17 articles in this issue
Jolanta Sujecka
Introductory CommentsThe fifth yearly volume of the Colloquia Humanistica comprises a thematic section on Nation, Natsiya, Ethnie. The subject it discusses has thus far received little attention as a research problem in the Slavia Orthodoxa, the Slavia Ro... see more
Svetlana Kocovska-Stevovic
On the Roman Concept of NatioThe aim of this paper is to examine the Roman concept of natio: what did the ancient Romans mean by it, in what sense did they use the term and how does the ancient Roman concept of natio differ from the modern concept of nati... see more
Karolina Mroziewicz
Natio Made Visible: The Hungarian Political Community in Illustrated Books (ca. 1350–1700)The main objective of this paper is to examine the understanding of the natio Hungarica, as it emerges from the texts and images of a number of richly illustrated Hu... see more
Irina Koluzaeva
“Within One’s Inner Circle”: The Identity of Ruthenian Szlachta (Noblemen) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the Time of the Union of Lublin (the Case of Filon Kmita Czarnobylski)The main aim of this article is to reconstruct the Ruthenian nobleman’s (sz... see more
Guido Franzinetti
The Historical Lexicon of Nationalism: Ethnicity, Ethnos, Race, Volksstamm: Historical FootnotesThis paper is primarily concerned with the etymology of some terms in the historical lexicon of nationalism: ethnicity, ethnos, race, Volksstamm. It is argued ... see more
Irina Boldonova
The Buryat-Mongols’ Way of Being and Their National Image of the WorldThe article focuses on the comparison of two main concepts in the national image of the world of the Buryat-Mongols as it applies to their way of being: the Man of the Steppes and the M... see more
Izabela Olszewska,Aleksandra Twardowska
Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish as Determinants of Identity: As Illustrated in the Jewish Press of the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyThe paper shows an image and functions of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish languages among Jewish Diaspora groups – the Balkan Sep... see more
Areti Demosthenous
Challenges to Ethnos (?????) in a Global SocietyEthnos is a broad term, often understood as an element in nation making, or else an umbrella term for the processes of building the modern nation. The academic discussion around ethnos nowadays is being chal... see more
Ewa Lukaszyk
Written Exercises: Ancestral Magic and Emergent Intellectuals in Mia Couto, Lhoussain Azergui and Dorota MaslowskaThe article consists in a comparative reading of three novels: Um rio chamado tempo by Mia Couto, Le pain des corbeaux by Lhoussain Azergui a... see more
Olha Tkachenko
Reinventing Ukraine: Ukrainian National and Supra-National Identity in Contemporary Polish Opinion-Making PressUkraine in XXI century has been experiencing new social and political changes which resulted into shifts of the national identity. It has left r... see more
Tomasz Kamusella
The History of the Normative Opposition of “Language versus Dialect”: From Its Graeco-Latin Origin to Central Europe’s Ethnolinguistic Nation-StatesThe concept of “a language” (Einzelsprache, that is, one of many extant languages) and its opposition to “d... see more
Joanna Panasiuk
The Theme of the Fountain-Wound in a Baroque Manuscript Meditation: The Impact of Iconography on PoetryBehind the foundation of the monastic meditation about fountains is a concrete devotional graphic from Western Europe. It is the Dutch emblem that is th... see more
Who Gets Carried Away by Europe?In July 2014, the Young Academies from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Scotland and Sweden announced an international contest. “Who gets carried away by Europe?” – was the prize question to which all the... see more
Krzysztof Usakiewicz
Not Just For KicksThe match-up between Makabi and Inter did not attract many spectators. The weather was likely the only factor at play, since that Saturday in November was extremely nasty. That was because the game was held not in Haifa or even Milan, bu... see more
The Third Edition of the Inka Brodzka-Wald AwardOn 16 June 2015, the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland and the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society announced the winners of the third edition of the Inka Brodzka-Wald Award for doctoral diss... see more
Katica Kulavkova
A Trans?esthetic Interpretation of Pamiec nareszcie / Memory at Last by Wislawa SzymborskaThis essay attempts to combine several elements relevant for such interpretative practices as hermeneutics, textual explication, speech acts theory, C. G. Jung’s ana... see more
Iwona Boruszkowska
From the Discipline of the Whole to the Art of Concentration: Revisions of the Eastern and Central European Avant-Gardes: ReviewA review of two recent volumes concerning the idea of Central-European avant-garde: Awangarda Srodkowej i Wschodniej Europy – I... see more