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History of Scholarship and the Global Imagination

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Analysing Paracelsus's Views of Alchemy with Digital Humanities Methods

24. 10. 2024, 16.00, the lecture room of the CMS, Jilská 1,  dr. Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford) lecture Department of Comenius Studies and Early...

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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

kancelář/office: 311a
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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

kancelář/office: 308a
tel.: +420 221 183 314
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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

kancelář/office: 110a
tel.: +420 221 183 319
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Mgr. Kateřina Lochmanová, Ph.D.

Work position: Post-doc

Fields of Specialization:

Physics and natural philosophy of G. W. Leibniz; the interconnection of early modern theoretical knowledge with (technical) praxis; analysis situs

kancelář/office: 308a
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Work position: Research fellow and Editor of Comenius' Latin works in the critical edition of Johannis Amos Comenii Opera Omnia

Research fields of interest:
– editing and translating of Latin works by Comenius and other early modern Middle European authors
– research of Czech and Latin drama of the early modern era

kancelář/office: 110a
tel.: +420 221 183 319
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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

kancelář/office: 308a
tel.: +420 221 183 340
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Mgr. Iva Lelková, Ph.D.

Work position: Research Fellow

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

History of early modern period, history of ideas, history and philosophy of science, renaissance and early modern philosophy, visualizations of the historical data

kancelář/office: 110a
tel.: +420 221 183 311
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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

kancelář/office: 101a
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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)

kancelář/office: 110a
tel.: +420 221 183 319
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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

kancelář/office: 308a
tel.: +420 221 183 340
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