No. 12 (2023): Centre–Periphery Relation and the Formation of Collective and Individual Identities in the Balkans and Central Europe
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Through its thematic block devoted to the fluctuating history of centres and peripheries, to cultural systems and their unstable borders, and also thanks to reviews that supplement the main topic with additional illustrations, the twelfth issue of Colloquia Humanistica shows us a world undergoing great change. Meanwhile, the Materials section adjusts the Polish perspective on the reception of our great Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz’s oeuvre. The Polish perception, usually directed towards the West, suddenly has to change direction and take an interest in the Balkans which provide unexpected material discoveries connected with Polish literature. The issue contains a thematic block titled Centre–Periphery Relation and the Formation of Collective and Individual Identities in the Balkans and Central Europe. The topic makes readers aware how variable centres and peripheries are and how unstable borders can be, not only in the Balkans and Central or Eastern Europe. A wider perspective on the subject is brought by the example of the settlement of Vlachs, who crossed the borders of countries and empires, and also by the context of Western European culture that we find in postimperial Georgia in the years 1918–1921 and in the cross-cultural art of Chinese artist Pan Jianfeng who lives in Finland. The reviews found in issue 12 supplement the subject matter with Siberian and Balkan illustrations. In the Materials section we publish a letter, recently discovered in the Petko and Pencho Slaveykov Museum in Sofia, from the son of Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Władysław (1838–1926), to Bulgarian poet Pencho Slaveykov (1866–1912). |
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Conception and academic editing of the issue: Wojciech Sajkowski |
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The project Colloquia Humanistica 12 financed from the funds of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Poland under the “Development of Scientific Journals” programme, pursuant to the Regulation of the Minister of Education and Science of 3 August 2021 (Journal of Laws of 2021, item 1514); contract No. RCN/SP/0420/2021/1 (22 December 2022).
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Published:
2023-12-23
