL; supervisor: Radek Barvíř).

    • 8/2025 Alena Obrtelová: The Image of Muslims and Jews in the Travelogues of Josef Jan Svátek (Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, UPOL; supervisor: David Jirsa).

    • 5/2025 Sara Mrazikova: La vuelta a Europa en avión de Manuel Chaves Nogales: análisis temático y turístico con enfoque a la antigua Checoslovaquia (1929) (Department of English and German Philologies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Granada; supervisor: Jiří Měsíc).

    • 6/2024 Markéta Kurucová: Venezia nella letteratura di viaggio ceca della prima età moderna (Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Arts, UPOL; supervisor: Eva Skříčková).

    • 6/2024 Carmen Guevara Guerrero: The Visual and Literary Representation of Spain by Czech Travelers at the Beginning of the 20th Century (Faculty of Business, University of Granada; supervisor: Jiří Měsíc).

    • 6/2024 Marta Castillo García: Travel to Spain by the Czech Writer Karel Čapek: Tourism in the Late 1920s (Faculty of Business, University of Granada; supervisor: Jiří Měsíc).

    Bachelor’s theses in progress:

    • 6/2026 (planned defense) Markéta Malá: A Comparison of Cultural-Narratological Aspects of Travelogues to Dalmatia by Anna Řeháková and Alice Lee Moqué (Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, UPOL; supervisor: Jiří Hrabal).

    • 6/2026 (planned defense) Lada Herudková: The Literary Construction of Alterity in Travel Writing from Croatia and Dalmatia by Vilém Dušan Lambl (Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, UPOL; supervisor: Jiří Hrabal).

  • MAPS AND DOCUMENTATION

    Map – Palestýna
    Documentation- Palestýna
    Map – Cesta po Španělích
    Documentation – Cesta po Španělích
    Map – Benátky
    Documentation – Benátky

  • POPULARIZATION AND DISSEMINATION

    Project posters: 12 posters presenting the project (A2 format; project presentation held from 29 October to 11 November 2025 in the foyer of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia)

    Podcasts and video presentations

    1) Jirsa, David: Naše nová literární aplikace! (podcast „Na potítku“, zveřejněno 12. 1. 2026)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvyz9miTmU

    2) Moravská zemská knihovna: Průvodce Digeocat (videoprezentace projektu, zveřejněno 8. 1. 2026) https://youtu.be/pmCqYYQZVYs?si=abvK_ayFYAp5kUsG

    3) Měsíc, Jiří: [prezentace projektu] (zveřejněno 4. 7. 2025, 461 zhlédnutí k 28. 12. 2025)

    https://youtu.be/oVft5oF9LvU?si=-4kBoxkTkSyb3CrJ

    4) Jirsa, David: Obrozenci na cestách po Orientu (zveřejněno 17. 6. 2025, 1 561 zhlédnutí k 28. 12. 2025) https://www.youtube.com/live/bAgg9cX0a9E?si=D4e0VDpEu7lFccmC

    5) Jirsa, David: Jak se živí bohemista (podcast „Na potítku“, zveřejněno 8. 2. 2024, 13 058 zhlédnutí k 28. 12. 2025)

    https://youtu.be/nFH5hif3zYs?si=k3PscRPAniUqFBnF

    Popularizing lectures for both specialist and general audiences

    1) Měsíc, Jiří: Býčí zápasy v českých cestopisech 19. a počátku 20. století (8. 4. 2025, pořadatel: Centro Artístico, Literario y Científico de Granada, v rámci cyklu „Býčí zápasy v umění“) – link: Facebook

    2) Hrabal, Jiří: Zrození české představy o Dalmácii (12. 12. 2024, pořadatel: Vědecká knihovna v Olomouci, v rámci cyklu „Univerzita v kostele“) – link: Facebook

    3) Ivačić, Matija: Představení projektu Digeocat & Lib. v rámci „Dne EU projektů“ (17. 10. 2024, pořadatel: Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu) – link: Održan Dan EU projekata Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu – Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

    Popularizing articles

    Měsíc, Jiří. 2026. La tauromaquia en los libros de viaje checos entre los siglos XV y principios del XX. In: Boletín del Centro Artístico. (forthcoming, 4/2026)

    Ivačić, Matija. 2025. Dubrovnik, grad brijača i turista. In: Dubrovački vjesnik, 8. 11., 17.

    Dubrovački – O epizodi češkog putopisca Ignáta Herrmanna u našem gradu 1906. godine: ‘Glazba, izgleda, Dubrovčanima nije potrebna, ni pod otvorenim nebom, ni u restoranu, ni u parku’

    Perissutti, Anna Maria. 2025. „Přečíst“ Benátky očima tří českých cestovatelů z konce 19. století. In: Tvar 16, 10-11.

    https://itvar.cz/lide/anna-maria-perissutti

    Ratković, Nives. 2025. Mali kutak velikih putovanja: Digeocat &Lib. Klub studentů bohemistiky Říp – Newsletter, srpen, vol. III. (Facebook)

    Ivačić, Matija. 2025. Iz putopisa Čeha Ignáta Herrmanna Na jug: O skakanju sa Starog mosta, bakšišu i pucnjavi na ulicama Sarajeva. In: Mostarski.ba, 1. díl: 6. 4., 2. díl: 23. 4., 3. díl: 26. 5.

    a) „Majmunska ručica“ u Mostaru: Iz putopisa Čeha Ignáta Herrmanna Na jug (1. dio) – Mostarski.ba

    b) Češka doktorica u Mostaru: Iz putopisa Čeha Ignáta Herrmanna Na jug (2. dio) – Mostarski.ba

    c) Iz putopisa Čeha Ignáta Herrmanna Na jug: O skakanju sa Starog mosta, bakšišu i pucnjavi na ulicama Sarajeva (3. dio) – Mostarski.ba

    Ivačić, Matija. 2024. Opatijo, mjesto zemaljskoga raja… In: Opatija, 272, 26-27.

    Konrad-Quarnero-Opatija-1.pdf

    Ivačić, Matija. 2024. Mezinárodní vědecký projekt DIGEOCAT & Lib. In: Jednota, 20. 4., 16, 18-19.

    jednota-projekt.jpg (1240×882)

    Ivačić, Matija. 2024. Kako je Čeha Josefa Holečeka dubrovačko more umalo stajalo glave. In: Dubrovački vjesnik, 6. 4.

    Dubrovački – Pročitajte kako je Čeha Josefa Holečeka dubrovačko more umalo stajalo glave: ‘Gotovo četiri sata trebalo je parobrodu da se iskobelja iz gruške luke’

    Ivačić, Matija a kol. (Jana Perutka, Franka Radetić, Josipa Teskera, Lara Varjačić). 2024. „Na istarskoj obali“ (překlad cestopisu Karla Liebschera Na pobřeží Istrie). In: Artikulacije, 17, 121-134.

    Project website

    www.digeocat.upol.cz

    digeocat.ffzg.unizg.hr

    Facebook profile

    Digeocat & Lib. (link: Facebook)

    Articles in print media or online portals about the project and media coverage of project activities

    2. 12. 2025 La tauromaquia desembarca en República Checa de la mano de José Garrido https://www.latierradeltoro.es/la-tauromaquia-desembarca-en-la-republica-checa-de-la-mano-de-jose-garrido/205757/

    30. 11. 2025 José Garrido enseña el toreo en República Checa https://www.altoromexico.com/index.php?acc=noticiad&id=50593 

    29. 11. 2025 Javier Valdeoro y José Garrido llevan la tauromaquia a la República Checa https://www.toreando.es/2025/11/29/javier-valdeoro-y-jose-garrido-llevan-la-tauromaquia-a-la-republica-checa/

    28.11.2025 Los toros llegan a las Universidades de la República Checa https://www.aplausos.es/los-toros-en-las-universidades-de-praga-y-ostrava-de-la-republica-checa/

    28. 11. 2025 La tauromaquia llega por primera vez a la República Checa de la mano del matador José Garrido https://elestoconazo.es/la-tauromaquia-llega-por-primera-vez-a-la-republica-checa-de-la-mano-del-matador-jose-garrido/

    27. 11. 2025 La tauromaquia viaja por primera vez a la República Checa de la mano del matador José Garrido, Javier Valdeoro y el investigador Jiří Měsíc https://www.mundotoro.com/noticia/jose-garrido-javier-valdeoro-y-el-investigador-jiri-mesic-llevan-a-la-tauromaquia-a-republica-checa/1907386

    27. 11. 2025 La Tauromaquia viaja por primera vez a la República Checa de la mano del matador José Garrido, Javier Valdeoro y el investigador Jiří Měsíc https://toro-live.com/actos-culturales/la-tauromaquia-viaja-por-primera-vez-a-la-republica-checa-de-la-mano-del-matador-jose-garrido-javier-valdeoro-y-el-investigador-jiri-mesic/

    27. 11. 2025 Chicuelinas y Tafalleras https://chicuelinasytafalleras.com/actualidad/jose-garrido-acerca-la-tauromaquia-a-la-republica-checa

    27. 11. 2025 José Garrido lleva por primera vez la Tauromaquia a las universidades de la República Checa https://www.burladero.tv/cultura/2025/11/27/jose-garrido-lleva-por-primera-vez-la-tauromaquia-las-universidades-de-la-republica-checa-91505.html

    6/2024 zpravodaj Univerzity Palackého Žurnál UP https://www.zurnal.upol.cz/nc/zprava/clanek/digeocat-lib-digitalni-nastroj-pro-efektivnejsi-vyzkum-cestopisnych-textu/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIlzqNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaHV1d4X8U11AtD31FAoZZ_rndsQ716i6Xg2-EC5Wk5828JoKAEiHgHQNA_aem_W6WXB73CiKIl3WkWc6T8kA

    6/2024 časopis Aspekt https://www.facebook.com/ffup.cz/posts/-aspekt-ji%C5%99%C3%AD-hrabal-katedra-bohemistiky-ff-up-olomouc-a-digeocat-lib-digeocat-li/875564741268150/

News

Conference “Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture” in Olomouc

On October 2–3, 2025, the second two-day international conference of the Digeocat & Lib project took place in Olomouc, this time on the theme “Maps, Routes and Borders in Literary Culture.” The conference brought together researchers from a wide range of disciplines (history, geoinformatics, cartography, graphic design, literary history, linguistics, etc.) from the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Croatia, Italy, and Spain, who presented nearly 30 papers during the event.

Conference programme

Photo gallery

International Conference of Young Bohemists in Zagreb

On September 25–26, 2025, the international conference of young Bohemists “Bohemikon” took place at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Two students from the Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, also participated: Markéta Malá with the paper “Analýza reprezentací alterity v cestopisech Anny Řehákové Z dalmatského jihu a Alice Lee Moqué Delightful Dalmatia” and Lada Herudková with the paper “Konstrukce alterity v textech Viléma Dušana Lambla z cest do Chorvatska a Dalmácie”. Both papers are based on theses written within the Digeocat & Lib. project.

Theses written within the the Digeocat&Lib. project

Within the framework of the Digeocat&Lib. project, several new bachelor’s and master’s theses have been written and successfully defended as part of the outputs. At the Department of Bohemian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, a bachelor’s thesis on the topic “Obraz muslimů a Židů v cestopisech Josefa Jana Svátka” was written by Alena Obrtelová under the supervision of Dr. David Jirsa. At the Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Denis Vatintsev defended a bachelor’s thesis “Kartografická vizualizace českých cestopisů ze Středomoří”, supervised by Dr. Radek Barvíř. At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, a master’s thesis on the topic “Predodžba o Hrvatima u djelima Jana Kollára” was written and successfully defended by our Croatian team member Nives Ratković under the supervision of Prof. Matija Ivačić.

Jiří Hrabal at the 17th International Congress of Slavists in Paris

On August 27, 2025, the project’s head researcher Jiří Hrabal gave a presentation on “The Construction of Representation of Alterity in Czech Travelogue Texts from the Kingdom of Dalmatia” as part of the panel Nous et les autres dans les littératures et cultures slaves at the 17th International Congress of Slavists in Paris. It’s another of our project’s outputs presented at international conferences.

Bachelor’s Thesis on the Journey of Manuel Chaves Nogales

Under the supervision of Jiří Měsíc, coordinator of our Spanish project team, another bachelor’s thesis was successfully completed and defended: S. Mráziková – La vuelta a Europa en avión de Manuel Chaves Nogales: análisis temático y turístico con enfoque a la antigua Checoslovaquia (1929). This thesis is a part of our supplementary project outputs aimed at implementing research outputs into education.

Nives Ratković at a Conference in Poznań

On June 8, one of the junior members of our project team, Nives Ratković from the University of Zagreb, participated in the conference “Słowianie, my lubim… podróże!” at the university in Poznań in Poland, where she presented the results of her research conducted within the framework of our project in a paper titled “Putevima Jana Kollára u Hrvatskoj”.

Representation at the GranaSlavic Conference in Granada

At the beginning of June, the four-day Slavic conference GranaSlavic took place in Granada, attracting over 300 Slavic studies scholars from around the world. Our project team was represented by Jiří Měsíc (“Las corridas de toros en la literatura de los viajeros checos de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX”), Sarah Lemmen (“Eastern European exile in Franco’s Spain and the Cold War propaganda battle”), David Jirsa (“On the question of Colonialism in Czech Travel Literature”), José Alejandro Calero Díaz (“Lenguas mellizas, los diasistemas español, portugués, checo y eslovaco. Hacia una visión no supremacista en la comparación de las lenguas”), and María del Pilar Peña-Molina (“I have a Queerstion: an approach to queer narratives in Slavic literatures”).

International Conference GranaSlavic 2025 in Granada

Jiří Měsíc, coordinator of the Spanish team from the University of Granada, presented his paper titled “The Representation of Bullfighting in Czech Travel Literature of the 19th and Early 20th Century” on June 4, 2025, at the international conference GranaSlavic 2025 held at the University of Granada. His presentation introduced his research within the framework of the project.

Lecture on Czech travelogues from Istria and Kvarner in Olomouc

On Tuesday, April 8, Matija Ivačić visited Palacký University in Olomouc. In his lecture titled “Czech travelogues from Istria and Kvarner in the 19th century” he introduced the travel diaries of Jan Kollár, Karel Liebscher, and Karel Konrád to the students. He also offered insight into the era in which these travelers visited the regions of present-day Croatia, the means of transport they used, and the impressions that Istria and Kvarner left on them.

Jiří Měsíc’s lecture on bullfighting in Czech travelogues

On Tuesday, April 8, Jiří Měsíc from the University of Granada gave a lecture on “Bullfighting in Czech travelogues of the 19th and early 20th century.” The event took place at the Centro Artístico, Literario y Científico de Granada – Granada’s center for art, literature, and science – as part of the series “Bullfighting in the Arts.”

Matija Ivačić introduces Ignát Herrmann’s travelogue on Mostarski.ba

Matija Ivačić, coordinator of the Croatian project team, also focuses on Bosnia and Herzegovina in his popular science activities. The official website of the city of Mostar published his article, in which – 90 years after the death of Ignát Herrmann and almost 120 years after the publication of his travelogue Na jih (To the South) – he presents Herrmann’s work to readers. In this travelogue, the author described also his visit to Mostar.

Conference GIS Ostrava 2025

At the GIS Ostrava 2025 conference, held on March 5–6 2025 in the auditorium of VŠB-TU in Ostrava, our project was presented by Jakub Koníček from the Department of Geoinformatics at the Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc. In his presentation on “Digitization and Visualization of Travelogues through a Web Mapping Application” he introduced to the geoinformatics community the mapping environment of the VDC tool for georeferencing travelogue data, the visualization platform for presenting results and the process of processing historical documents.

Cartography Day in Olomouc

On February 28, 2025, the 19th Cartography Day – a one-day seminar that connects experts on various topics with the cartographic community – took place in Olomouc. Jiří Hrabal, our project’s head researcher, attended this year’s event themed Cartography and Fictional Worlds and in his presentation “Maps and Narrated Space” discussed the relationship between maps and literary culture. He also highlighted the fact that maps not only illustrate fictional worlds but also serve as an analytical tool for studying literary works.

Nives Ratković introduced our project to students in Daruvar

On 11 February 2025, a member of the Croatian team Nives Ratković visited the Gymnasium in Daruvar, where she introduced our DIGEOCAT & Lib project to the students. The Daruvar gymnasium students learned some information about the project and its goals and they also had the opportunity to see how to use the VDC digital tool to process travelogues.

Members of the Croatian team participated in the LXIII Conference of Slavists in Serbia

The Croatian team members Matija Ivačić and Suzana Kos attended the LXIII Conference of Slavists in Serbia, held on 13–14 January 2025 at the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade, where they presented their research results within the DIGEOCAT & Lib project. Matija Ivačić presented his paper on “Josef Holeček’s Travelogues from the South Slavic Countries”, Suzana Kos presented her paper “The Encounter of East and West in 19th century Czech Travelogues”.

Final online workshop on researching Czech travelogues from the Mediterranean

On Friday 13 December 2024, the final workshop in our series “Researching Czech Travelogues from the Mediterranean from the 15th century to 1918 using digital humanities” took place, this time focusing mainly on Italy and Spain. The workshop was led by Jana Vrajová from the Department of Czech Studies of the Faculty of Arts in Olomouc, Anna Maria Perissutti from the Università degli Studi di Udine and Jiří Měsíc from the Universidad de Granada. The workshop was attended by 36 students and professors from Croatia, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic.

Public lecture on Czech travelogues from the Dalmatia region

On Thursday, 12 December 2024, a public lecture on “The Origins of the Czech Idea of Dalmatia” was held at the Scientific Library in Olomouc as part of the lecture series “University in the Church”. The project’s researcher, Jiří Hrabal, presented some of the findings of his research to the public.

Third online workshop on researching Czech travelogues from the Mediterranean

On Friday, 29 November 2024, the third four-hour workshop from our series “Researching Czech travelogues from the Mediterranean from the 15th century to 1918 using digital humanities” took place, this time focusing on the Western Balkan region. The workshop was led by Matija Ivačić (Department of West Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Arts, Zagreb) and Jiří Hrabal (Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc) and was attended by 36 students and professors from the universities of Olomouc, Zagreb, Granada and Udine.

Presentation for high school students at the FFEST festival in Olomouc

On 15 November 2024, a member of our project team, David Jirsa, presented our project with his presentation on “The Image of Palestine and Jerusalem in Czech Literature” at the FFEST festival to approximately one hundred and fifty high school students.

Second online workshop on researching Czech travelogues from the Mediterranean

On Friday, 15 November 2024, the second four-hour online workshop in our series of workshops for university students, “Researching Czech travelogues from the Mediterranean from the 15th century to 1918 using digital humanities”, was held, this time on the topic of “Czech travelogues from the Levant”. The workshop was led by Jana Kolářová and David Jirsa from the Department of Czech Studies at the Faculty of Arts in Olomouc. It was attended by 35 students and professors, both Czech and foreign.

Introducing our project at the Hejčín Gymnasium in Olomouc

On 6 November 2024, a member of our project team, Jana Vrajová, introduced our project to the students of the Hejčín Gymnasium as part of their Czech literature lessons.

Online workshop on researching Czech travelogues from the Mediterranean

On Friday, 2 November 2024, the first of a series of four online workshops on the topic “Researching Czech travelogues from the Mediterranean from the 15th century to 1918 using digital humanities” took place, with the participation of students and researchers from Palacký University in Olomouc and our project partner universities in Zagreb, Udine, and Granada. The four-hour introductory workshop “How to understand travel texts and how to ‘read’ them using digital humanities?”, led by Jiří Hrabal (Faculty of Arts, UP) and Radek Barvíř (Faculty of Science, UP), was attended by 33 participants. The next workshop will follow on 15 November, this time focused on “Czech Travel Texts from the Levant”, led by Dr. Jana Kolářová and Dr. David Jirsa from the Department of Czech Studies of the Faculty of Arts of UP.

EU Projects Day in Zagreb

On 17 October 2024, the “EU Projects Day” took place at the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Five major projects in which the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb is involved were presented, including ours, which was presented by the coordinator of the Croatian team Matija Ivačić. The event, which was opened by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb, Domagoj Tončinić, was held on the occasion of the Open Day of the Croatian Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds.

International Conference Universität trifft Museum: Kunst, Geschichte und jüdisches Leben in Europa

Dr. Ivana Cahová, member of the project team and the head of the Centre for Judaic Studies in Olomouc, presented our project in Vienna and Eisenstadt at the international conference “Universität trifft Museum: Kunst, Geschichte und jüdisches Leben in Europa”, which took place on 23–25 September 2024.

International Scientific Conference in Czech Studies in Zagreb

During the International Scientific Conference in Czech Studies – Migrations (Faculty of Arts in Zagreb, 26–27 September 2024), the project investigator Jiří Hrabal presented his contribution “What do Czech travelogues from the Dalmatian Kingdom say about the immigration of Czechs to Dalmatia?”.

International conference supported by our project

The conference “The Mediterranean in Travelogue Literature” will take place in Udine, where the members of our project team will present their contributions.

Our project at the 8th Croatian Slavonic Congress

The project investigator Jiří Hrabal presented our project at the 8th Croatian Slavonic Congress in Slavonski Brod (11–⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠14 September 2024) with his paper “Istraživanje prezentacije alteriteta u češkim putopisnim tekstovima iz Dalmacije do 1918. godine: od književne kulture do digitalne humanistike i natrag”. More than 100 researchers from 13 countries participated in the Congress. Thanks to this experience, the relations between the countries cooperating on the project within the “cooperation partnership” framework are growing stronger.

Theses written within the framework of the Digeocat & Lib. project

The first two theses written within the framework of our project were successfully defended at the Faculty of Arts of UP in June 2024. The first one, a Master’s thesis called “Cestopis Šimona Aloise Tudecia de Monte Galea”, was written by Vladan Marenčík under the supervision of doc. Radmila Prchal Pavlíčková at the Department of History. The Bachelor’s thesis “Venezia nella letteratura di viaggio ceca della prima età moderna” was written by Markéta Kurucová (student of Italian and Czech Philology) under the supervision of Dr. Eva Skříčková and defended at the Department of Romance Studies.

Translation of Karel Liebscher’s travel diary into Croatian

As part of the educational activities of our project, a translation into Croatian of Karel Liebscher’s short travelogue “On the Coast of Istria” from 1888 was published in the Croatian literary magazine Artikulacije (17/2024, pp. 121-134). The translation was made within the framework of the three-part workshop “Czech Travel Texts in Translation: challenges and specificities” at the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb. The travelogue was translated by Jana Perutka, Franka Radetić, Josipa Teskera and Lara Varjačić under the supervision of Matija Ivačić.

Workshop at the University of Warsaw

On Tuesday 4 June 2024, Jiří Hrabal, the principal investigator of the Digeocat & Lib. project, presented the work on this project to Polish students at the University of Warsaw during a four-hour workshop.

Lecture and meeting of the project team in Zagreb

On 6 May, Jiří Hrabal presented his work on the Digeocat & Lib. project in a lecture on the specifics of travel literature to the students of Bohemian Studies at the University of Zagreb. Subsequently, our three-member Croatian project team (FFZG) met for a work meeting with the head of the project (FFUP). Among other things, they discussed the relationship between the modes of transport of the narrative self in travel texts and the constitution of the narrated space.

Research team

Palacký University Olomouc (UPOL) is in the position of the project applicant and shall incorporate the following into the project:

  • a team of specialists in Czech literary culture from the 15th century up to 1918 and in cultural aspects of narrative texts from the Department of Czech Studies (UPOL),
  • a team of specialists in digital mapping and geoinformatics from the Department of Geoinformatics (UPOL),
  • the experienced university Project Service of UPOL (https://psup.cz/), which provides complex services for project activities, including project consultation and administrative and financial project management;

the Czech partner in the project is the prestigious CZ institution:

  • the Moravian Library in Brno (MLB) is providing a team of specialists in digitisation of literary monuments, including technical support.

Teams from partner universities abroad: The University of Granada, University of Udine and University of Zagreb have been incorporated into the project because the cultural and historical realms they represent come within the European region of the Mediterranean, thus the areas the Czech travel writers primarily visited. The teams from these partner institutions are composed of specialists in literary culture, linguistics, anthropology, history and geography.

Only the synergy of the research teams of these partner institutions can facilitate the project realisation, in which it is necessary to interlink a number of specialisations and several cultural and historical realms.

Palacký University Olomouc · Faculty of Arts

  • Jiří Hrabal

    head of the project

    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 of 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 Contacts” (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

    – 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.
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  • Sarah Lemmen

    member of the research team

    Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of Geography and History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    – 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;

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years:

    • Lemmen, S. (2023). Who’s speaking? Eastern European Exile in Franco’s Spain and the Cold War propaganda battle. In Bravo, G. G. – Faraldo, J. M. (eds.) Interacting Francoism. Entanglement, Comparison and Transfer between Dictaturships in the 20th Century. London, Routledge, 179–199.
    • Lemmen, S. (2023). Travelling second class. Czech tourists between national identity and Europeanness in Cairo, 1890s–1930s. Journal of Tourism History 15/1., 3–19.
    • Lemmen, S. a Le Normand, B. (eds.) (2021). Ports in State Socialism – or why the Cold War Matters to Maritime History. International Journal of Maritime History 33/1 (speciální vydání).
    • Lemmen, S. (2020). Beyond the League of Nations: Public Debates on International Relations in Czechoslovakia during the Interwar Period. In Becker, P. – Wheatley, N. (eds.). Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands. Oxford, Oxford University Press (The history and theory of international law), 343–362.
    • Lemmen, S. (2018). 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
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  • David Jirsa

    member of the research team

    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);

    – important publications in the last 5 years:

    • Jirsa, D. (2018). Od tvaru k poezii: Jan Strakoš ve Tvaru. In Kubíček, T. – Wiendl., J. Obrazy kultury a společnosti v období první republiky. Brno, Moravská zemská knihovna, 91–98.
    • Jirsa, D. (2018). Pozice Timothea Vodičky při tažení olomouckých dominikánů proti Karlu Schulzovi. In Jirsa, D. – Trojková, N. (ed.) Je to s tím akordem velký kříž. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty UP.
    • Jirsa, D. (2020). Literární eseje Timothea Vodičky v kontextu katolického myšlení o literatuře v první polovině 20. století. In Jirsa, D. – Trojková, N. (ed.) Timotheus Vodička, Tvůrce a tradice – Eseje o české literatuře 19. století. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty UP.
    • Jirsa, D. (2020). Světová literatura po roce 1989. In Adámková, P. (eds.) Nová literatura 3 pro střední školy. Brno, Didaktis, 196–215.
    • Jirsa D. (2022). Doslov – Přínos Petra Hory české literární historie. In Hrabal, J. – Jirsa, D. –Trojková, N. (ed.) Odpovědnost a dobrodružství. Řemeslo recenzentovo.

  • Jana Vrajová

    member of the research team

    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: grant of Faculty of Arts, Palacký University (FPVC2013/18): Tvorba Sofie Podlipské v kontextech a souřadnicích české literatury 2. poloviny 19. století (The work of Sofie Podlipská in the contexts and coordinates of Czech literature of the second half of the 19th century)

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years:

    • Vrajová, J. (2023). Realismus a dekadence jako „nákaza” v dobové řeči o literatuře 19. století. Slavica Wratislaviensia CLXXVII, 177, 149–155.
    • Vrajová, J. (2023). Ideál v hávu dokumentarity. Česká literatura 70, 4, 429–457.
    • Vrajová, J. (2022). Paměťová stopa židovství v memoárové literatuře autorů konce 19. století. In Hrabal, J. – Trojková, N. (eds.) Židovská literatura a kultura ve střední Evropě. Slovo a smysl 19, 39 (Special issue), 39–58.
    • Vrajová, J. (2020). Parnasistní variace na středověké putování svatého Brandana (Julius Zeyer, Kronika o svatém Brandanu). In Hrabal, J. (ed.). Ostrov v literaturách a kulturách střední Evropy. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty UP, 61–69.
    • Vrajová, J. (2020). Pozdní dílo Terézy Novákové v doteku s modernistickými tendencemi. V Gilk, E. (ed.). Impresionismus v české kultuře (1880–1920). Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty UP, 113–122.
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  • Ivana Cahová

    member of the research team

    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)

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years:

    • Cahová, I. (ed.) – Barvíř, R. – Chalupný, V. – Jeništa A. – Lapiszová, K. – Niklová, P. –Papoušek, M. – Pospíšil, J. – Řezníčková, A. – Svobodníková, N. (2022). Vývoj židovského osídlení v Olomouci: geografická a socioekonomická struktura židovského obyvatelstva v období 1180–2021. Specializovaná tištěná mapa. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého.
    • Cahová, I. – Jeništa, A. – Barvíř, R. (eds.) (2022). Židovské kulturní a intelektuální dějiny Olomouce. Specializovaná tištěná mapa. Olomouc, Muzeum umění.
    • Cahová, I. (2021). Dramatik Max Zweig – prorok nového humanismu (dramatik Max Zweig – Prorok nového humanismu). Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého.
    • Cahová, I. (2020). „‚Inteligence je tu – pro krmení prasat.‘ Engelmannův kruh a kulturní prostředí olomouckých Židů v prvních desetiletích 20. století“. In Crhová, M. (ed.). Přerámování židovského života: moravské židovstvo v moderní době. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého, 95–112.
    • Cahová, I. (2018). „Max Zweig: Apoštol nového humanismu. Politické perspektivy Maxe Zweiga“. In Wakounig, M. – Kühnel, F. (eds.) East Central Europe at a Glance. Lidé. Kultury. Developments, Europa Orientalis, Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte an der Universität Wien, (18), 251–272.
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  • Jana Kolářová

    member of the research team

    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: grant of Faculty of Arts, Palacký University (FPVČ 2014/452100601): Dílo Jiřího Bartholda Pontana v kontextu latinské humanistické literatury katolické provenience [The work of Jiří Barthold in the context of Latin humanist literature of catholic provenance]

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years: 

    • Kolářová, J. (2022). On the Image of Jews in Latin Humanist Poetry. Slovo a smysl (19), 39 (speciální vydání), 109–122. 
    • Kolářová, J. (2021). Balbínovo Examen melissaeum mezi humanistickou a barokní poetikou [Examen melissaeum of Bohuslav Balbín between renaissance and baroque poetics]. In Bobková-Valentová, K. – Havlík, J. M. – Viták, K. (eds.): BB 400. Ó kráso Země české, vlastenče náš. Sborník příspěvků. E-publication, 285–219. 
    • Kolářová, J. (2020). Básnické dílo Jiřího Bartholda Pontana. [Poetic Works of Georgius Bartholdus Pontanus]. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty UP. 
    • Kolářová, J. (2019). Saints and Patrons in the Works of Jiří Bartholdus Pontanus of Breitenberk. In Škarpová, Marie a kol. (eds.). Patron Saints and Saintly Patronage in Early Modern Central Europe. Praha, Karolinum, 158–168. 
    • Kolářová, J. (2019). K ediční práci Eduarda Petrů [To the Editorial Work of Eduard Petrů]. Bohemica Olomucensia 11 (3), 92–102. 

  • Markéta Stejskalová

    member of the research team

     junior researcher

Palacký University Olomouc · Faculty of Science

  • Vít Voženílek

    project coordinator

    prof. Dr., Professor, Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc 

    – 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: NAKI – MINISTRY OF CULTURE, reg. no. DG20P020VV029, “Czech dialects in an interactive view. Documentation and ways to accessibility of the disappearing linguistic heritage as integral part of regional identities“ (2020–2022); 

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years: 

    • Ireinová, M. – Voženílek, V. – Vondráková, A. – Koníček, J. (2021). Mapping, synthesis and visualization of Czech dialects. International Journal of Cartography. DOI: 10.1080/23729333.2021.1978039. 
    • Barvíř, R. – Voženílek, V. (2020). Developing Versatile Graphic Map Load Metrics. ISPRS Int. Journal of Geo-Information, 9(12), 705. DOI: 10.3390/ijgi912070, 5www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi. 
    • Pour, T. – Voženílek, V. (2020). Thermal data analysis for urban climate research: A case study of Olomouc, Czechia. GEOGRAPHIA CASSOVIENSIS. 14 (1), 77–91. 
    • Ireinová, M. – Voženílek, V. – Koníček, J. et al. (2022). Atlas nářečí českého jazyka: instrumentál plurálu. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. M.A.P.S. 
    • Ireinová, M. – Voženílek, V. – Koníček, J. et al. (2022). Atlas nářečí českého jazyka: deklinace substantiv. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. M.A.P.S. 
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  • Radek Barvíř

    MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH TEAM

    Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc 

    – organization of Cartographic days in Olomouc; 

    – project: TAČR TL03000679 Redukce informačního deficitu a rozvoj osob se zrakovým postižením prostřednictvím 3D modelů s auditivními prvky; 

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years: 

    • Lázna, R. – Barvíř, R. – Vondráková, A. – Brus, J. (2022). Creating a Haptic 3D Model of Wenceslas Hill in Olomouc. Applied Sciences, 12(21). DOI: doi.org/10.3390/app122110817. 
    • Cahová, I. – Barvíř, R. – Jeništa, A. a kol. (2022). Vývoj židovského osídlení Olomouce: Geografická a socioekonomická struktura židovské populace v období 1180–2021. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. 
    • Barvíř, R. – Voženílek, V. (2021). Graphic Map Load Measuring Tool – development and verification. International Journal of Cartography, 7(3), 285–303. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/23729333.2021.1972907. 
    • Vondráková, A. – Růžičková, V. – Kroupová, K. – Barvíř, R. – Brus, J. – Voženílek, V. (2020). Tyflomapy-tyflografika-tyflokartografie: Percepce prostoru prostřednictvím audio-taktilních 3D map. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. 
    • Barvíř, R. – Voženílek, V. (2020). Developing Versatile Graphic Map Load Metrics. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(12), 705. DOI: doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9120705. 
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  • Jakub Koníček

    MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH TEAM

    Ph.D. candidate, researcher, Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc 

    – graphic designer and webmaster at Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc; 

    – lecturer at Czechitas & freelancer; 

    – research project: NAKI III – Atlas of the Czech Language 2027: 50 years of nationwide research on the dialects of the Czech language; 

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years: 

    • Ireinová, M. – Voženílek, V. – Koníček, J. et al. (2022). Atlas nářečí českého jazyka: deklinace substantiv. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. M.A.P.S. 
    • Ireinová, M. – Voženílek, V. – Koníček, J. et al. (2022). Atlas nářečí českého jazyka: instrumentál plurálu. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. M.A.P.S. 
    • Koníček, J. – Rocha, M. F. D. (2022). Visual comparison of differences in understanding to spatially oriented infographics, Abstr. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 5, 108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-5-108-2022. 
    • Pánek, J. – Barvíř, R. – Koníček, J. – Brlík, M. (2021). The emotional map of Prague – data on what locals think about the Czech capital?, Data in Brief, Volume 39. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107649. 
    • Burian, J. – Šťastný, S. – Voženílek, V. – Barvíř R. – Koníček, J. – Vondráková, A. (2021). Atlas Moravskoslezského kraje: lidé, podnikání, prostředí. Olomouc, Urban Planner, s. r. o. pro Moravskoslezský kraj. 89. 
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Universita degli studi di Udine 

  • Anna Maria Perissutti

    Project coordinator

    Ph.D., Assistant Professor, 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; 

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years: 

    • Perissutti, A. M. (2023). Osservazioni sulle traduzioni italiane dello Švejk. Teoria Testo Traduzione 18, https://teseo.unitn.it/ticontre/article/view/2418. 
    • Perissutti, A. M. (2022). Classi di verbi cechi tra semantica e sintassi. Azionalità e aspetto in un modello semantico scalare. Řím, Aracne. 
    • Perissutti, A. M. (2021). About Truth and Possible Worlds: Pavel Tichý and His Logical and Philosophical Research. Slovo a Smysl 18, 38, 111–124. 
    • Perissutti, A. M. – Kuri, S. (eds.) (2019). Un progetto didattico per la traduzione specializzata. Udine, Forum Editrice. 
    • Esvan, F. – Perissutti A. M. – Trovesi A. (2019). Grammatica ceca, Fonetica, morfologia e sintassi con esercizi e soluzioni. Milán, Hoepli. 
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  • Francesco Visentin

    member of the research team

    PhD., Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, Communication Education and Society; University of Udine 

    – cultural geographer, teaches Human geography and Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe; 

    – 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; 

    – member of the 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 interested in the relationship between art, literature and geography, the narrative of heritagisation processes and the mundane landscapes; 

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years: 

    • Cavallo F. – Vallerani F. – Visentin F. (ed.) (2023). Arcipelago delle maree. Esplorare gli incerti confini della Venezia Anfibia. Benátky, Cafoscarina. 
    • Kaaristo M. – Visentin F. (2023). Absence as an affordance: thinking with(out) water on the inland waterways, Cultural Geographies, 30 (1), 87–102. 
    • Visentin F. – Venturini F. (2022). River Contracts in north-east Italy: Water management or participatory processes?. The Geographical Journal, early view. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12473; 
    • Cavallo F. – Vallerani F. – Visentin F. (2021). Heart of Wetness: Living, narrating, and representing ancient memories and new water rhythms in the Venetian Lagoon, Shima, 15 (1), 1–17. 
    • Visentin F. – Vallerani F. (eds.) (2018). Waterways and the Cultural Landscape. Londýn, Routledge. 

  • Gaia Seminara

    member of the research team

    PhD., Contract Professor, Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Social Studies, University of Udine & Department of Literary Studies, Linguistics and Comparatistics, University of Naples L’Orientale

    – specialist in the field of literary history, 20th century Czech literary culture, literary criticism, translation;

    – an accomplished scientific project: “Culture beyond the official circuits: an archive research” [orig. title “La cultura oltre i circuiti ufficiali: una ricerca d’archivio”] (2019–2021, individual research grant n. 0000002/07.01.2020, Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies, Sapienza University of Rome);

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years:

    • Seminara, G. (ed., přel.) (2023, prosinec). Václav Havel. La voce per il cambiamento . Macerata, Edizioni Università di Macerata.
    • Seminara, G. (2022). Mladí lidé a mládežnické organizace z Itálie do Československa na 1. světovém festivalu demokratické mládeže (1947). [vložený článek]. Příspěvek prezentovaný na „Mezinárodní konferenci Beyond Language 2022“: https://bl2022.epi.uj.edu.pl/;
    • Seminara, G. (2019). Redefinování literární skutečnosti: příklad Bohumila Hrabala. Sedmihradská revue XXVIII, 77–85;
    • Seminara, G. (2018). Pár slov k italskému překladu Příliš hlučná samota. Slovo a smysl 29, 137–149.

  • Martina Mecco

    Doctoral student in German and Slavic Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Charles University of Prague
    • specialist in the fields of literary and linguistic history, Czech and Russian literature from 1920s–1930s, Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism, relationships between Czech, Russian and German cultures; 
    • her dissertation analyses Roman Jakobson’s activity in Czech interwar press; 
    • translator from Russian, Czech, Slovak; 
    • important research outputs in the last years: 
    • Mecco, M. (2024). “Il verso ceco ricorda il suono di una raganella” Roman Jakobson rivoluzionario della prosodia ceca, Slavia. Rivista trimestrale di cultura 3, 147–156. 
    • Mecco, M. (2023). I legami di Roman Jakobson con la stampa tedesca praghese. Il caso “Prager Presse”, Ricerche Slavistiche 6, 109–133. 
    • Mecco, M. (2022). Language and Stylistic Aspects of Karel Čapek’s Journalistic Writing: An Analysis of Hovory s T. G. Masarykem through the Method of Textual Linguistics, Academic Journal of Modern Philology 18, 121–130. 
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Univesidad de Granada 

  • Jiří Měsíc

    project coordinator

    Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of English and German Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Granada 

    – specialist in English and American literature and culture intertwining his studies with folkloric traditions of the Iberian Peninsula, especially with the religious substratum of Andalusian customs (corridas de toros, holy pilgrimages, Easter celebrations and other feasts); 

    – between 2018 and 2019 he disseminated his research on Andalusian culture in Listy Filozofické Fakulty Ostravské Univerzity (magazine of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ostrava); 

    – translator from English, Spanish and French into Czech; beneficiary of various Czech Literary Foundation subventions for his translations and book editions; 

    – between 2015 and 2016 he was the principal researcher in the project “Leonard Cohen, the Modern Troubadour” (IGA_FF_2015_007) funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic for specific university research carried out at Palacký University in Olomouc; 

    – member of the “Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies” and of the “Spanish Association for American Studies”; 

    – important research 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). Londýn, Bloomsbury. 
    • Měsíc, J. (2021). Gertruda Steinová: Mluvit a naslouchat (2 ed. & trans.). Praha, Éditions Fra. 
    • Měsíc, J. (2020). Leonard Cohen, the Modern Troubadour. Olomouc, Vydavatelství UP. 
    • Měsíc, J. (2020). John Pass: Větrná zvonkohra (ed. & přel.). Ostrava, Protimluv. 

  • José Alejandro Calero Díaz

    member of the research team

    Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Greek and Slavic Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Granada 

    – specialist in the field of Bohemistics with more than two decades of teaching experience in the field of acquisition of Czech as a foreign language; 

    – his research interests include the interrelation between semantics and syntax applied to lexicography, the lexicography of expressive variants in the Czech language and the representation of “metalinguistics” in Czech language; 

    – at the end of 2012 he was a visiting researcher at Columbia University investigating Linguistic Iconicity and Linguistic Phonosymbolism; 

    – important research outputs related to Czech language: 

    • Calero, D. J. A. (2011). La Fuerza Ilocutiva Socialmente Reprochable en el Léxico. Analysis Contrastivo Checo-Español. Jazykově-kulturní kompetence a frazeologická motivace. Kapela. 
    • Calero, D. J. A. (2011.) Lexikální Šablony Role And Reference Grammar (Příspěvek k výzkumu českých sloves mluvení). Studie z Korpusové Lingvistiky. str. 166–173. 
    • Calero, D. J. A. (2012). “La valoración de lo metalingüístico a través de verbos de habla checos.” Eslavística Complutense. 12, s. 105–116. 
    • Calero, D. J. A. (2012). “Los verbos zoomorficos de habla como representacion lexica de la fuerza ilocutiva en checo.” Eslavistica Complutense. 2012. 
    • Calero, D. J. A. (2013). “La expresividad y la ironía verbální. (studio sobre la valoracion negativa en el verbo checo).“ Tonos Digital, Nº24. 

  • María del Pilar PEÑA-MOLINA

    member of the research team

    Ph.D, Interim Substitute Teacher, Department of Romance, Italian, Galician-Portuguese and Catalan Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Granada

    • Holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Granada, with a thesis that studied memory in contemporary narrative works from the point of view of trauma studies and autobiography/self-fiction including case studies by three female writers: Daniela Hodrová, Doris Lessing and Anna Banti;
    • specialist in comparative literature, trauma studies, Czech and Italian literature;
    • lecturer of Czech literature from the Middle Ages until now (2020–2023);
    • recipient of a research residency awarded by the Czech Literary Centre in Prague to researchers and translators of Czech Literature. Date: 01/03/2023 – 31/03/2023. Research project: “A trip from Prague to the Underworld – Influences of Dante’s Divine Comedy on the Novel Točité věty by Daniela Hodrová”;
    • member of the research project “La novela de la artista y los géneros autobiográficos”, main researcher: Ioana Gruia. Proyectos de investigación del Plan Propio de la Universidad de Granada.

     

    Important academic outputs:

    • Peña-Molina, M. del P. (2023). THE NOVEL OF THE WOMAN-ARTIST AND MEMORY: CASE STUDIES FROM ANNA BANTI’S ARTEMISIA, DORIS LESSING’STHE GOLDEN NOTEBOOKAND DANIELA HODROVÁ’S SPIRAL SENTENCES. Signa: Revista De La Asociación Española De Semiótica, 32, 169–181. https://doi.org/10.5944/signa.vol32.2023.36124.
    • Peña Molina, M. del P. (2022). “La noche y el día en Ficciones para una autobiografía” en J. Jurado Morales (ed.) La poesía de Ángeles Mora: otra manera de mirar el mundo, Granada, Editorial Comares, pp. 443–

    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria-Del-Pilar-Pena-Molina

Sveučilište u Zagrebu 

  • Matija Ivačić

    project coordinator

    Dr. sc., Assistant Professor, Department of Bohemistics, Faculty of Arts, 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; 

    – project manager of the project Contemporary Czech Prose II (1990–2000) (2022–, institutional project, 11-933-1024); 

    – coordinator of the project A Game-Changing Year: Czechoslovakia and Europe in 1968 (2018–2020, Europe for Citizens Programme); 

    – important research outputs in the last 5 years: 

    • Ivačić, M. (2023). Žert před Žertem. Nad novelou Pršelo jim štěstí Jana Trefulky. In Ivačić, M. – Ivanković, K. – kos, S. – Novosad, A. – Vuković, P. (eds.) Zbornik radova s međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa povodom 55 godina samostalnog studija češkog jezika i književnosti u Zagrebu. Záhřeb, FF Press, 37–49. 
    • Ivačić, M. (2021). On Milan Kundera – In a Problematic Manner (On Jan Novák’s Book Milan Kundera. Český život a doba, Argo & Paseka, Praha 2020). Umjetnost riječi LXV, 3–4, 277–282. 
    • Ivačić, M. (2020). Naracija u službi zamagljivanja: Zgoda policijskog prefekta Ladislava Fuksa. Književna smotra LII, 198 (4), 75–82. 
    • Ivačić, M. (2020). Češka kriminalistička proza 1958–1969: refleksija, reprezentacija. Záhřeb, Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada. 
    • Ivačić, M. (2020). Prague Spring in Croatian Daily Newspapers and Newspapers and Testimonies from Northwestern Croatia. In Matejko, L. – Ivančík, M. (eds.) Narratives of Remembrance. 1968: the Past Present and the Present Past. Proceedings of the international symposium „Culture of Remembrance and Remembrance of Culture“ held in Forlì on 14th–15th of November 2019. Bratislava, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, 104–117. 

  • Suzana Kos

    member of the research team

    Dr. sc., Izvanredna profesorica, Department of Bohemistics, Faculty Arts, University of Zagreb 

    – specialist in the field of contemporary Czech literature, feminist/gender literary criticism, Czech popular literature, Czech 19th century literature; 

    – participant in the EACEA project (Europe for Citizens Programme of the EU) A Game Changing Year: Czechoslovakia and Europe in 1968 (2018–2020); 

    – 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: 

    • Kos, S. (2021). Ženski identiteti u tranziciji: češke autorice na prijelazu u 21 stoljeće, Záhřeb, Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada. 
    • Kos, S. (2020). Život na margini – stranac/Drugi u prozama Petre Hůlove. Književna smotra 198 (4), 95–102. 
    • Kos, S. (2019). Dětská realita v prózách Petry Soukupové. Słowiańszczyzna dawniej i dziś – język, literatura, kultura. Monografia ze studiów slawistycznych IV / Kołodziej, Agnieszka, Tyszkowskiej-Kasprzak, Elżbieta, Ślawskiej, Magdalena, Ursulenko, Anna (ur.). Wroclaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT – Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe, 411–416. 
    • Kos, S. – Željeznjak, A. (2018). Tradicionalne i netradicionalne ženske uloge u romanu Krakatit Karela Čapeka. Književna smotra 187 (1), 53–61. 

  • Nives Ratković

    member of the research team

    junior researcher

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Palacký University Olomouc – Project service

  • Veronika Knichalová

    project and financial manager
    • ensures the comprehensive administrative management of the project and serves as the main contact point for communication with the funding authority,
    • is responsible for the project’s financial management, coordination of administrative processes, and oversight of compliance with contractual and methodological requirements,
    • has extensive experience in the administration and financial management of ERASMUS+ (KA2) projects, operational programmes, as well as other national and international grant schemes,
    • is a member of the Project Service of Palacký University Olomouc (PS UP), which operates as an information and advisory centre providing consultations and support services in the field of grant funding and offers project support within international, national, and internal grant schemes,
    • ensures the dissemination of information on funding opportunities, organizes training seminars, and supports both project preparation and subsequent implementation.

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    in Czech     travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities. 
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