PROGRAM OF APERITÍV SEMINARS OF INSTITUTE OF HISTORY OF SAS
September – December 2025
September 25, 2025
Mgr. Matej Harvát, PhD. & Mgr. Magdaléna Lukáč Kováčova: Digital research infrastructure for (digital) historians
October 16, 2025
Mgr. Marek Machýl: From Revanchism to Revisionism: Antifascism as Part of Ideological Discourse in the Context of the Slovak Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters (SZPB)
Mgr. Jaroslav Valent: The campaign for the upcoming plebiscite in regions of northern Orava and Spiš (1919 -1920)
November 6, 2025
Alexander Maxwell, PhD.: Polylingual Hungarian Nationalism in History and Historiography
Prof. Anna G. Piotrowska: From Local Traditions to Pan-European Recognition: The Music of Slovak Roma and Its Cultural Reframing
December 11, 2025
Mgr. Miloslav Szabó, PhD.: Slovak Culture between Center and Periphery, 1939-1945
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
February 20, 2025
Meta Remec: Re contextualizing Suicides in a Socialist Society: the Case of Slovenia
March 20, 2025
April 10, 2025
May 29, 2025
June 12, 2025
Martin Wihoda: The First Westernization of Central Europe
Aperitif program (January – June 2025) IH SAS for download in – PDF