- The recent inclusion of Slavic and Byzantine projects realized at the University of Lodz into the Mapping Eastern Europe platform run by Princeton University, belonging to the Ivy League, is not only a significant increase in the visibility of our research but also a positive motivation for other teams as well as a proof that research, often called (and wrongly!) as niche or too hermetic may be just as successful on the international scene as the one that belongs to the main fields of contemporary humanities – says prof. Ivan Petrov.
A digital and interactive platform of an Open Access type entitled „Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th–17th Centuries” was elaborated by the scientists from the US as part of the „2020 Rapid Response Magic Project” project granted by the Humanities Council of Princeton University. Maria Alessia Rossi, PhD from Princeton University and Alice Isabella Sullivan, PhD from the University of Michigan, founders of https://www.northofbyzantium.org, are its coordinators. Dr Zofia Brzozowska and dr hab. Ivan Petrov, prof. UL from the University of Lodz are responsible for incorporating the projects from Lodz into the platform run by Princeton University.
- I’m very glad that the research carried out by the teams of scientists from Lodz, from the Department of Slavic Philology, from Ceraneum Centre as well as from the Department of Byzantine History are being noticed and praised by the international scientific environment. In 2020 slavists from Lodz started cooperation with prestigious publishing houses, such as: Brill Academic Publishers, Oxford Uni Press, Cambridge Uni Press, Rowman & Littlefield. As a result of peer-review procedure, several scientists from our University have been invited by editors of the British publishing house Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) to cooperate in the preparation of the volume as part of the world-renowned scientific series Routledge Handbooks - adds prof. Ivan Petrov, Head of Ceraneum.
The goal of the project is to popularise research on the history, art and culture of Eastern Europe in the 13th - 17th centuries among international academic community as well as a large group of recipients from all over the world. „Mapping Eastern Europe” collects and presents works of many scientists from all over the world in the form of historical reviews, research reports on specific monuments, information on important scientific projects and reviews of books and exhibitions. The task of the platform is to stimulate new research and information actions concerning the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathians and the areas in the north-east of Europe (Rus / Russia), i.e. the area that developed at the crossroads of Latin, Greek, Slavic and Islamic traditions in the late Middle Ages and the early modern era.
Projects from Lodz being part of „Mapping Eastern Europe” of Princeton University are listed below:
· Dualist Heresies in the History of South-East Europe (9th–15th century)
· Orthodox Slavic Polemical Writings in the Middle Ages
· Sophia – Wisdom of God Personified: History of Perceptions in the Byzantine-Slavic Culture
· The Cultural Implications of the Migrations of Serbs in the Early Modern Era
The initiative considerably contributes to increasing visibility of scientific work of researchers from Lodz in the world. More information about the project.
Scientists from the Department of Slavic Philology, and simultaneously members of Ceraneum Centre, take part in publishing projects realized in the most prestigious and the highest-scored publishing houses in the world. You can read about previous successes of, among others, dr Marek Majer, a graduate from the University of Lodz, who obtained his doctoral degree at the Harvard University on the #unilodz website.
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Material: Department of Slavic Philology, Ceraneum Centre
Edit: Promotion Centre, UL