About the Journal

The journal Colloquia Humanistica was founded as an interdisciplinary annual forum for discussion between researchers who represent different fields of the humanities. Each issue is centred around a different main theme, presented from diverse perspectives. This reflects our awareness of the value of cooperation between various disciplines of the humanities. Thus, we can paint a comprehensive picture of the subject matter. We seek to ensure the consistent academic standards of the texts by entrusting the editorial duties to scholars of high standing. Every main theme is inspired by cultural studies and devoted particularly to issues that were previously marginalised or dominated by one ideological stance. We focus on topics most often overlooked by so-called official culture, inconvenient for national narratives, or treated instrumentally therein. We invite cooperation and contributions from scholars representing cultural studies, linguists, historians, ethnologists, philosophers, and others.

Colloquia Humanistica is not strictly confined to the area of Slavic cultures or the Balkans; while Slavic and Balkan themes will appear in the journal, they only serve as an illustration for broader issues in the humanities. It is the intention of our annual to promote regular discussion on various biases and stereotypes: cultural, national, as well as academic. For that reason, an important place in the journal is reserved for the section called “Materials”, where we present literary and historical inedita, as well as texts translated into Polish for the first time. The journal is published in English, with “Materials” in Polish translation, preceded by English introductions.

We hope that the new Colloquia Humanistica will attain high scholarly standards. At the same time, we would like the journal to host animated discussions on various topics, not in the sense of swift reactions to short-lived sensationalism but by offering constant support to the scholarly exchange of ideas in the form of: debates, arguments, creative discussions; as opposed to biased expositions approaching issues from the singular point of view of a specific ideology. In other words: we would like it to be a “Colloquium”.

The journal is published in open access and is indexed in databases including Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) and European Reference Index for the Humanities Plus (ERIH Plus). Points awarded for publication according to the List of scholarly journals and peer-reviewed international conference materials, issued by the Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Poland: 70.

Current Issue

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).

Conception and academic editing of the issue: Wojciech Sajkowski

List of reviewers for the issue

Original Table of Contents
(articles’ titles in original language, unrelated to the user interface language)

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, contract no. RCN/SP/0420/2021/1.

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Published: 2023-12-23
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