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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Education and academic qualification
2006–2011: Ph.D. study Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Philosophy and History of Science. Dissertation thesis: “Athnasius Kircher (1602-1680) and his Influence in the Czech Lands”, Supervisor Doc. PhDr. Jan Horský, Ph.D.
2000–2006: Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Arts, Master in History and Philosophy. Thesis: “John Wilkins (1614-1672), Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) and their Picture of the Universe”, Supervisor Doc. Mgr. Martin Elbel M.A., Ph.D.
Work experience
From 2014 - Department of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
10/2010 - 2014: Department of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Postdoc on the international project Cultures of Knowledge
2009/2010: Collaboration at the History Department on the project Mapping the Republic of Letters dealing with advanced visualization techniques for humanities, Stanford University, CA, USA
1/2008–10/2009: Research staff at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague, Project: Theoretical study of complex phenomena in physics, biology and social sciences
Research fields of interest
History of early modern period, history of ideas, history and philosophy of science, visualizations of the historical data, early modern scholarly Correspondence
Selected Scholarships and Study Visits
- 27. 9. 2015 – 23.10.2015: Short Term Scientific Mission for young scholars sponsored by COST grant, DensityDesign Reasearch Lab at Politecnico di Milano, collaboration on early modern correspondence data visualization
- 2009/2010: Fulbright visiting researcher at Stanford University, CA, USA – 10 months research stay, work on dissertation, collaboration on the Stanford University project Mapping the Republic of Letters – supervisor Prof. Paula Findlen
- 2007: Program Aktion research grantee at the Vienna University, Austria – 2 months research stay, collaboration with Prof. Marianne Klemun
- 2004/2005: Program Erasmus, Konstanz University, Germany - 10 months study of philosophy and history.
Research Grants and Projects
Grant holder
- 01/2023-12/2025: Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) 23-06645S Scholarly publication strategies and correspondence networks of the post-White Mountain Czech Lands (1622–1667)
- 2014: Nové přístupy v bádání o J. A. Komenském (New approaches in research on J. A. Comenius), granted in the framework of regional collaboration between Czech Acemy of Sciences and the Pardubice Region.
- 2009–2011: grant GAUK 259164/2009, Měnící se obraz vědce jako sociálního typu v raném novověku (Changing Picture of a Scientist as a Social Type in Early Modern Period)
Team member
- 2023–2027: Network of Letters – The correspondence of intellectual elites in turbulent times of Bohemian/Czech history from the digital perspective. (Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic). Click here for more information: NETLET.
- 2024: team member of the research Activity Vícejazyčnost, komunikace a textové praxe v kontextu proměn českých zemí a exilu, 1620–1640, The Strategy AV21 programme "Anatomie evropské společnosti"
- 2023: team member of the research Activity Interdisciplinární přístupy ke zkoumání oborů vědění a transferu znalostí v raném novověku, The Strategy AV21 programme "Anatomie evropské společnosti"
- 2022: team member of the research Activity Učenecká korespondence: republika učenců mezi ideálem spojené Evropy a praxemi hierarchizované společnosti, The Strategy AV21 programme "Anatomie evropské společnosti"
- 2019–2022: Member of the research team of the LINDAT / CLARIAH-CZ project (sub-project MEMORI) supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, headed by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University (MFF UK)
- 2014–2018: Team member in the project to support excellence in basic research Between the Renaissance and Baroque. Philosophy and Knowledge in the Czech Lands and their European context, supported by the Czech Science Foundation No. P401/14-37038G
- 2014–2018: Team member of the Czech team in the COST Action Project IS1310 Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500–1800: A digital framework for multi-lateral collaboration on Europe's intellectual history
- 2012–2015: Team member of the internal project within the international cooperation support scheme, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Correspondence Networks between Central and Western Europe: From Comenius and Kircher to Hartlib and Oldenburg
- 2009–2012, 2013–2014: Team member of the Czech participation in the international project sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Collaborative Research Project Grant: Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters, digital editor of the J. A. Comenius database project based in the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2009-2012; team member in the second phase of the project Cultures of Knowledge: Networking the Republic of Letters, 1550–1750
Conferences and workshops
- 23. 9. 2024: Vícejazyčnost jako téma pobělohorské učenecké korespondence: Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR: Vícejazyčnost, komunikace a textové praxe v kontextu proměn českých zemí a exilu, 1620–1640.
- 21.–23. 9. 2023: Theodor Moretus (1602–1667) and his Correspondence in the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, Historický ústav AV ČR a Katolická tologická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy: 400 Anniversarium Provinciae Bohemiae Societatis Jesu.
- 7.–10. 6. 2023: Co-organiser of Scientiae conference: GULIZIA, S., URBÁNEK, Vladimír, ALMÁSI, G., BIENIAS, B., HANNAN, L., LELKOVÁ, Iva, NEJESCHLEBA, T., AKOPYAN, O. Scientiae 2023. Prague, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Program to download here.
- 7.–10. 6. 2023: Knowledge exchange in the correspondence of the post-White Mountain Bohemian lands Jesuits: Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences: Scientiae.
- 21. 10. 2021: Iva Lelková a Vladimír Urbánek, Možnosti srovnávání raně novověkých korespondenčních souborů v databázi HIKO s pomocí vizualizací: Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v. v. i., a Středisko společných činností AV ČR, v. v. i.: Workshop: Mezinárodní korespondenční sítě T. G. Masaryka a vznik Československa v roce 1918.
- 1.– 4. 9. 2021: Smoke and mirrors – metaphorical thinking in Athanasius Kircher’s work and its contemporary critique: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences: Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge.
- 14. – 15. 5. 2021: Paula Findlen, Iva Lelková, and Suzanne Sutherland, “Jesuits on the Move:Athanasius Kircher and Jesuit Missionary Networks”: Stanford University: Workshop: Early Modern Mobility: Knowledge, Community, Communication, and Infrastructure, 1500-1800 (online).
- 28.– 29. 1. 2021: How paper travelled between Rome and Prague. Athanasius Kircher and his correspondence with the Czech lands, Paper: Material and Semiotic Mobility Across the Global Mediterranean. PIMo Second Annual Conference, University of Grananda (Granada, Spain – virtual conference)
- 26. 11. – 27. 11. 2015: Visualization of Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) correspondence – Problems and Questions, Jesuit science from a digital perspective. The Jesuit Science Network (Wuppertal, Germany).
- 24. 9. 2015 – Poster: Digitalizace a vizualizace korespondence J. A. Komenského (1592–1670) [Digitalization and Visualization of J. A. Comenius' Correspondence (1592–1670)]: Seminář o digitálních zdrojích a službách ve společenských a humanitních vědách (WDH 2015), Prague, Czech Republic.
7.–9. 5. 2015: Eclipses, comets and stars: astronomical observations in correspondence of Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), Observing - Depicting - Disseminating, The Scientific Perspective in the Modern Period (Graz, Austria).
- 18.–19. 2014: Squaring the Prague Circle of Mathematicians, The Practice of Scholarly Communication: Correspondence Networks between Central and Western Europe 1550–1700 (International conference, Philosophical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).
- 29. 7. 2013: The Epistolary Networks of Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670) and Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), Digital Prosopographies Meeting (Workshop, St Anne's College, University of Oxford).
- 19.–20. 2. 2013: Sen jako cesta do vesmíru od antiky na práh novověku: Antické tradice v renesančních a raně novověkých cestách do vesmíru [Dream as a Journey to the Universe from antiquity to the Treshold of the Early Modern Period: Ancient Tradition in Renaissance and Early Modern Journeys to the Universe], Antické tradice v renesanční kultuře (Katedra klasické filologie FF UP, Olomouc, Czech Republic).
- 12. – 13. 11. 2012: Role andělských entit v díle Athanasia Kirchera a J. A. Komenského (Role of Angelic Entities in the Work of Athanasius Kircher and J. A. Comenius), Komenský – myslitel harmonie (Comenius – Thinker of Harmony) (Conference, Pardubice, Czech Republic).
- 26. – 29. 9. 2012: Intellectual Networks in Early Modern Czech Lands: Interactions between Correspondence Networks of Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) and Philipp Jacob Sachs von Lewenheim (1627–1672) in the Czech Lands, European Networks in the Baroque Era (Conference, Vienna-Josephinum).
- 16. 8. 2012: An Insider's View of Oxford's EMLO Union Catalogue, Skype presentation of Early Modern Letters Online database and the Cultures of Knowledge project for a 2-week Humanities + Design research workshop Early Modern Time & Networks organized by the Stanford University http://athanasius.stanford.edu/.
- 16.–18. 3. 2011: Iva Lelková and Suzanne Sutherland, Princes, Courtiers, and Scholars: Athanasius Kircher's Correspondence Network, 1632-1680, Mapping the Republic of Letters (Conference, Giorgio Cini Foundation, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy).
- 12.–14. 3. 2010: Athanasius Kircher and his Jesuit Network, Columbia History of Science Group Annual Meeting at Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA, USAs.
Teaching
- Winter term 2012/2013: Intelektuální dějiny – metody a východiska (Intellectual History – Methods and Recourses), seminar at Philosophical Faculty University of West Bohemia in Plzeň
Bibliography
Review: Michael John Gorman. The Scientific Counter-Revolution. The Jesuits and the Invention of Modern Science [Review]. Acta Comeniana, 35 (2021), pp. 211–215. ISSN 0231-5955.
Study: Lelková, I. – Sutherland, S. – Findlen, P. Kircher's Bohemia: Jesuit Networks and Habsburg Patronage in the Seventeenth Century. Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 5 (2020), 2, pp. 163–206.
Review: Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Standards, Systems, Scholarship [Review]. Acta Comeniana, 34 (2020), pp. 166–175. ISSN 0231-5955.
Review: Špelda, D. Člověk a hvězdy v raném novověku. Studie k antropologickým souvislostem rozvoje novověké kosmologie. [Man and the stars in the early modern age: Studies on the anthropological context of the development of early modern cosmology]. Praha: Togga, 2018. ISBN 978-80-7476-148-5. Acta Comeniana, 33 (2019), pp. 149–152.
Book: Athanasius Kircher, Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim a přírodní filosofie v českých zemích 17. století. [Athanasius Kircher, Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim and Natural Philosophy in the 17th Century Czech Lands.]. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2018. ISBN 978-80-7465-299-8.
Study: Sutherland, S. – Findlen, P. – Lelková, I. Etruscan Dreams: Athanasius Kircher, Medici Patronage, and Tuscan Friendships, 1633–1680. I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 21 (2018), 2, pp. 299–349.
Study: Lelková, I. – Slavíková, M. "The Utrecht Link": The Previously Unknown Correspondence between Jan Amos Comenius and Johann van Almeloveen. Acta Comeniana, 31 (2017), pp. 63–92.
Book: Sny o mnohosti světů: Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), John Wilkins (1614–1672) a jejich obraz vesmíru.[Dreams About Plurality of Worlds. Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), John Wilkins (1614–1672) and their Image of the Universe]. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7429-605-5.
Chapter in the book: Beneš, J. – Klosová, M. – Lelková, I. Signatura 1 B b. [Signature 1 B b.]. In Rukopisné zlomky Knihovny Národního muzea: Signatury 1 B a 1 C. Praha: Národní muzeum, 2015, pp. 31–92.
Study: Digitalizace a vizualizace korespondence J. A. Komenského (1592–1670). [Digitalization and Visualization of J. A. Comenius' Correspondence (1592–1670).] In Hlaváčová, J. Semináře o digitálních zdrojích a službách ve společenských a humanitních vědách (WDH 2015). Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2015, pp. 10–16. ISBN 978-80-904571-9-5.
Review: Storchová, L. – Růžička, J. Věda/vědění. [Science/Knowledge]. In Storchová, L. a kol. Koncepty a dějiny: Proměny pojmů v současné historické vědě. [Concepts and History: Changing Concepts in Contemporary Historical Science.]. Praha: Scriptorium, 2014. ISBN 978-80-87271-87-2. DVT, 48 (2015), 2, pp. 108–113.
Study: The Ebb and Flow of Blood. A Case Study on the Early Modern Analogy of Movement of Seawaters and the Circulation of Blood in the Human Body. Acta Comeniana, 28 (2014), pp. 127–144.
Review: Oliva Sabuco de Nantes Barrera. The True Medicine. Ed. and transl. Gianna Pomata. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010. [The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series; 4.]. Acta Comeniana, 27 (2013). ISBN 978-80-7007-433-6. ISSN 0231-5955.
Chapter in the book: Jan Amos Komenský a role andělských entit v jeho díle. [John Amos Comenius and the role of angelic entities in his work.]. In Schifferová, V. – Prázný, A. – Šolcová, K. (eds.). Idea harmonie v díle Jana Amose Komenského [The Idea of Harmony in the Work of John Amos Comenius.]. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2014, pp. 137–150.
Study: Literární žánr snu jako myšlenkový experiment raně novověké vědy [Genre of literary dream as an intellectual experiment of Early Modern Science]. DVT (History of Sciences and Technology Journal), 47 (2014), 3, pp. 141–151.
Review: Roos, A. M. Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639–1712), the first arachnologist. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2011. Acta Comeniana, 26 (2012), pp. 232–236. ISBN 978-80-7007-404-6. ISSN 0231-5955.
Study: Philipp Jacob Sachs von Lewenheimb (1627–1672) and his Role within Intellectual Networks of the Czech Lands. Acta Comeniana, 26 (2012), pp. 121–140.
Book: Horský, Z. Koperník a české země: Soubor studií o renesanční kosmologii a nové vědě. [Copernicus and the Czech Lands.]. Hladký, V. – Hermann, T. – Lelková, I. (eds.). Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2011. ISBN 978-80-87378-87-8.
Study: Symbols and Alphabet: Athanasius Kircher, William Warburton and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphs. Kuděj, 2 (2011), pp. 111–125.
Study: The last Polymath? An Overview of the Literature on the Life and Work of Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680). Studia Comeniana et historica, 40 (2010), 83–84, pp. 46–68.
Report: Mapping the Republic of Letters Project. DVT (History of Sciences and Technology Journal), 43 (2010), 3,p p. 220–222.
Study: Philosophical Thoughts of Cyrano de Bergerac. Studia Comeniana et historica, 38 (2008), 80, pp. 109–132.
Databases
- Lelková, I. Correspondence networks of post-White Mountain scholars in the Czech lands. Prague: Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences 2022: https://historicka-korespondence.cz/projekty/korespondencni-site-pobelohorskych-ucencu-zemi-koruny-ceske/soupis-korespondence/
- Lelková, I. – Slavíková, M. The Correspondence of Amand Polan von Polansdorf. Prague: Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2021: https://historicka-korespondence.cz/projekty/korespondence-amanda-polana-z-polansdorfu/soupis-korespondence/.
- Chief editor: The Correspondence of Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), The Cultures of Knowledge Project, Oxford 2015, http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=athanasius-kircher, 13. 12. 2019.
- The Correspondence of Philipp Jakob Sachs of Löwenheimb (1627–1672)]. The Cultures of Knowledge Project, Oxford 2014, http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/, 26.11.2014.
- The Correspondence of Amandus Polanus of Polansdorf (1561–1610)]. The Cultures of Knowledge Project, Oxford 2014, http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/, 26.11.2014.
