Research into representations of intercultural contacts in Czech travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities
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 main objective of the project is to create an innovative digital humanities tool, specifically a digital library of travelogue texts accessible online, which will be interactively connected with a digital multi-thematic atlas via themes focusing on intercultural contact.
The main project outcome will be a multi-thematic atlas accessible online, connected via themes focusing on intercultural contact with a digital library consisting of the selected body of travelogues – DIGEOCAT & Lib. Other outcomes will use the created digital humanities tool, capable of processing a large volume of data: academic studies, specialised maps, reports and other dissemination activities essential for presenting the usability of the tool in education and research.
Palacký University Olomouc (UPOL) is in the position of the project applicant and shall incorporate the following into the project:
the Czech partner in the project is the prestigious CZ institution:
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.
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
junior researcher
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
U-CHASS: Centre for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Granada
Ph.D. Full Professor, Head of the English and German Department, University of Granada
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:
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:
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:
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:
junior researcher
Associate director at Moravian library in Brno
Research into representations of intercultural contacts
in Czech travelogue texts from the Mediterranean up to 1918, using digital humanities.
2022-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000085765