12 articles in this issue
Jolanta Sujecka
Introductory CommentsThe 11th issue of Colloquia Humanistica (2022) contains a thematic block titled The Sense of an Ending and the Imagination of the End: Apocalypse, Disaster and Messianic Time. In the Discussions, Book Reviews, Presentations section, w... see more
Ewa Niedzialek
The Sense of an Ending and the Imagination of the End: Apocalypse, Disaster and Messianic TimeApocalyptic visions go beyond Christian eschatology and permeate our present imagination. Not so much with already bygone symbolism or the terror of bloody... see more
Damian Kubik
The Second Death of Dubrovnik: Selected Testimonies from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century on the Fall of the Republic in the Light of Lujo Vojnovic’s Historiosophical ConceptionThis article offers a discussion of various images of the fall of the D... see more
Chiara Carmen Scordari
Mending a Frail Humankind: Remedial Hermeneutics and Messianic Anthropology in Joseph SoloveitchikThis essay focuses on Joseph Soloveitchik’s re-semantization and renewal of the Jewish concept of messianism. In his view, the idea of Messiah is personified... see more
Francine Rochford
Climate Change Litigation: Vulnerable Children and a Duty of CareThis article considers climate change jurisprudence in the context of other eschatological narratives developing the theme of ecological catastrophe. It focusses in particular on concepts of... see more
Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah
Engaging Cinema in Environmental Crisis: A Paradigm of Documentary Films of the Niger DeltaThe oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria remains one of the most environmentally devastated places in the world. This is caused by gas flaring, crude oil spillage... see more
Cringuta Irina Pelea
Mirroring Cultural Fear, Anxiety and Dystopia in American Cinematography: The Movie A.I. (2001)Through this essay, we aim to provide a sociological and cultural analysis of how the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg, explores ... see more
Magda Dolinska-Rydzek
The Antichrist and His Plot Against Russia: Conspiracy Theories and EschatologyIn post-Soviet Russia, there is a relatively widespread conviction that events such as the Bolshevik Revolution, World War II, and the collapse of the Soviet Union were not the... see more
Tetiana M. Brovarets
Apocalyptic Motifs on Century-Old Ukrainian Rushnyks Through Today’s Digital Folklore CommunicationThoughts about the end of life and subsequent rebirth are among the most popular motifs in Ukrainian epigraphic embroidery. Embroidered towels (rushnyks) wi... see more
Editors -
Professor Jerzy Skowronek Award (27th Edition)Books by Dr Maciej Falski, deputy editor of Colloquia Humanistica,and our collaborator Dr Tijana Vukovic won recognition in the 27thedition of the Professor Jerzy Skowronek Award. Nagroda Profesora Jerzeg... see more
Ivana Hadjievska
Book review: Naum Trajanovski, Petar Todorov, Biljana Volchevska and Ljupcho S. Risteski (eds.), Cultures and Politics of Remembrance: Southeast European and Balkan Perspectives. Skopje: forum ZFD, 2021, 132 pp. ISBN 978-608-4956-04-4This presentation rev... see more
Izabela Olszewska
Book Review: Tomasz Kamusella, Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022, 289 pp. ISBN: 978-963-386-417-3The paper is a presentation of Tomasz Kamusella’s l... see more