Conferences and Scientific Events

The Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the international research group Scientiae are pleased to invite you to participate in the conference

Medieval Times in Early Modern Texts

that will take place on 3–5 December 2025 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Probably all of us researching the early modern period have, with or without knowing it, come across early modern texts that in one way or another are connected with the Middle Ages. Such texts may either provide different representations of that period between late antiquity and the Renaissance, or they may contain medieval elements such as linguistic traits, literary forms, etc. The aim of this conference is on the one hand to explore the medieval aspects of early modern texts, both Latin and vernacular, and on the other to shed light on the many representations of the Middle Ages found in texts of the early modern period.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • early modern interpretations of medieval phenomena
  • early modern narratives of the Middle Ages in historiography, political treatises, drama, panegyrical prose, and other literary genres
  • medieval arguments in early modern confessional strife
  • medieval foundations of early modern identities
  • medieval elements in early modern scientific discourse
  • the afterlife of medieval texts in early modern times
  • medieval linguistic elements in early modern texts

To apply, please send an abstract of circa 200 words and a short CV to Svorad Zavarský (svoradzavarsky@gmail.com) by 30 June 2025.

PROGRAM OF APERITÍV SEMINARS OF INSTITUTE OF HISTORY OF SAS

January – June 2025

January 16, 2025

Vendula Hnídková: Garden Cities between Utopia and Dystopia

January 30, 2025

Tamara Scheer: Language Diversity and the Austro Hungarian Army (1867 1918)

February 13, 2025 for IH SAS employees only

Veronika Pauková, Adam Hudek, Dušan Zupka a Oliver Zajac: How to Publish in International Journals and with International Publishers?

February 20, 2025

Meta Remec: Re contextualizing Suicides in a Socialist Society: the Case of Slovenia

Tomáš Gecko: Expert Networks and State Building: Economic Espionage in the Service of Interwar Czechoslovakia

March 20, 2025

Michal Kopeček: Christian Human Rights in East Central Europe Before and After 1989. Between Universalism of Human Dignity and Particularism of National Mission

April 10, 2025

Jogilė Ulinskaitė: Back to the Future, Forward to the Past: The Instrumentalization of History in Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Martin Zückert: Mesto – krajina – rieka. Potentials and Limits of an Environmental History of Slovakia

May 29, 2025

Ladislav Vörös: A Typical Hungarian Party? The Slovak National Party in Hungary’s Political System: Decision Making, Mobilization Strategies and Elections

June 12, 2025

Martin Wihoda: The First Westernization of Central Europe

Aperitif program (January – June 2025) IH SAS for download in – PDF