ACADEMIC RESEARCH

The Centre for Early Medieval Studies is involved in a number of national and European projects that cover a wide range of topics, from the contribution of Russian emigrants to Czechoslovak interwar scholarship through the baptismal ritual in Late Antiquity and its material and cultural background to the cultural exchanges in the South Caucasus and the study of medieval sites of pilgrimage and their role in European culture. The common denominator of all these research activities is the emphasis on interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts, as well as the effort to re-examine the distorted cultural and social narratives of the past.

Ready for Future: Understanding the Long-Term Resilience of Human Cultures (RES-HUM: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004593)

MU Investigator:
prof. Mgr. Jiří Macháček, Ph.D.

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2024—06/2028

Investor/Programme:
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic / Programne Johannes Amos Comenius

Conques in the Global World. Transferring Knowledge: From Material to Immaterial Heritage (H2020_MSCA-RISE 101007770)

MU Investigator:
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts in collaboration with the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris; Bibliotheca Hertziana; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Association pour le Développement Economique et Culturel de Conques; Viella Libreria Editrice; The City University of New York; Rutgers University

Project Duration:
01/2021—12/2024

Investor/Programme:
European Union (MSCA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) / Horizon 2020

Demarginalizing Medieval Georgia: History of Art History between Colonial Perspective and Nationalist Appropriation (1921–1991) (H2020_MSCA-IF 101026166)

MU Investigator:
Alžběta Filipová, M.A., Ph.D.

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2022—12/2026

Investor/Program:
European Union (MSCA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) / Horizon 2020

Complex Participatory Reconstruction of Urban Structures: History, Mapping, and Documentation (2021-2-AT01-KA220-HED-000050449)

MU Investigator:
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts (partner); coordinator: Donau Universität Krems (AT); other partners: České vysoké učení technické v Praze (CZ), Universita di Roma (IT), Universitá degli Studi di Camerino (IT), Slovenská technická univerzita (SK), Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem (HU), Ústav teoretické a aplikované mechaniky AV ČR (CZ)

Project Duration:
03/2022—03/2025

Investor/Program:
European Union, Erasmus+ (KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education)

Dreaming Byzantium in Nineteenth-Century France: Neo-Byzantine Architecture, Orientalism, and the Racial and National Myths of Art History (1848–1900) (GA24-10991S)

MU Investigator:
Adrien Palladino, MA, PhD

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2024—12/2026

Investor/Program:
Czech Science Foundation / Standard Projects

Fragmented Images: Exploring the Origins of Stained-Glass Art (GA23-05243S)

MU Investigator:
Alberto Virdis, MA, PhD

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2023—12/2025

Investor/Program:
Czech Science Foundation / Standard Projects

At the Crossroads of Memories: Art and Representation in 14th-century Venice (GA22-14770S)

MU Investigator:
Ilaria Molteni, MA, PhD

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2022—12/2024

Investor/Program:
Czech Science Foundation / Standard Projects

MSCAfellow5@MUNI (CZ.02.01.01/00/22_010/0003229)

MU Investigator:
Ing. Lukáš Palko

MU Faculty / Unit:
Rector's Office

Project Duration:
10/2023—08/2027

Investor/Program:
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic / Operational Programme Research, Development and Education

Slavophile Art: The Reception of Medieval Art in Monuments for a New Slavic Identity (MUNI/J/1648/2022)

MU Investigator:
Seraina Renz, MA, PhD

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
12/2023—11/2026

Investor/Program:
Masaryk University / Grant Agency of Masaryk University

Excellent MA Study Programme Visual Cultures and Art History (N0213A320008) (MUNI/ESPRO/0781/2023)

MU Investigator:
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres, Docent in Church History

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
07/2023—06/2025

Investor/Program:
Masarykova univerzita / Excelentní studijní programy

Contested Heritage in the South Caucasus(GA23-05243S)

MU Investigator:
Alžběta Filipová, M.A., Ph.D.

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2024—12/2025

Investor/Program:
Masaryk University / Grant Agency of Masaryk University: CAREER RESTART

Dissemination of Art-Historical Knowledge: Skills, Practice, and Communication (MUNI/A/1520/2023)

MU Investigator:
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres, Docent in Church History

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2024—12/2024

Investor/Program:
Masaryk University / Specific research – support for student projects

SUCCESSFULLY FINISHED PROJECTS

Cultural Interactions in the Medieval Subcaucasian Region: Historiographical and Art-Historical Perspectives (CIMS)

MU Investigator:
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts in collaboration with the Université de Fribourg

Project Duration:
01/2021—12/2023

Investor/Program:
Czech Science Foundation / LA Grants

Power, Ritual and Death in the Middle Ages (MUNI/A/1321/2022)

MU Investigator:
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres, Docent in Church History

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2023—12/2023

Investor/Program:
Masaryk University / Specific research – support for student projects

The San Giorgio in Sinis Bread Stamp: An Evidence for Early Medieval Pilgrimage? (MUNI/A/1409/2022)

MU Investigator:
Giada Lattanzio, MA

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2023—12/2023

Investor/Program:
Masaryk University / Specific research – support for student projects

Altar Space in Late Antiquity: The Water Newton Treasure and the Construction of the Sacred Space (MUNI/A/1406/2022)

MU Investigator:
Nicolas Samaretz, MA

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2023—12/2023

Investor/Program:
Masaryk University / Specific research – support for student projects

Postdoc2MUNI (CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_053/0016952)

MU Investigator:
Ing. Lukáš Palko

MU Faculty / Unit:
Rector's Office

Project Duration:
10/2020—06/2023

Investor/Program:
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic / Operational Programme Research, Development and Education

MSCAfellow4@MUNI (CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/20_079/0017045)

MU Investigator:
Ing. Lukáš Palko

MU Faculty / Unit:
Rector's Office

Project Duration:
10/2020—06/2023

Investor/Programme:
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic / Operational Programme Research, Development and Education

Pilgrimage Art in the Middle Ages as a Bodily Experience: Landscape, Pilgrim and Treasure (MUNI/A/1022/2021)

MU Investigator:
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2022—12/2022

Investor/Program:
Masaryk University / Specific research – support for student projects

The Myth of Ravenna in the 19th Century: From the Congress of Vienna to the First World War (MUNI/A/1175/2021)

MU Investigator:
Ruben Campini, MA

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2022—12/2022

Investor/Program:
Masaryk University / Specific research – support for student projects

Migration Potential. The Contribution of (Not Only) Russian Emigrants to Interwar Europe (Today)

MU Investigator:
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2019—12/2022

Investor/Programme:
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic / ETA: Funding programme for Applied Research, Experimental Development and Innovation in Social Sciences and Humanities

Is (the Middle Ages) an Age of Darkness? (MUNI/A/1504/2020)

MU Investigator:
Mgr. Sabina Rosenbergová

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2021—12/2021

Investor/Programme:
Masaryk University / Specific research – support for student projects

MSCAfellow@MUNI (CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/17_050/0008496)

MU Investigator:
Ing. Lukáš Palko

MU Faculty / Unit:
Rector's Office

Project Duration:
01/2018—03/2021

Investor/Programme:
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic / Operational Programme Research, Development and Education

The Heritage of Nikodim P. Kondakov in the Experiences of André Grabar and the Seminarium Kondakovianum

MU Investigator:
doc. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2018—12/2020

Investor/Programme:
Czech Science Foundation / Standard Projects

Migrating Art Historians on the Sacred Way (MUNI/E/1326/2017)

MU Investigator:
doc. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
12/2017—12/2018

Investor/Programme:
Masaryk University / Grant Agency of Masaryk University

Transforming the Spaces and the Minds. Materiality, Performativity and Perception in the Late Antique (4th–6th century) Baptismal Zones (MUNI/H/1402/2016)

MU Investigator:
doc. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
02/2017—12/2019

Investor/Programme:
Masaryk University / Grant Agency of Masaryk University

The 5th century in Rome: Art, Liturgy and Rhetoric (MUNI/21/FOL/2016)

MU Investigator:
doc. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur ès Lettres

MU Faculty / Unit:
Faculty of Arts

Project Duration:
01/2016—12/2016

Investor/Programme:
Masaryk University / Intern project of Faculty of Arts