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This article examines the question of the participation of professors from Poland in the academic life in Prague from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Because the article is a prosopographic study, the group o...

After the defeat of September 1939, a large number of Polish historians found themselves, together with the army, scattered abroad. They lost their previous academic research base, aids and equipment, book collections, n...

Adopting Michael Billig’s concept of banal nationalism, the article investigates how national identity is performed in popular culture in reference to comics. The main research source are the Polish Wikipedia entries c...

This text aims to highlight the issue of building Polish-French economic relations in the first years after Poland regained independence. For the Polish state at that time, a key concern was securing French support in th...

This research aims to explore the role of community resilience in response to the refugee crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 by specifically studying two core dimensions of community re...

The article aims to investigate the part played by legal formalism in maintaining the continuity and coherence of the law. The legal formalism is reconstructed and analysed as one of the dominant, if not the dominant, pe...

As a result of four mass deportations carried out by the NKVD officers in 1940–1941, over 320,000 Polish citizens were deported into the USSR from the eastern territories of the Republic of Poland annexed by Moscow (ac...

Before the Second World War, the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw was a dynamically functioning research institution, characterised by its rapidly growing collections of contemporary animals for scientific, educational ...

The study attempts to read Rembrandt’s 1660 history painting from a curious aesthetic perspective: as a drama in the Aristotelian sense. To show the moment of anagnorisis in a picture is not enough to place the particu...

The reign of Władysław Jagiełło in Poland was highly significant. He not only established a new dynasty but also succeeded diplomatically and militarily in foreign policy. His forty-year reign was also a time of gran...

Teaching a form of Syrian dialect is documented in a manuscript by Ottoman poet and writer Ḥassān ibn Naṣūḥ ar-Rūmī al-Balāṭī dating back to around 1445. He aimed to instruct individuals interested in tra...

In the year 2019 were celebrated the thousand years of the founda- tion of the Zalavár Benedictine Monastery under the Patrocinium of Saint Hadrian the Martyr on the western shore of the Lake Balaton in Hungary, and thi...

This article examines the social implications of pottery circulation in the southern Andes during the Late pre-Hispanic periods (ca. A.D. 1000–1550). In particular, its goal is to understand the role of Yavi-Chicha pot...

In the fall of 2010 Prague Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON) published the Czech translation of Maurice Halbwachs’s book La mémoire collective [2010]. The French sociologist is considered the founder of social memo...

In the second half of the 20th century, academic mobility gained new importance, particularly in the context of political and social changes. Throughout the Eastern Bloc, the education of foreign students served not only...

Composing the first Ukrainian Synaxarion (Chetii-Minei), the great Ukrainian theologian, scholar and hagiographer St. Dymytriy Tuptalo (1651–1709) relied on different sources, including Slavonic, Greek, Latin, and Poli...

The present article highlights the changing realities and methods of research on the history of academic institutions, with a particular focus on the Jagiellonian University in the 20th century. It is not only the great ...

This article responds to Glenn Parsons’ threefold objections against engagement aesthetics, demonstrating that Parsons’ critiques are rooted in a limited reading of its philosophical foundations. While Parsons focuse...

Deep time, encompassing the expansive temporal scale of Earth’s history, often evokes a sense of alienation due to its immensity. However, this estrangement can be mitigated through the aesthetic appreciation of the te...

The article deals with the Dungan newspaper ‘Xuėjmin bo’, which has been published under various titles and in various scripts (Cyrillic, Latin) since 1932, focussing in particular on its history and the literary-hi...

In the writings of American intellectuals and students during the interwar period, Kraków and Jagiellonian University appear as an example of an old space, sanctified by tradition, with beautiful monuments and culture, ...

Since the end of the Middle Ages, most of the wars fought by the Jagiellons were fought by enlisted soldiers, while every year they served in the permanent defence system (Polish: obrona potoczna) in the Ruthenian lands....

During the interwar period, professors from the Jagiellonian University played an active role in the Polish public life by serving in the Senate, contributing their academic authority and expertise. Although only five pr...

In this paper, I claim that some hermeneutical concepts developed by Hans-Georg Gadamer might help us elaborate a philosophical understanding of a landscape’s sustainability. In particular, the notion of “situatednes...