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Projects of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education (VEGA)
Name:
Cultural Infrastructure of the Czechoslovak State School Policy and its
Realization in Slovakia. (The Link between Educational Activities of School
System with the Educational and Schooling Influence on Population).
Duration:
1.1.2017 / 31.12.2020
Registration number:
2/0054/17
Principal investigator:
Ľubica Kázmerová
Project summary: The research of cultural infrastructure in the context
of school policy of the Czechoslovak state will broaden the information about
specific fields of educational system, educational activities, and problems of
institutions and subjects which were closely watched by the Slovak society
during the inter-war period and were influenced by the interaction between
teachers, schools and the public interest in educational system. The years 1918
– 1939 represent a time-period when the democratization and the emancipation of
the Slovak society increased significantly. The project will deepen the
knowledge about the super structural aspects of educational system in specific
manifestations of state school policy in cultural and educational institutions.
They also participated on the production of spiritual and material wealth of a
civil society. After 1918, education was also interfering to areas outside of
schools – to revitalized libraries, activities of associations, to new museums,
gyms etc. Those activities were significantly supported by political parties.
Projects of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education (VEGA)
Name:
Political, Economic and
Socio-cultural Elites of the Jewish Community in Slovakia from 1918 till 1945.
Duration:
1.1.2016 / 31.12.2019
Registration number:
2/0066/16
Principal investigator:
Katarína Mešková Hradská
Project summary:
Slovak historiography focused on the history of Jewish community in Slovakia
offers several scientific papers and sporadic monographs which reflect existence,
activities and boom of the Slovak Jewish community after the emergence of the
new Czechoslovak Republic. After the initial problems (the search for identity,
problem of assimilation) the new republic created generally positive
surroundings for the members of the mentioned community and enabled several
individuals to seek a career in numerous fields of social life including
politics. As
a result they were active not only in social-cultural sphere but even on several
levels of political structures. The main object of the project is to reflect and
analyze the social-political context which enabled the emergence and active
social influence of Jewish community elites during the mentioned period with the
accent on the fulfillment of their political aspirations.
Name:
The recruitment and the military
service of Slovak Germans in Waffen-SS 1939-1945. The premises, process,
enlistment into specific formations and the punitive consequences after 1945.
Duration:
1.1.2016 / 31.12.2019
Registration number:
2/0110/16
Principal investigator:
Michal Schvarc
Project summary:
The main aim of the project is to analyze the premises and reasons of the entry
of ethnic Germans, living at the territory of Slovakia, into the armed
formations of Nazi SS. The project aims to describe the process and the system
of recruitment of ethnic Germans into these formations as well as their
subsequent enlistment into various units within the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich
Himmler's imperium of power. The final part of the project is supposed to deal
with the practically unknown chapter of the above-mentioned problem, i. e. the
criminal (punitive) reliability of former members of Waffen-SS from Slovakia
after 1945. This aspect will not only be covered at the territory of the renewed
Czechoslovak republic, but also at the territories of former states within the
borders of nowadays Germany - Federal Republic of Germany and the German
Democratic Republic. The Working group will aim to compare the similar processes
in countries of South-Easter Europe with quite numerous German ethnic minorities.
Name:
Political groupings of Hungary’s estates in the early modern period.
Duration:
1.1.2016 / 31.12.2019
Registration number:
2/0134/16
Principal investigator:
Anna Fundárková
Project summary:
The project focuses on study and analysis of political groupings of Hungary from
1608 until 1681. Political groupings shaped political life of the Kingdom of
Hungary since the Middle Ages at different levels. The main objective of the
research is to identify leaders and member base of these groups, to clarify
their political aims and motives, to find members of the groupings and to
analyze mutual relationship between the members. The issue of securing the
highest command positions in the Hungarian border fortresses will be also an
important part of the research, as well as the question of representation of the
Hungary's free royal towns in assemblies, which is crucial for better
clarification of the activity of early modern political groups. The goal of the
research team is to map out the subject by using of archival materials in
Slovakia, Hungary and Austria.
Name:
History of cellulose and paper in
Slovakia. The manufacturing, research and its role in technical education.
Duration:
1.1.2016 / 31.12.2018
Registration number:
2/0042/16
Principal investigator:
Miroslav Sabol
Project summary:
The main objective and topic of the project is cellulose & paper in Slovakia,
the research, manufacturing and its role in technical education. The emphasis
lies on basic research, presentation and evaluation of research & development in
the area of paper & cellulose in Slovakia from its beginnings in 19th century up
to 1990. Because the topic of paper & cellulose has been one of the significant
phenomena of social and economic life in Slovakia
in 19th and 20th century, the project will also try to evaluate the pertinent
research in the broader historical, economic, political and social context.
Name:
Ars apodemica or the art of
traveling.
Duration:
1.1.2015 / 31.12.2018
Registration number:
2/0074/15
Principal investigator:
Viliam Čičaj
Project summary:
The problematics of travel literature has been of big research interest in
abroad. The research till now has been monitoring this genre from two different
aspects. The increased interest of researchers in ethnical and historical
questions directed their attention to travel books of Modern Ages, which
includes information on social and cultural situation in foreign countries. Some
scientists consider the books of travel to be the source of the history of
mentality (M. Herbsmaier). Another aspect using literature and scientific
research is less interested in the travel literature and studies only the ones
that contain a high level of originality and quality. The first theoretical and
practical travel guide was the work by Albert Meier (1528-1603). The scheme of
the book was to be used for preparing itineraries and carrying out descriptions
of individual countries. Though very interesting topic for scientific research,
it had not been systematically processed by the Slovak historiography.
Name:
Victory and Fall of the Third
Republic. Little Entente between France and Italy 1914-1940.
Duration:
1.1.2015 / 31.12.2018
Registration number:
2/0135/15
Principal investigator:
Bohumila Ferenčuhová
Project summary:
The project in the field of the history of international relations in 1914 –
1940 investigates the history of Europe, namely relations between the West and
Central Europe. It focuses on the topic of the emergence, functioning and the
collapse of the French system of alliances in East-Central Europe. It emanates
from the analysis of the WW1 in particular of the French foreign policy and its
military and strategic dimension. This policy, victorious after WW1, ended in
the defeat of France in 1940. The Little Entente became the component of the
French system of alliances. The Slovak historiography is missing of a synthesis
of the history of the Little Entente. Its relations with Italy are totally
absent and necessitate new fundamental research. The same is valid in the
research of the French – Italian relations, which acted fundamentally on the
evolution of the international situation and the fall of the Third Republic in
1940.
Name:
Conceptions of Early Modern
Historiography.
Duration:
1.1.2015 / 31.12.2018
Registration number:
2/20062/15
Principal investigator:
Eva Frimmová
Project summary:
The objective of the project is to trace the contours of the life of selected
personalities and to evaluate their activities in the determinate space in all
cultural – social correlations; many of them were engaged literally,
pedagogically and politically and some of them also religiously. In the case of
literally active intellectuals, their works, having not only literary, but often
important documentary character, are considered from both points of view in
order to know more about historical correlations. At the beginning, the persons
taking part in the project concentrate on the study of resource literature and
its translations, as so as on the acquisition of the new specialized national
and foreign secondary literature. The results of their partial research are
going to be presented in studies as part of specialized publications. At the end
of the research, a conference or a scientific seminar is expected to be
organized, where a summation of achieved findings and conclusions about chosen
methodical approaches and contributions will be done. Finally, some of the
researches have intention to prepare for press making a monograph of a single
humanist or a single theme related to a humanist personality.
Name:
Slovakia in interwar Czechoslovakia
and in the wartime Slovak republic - Questions discontinuity and continuity in
politics, economy, society and culture.
Duration:
1.1.2015 / 31.12.2019
Registration number:
2/0071/15
Principal investigator:
Jaroslava Roguľová
Project summary:
Since the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918 passed Slovak society,
politics, culture fundamental transformation. 20 years of that State would
significantly affect the future direction of all aspects of life. After the
break-up of CSR and the establishment of the independent Slovak state in 1939
was in many ways important coups occurred. The project focuses on research
questions, what legacy interwar development, which undoubtedly Slovakia passed a
general development, entered a state of war. These issues are justified, despite
the fact that it often makes penetrative dividing line between the two
historical periods and that the building of new states traditionally associated
negate the impact of previous regime. Development of society, nation, social
development, political awareness and technological progress is a long-lasting
process, the impact and manifestations can be recovered to a larger interval.
Historical development is a continuous affair, and it also covered the war in
Slovakia.
Name:
Formation of Foreign Policy Thinking
of Slovak Political Elites and Society during 1918 – 1939.
Duration:
1.1.2014 / 31.12.2017
Registration number:
2/0119/14
Principal investigator:
Matej Hanula
Project summary:
Foreign policy thinking of Slovak society and its political elites is a
significant part of modern history which has not been searched thoroughly yet.
The goal of the project is to search the social-political aspects of political
foreign policy thinking and its internal development in inter-war Czechoslovakia.
It was a time period when, for the first time in modern history, Slovak
politicians played active role in foreign policy of a state ( in the roles of
diplomats or officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), or they commented on
it in parliament and in public (party and non-party periodicals, public rallies).
The most important part of the research will include public addresses which had
influenced foreign policy thinking of political elites and the whole society
during the years 1918 – 1939 as well as their party political and diplomatic
background. Apart from the chronologic development of this topic we will also
give special attention to milestones related to foreign policy status of
Czechoslovakia that had a big impact on the thinking about this topic.
Name:
Communication and the way of
information disseminating in Middle Ages.
Duration:
1.1.2014 / 31.12.2016
Registration number:
2/0109/14
Principal investigator:
Miriam Hlavačková
Project summary:
The project will focus on communication in all its forms - written (letters,
messages, notices, declaration of war, etc.), verbal (information dissemination
through proclamations at markets, courtly gossip, wandering minstrels, students,
craftsmen, traveling knights and pilgrims) and non-verbal (communicative
function of ceremonies, symbols and rituals), as well as various means of
medieval communication (letters, manuscripts, prints, paintings, coats of arms).
Unlike nowadays, written communication was not institutionalized; message and
messenger were closely bound together on their way from sender to recipient. In
this context, the research will focus on information transfer system, methods
and conditions will be reconstructed. Moreover, the project team’s ambition is
to present research results to readers in form of scientific publication,
entitled “Communication and methods of information dissemination in the Middle
Ages”.
Name:
Cold War and Central East Europe:
some development issues in time and space.
Duration:
1.1.2014 / 31.12.2017
Registration number:
2/0154/14
Principal investigator:
Edita Ivaničková
Project summary:
Reconstruction of the Central (-East) Europe concept, which has come true after
the fall of the communist regime, put the historians before a serious task to
identify the common and specific features of this region especially for the Cold
War period. The project aims to bring new knowledge based upon the scientific
research dealing with some chosen themes that belong to the complicated and
multi-folded picture of the Cold War in Europe. This
knowledge will serve the first evaluation, whether this region under the
conditions of Soviet ideology and power-political hegemony had or had not some
selfhood. The project is the first one in the line of the long-lasting and
systematic research of this theme. To achieve its goals the paramount activity
should be the deep study of the archival and published documents, which will
fall-in to the several monographs and scientific papers. This phase will close
an international conference and the collective monograph “Cold War and Central
(-East) Europe”.
Name:
Social and demographic development
in Middle Ages Slovakia.
Duration:
1.1.2014 / 31.12.2017
Registration number:
2/0079/14
Principal investigator:
Martin Štefánik
Project summary:
The importance of towns in Slovak history is indisputable and represents one of
the factors upon which the concept of our medieval history can be build,
considering the absence of a specific legal status (i.e. Slovakia was not an
administrative unit during the Middle Ages). In our territory, we can observe
two- and even three-time higher density of towns than in other parts of the
Kingdom of Hungary. Town formation and subsequent urban development was made
possible by combination of economic, social and demographic aspects of Late
Middle Ages in Hungary as well as of pan-European context. The project objective
is to study this development and, if possible, to describe the trends and
impacts.
Name:
Slovaks and the relations between
the Central and Eastern European nations. Myths, stereotypes - historical memory.
Duration:
1.1.2013 / 31.12.2015
Registration number:
2/0133/12
Principal investigator:
Tatiana Ivantyšynová
Project summary:
Building of historical memory by Slovaks and other nations in Central and
Eastern Europe.
Name:
Policy and priorities of the
Czechoslovak state in education and edification in Slovakia 1918-1939.
Duration:
1.1.2013 / 31.12.2016
Registration number:
2/0122/13
Principal investigator:
Ľubica Kázmerová
Project summary:
Education is a significant part of national identity and it reflects progress of
a society. In this context it is very surprising that a complex picture of the
official state policy in the field of education (school policy) and national
enlightenment (cultural policy which includes enlightenment) during the years
1918 – 1939 has not been processed by Slovak historiography, yet. It is even
more surprising when we consider that it had been a time period of
democratization and emancipation of the Slovak society until 1938. Corner stones
were laid for broad spectrum of cultural infrastructure and education on the
Slovak territory. More affordable access for citizens to culture and education
contributed to development of traditional (club activities etc.) and new
(theatre, etc.) spiritual activities of the Slovak society.
Name:
Slovakia after 1968. From the frost
of normalization to independent Slovak Republic and democracy.
Duration:
1.1.2013 / 31.12.2016
Registration number:
2/0104/13
Principal investigator:
Miroslav Londák
Project summary:
In present, is in the newest history of Slovakia the at least researched
historic period that one, which followed the year 1968, period of year
1969-1989, so called – Period of Normalization. The intention of working team is
to contribute to deepen its knowledge and on the other hand to explore period of
years 1990-1992, when started the period of transformation of the society of
Czechoslovakia, in which were markedly advanced tendencies to split up the
state. Team of experienced authors, which wrote many scientific monographs
including problematic of year 1968 and in the end of year 2012 will hand in the
press collective monograph about the beginning of normalization in Slovakia,
want to continue in their work and for the January 2013 is preparing
international scientific conference at occasion of 20th anniversary of
establishing independent Slovak republic. The main aim of project is preparing
the collective monograph, which will be mapping the state of Slovakia after the
forty years of communism.
Name:
Historical memory and history of
Slovakia – processes of instrumentalisation and manipulation in the 19 and 20th
centuries.
Duration:
1.1.2013 / 31.12.2016
Registration number:
2/0139/13
Principal investigator:
Peter Macho
Project summary:
Collective historical memory as a super-personal, social and cultural phenomenon
creates an important part of collective identity-building in each society.
Unlike individual human memory it concerns large social groups, e.g. national or
confessional communities. Policy often works with symbols, stereotypes, myths,
images and historical narratives - they are used in ideological discourses, too.
This project aims to concrete components of historical memory - historical
personalities, events, institutions and phenomenon, which are important in the
processes of construction and stabilizing of various types of collective
identity. A part of our research aims to analyze these problems in connection
with the personality of Ľudovít Štúr, because the 200th anniversary of his birth
will be remembered in 2015 and the 160th anniversary of the death of this iconic
figure of the Slovak history in 2016.
Name:
Mechanism of operating the communist
regime in Slovakia in 1948 – 1989.
Duration:
1.1.2013 / 31.12.2016
Registration number:
2/0103/13
Principal investigator:
Jan Pešek
Project summary:
The objective of the project is to prepare an eponymous collective monograph.
The work will focus on clarifying the way taken by the Communist Party after the
coup in February 1948 in order to take the control over the State and society.
The focus will lie in analyzing the practical application of the "party
leadership", which in a fact was a dictate, and functioning of the mechanism of
the so-called "switches of power". It is necessary to clarify the evolution of
the Communist Party itself, including the situation in its leadership. The
essence of the Communist regime for more than 40 years of its existence has not
changed; what really changed was the mechanism of the control of society. It was
undergoing a process of developmental stages, and these phases will form
particular chapters of the presented project.
Name:
History of food-producing industry
in Slovakia - production, exploration and trade schools.
Duration:
1.1.2013 / 31.12.2015
Registration number:
2/0164/13
Principal investigator:
Miroslav Sabol
Project summary:
The content and principal objective of the project is basic research in the area
of development and significance of industrial food manufacturing, food research
a education of food specialists since the introduction factory production of
food in 19th century up to 1990. The project will also deal with research into
and evaluation of large scale food production in the broader economic, political
and social context as one of the basic prerequisites of existence of modern
human society, and especially of societies at the territory of Slovakia. The
project is closely related to the successful collaboration of the Historical
Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Food and Chemical
Technology of the Slovak University of Technology on the project of history of
chemical industry in Slovakia, with the results to be published in four
monographs. The current project will therefore be based on further collaboration
of the above organizations.
Name:
The case »erweiterte
Kinderlandverschickung«. The camps of German children in Slovakia 1941-1944.
Duration:
1.1.2013 / 31.12.2015
Registration number:
2/0101/13
Principal investigator:
Michal Schvarc
Project summary:
The goal of the project is to search and analyze the «Erweiterte
Kinderlandverschickung» action (KLV) in Slovak context between 1941 and 1944.
The project is going to search the mentioned problem in broader political and
economic circumstances and naturally, in the context of Slovak-German
relationship in the period of World War II. The KLV action in Slovakia was not
carried out as a result of a treaty between both states but only as a result of
oral agreement between then prime-minister Tuka and German embassy. This fact is
significantly reflected in the evolution of Slovak-German relationship.
Political and economic impacts of this action have not been searched by either
Slovak or German historiography. The same can be said about the reaction of
Slovak population to the presence of “guests” from Germany. Even today, we do
not know the exact number of German children who were coming to Slovakia. The
researchers will focus on international context of the mentioned action.
Name: Social context of
environmental protection in Slovakia since the Industrial Revolution to World
War II.
Duration:
1.1.2013 / 31.12.2015
Registration number:
2/0144/13
Principal investigator:
Ľudovít Hallon
Project summary:
The content and the main aim of the project is the basic research into the
spring and scientific evaluation of the social context of the environmental
protection, nature and landscape in Slovakia, from the onset of
industrialization in the late 19th century to World War II. The project will
examine the mentioned issues and assess them in wider social,
economic-political, institutional, technical, scientific and medico-social
context. The project will open the issue of the history of environmental
protection in the Slovak historiography, which previously had been of a
peripheral interest. This fact contrasts with the situation in the social
sciences in neighboring countries, where the historical ecology for decades has
been an integral part of the historiography. The project will be coordinated
with projects of the history of environmental protection that will be realized
by teams of historians in the neighboring countries of Central Europe under the
common transnational issues.
Name:
Studying the Holocaust in Slovakia:
genesis of the methodological and terminological approach.
Duration:
1.1.2012 / 31.12.2015
Registration number:
2/0133/12
Principal investigator:
Katarína Mešková Hradská
Project summary:
The Slovak historiography of holocaust comprises several well-known works of
analytical as well as general {science popularization} character, which became
the basis literature not only for younger generation of historians studying the
holocaust but also wide public. The monographic works and studies, which were
published after November 1989, confirm the fact that the relation problems of
the Slovak society towards the Jewish minority during the World War II. are and
will continue to be an open topic for a long period of time. The goal of the
project is not only to map but also to process various approaches to the
problematic of the research. Taking into account the fact that the research of
the holocaust and the following presentation of its results are varied, often
controversial and disputable, the project is oriented towards comparison of the
research including processing of terminology from different aspects of the
research.
Name:
Dimensions of the regional history -
the case of Orava.
Duration:
1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number:
2/0124/12
Principal investigator:
Michal Bada
Project summary:
The goal of the project is the primary research of the Orava-region with the
focusing on its local specifics. Put the phenomenon of microhistory in to the
light of correlation (regional, local history, the historical events and
historical structures) and its interaction with the influence of Slovak, perhaps
even international history. To monitor the ways of penetrating of particular
population´s aspects of live by contemporary historical trends, its
transformation and eventually the influence of the regional history on wider
history as well. The chronological specification of the project is the whole
space of history from early middle ages till the contemporary history (the
process of normalization). In regard of the intricacy and complexity of the
whole issue for the scientific team would be necessary to choose for an
interdisciplinary way of research. The main purpose would be to give not only
synthesize full view on the history of Orava, but also on typical patterns,
particularities of this historical region.
Name:
Social radicalism and radical
socialism in Slovakia between two world wars.
Duration:
1.1.2012 / 31.12.2015
Registration number:
2/0123/12
Principal investigator:
Juraj Benko
Project summary:
The focus of the project is on organizational and discursive representations of
social radicalism in the reformist, radical and extremist leftists movements in
Slovakia during the years 1918-1939. The main objective is the analysis of
contents and forms of articulation of the social discontent in the „lower“
classes; protests against the social and economic situation in the periods of
crisis in the interwar Czechoslovakia. The compared social situations are
post-WWI breakdown and economic crisis in 1918-1923 and the Great Depression
1928-1933.
Name:
Structural changes of communication
praxis in the Modern Ages.
Duration:
1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number:
2/0099/12
Principal investigator:
Viliam Čičaj
Project summary:
In general terms the communication means tools, methods and mediation of
exchange of information of various characters. The period of 16th and 18th
centuries was a milestone in development of the system of communication. Apart
from the verbal form of transfer of information, the number and importance of
non-verbal media distinctively increased, especially of print media (newspapers,
books). Manuscript are represented mainly by the correspondence of various
character (official, commercial, intellectual). During this period also the
print media – leaflets and books and at the beginning of the 17th century even
periodicals – started to spread. The researchers will be oriented towards the
analysis of the correspondence of official, administrative and intellectual
character. They will also pay attention to the research of the manuscript
newspapers, which were the first step to the classical print newspapers.
Name:
The role of medical staff in growth
of medical care in Slovakia since the beginning of Czechoslovakia to early 1950s
of 20th century.
Duration:
1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number:
2/0110/12
Principal investigator:
Anna Falisová
Project summary:
Content and the main focus of the scientific project "Role of medical staff in
the development of health care in Slovakia in 1919 - 1953" is basic research,
clarification of the wider scientific evaluation of training and the activities
of lower health-care professionals - (Midwives, Nurses, Social nurses,
Supporting Nurse Personnel, Samaritans) and their contribution to improved
health care of the population in Slovakia in the past. The project is drawing on
the latest developments in historical science, and interdependencies examined
and evaluated in the period 1919 to 1953. Chronological definition covers the
period between two wars, the Slovak state and the post-war period, when radical
changes occurred in the organization of health care in Slovakia in the early 50.
The main objectives are the mediation of research results to a wider
professional and general public, students and lecturers from the fields of
health, social work, medicine using an accessible form.
Name:
Biography as the problem of historiography. Theory, interpretation and
writing the biographies in Slovak, Czech and French historiography.
Duration:
1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number:
2/0127/12
Principal investigator:
Bohumila Ferenčuhová
Project summary:
The relationship between history and biography has been ambivalent for a long
period of time. On one hand, historiography considers biography to be a marginal
genre, but on the other hand, historical biographies are very attractive for
scientist-historians and are popular among general public. The goal of the
project is to clarify different theoretic approaches to research, different
interpretations of historical characters, people, their role in history and
attitudes toward the world in French, Czech and Slovak historiography. The
target is to reflect and improve methods used by historians and to apply new
pieces of knowledge in writing biographies of specific personalities (M. R.
Štefánik, B. Pavlů) or collective biographies (Slovak students in France,
protagonists of Slovak National Party, electoral leaders during the period of
the 1st Czechoslovak Republic).
Name:
Outstanding humanist scholars and
politicians in their relation to Slovakia.
Duration:
1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number:
2/0062/12
Principal investigator:
Eva Frimmová
Project summary:
The project focuses on outstanding personalities of the period of the
Renaissance and Humanism with relation to Slovakia. We are talking, first of
all, about the political and intellectual elite, whose representatives, each in
a different way, integrated with the social life in the area of the present
Slovakia or abroad. On the basis of recent research and translations of the
relative historical material, we can make available to public and deepen our
knowledge of activities and works of these personalities, as so as consider
their contribution towards political - cultural development in the area of
central Europe.
Name:
Place and role of the Palatine
office in political system of Hungary in early Modern Age.
Duration:
1.1.2012 / 31.12.2015
Registration number:
2/0063/12
Principal investigator:
Anna Fundárková
Project summary:
The project will focus on the research and analyses of the political system in
Hungary in the years 1526-1723. Chief part of the political system was
represented by the Office of the palatine, who had several functions and powers.
Moreover, research will include study of relation between royal court and
Hungarian estates and its development. The aim of the grant participants will be
to monitor the research problem with the use of archival materials in Slovakia,
Hungary and Austria. The attention will be paid to functioning and organization
of the office of the palatine. Also, there were several people who were not
regular members of the palatine’s office and administration, nevertheless served
the palatine or were charged by him to certain tasks. Such were his Viennese
agents, who represented important source information on the life and events at
the Viennese court).
Name:
The man and the animal world in
Middle Ages.
Duration:
1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number:
2/0061/11
Principal investigator:
Daniela Dvořáková
Project summary:
Main purpose of the project is a cultural, anthropological and historical
research of relations between a man and the world of animals during the Middle
Ages, focused mainly on the territory of Kingdom of Hungary, that is also the
territory of today’s Slovakia. Relations between humans and animals can reveal a
lot about the culture, thinking, perception of the world as well as religion
concepts, everyday life and so on. From this point of view the observation of
interactions between humans and animals might be very valuable probe into
culture, anthropology and history.
Name:
Slovakia in the second half of the
19th century.
Duration:
1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number:
2/0044/11
Principal investigator:
Dušan Kováč
Project summary:
The proposed project is oriented to the research of the Slovak society in the
second half of the 19th century. The object of the research will be all relevant
parts of the social life – economics, social environment, politics, spirit life
and culture. Elaborated base studies to the less known areas of the Slovak
society life will be used by the working-out of the synthetic work to the
history of Slovakia in 19th century which is already needed from both scientific
and social reasons.
Name:
Czechoslovakia and the USA during
1948-1968 (the chapters from the development of the bilateral relations).
Duration:
1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number:
2/0039/11
Principal investigator:
Slavomír Michálek
Project summary:
This project is focused on the mutual relation between the USA and
Czechoslovakia during 1948-1968. The base of this relation creates relationship
of the satellite of one superpower towards the other superpower. The goal of the
project is to map this topic by using the primary archive documents in the both,
US and Czech Republic. The main line of the project is droved by trade and
economic relations in the sphere of resolving so-called open economic and
financial questions between both countries. The main focus of research team is
aimed mostly on the bilateral questions, whereas the most important looks
questions concerning the compensation for nationalized and confiscated American
property in Czechoslovakia and the effort of Czechoslovakia to obtain back own
Monetary Gold. The research must be aimed on wider international aspects of the
Cold War. The main goal of the research team is to prepare papers and finally
the main result of the project will be a book focused on key moments of
Czechoslovak-American relations during mentioned period.
Name:
Changes in the Slovak society in the
first half of the „long“ 19th century.
Duration:
1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number:
2/0138/11
Principal investigator:
Peter Šoltés
Project summary:
The first half of "long" 19 century has traditionally been the subject of
intensive interest of Slovak historiography. It is a period in which they were
placed the conditions national, civic and social emancipation. The attention was
predominantly focused on national-empowering process, on the Slovak national
elite and their institutions and on the growing antagonism between Slovak and
Hungarian national movement. In the last two decades, research into a national
movement but also the overall period 1780 - 1848 was in the background. The
project is related to preparation of new academic synthesis in HU SAV, which
should be drafted in a broad and coherent framework.
Name:
Economic privileges and trade
activities of some selected towns in Middle Ages.
Duration:
1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number:
2/0064/11
Principal investigator:
Martin Štefánik
Project summary:
Slovakia was characterized by 2-3 times higher density of the royal towns on its
territory than other parts of medieval Kingdom of Hungary. The existence of
cities was based on their economic importance for the country and for the
monarch, who equipped them with an extended system of legal and economic
privileges based on mutual benefit. The project objective is to analyze and
systematically summarize economic and commercial privileges, to explore the
genesis of its grantings as well as their impacts on the medieval towns in
Slovakia.
Name:
Journalism and Speeches of Milan
Hodža Related to the Peak Period of his Political Activities during 1930s.
Duration:
1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number:
2/0070/11
Principal investigator:
Milan Zemko
Project summary:
Milan Hodža belongs to the most significant and influential personalities of
Slovak politics. His energetic political and public activities attracted the
attention of society already during his times. Hodža was inspiring for many
thanks to his methodical approach, political thinking and his ability to think
in a broader framework of domestic and international politics of the 1st half of
the 20th century. We consider Hodža´s original texts, articles and speeches
which were published in several periodicals, as significant sources for the
research of his personality. While his journalistic articles from 1920s had been
published in books, his broad and colorful political articles from the second
decade of the republic – the period of immediate danger for the integrity and
security of the republic – remain dispersed in periodicals that were published
all over the state. They included also expert and regional journals. The goal of
the project is to published a book which will represent a collection of Hodža’s
articles form the period of the peak of his political career – his articles and
public speeches from 1932 – 1938. The publication will offer Slovak public the
opportunity to learn about this significant Slovak politician of the 1st half of
the 20th century.
Name:
From province to metropolis.
Bratislava in the 19th and 20th centuries – the town picture in social and
political context.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0085/10
Principal investigator:
Gabriela Dudeková
Project summary:
Based on the ground research and comparison with foreign research, the project
focuses at analysis of historical development of Bratislava, viewed as urban
centre of municipal government. It will trace its transformation from
residential royal coronation city (up to the end of the 18 century), through
politically provincial but dynamically growing economically and culturally
developed centre of the county (19th century), to becoming a capital of a state
(20th century). The aim of the project is to characterise impact of
industrialisation and urbanisation, socio-political and state-administration
changes on the position of the city, as well as changes of local identity and of
collective images/representations of Bratislava in the researched periods.
Name:
Social pre-conditions and
consequences of the science and technique development in Slovakia 1918-1989.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0097/10
Principal investigator:
Ľudovít Hallon
Project summary:
Project focuses on the broader socio-political, ideological and economic context
in the development of natural sciences, medicine, and technics. It targets the
mutual effects of social and political processes on the evolution of science
during the years 1918-1989; from the establishing of interwar Czechoslovak
Republic till the fall of communist regime in the Czechoslovakia.
Name:
Slovakia in Europe, Europe in
Slovakia: selected themes from the 20th century history.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0181/10
Principal investigator:
Edita Ivaničková
Project summary:
The issue orientation of the proposed project is the international context of
the Slovakia and the Slovak development in the 20th century. The selection of
the themes focuses on the less or partially researched questions of the
international (especially Central European) causalities of the Slovak history,
on the Slovak bonds in the Czechoslovak international context and on the
selected problems of the direct Slovak international relations with the foreign
countries. The main outputs of the project – the partial studies and the final
collective monograph are to be based primary on the basic research and shall
deal with various selected aspects of the main theme: with politics, diplomacy,
economy, ideological orientation etc. The aim of the researcher team is to
deepen the knowledge of the contextual frame in which the Slovak history
developed as the part of the European and world history.
Name:
Slovaks and the forming of the
modern nations in the Central Eastern(South-Eastern) Europe: Identity,
confessionalism, myths.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0208/10
Principal investigator:
Tatiana Ivantyšynová
Project summary:
Building of a national identity in a multiethnic and multireligious society of
the Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
Name:
Institutionalization of Educational
System in Slovakia in the Years 1918 – 1945. (Structure, Tendencies and Social
implications).
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0054/10
Principal investigator:
Ľubica Kázmerová
Project summary:
The subject of the project are the tendencies and changes in educational system
in Slovakia during the years 1918 – 1939 (period of the 1st and 2nd Czechoslovak
Republic) and during the period of Slovak state 1939 – 1945. The working group
will also focus on specific expressions of those changes not only in school
structure, but also in institutions that were established by political parties
or as a result of public interest (for example established by various leagues or
as a result of broadening scholarship).
Name:
Nobility court - power-political,
administrative and cultural entity in the Early Modern Ages.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0133/10
Principal investigator:
Tünde Lengyelová
Project summary:
The aim of the project is research of the aristocratic courts in the Kingdom of
Hungary during the early modern age. After the year 1526, the Hungarian royal
court de facto ceased to exist. The monarch and his court ware not in Hungary
and all its functions were transferred to the courts of the aristocrats. The
project therefore aims to specify and define these functions, duties of the
court as well as competences and limitations of its members. The analysis will
focus on this group of problems:
1, Court as a community of people, their hierarchy, functions, authority,
employment and activity, rights and duties, evaluation, advantages and
disadvantages.
2, The problem of female (widow) courts
3, Court as a living space – place of representation, culture, education, social
and religious live
4, Influence of the Hungarian aristocratic courts on the lifestyle of the lower
nobility and townspeople
5, Integration of the Hungarian aristocratic courts into the system of the
Central European courts
Name:
Slovakia during the communist regime
in Czechoslovakia and at the beginning of the democratic society development
1968-1989/1992.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0100/10
Principal investigator:
Miroslav Londák
Project summary:
N/A
Name:
Festivities as the identity forming
phenomenon in Slovakia in the period of modernization.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0089/10
Principal investigator:
Peter Macho
Project summary:
Scientific research is aimed at the festivities and their significance in the
process of national/civic society building. Participants of the project will
investigate festivities as an instrument of self-representation and
self-identification of urban/rural secular communities and "national" groups.
They will present festivities as a multi-layer phenomenon with its specific
goals, symbols, rituals, organizers, participants and audience. Analysis of the
"national" festivities in the 19th and 20th century will contribute much to our
understanding of how the Slovak "national" identity and its "national" symbols
had been formed.
Name:
History of the chemical industry in
Slovakia.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0109/10
Principal investigator:
Miroslav Tibor Morovics
Project summary:
The project deals with historical research of chemical industry development in
Slovakia from its beginning till the year 1989, with the emphasis on the second
half of the 20th century. The project maps scientific, technical and
institutional background of the chemical industry as well as cooperation with
the universities, social conditions in the factories, political determinants,
international context and economic factors. Besides the analysis of the most
important factories and research institutions, the project deals also with the
personalities connected with the development of chemical industry in Slovakia.
Name:
Communist party in Slovakia: road to
power and power monopoly 1945-1968.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0103/10
Principal investigator:
Jan Pešek
Project summary:
N/A
Name:
Economic migration in Slovakia in
1939-1945.
Duration:
1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number:
2/0090/10
Principal investigator:
Michal Schvarc
Project summary:
The aim of the project is the analysis of the important social and economic
phenomenon of workers migration in the specific conditions of the Slovak war
economy during the years 1939-1945. This problem will be researched in the
broader political and economic context on the background of the German-Slovak
relations during the WWII.
