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Manuscript Practices and the Making of Exile Communities in the Early Modern Period

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Mgr. Tomáš Havelka, Ph.D.

Head of the Department

Work Position: Research Fellow and Editor of Czech works by Johann Amos Comenius, interpretation of Comenius' works from literary point of view.

Research Fields of Interest:
- entertaining literature of 17th – 18th century
- early modern Czech language drama
- short narrative stories

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PhDr. Vojtěch Balík

Work position: Research Fellow and Editor of Latin works of Jan Amos Comenius, interpretation of Comenius´ work namely from philological aspect, research of Comeniana and secondary sources.

Research Fields of Interest:
- early modern philosophy
- critical edition and interpretation of Comenius´s Latin texts
- book and reading culture in early modern period

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2025–2027: Member of the research team of the Manuscript Practices and the Textuality of Exile Communities from the Czech Lands in the 1620s and 1630s project.

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Work position: Research Fellow

Fields of Specialization:
cultural history; history of migration, exile, and diasporas; translation history; gift exchange; gender and women's history; history of religion and asceticism; theory of history

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Mgr. Iva Kovaříčková Lelková, Ph.D.

Work position: Research Fellow

Research fields of interest:
History of early modern period, intellectual history, history and philosophy of science, visualizations of the historical data, early modern scholarly correspondence

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Research fields of interest:
cooperation in the editing of J. A. Comenii Opera omnia; reception of classical antiquity and cultural history of Scandinavia

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Mgr. Petr Pavlas, Ph.D.

deputy head

Work position: Research Fellow and Editor of Acta Comeniana

Research Fields of Interest:
- late Renaissance and early modern philosophy
- history of the idea of perfect language
- history of metaphors, metaphorology
- pansophism and encyclopaedism: John Amos Comenius and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Mgr. Lenka Řezníková, Ph.D.

Work position: Research fellow

Research Fields of Interest:

- theory and history of the historical writing (since the 17th century)
- social and cognitive aspects of textuality; anthropology of the literature
- social memory studies (especially in the connection with J. A. Comenius)

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PhDr. Věra Schifferová, CSc.

Work position: Senior researcher

Fields of specialization:

- Philosophy of Comenius within the context of European intellectual history
- Comenius' metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of education, philosophy of non-violence (irenicism)
- Jan Patočka's Comenius-studies

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Work position: Research fellow and Editor of Latin works in critical edition J. A. Comenii Opera omnia.

Research Fields of Interest:
- early modern correspondence
- early modern Bohemian poetry composed in Latin and Greek
- multilingualism of early modern literature, code-switching from Latin to Humanist Greek and to vernaculars
- editing early modern texts (manuscripts and early modern prints including incunabula)

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