Journal articles on the topic 'European Academy of Sciences and Arts'

Анализируется структура научного знания Раннего Нового времени на примере места «художеств» в Академии художеств и наук, учрежденной именным указом из Сената 28 января (8 февраля) 1724 года в Санкт-Петербурге, и место последней в общеевропейской сети академических сообществ. Задача исследования показать актуальность и инновационность петровского академического проекта, как в силу специфических российских условий, так и в силу особенностей структуры научного знания Раннего нового времени. На примере 1) общего и различного между Петербургской академией наук и ведущими европейскими академиями, 2) особенностей словосочетания «художества и науки» в контексте петровского времени обосновывается тезис, что Художественные палаты и ремесленные мастерские при Академии не были всего лишь «обслуживающими» потребности науки и осуществлявшие «побочные» работы, не имеющие отношения к «чистой науке». Художества были самими инструментами «производства фактов» в науке и для науки, неотделимые от ее процесса. В момент учреждения Академии, без наук не могло быть художеств, как и художеств без наук. Присутствие словосочетания «художества и науки» в названии Академии хорошо объясняется семантикой слова «художество», включавшего в себя и науки, и искусства, и ремесла. This article analyzes the structure of scientific knowledge in the Early Modern period with reference to the place of "arts" in the Academy of Arts and Sciences, established by a nominal decree from the Senate on January 28 (February 8), 1724 in St. Petersburg, and the place of the latter in the pan-European network of academic communities. The study aims to show the relevance and innovativeness of the Russian academic project, both due to specific Russian conditions and the peculiarities of the structure of scientific knowledge of the Early Modern period. Based on 1) the common and the different between the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and the leading European academies, 2) peculiarities of the phrase "arts and sciences" in the context of Petrine times, the thesis is substantiated that the Art Chambers and craft workshops at the Academy did not just "serve" the needs of science and carry out "side" work that had nothing to do with "pure science". The arts were themselves instruments of "fact production" in and for science, inseparable from its process. At the time of the establishment of the Academy, there could be no sciences without art, just as there could be no arts without sciences. The presence of the phrase "arts and sciences" in the name of the Academy is well explained by the semantics of the word "art", which included sciences, arts, and crafts.

Historians’ view on the history of town was presented at the 3rd International Conference “History of Urbanization of Europe” held in Nizhny Novgorod on October 22, 2021, which was dedicated to the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod. The conference was co-organized by the Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (NNGASU), the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Historical Institute of Belgrade (the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts). The conference allowed participants and listeners to get acquainted with the latest research on a wide range of problems of the history of European towns from ancient times to the present day. At the conference, papers were delivered summarizing the experience of research and outlining the prospects for cooperation between Russian and Serbian scholars.

Introduction. In the second half of the 1760s – the first half of the 1770s Ivan I. Betskoy implemented a far-reaching reform of Russian education. It appeared that the problems of two Russian universities had not been the key issues of the reform. Apparently, that was the reason why they were not previously considered as a part of the systemic all-European crisis in higher education, which had been caused by a need to secularize universities and inculcate national languages into them, as well as by the general development of sciences, especially physical and cameral ones. Methods and materials. The article for the first time analyzes the model of the Academy’s College created at the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1770 to replace the Academy’s university that had ceased to exist in 1767. Based on the “Privileges and Statute of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences” (1770), the research proves that this document compiled by Vladimir G. Orlov was brought into action without any legislative approval. Analysis. According to the Orlov’s Statute, Academy’s College appeared at the Academy to reproduce scientists who represented science, but not liberal arts which coincided with the new trend of the Academy of Sciences. It was arranged according to the model common to all education institutions reformed under Ivan I. Betskoy. After completing the main course of study, students were renamed as élèves and assigned to particular academicians for the improvement in science. At the same time, they attended public science courses, which corresponded to the university program in science and since then were allowed to read not only in Latin and Russian (as in the Statute of 1747), but also in new European languages. Results. Hence, an alternative model of training scientific personnel, which meant a higher educational level, was created at the Academy of Sciences.

Dr Dzau was born in Shanghai. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biology and his MD degree from McGill University. He was a medical resident, Chief Resident, and the founding Chief of the Division of Vascular Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now the Brigham and Women’s Hospital). He moved to Stanford in 1990 as the Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and later became Chairman of the Department of Medicine. Six years later, he returned to Harvard Medical School as the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then became the Chancellor for Health Affairs, President, and CEO of the Duke University Medical Center. In 2014, he was elected to become the President of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Abstract The International Nephrology Days in honor of the 75th anniversary of Academician Momir Polenakovic and 50 years of his scientific work were held in the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA) on 26 and 27 September 2014. Organizers of the meeting were the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Macedonian Society of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Artificial Organs (MSNDTAO). The days were programmed with the VII Macedonian-Croatian Nephrology Meeting and the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Course on "Renal Replacement Therapy - when & how - update on the outcome and cost-efficacy" organized by the MSNDTAO in cooperation with the European Renal Association (ERA-EDTA). Prominent academicians, researchers and nephrologists from Europe and neighboring countries contributed with their lectures and discussion at this scientific event. On September 26, 2014 the opening talk was given by Acad. V. Kambovski, President of the MASA, about the Life and Work of Academician Momir Polenakovic. In honor of his anniversary and valuable scientific opus, during the meeting Acad. Momir Polenakovic was awarded with Certificate of the European Renal Association (ERA-EDTA) for his significant role in the development of nephrology in the Balkan region and couple of other diplomas and acknowledgement. Prof. Polenakovic is founder of the MSNDTAO and his lifetime honorary president.

Prezes Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności Kazimierz Nitsch a Petersburska Akademia Nauk (w świetle zbiorów archiwalnych) Kontakty Kazimierza Nitscha (1874–1958) – krakowskiego lingwisty, profesora Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, członka i prezesa Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności – z Petersburską Akademią Nauk rozpoczęły się jeszcze przed wyborem polskiego naukowca do jej grona. Świadectwa tych kontaktów można odnaleźć w zbiorach Petersburskiej Filii Archiwum Rosyjskiej Akademii Nauk, Archiwum Nauki PAN i PAU w Krakowie oraz Archiwum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie. K. Nitsch, jeszcze jako docent prywatny Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, z rekomendacji Jana Rozwadowskiego i Jana Baudouina de Courtenay został zaproszony do grona autorów wieloczęściowej Encyklopedii językoznawstwa słowiańskiego, wydawanej przez Rosyjską Akademię Nauk w celu napisania rozdziału na temat dialektologii polskiej. W związku z tym Nitsch podjął szereg wypraw dialektologicznych do Królestwa Polskiego, które były możliwe dzięki wsparciu organizacyjnemu Wydziału Języka Rosyjskiego i Literatury Petersburskiej Akademii Nauk, czego świadectwa zachowały się wśród dokumentów Wydziału. Wyprawy dialektologiczne to jeden z obszarów wcześniejszej współpracy K. Nitscha z Petersburską Akademią. Pozostałe obszary znajdują odzwierciedlenie w korespondencji prowadzonej przez K. Nitscha z Aleksiejem A. Szachmatowem (1864–1920), prezesem Wydziału Języka Rosyjskiego i Literatury oraz Borysem M. Lapunowem (1862–1943), rosyjskim slawistą, członkiem Rosyjskiej Akademii Nauk, który po śmierci A. A. Szachmatowa i E. F. Karskiego (1860–1931), drugiego wybitnego slawisty i organizatora nauki, został kluczową postacią łączącą rosyjski i europejski świat slawistyczny. W Petersburskiej Filii Archiwum Rosyjskiej Akademii Nauk zachowały się listy K. Nitscha do A. A. Szachmatowa z lat 1909–1914 i do B. M. Lapunowa z lat 1930–1936; w Archiwum Nauki PAN i PAU w Krakowie znajdują się listy do K. Nitscha: A. A. Szachmatowa z lat 1908–1912 i B. M. Lapunowa z lat 1928–1938. Treść tej korespondencji ukazuje dwa podstawowe kierunki współpracy: współudział w wydawaniu polskich i radzieckich publikacji slawistycznych oraz organizację akademickich wymian książek. Ścisłe kontakty K. Nitscha z językoznawcami radzieckimi oraz jego wybitne osiągnięcia naukowe spowodowały, że Akademia Nauk ZSRR postanowiła przedstawić jego kandydaturę na swojego członka. Pierwszy wniosek złożył B. M. Lapunow jeszcze w 1933 r., jednak wybór odbył się znacznie później – w 1947 r., kiedy K. Nitsch zajmował już stanowisko prezesa Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności. The President of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kazimierz Nitsch and the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Sciences (according to archival documents) Contacts between Kazimierz Nitsch (1874–1958) – Krakow linguist, professor of Jagiellonian University, member and president of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences – with the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Sciences began even before the Polish scientist was elected to be one of its members. Evidence of these contacts can be found in the collections of the Saint-Petersburg Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the PAN and PAU Archives in Krakow and the Archives of Jagiellonian University in Krakow. K. Nitsch, while still a privatdozent of Jagiellonian University, following recommendations from Jan Rozwadowski and Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, was invited to become an author of the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Slavonic Philology, published by the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the goal of writing a section on Polish dialectology. In connection with this, Nitsch undertook a wide range of dialectological trips to the Polish Kingdom, which were possible thanks to the organisational support of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Evidence of this support is stored among the Department’s documents. The dialectological trips were just one of the areas of early cooperation between K. Nitsch and the Saint-Petersburg Academy. The other areas are reflected in the correspondence conducted by K. Nitsch with Aleksey A. Shakhmatov (1864–1920), President of the Department of Russian Language and Literature as well as with Boris M. Lyapunov (1862–1943), a Russian Slavonic expert, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who after the death of A. A. Shakhmatov and E. F. Karski (1860–1931), the second great Slavonic expert and organiser of science, became a key figure connecting the Russian and European worlds of Slavonic experts. The St Petersburg Archives of the Russian Academy 114 Larisa Bondar, Marina Ponikarovskaya of Sciences contain letters from K. Nitsch to A. A. Shakhmatov from the years 1909–1914 and to B. M. Lyapunov from 1930–1936; the PAN and PAU Archives in Krakow contain letters to K. Nitsch: from A. A. Shakhmatov during the years 1908–1912 and from B. M. Lyapunov in 1928–1938. The content of this correspondence presents two basic directions of cooperation: participation in the preparation of Polish and Soviet Slavonic publications as well as organisation of the academic exchange of books. The close contacts between K. Nitsch and Soviet linguists as well as his excellent scientific achievements meant that the USSR Academy of Sciences decided to present him as a candidate for membership. The first application was submitted by B. M. Lyapunov in 1933, however, the election took place significantly later – in 1947 when K. Nitsch had already taken up the position of President of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The review examines the content and main problems of the English-language monograph of the German scientist and philosopher, President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, founder of the Munich Center for Social Technologies (MCTS), Honorary Professor of the Technical University of Munich, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Univercity of Tübingen Klaus Mainzer. The author covers a range of issues related to the history of the formation and development of artificial intelligence, the reasons for society’s unwillingness to integrate machines into society, the relationship of artificial intelligence with human values, ethics and security, and what awaits humanity in the future. One of the key issues in the book is the relationship between artificial intelligence and the ethics of responsibility, as well as ensuring personal rights and freedoms while actively expanding the sphere of influence of artificial intelligence.

The article raises the question of the possibility of the existence of a pan-European historical memory, analyzes the features of the development and evolution of the content of the European narrative of historical memory in the late 20th — early 21st centuries and the historical policy of a number of countries. It is shown first of all on the example of the textbook for Russian and German teachers “Russia — Germany. Milestones of joint history in collective memory”, how through joint work on educational literature on history, Russian academics and their colleagues from some European countries manage to find consensus on complex debatable issues of interpretation of historical events. The role of Russian academy of Sciences member Alexander Chubaryan in the development and dissemination of this form of international cooperation of historians is revealed.

The Department of the History of Education and Culture at the Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow) was established on February 1, 1971 in place of the Chair of the History of Science and Education. Since its beginning, it was located in the Kołłątaj Collegium at St. Anna St. 6, at first in the left wing of the building, and then – since 1980 – in its right wing. The heads of the Department in the years 1971–1997 were the professors: Jan Hulewicz, Kamilla Mrozowska and Renata Dutkowa. The Department also employed the scientific staff: Leszek Hajdukiewicz (head of the Archives of the Jagiellonian University), Julian Dybiec, Kazimierz Szczurek, Andrzej Kazimierz Banach, Krzysztof Stopka. The librarians of the Department were: Elżbieta Babuchowska, Joanna Plutecka and Krzysztof Stopka. In 1984, the librarian’s position was eliminated, and the department’s library was from that point onwards taken care of by the younger academics. Scientific research focused on the history of the Polish education: cathedral schools in the Middle Ages, secondary education in Krakow in the nineteenth century and the University of Krakow from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. Research was also undertaken on the Commission of National Education; the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences; scientific and educational patronage in Galicia during the autonomous era; Galicia as a part of the Austrian school system as well as scientific and intellectual relations between Poland and other European countries; city culture (Stary Sącz, Nowy Sącz and Zakopane); historical biography was practiced as well. The teaching staff of the Department were mainly present at the Institute of History and the Institute of Pedagogy, but they were also involved in other fields of study at the Faculty of Philosophy and History (later Faculty of History) as well as at other faculties and inter-faculty units of the university. Occasionally they also took up employment at other higher education institutions. They additionally participated in the work of committees and commissions of the Polish Academy of Sciences (and later on those of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences) as well as in editorial boards for dictionaries and bibliographies.

The Sentinel-2 is a high resolution optical satellite mission, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the European Commission. Currently the mission has two satellites in orbit: Sentinel-2A from 23rd June 2015, and Sentinel-2B from 7th March 2017. Revisit time for this twin constellation is five days. The twin satellites represent a very stable data source, but for the first six operational months (i.e. the second half of the 2015). From the very start of the mission, the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) is collecting its own archive of Sentinel-2 data for the extent of the Republic of Slovenia. The data is saved in its original processing state (Level-1C) and in four levels of processing. The archive has now been operating for six full years, which is a good milestone for a statistical overview. We analyse the archive of Sentinel-2 data of Slovenia from several aspects at the country level. A special focus is placed on cloud cover, as only cloud-free data can give an impression of the actual spatial and temporal usability of optical data.

Carpathian Research by Józef Dziędzielewicz This paper presents an outline of the history of entomological research by Józef Dziędzielewicz, a long-year collaborator of the Cracow Scientific Society and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, that was conducted by him in the Carpathians at the turn of the 20th century. Dziędzielewicz was a self-taught expert in natural sciences. Thanks to research and publication, he became an authority on a European scale in the field of insects from the Neuropterida clade, which are currently categorised into a few separate orders. Most of his research works concerned caddisflies (Trichoptera) and dragonflies (Odonata). During many years of his research, Dziędzielewicz made an extraordinary contribution to the knowledge of the world of Carpathian insects. He was one of the most outstanding entomologists both in the history of Polish and European science. He was known as an excellent taxonomist and morphologist, and he introduced a number of new species into science. He collaborated with many European entomologists, particularly with Professor František Klapálek from Prague. He conducted field research on the fauna and distribution of Neuropterida in the Eastern Carpathians in Pokuttya, Podolia, Silesia, the Tatras and in the large part of Outer Subcarpathia. Apart from fauna lists and taxonomic reflections, his works contain many elements from the field of zoogeography and biology of insects. He also promoted the use of Polish generic names, sometimes creating new ones. He described several newly discovered species from the Trichoptera order.

We publish a summary report on the second joint seminar of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAS) and “World Economy and International Relations” Journal, dedicated to the relevant issues in the field of international security. The discussion collected such prominent experts in the field as Fyodor Voitolovsky, Director of IMEMO RAS, RAS Corresponding Member; Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Sergey Rogov, Academician, Director of the RAS Institute of the U.S. and Canadian Studies; Evgeny Buzhinsky, Chairman of PIR Center, RIAC Vice President; Dmitry Danilov, Head of the European Security Department of the RAS Institute of Europe; and Vasily Kashin, Deputy Director of the Center of Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, and Leading Reseach Fellow at the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin’s life (1883–1950) and work of this outstanding Russian mathematician, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, coincides with a very difficult period in Russian history: two World Wars, the 1917 revolution in Russia, the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, the civil war of 1917–1922, and finally, the construction of a new type of state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This included collectivization in the agriculture and industrialization of the industry, accompanied by the mass terror that without exception affected all the strata of the Soviet society. Against the background of these dramatic events took place the proces of formation and flourishing of Luzin the scientist, the creator of one of the leading mathematical schools of the 20th century, the Moscow school of function theory, which became one of the cornerstones in the foundation of the Soviet mathematical school. Luzin’s work could be divided into two periods: the first one comprises the problems regarding the metric theory of functions, culminating in his famous dissertation Integral and Trigonometric Series (1915), and the second one that is mainly devoted to the development of problems arising from the theory of analytic sets. The underlying idea of Luzin’s research was the problem of the structure of the arithmetic continuum, which became the super task of his work. The destiny favored the master: the complex turns of history in which he was involved did not prevent, and sometimes even favored the successful development of his research. And even the catastrophe that broke out over him in 1936 – “the case of Academician Luzin” – ended successfully for him.

Nicholas Dima, Bessarabia and Bukovina: The Soviet-Romanian Territorial Dispute. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1982. v, 173 pp. Distributed by Columbia University Press. Maria Manoliu-Manea, ed., The Tragic Plight of a Border Area: Bessarabia and Bucovina. American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Humboldt State University Press, 1983. xii, 280 pp.Here are two good books providing detailed information on Bessarabia, until 1918 a province of the Russian Empire, and, to a lesser extent, on Bukovina, once a province within the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary. They include useful theoretical though somewhat debatable considerations on the history and ethnic nature of both regions. They come to proper conclusions which seem amply justified by the data and analysis which preceded them. However, both books are inadequately edited, especially the second one, and include a few statements either based on superficial generalizations or even tinted with disturbing — though perhaps unconscious — ethnocentrism.

The election of Donald Trump has exposed a politics of resentment dividing rural and urban populations, as well as communities and colleges. This division stretches back to Plato's Academy. When Plato threw the poets out of the Republic, he banished practices such as poetry, music, and dance from the realm of true, epistemic knowledge, which he opposed to doxa or common knowledge. Centuries later, this opposition would shape European colonialism's approach to indigenous life worlds, whose "primitive" rituals, myths, and fetishes would confront the "civilized" methods, histories, and objects of Western knowledge. These same oppositions structure ideological critiques of popular culture. However, the emergence of lecture performances, theory rap, and info comics within twenty-first century research universities suggests that traditional knowledge production is under stress inside and outside the academy. Emerging is a transmedia knowledge that engages different audiences by mixing episteme and doxa. At stake here: the role of aesthetics in post-disciplinary societies of control and in resistant modes of collective thought-action. Across both the arts and sciences, scholars worldwide are turning to transmedia knowledge not simply for communication but also for co-creation of research. Here transmedia knowledge can function as civic discourse and as a conduit of a generalized aesthetics.

It is difficult to frame Anton Raphael Mengs in a specific stylistic movement nowadays that the chronological divisions and the consequent definitions of the art of the Enlightenment are going to be more and more controversial. Because of his eclectic and cosmopolitan activity, his ideas about Ideal Beauty spread across the countries affected by the apprehensions and hopes related to the 18th century. The bohemian painter dedicated his entire life to the study of ancient art; his marble collection of the statues from the great Italian collections interested the artists coming to the Eternal City, and he consecrates esthetic models of different epochs. Mengs never get away from these models – Ancient Greece, Raffaello Sanzio, Tiziano Vecellio, Antonio Correggio. His presence in Spain was favored by propitious circumstances: the coronation of an erudite, educate king, lover of Fine Arts, Charles III of Spain, a king so intimately close to the painter to guarantee him his protection in the difficult relation between Mengs and the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. The relation between the Institution and the Bohemian get complicated because of the different ideas about the organization of the academy and the education of the students. Because of the little original sources, several matters have not been resolved, for example the issue about the false ancient fresco of Jupiter and Ganymede, or the controversy about the Peña case, that brought to the final breakup between the artist and the consiliarios in San Fernando Institution. Mengs focused his attention in an even worse matter about the direction of the academy: concretely, which competences had to have the consiliarios and which the teachers. When Mengs asked to be accepted in the academy, he undoubtedly thought that the Institution was structured as the other great one in which he took part in Italy, San Luca National Academy in Rome. Within Mengs’ proposals to raise the level of the Academy in Madrid there was the institution of anatomy and surgery teachings, which intent was to revolutionize the concept of painters and sculptors. In spite of the difficulties that the first painter of Charles III had during his stay in San Fernando, his acting had a fundamental role in developing the Art Theory and particularly in the European artists’ training.

The Nordic achievements in the visual arts in the age of romanticism were first and foremost accomplished by Danish artists. The great initiator was C. W. Eckersberg, who observed reality with great scrutiny and demanded of himself a faithful rendering of all the details. However, at the same time, he stuck to the classical principles of composition and omitted all accidental and ugly aspects of the motif that did not fit into his concept of an ideal picture. The principles he laid down in his art in around 1815 formed the basis of Danish (and Norwegian) painting until 1850. He introduced open-air painting as part of the tuition at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen and was, in this respect, a pioneer in a European context. During the 1820s and 30s almost all the young Danish painters were pupils of Eckersberg, and he also influenced the Norwegian J. C. Dahl. The subjects of the Danish paintings are very down-to-earth – they are first and foremost taken from everyday life. In the first decades of nineteenth century, Copenhagen had the status as the most important art centre in Northern Europe, and the art academy attracted many German artists. However, around 1840, a growing nationalism separated the Danish and German artists, and many Danish landscape painters devoted their art to the praise of Denmark. The nationalist artists, however, still stuck to the reality they had actually seen.

Eighteenth-century Russian polymath Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) is a highly celebrated and symbolically important figure in Russian culture, but he is not well known outside of Russia. In this paper I review his biography, his contributions to geology, and the key influences on his geological writings. He spent his youth on the coast of the White Sea, near the Arctic Circle, working with his father, who was a fisherman and merchant. This experience helped him to become a keen observer of natural phenomena. At age nineteen he traveled to Moscow, falsely claimed that he was the son of a nobleman, and talked his way into the Slavo-Graeco-Latin Academy. He excelled as a student and was chosen to continue his studies at the university in St Petersburg. From there he was one of three Russian students chosen to spend several years studying in Germany, primarily to learn about mining and the extraction of metals from ore. Lomonosov's four-and-a-half years in Germany were critical to his development as a scholar and scientist, immersing him in contemporary European knowledge and epistemology. After Lomonosov returned to the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1741, he worked his way up the academic ladder, eventually becoming professor of chemistry, but it was not a smooth and steady climb. At one point he was under house arrest for eight months for rowdy conduct and discourteous behavior. Lomonosov made significant contributions to many fields of science. He wrote several geological publications, the most significant of which is On the Strata of the Earth (1763), which became available in German only in 1961, and in English only in 2012. Lomonosov's work in geology was motivated by his desire to promote economic development in Russia through the extraction of mineral resources, together with a deep curiosity about natural history.

Abstract The following report provides a brief overview of the international summer term of the Erasmus-Mundus Joint Master’s Degree – European Master in Lexicography (EMJMD – EMLex), which took place in 2022 at the University of Minho, School of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences, Braga, Portugal. The first part of the report pays tribute to Carolina Michaëlis, the German-Portuguese philologist who was our guide and inspiration throughout the semester. The second part of the report provides a detailed account of the academic and cultural activities organized.

This issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry is based on plenary lectures delivered at the International Conference on Modern Physical Chemistry for Advanced Materials (MPC '07), which took place 26-30 June 2007 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.The Conference was sponsored by IUPAC and the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, and organized by V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in cooperation with L. M. Litvinenko Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry and Coal Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Donetsk, Ukraine) and the Physical Chemistry Department of the Ukrainian Chemical Society. Christian Amatore (Academy of Sciences of France) and Anatoliy Popov (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) were Chairmen of the International Scientific Committee and the International Organizing Committee, respectively. Professors Yuriy Kholin and Valentin Lebed (Kharkiv National University) headed the Local Organizing Committee and the Program Committee.The aim of the Conference was to review the physicochemical foundations of modern materials science and technology. At the same time, the event offered opportunities for Ukrainian physical chemists to strengthen international ties and collaboration, and to evaluate the status of modern physical chemistry in Ukraine against global criteria. A total of 170 active delegates from 23 countries participated in the scientific program, which provided a showcase for the achievements, both of internationally recognized experts and enthusiastic young researchers, all of whom contributed constructively to lively scientific discussions.The Conference was dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the outstanding physicochemist Prof. Nikolai Izmailov (1907-1961). On 26 June, just before the opening of the Conference, the book Scientific Heritage of N. A. Izmailov and Topical Problems of Physical Chemistry was ceremonially presented to the academic community and the media in the Kharkiv National University Museum.The majority of the 19 plenary lectures were devoted to nanoscience, supramolecular chemistry, self-assembled systems, and organized solutions. The papers collected in this issue are arranged in order of their presentation during the scientific proceedings; lectures on chromatography, delivered by Profs. V. P. Georgiyevskiy (Ukraine), V. G. Berezkin (Russia), and E. Tyihák (Hungary), will be published in the Journal of Planar Chromatography and in other journals. The program also included 46 keynote and oral presentations and 120 posters, which were distributed among symposia devoted to the following topics: chromatography, materials science, solution chemistry, theoretical chemistry, electrochemistry, kinetics and catalysis, and photochemistry.The social program included a classical music concert, welcome party, conference reception, visit to the Museum of Arts, bus excursion to the museum of the great Russian painter Il'ya Repin in Chuguev, and numerous local activities. On 25 June, an all-day excursion to the typical Ukrainian city Poltava provided an opportunity to visit the famous battlefield where the army of Tsar Peter I of Russia achieved a decisive victory over the invading forces of King Charles XII of Sweden in 1709.Nikolay Mchedlov-PetrossyanConference Editor

Mihai Ralea was a university professor and prominent representative of the Romanian interwar literary intelligentsia. M. Ralea taught psychology, sociology and aesthetics, and was at the same time the director of a reputed literary magazine (Viaţa românească-Romanian Life). Ralea was also a politician, initially an important member of the National Peasant Party, representing its centre left wing. In his case, one may notice the contradiction between his moral arguments in public and his deeds after he reached positions of power (Minister of Labour under the royal dictatorship, Minister of Arts under the pro-communist Petru Groza government, etc.). Ralea was also called “the moralist without morals”, and the compromises he made – manifested through his adherence to anti-democratic regimes – can be documented by numerous archival documents. Due to strong political connections, Ralea survived in the high ranks of cultural bureaucracy even during cultural Stalinism. He maintained important positions both at the University of Bucharest and with humanities research institutes of the post-1948 Soviet-style Romanian Academy of Sciences. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he also gained posi-tions of international cultural representation with the Romanian branch of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNES-CO) and the Romanian Institute for the Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (IRRCS, the Romanian VOKS). His survival (as a professor of psychology after 1948) had a significant price – Ralea’s collaboration with the Stalinist regime. Using open sources and also newly declassified archival documents, the article is an attempt to approach M. Ralea’s case of survival in the high cultural bureaucracy in the East European context.

On October 4—7, 2021, the world's first World Congress of School History Teachers was held in Moscow. The initiative to hold the Congress came from the Academy of the Ministry of Education of Russia, the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the All-Russian Public Organization “Association of Teachers of History and Social Studies” and the State Academic University for the Humanities. The European Association of History Teachers “Euroclio” acted as a co-organizer of the Congress. During the Plenary session of the Congress and 7 sections, Russian and foreign history teachers discussed the most pressing issues of pedagogical practice: the experience of creating concepts for teaching history at school in different countries, issues of the correlation of national and world history in school curricula, the feasibility of dividing the educational process into basic and advanced levels, problems and prospects of the distance form of teaching history in schools, the format and structure of modern school textbooks. Special attention was paid to the discussion of teaching the history of the Second World War in different countries of the world and the history of revolutions. Also during the work of the Congress, the IV Congress of Russian History Teachers was held. Within the framework of the congress, the participants discussed topical issues and problems of teaching history in Russian secondary schools: expanding ties and exchange of experience between teachers from different regions of Russia, experience and further prospects for the introduction of the Historical and Cultural Standard as part of the concept of teaching history at school, issues of synchronization of national and of general history in the school curriculum, improvement of evaluation procedures in history, methodological support and development of programs for teaching regional history as part of the course of national history.

This article represents a fragment of the author's doctoral dissertation Serbian Music at the Crossroads of the East and the West? On the Dialogue between the Traditional and the Modern in Serbian Music between the Two World Wars (the review of the thesis see on www.newsound.org.yu, issue No 24). The thesis (mentor: prof. Dr Mirjana Veselinovic-Hofman) was defended at the Faculty of Music, Belgrade, on January 2004. A revised text of the dissertation is forthcoming, in an edition of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The article describes the creative orientation of composers Miloje Milojevic, Petar Konjovic and Josip Slavenski as the key figures of the epoch, indicates their choices of an Eastern or Western orientation, and explains the antagonism between the poetics of the "Europeans" and the representatives of avant-garde trends. The topicality of the East-West dichotomy in the critical consciousness of the protagonist of this period is marked as one of the main and the most important dilemma of the polemical context of the Serbian art after the World War I. Conducted from standpoints "Pro et Contra Europe", East-West discussion was also the part of the debate of Serbian national art's development strategy in the new, modern epoch of its history.

Dear Readers, As we begin a new year full of potential and opportunity, we wish each of you much joy and success. As we embark on this journey, we al-so celebrate a significant milestone – the fifteenth anniversary of the European Journal of Geography. Over the past decade and a half, our journal has become a beacon of excellence in the field of geography and the social sciences. This journey has been characterised by unwavering commitment and tireless dedication, a collective endeavour led by the dedicated members of our editorial team and the European Association of Geographers (EUROGEO). Their diligence and passion have been instrumental in making our journal the respected publication it is today. Looking back on our shared history, we are proud to have published over 310 articles dealing with key topics in geography, planning and development. 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The article informs that Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytskyi was born in the family of famous Ukrainian public and political figures Pavlo Lysiak and Milena Rudnytska. His childhood and youth were spent in Lviv, where he graduated from gymnasium and studied at the university. The outlook of the future historian and teacher was formed under the influence of the traditions of Western European liberalism. It is emphasised that I. Lysiak-Rudnytskiy always took part in public life. He collaborated with the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences and Arts in the USA and was an active member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Canada. He also showed himself as a talented journalist. Throughout his life, he contributed to Ukrainian emigration periodical publications, in particular, the newspaper «Ukrainska Pravda» and the magazine «Zustrichi, he was also an employee of «Suchasnosti». Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytskiy is the author of about 200 scientific works on the new and modern history of Ukraine, the formation of the modern Ukrainian nation and Ukrainian political thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. The article analyzes such of his works as «Intellectual beginnings of new Ukraine» (1958), «The Fourth Universal and its ideological predecessors» (1968, 1977), «Notes on the problem of “historical” and “non-historical” nations» (1981), «The political opinion of Ukrainian sub-Soviet dissidents» (1981) and others. It was found that the historian expressed original opinions about the ancient and new history of Ukraine and put forward an original analytical scheme for Ukrainian nation-building. He substantiated the thesis about the «breaks», «dying and reviving» of the Ukrainian nation. At the same time, the researcher proposed to distinguish between the concept of the people as an ethnic unit and the nation as a political entity. The people are the basis for the formation of the nation. The scientist understood the content and essence of Ukrainian history as the interaction of the people and the nation. National revival of the 19th century. the scientist considered it as the beginning of the final, modern phase of the formation of the Ukrainian nation, after the princely and Cossack ones. It is noted that in his works, the professor demonstrated exceptional erudition in various humanitarian fields and examined the problems of the Ukrainian people’s past against the backdrop of world history, taking into account the methodological arsenal of Western historical science, which he masterfully possessed. It is stated that the philosophical depth and relevance of the topics, which balance «between history and politics», have assigned an important role to the works of I. Lysiak-Rudnytsky in historical science. Keywords Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky, historian-emigrant, publicist, educator.

The paper reflects on the mental dependency syndrome that continues to afflict governance and academic leadership in African countries, and as such authoritatively African epistemology remains virtually invisible at all levels of musical arts education in the continent. Northern hemispheric knowledge paradigms implanted by Colonial education schemes remain emphasized. Consequently, the mentality of African elites remains subtly enslaved under the firm manipulation of the North. As such, political independence with mental dependence is the vogue in African nations. The paper argues that the epistemological validity of indigenous African musical arts could help redeem the cultural knowledge amnesia resulting from continued over-dependence on hegemonic knowledge episteme. African learners and students are compelled to view, study, research and discuss African musical arts with European-American cultural-mental lenses as a result of speculative literature that misrepresent African mental genius. The fundamental spirituality connections of indigenous musical arts epistemology that informs the humanity- buttressed African indigenous philosophical ideals and theoretical formulations are tendered. African musical arts educators are then urged to aspire for the virtue of originality in disciplinary representations; to mobilize selves and government authorities to visibly muster pride of cultural integrity; to factually research, discern, teach and practice their prodigious but misunderstood human-intellectual wisdoms. Research orientation and methodology have always marked African indigenous knowledge inventions, practices and intra- as well as inter-cultural advancement. Pointers briefly offered on attaining Africa-sensed, education orientations that respect the primary authority of indigenous practitioners discuss issues of research that touch on library research, mental attitude, field equipment and theory, and sampled an extra curricular intervention practice. The reward is ability to discern African theoretical and philosophical principles basic for inter- cultural discourse. The conclusion is on the meaning and practice of inter-culturism, which in traditional Africa cherished the humanity ideal of sharing. Contemporary Africans need the spirit and practice of sharing, inculcated by indigenous musical arts principles, to achieve mutual benefits in inter-personal/cultural aspirations in educational and other societal practices.

Since the end of February 2022, Ukrainian science experienced significant disruption caused by the full-scale war launched by the Russian Federation against Ukraine. As has often been the case in the history of armed conflicts, they have significantly affected various areas of culture, art and science, including ethnomusicology and its subject of research. The exodus of scholars within the country and abroad, the relocation and risk of destruction of archives, the more difficult condition for work in the field due to the martial law, the reduction of state funding in the fields of science and education, and, at the same time, the growing demand of society for traditional culture and the emergence of new initiatives to protect and preserve Ukrainian heritage — all these facts create new realities to which researchers have to adapt and within which they have to find new approaches to scientific activity. The experience of similar crises in other countries, as well as the experience of preserving archives in general, can be very useful for domestic science. Therefore, with the beginning of the war, institutions, foundations and associations from European countries, the USA and Canada began to actively offer their help in preserving Ukraine’s cultural heritage. The forced migration of researchers also brought a number of advantages, namely the strengthening of international contacts, the acquisition of work experience in foreign institutions by Ukrainian scientists, the presentation of domestic science to colleagues from other countries and thus the popularization of Ukrainian culture in the world. Throughout the war, Ukrainian researchers — musicologists and cultural activists — took part in the scientific and creative processes of various institutions in Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Canada, the USA, and other countries. The author of the article examines the history and principles of the organization and preservation of the Sound archive of the Institute of Ethnomusicology of the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana), having the opportunity to work directly with this collection as a forcibly resettled researcher. The article gives a brief overview of the history of the Institute as the most important ethnomusicological center of Slovenia, examines the activities of key personalities of the Institute, their role in the history of the Institute and the archive, the approaches to collecting and studying the traditional music of Slovenes and outlines the current directions of work with the digital archive. Based on these facts, a comparison is made with traditional music archives in Ukraine and an assessment is given of the possibilities of incorporating the considered methods of organization and data storage into work with domestic collections of musical folklore, taking into account the urgency of such measures in times of increased risk of loss of cultural heritage due to the war.

The "Atlas" facade of 1788, proposed by architect Etienne-Louis Boullée for the Bibliothèque du Roi in Paris, has long been regarded as a spectacular yet enigmatic work. This essay identifies the giant globe, supported by two muscular atlantes, flanking the library's main portal as an actual object, drawn more or less to scale, made by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli for Louis XIV in 1683. Along with a terrestrial globe of equally astonishing dimensions, the celestial globe was housed in the Bibliothèque du Roi for most of the eighteenth century. The fate of these globes was intertwined with the specific development of the Bibliothèque du Roi, as well as with the general emergence of "library," "museum," and "academy" as modern institutions of publicly held knowledge. By foregrounding the celestial globe, Boullée not only celebrated le siècle de Louis-le-Grand but also signaled the major contributions made by Babylon, Chaldea, and Egypt to Greek astronomy and to Western thought as a whole. Raphael's School of Athens, a painting to which Boullée's interior view of the Bibliothèque du Roi famously referred, had made a similar point about the potent blend of Eastern occult wisdom and European scientific methods through the memorable motif of globes. The approach here is iconographic. The symbols of the "Atlas" façade serve as a point of departure for examining the representational systems of the fine arts and the observational sciences and lead ultimately to a school of "universal" knowledge that was built into Boullée's vision of this library.

ABSTRAKT Celem artykułu jest omówienie zbioru fotografii naukowych Karola Lanckorońskiego (1848-1933) w kontekście jego znaczenia do badań z zakresu sztuki sakralnej renesansu włoskiego. Zbiór ów obecnie przechowywany w Fototece Lanckorńskich Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności (PAU) stanowi przykład światowej klasy kolekcji fotografii. Przyrównywany bywa do najsłynniejszych tego typu zbiorów, w tym fototeki Bernarda Berensona weFlorencji. Mimo to dopiero od niedawna rozpoczęto systematyczne prace nad inwentaryzacją oraz opracowaniem naukowym całej kolekcji. Hrabia Karol Lanckoroński-znany miłośnik sztuki, mecenas, kolekcjoner i badacz przeszłości stworzył zbiór liczący pierwotnie około 120 tysięcy odbitek. Według obecnych szacunków Fototeka Lanckorońskich PAU przechowuje około 45 775 obiektów. W zakres zbioru Lanckorońskiego oprócz dokumentacji podróżniczej wchodzą przede wszystkim fotografie o tematyce artystycznej poświęcone sztuce światowej, a szczególnie europejskiej od antyku po wiek XIX. Jak wynika ze wstępnego przebadania zbioru dominują w nim reprodukcje dzieł sztuki renesansu włoskiego, w szczególności o tematyce sakralnej. Na łamach artykułu dokonano ogólnej charakterystyki zbioru pod względem tematycznym, wskazano funkcje, które zbiór ów pełnił w czasach swego powstania, w dalszej kolejności zaś podkreślono wagę kolekcji dla współczesnych badań humanistycznych, przede wszystkim historyczno-artystycznych. SUMMARY The aim of the article is to discuss Karol Lanckoroński’s collection of scientific photographs (1848–1933) in the context of his significance to research in the sacred art of the Italian Renaissance. This collection is currently stored in the Lanckoroński’s Archive Photography of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU) is an example of a world-class photography collection. It is compared to the most famous collections of this type, for example Bernard Berenson’s Archive Photography in Florence. Nevertheless, it was only recently that systematic work was initiated on the inventory and scientific elaboration of the entire collection. Count Karol Lanckoroński – a wellknown art lover, patron, collector and researcher of the past, created a collection of originally about 120,000 prints. According tocurrent estimates, Lanckoroński’s Archive Photography of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences stores approximately 45,775 images. In addition to travel documentation, the Lanckoroński’s collection includes primarily artistic photography devoted to world art, especially European art from antiquity to the nineteenth century. As can be seen from the initial examination of the collection, reproductions of Italian Renaissance works of art, in particular sacral, dominate in it. The article presents the general characterization of the collection in terms of subject matter, indicates the functions that the collection held during its creation, and further emphasized the importance of the collection for contemporary humanistic research, first of all historical-artistic.

This essay was carried out in the framework of a research programme (Thesaurus Mediaevalis, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2017–2022) funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and deals with one of the most complex but hardly accessible works of the Árpád period, the former main portal of the Esztergom Cathedral, which was decorated with sculptures and inlaid marble images. It was built in the last decade of the 12th century under King Béla III (1172–1196) and survived the Turkish invasion, but its remains were destroyed during the 19th century construction works. Since then, it exists only in textual sources, depictions and museum fragments. The present work aims primarily to collect and catalogue the fragments, but also to examine the structure of this work of exceptional quality, the artistic orientation of its workshop and the content of the images. It examines questions such as the history of the construction of the building, the sculptural quality of the fragments, which European art centres are related to them (including, in addition to the dominant role of the centres in northern Italy, the Byzantine influence conveyed by the various forms of transport), the circumstances under which the artists could have arrived in the Kingdom of Hungary, the inspiration for their art, what their knowledge and the needs of their clients reveal, and whether there were any interruptions, changes of plan or new beginnings during the construction.

The article is based on the materials of the Historical and Ethnografic Atlas of the Tatar People (volume “Folk Costume”) prepared at the Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. In the pre-national period of the Tatar’s history there were many various local, ethno-confessional and other complexes of costume. Its formation was closely linked to the characteristic properties of the complex ethno-cultural history of the local groups of Tatars (the Kazan Tatars, the Mishar Tatars, and the Christian Tatars or Kryashens), as well as their religion (Islam, Christianity, Heathenism). In the late 19th – early 20th centuries, during the development of economic and cultural communications between Tatars of Russia’s separate regions, the common national Tatar costume was formed. City traditions of the Kazan Tatars have lie at the core of its formation. These traditions were distinguished by the style of a costume tendency to change – from archaic monumental national forms to more refined, corresponding to directions of the all-European fashion of that time. The “secondary folklore forms” characterize the present stage of transformation of the Tatar national costume as a whole – the aspiration of professionals to use national traditions in professional culture (graphic, arts and crafts arts, theatre, scenic folklore, modern modeling, museum expositions as a symbol of reconstruction of ethnic identity). Several trends present folk costume traditions in the modern festive culture of the Volga-Ural Tatars: the ethnographic (authentic) Tatar costume; the folkloristic (neo-folklore) variation of traditional costume; the so-called symbolical national sign the avant-garde costume. As the element of the ethnic culture, the national costume is the most important related to the individual. It represents a symbolical sign-category, an original social-cultural code and transmits the ethnic information from the past to the future.

AbstractArtificial Organs 2000 Satellite Symposium of European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO) was organized by the Macedonian Society for Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Artificial Organs (MSNDTAO) and the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA) on November 25-26, 2000 on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Department of Nephrology of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, R. Macedonia.The main topics of this symposium were: Blood-purification techniques, Artificial Kidney, Metabolic- and Cardiac-Assist Systems as well as Biomaterials to be used for Artificial Organs.H. Klinkmann (Glasgow, United Kingdom), D. Falkenhagen (Krems, Austria), U. Baurmeister (Wuppertal, Germany), V. Bonomini, S. Stefoni (Bologna, Italy), R. Vanholder (Ghent, Belgium), S. Stiller (Aachen, Germany), H. Mann, H. Melzer (Aachen, Germany), J. Pop-Jordanov, N. Pop-Jordanova (Skopje, R. Macedonia), B. Stegmayr (Umea, Sweden), M. Mydlik, K. Derzisova, O. Racz, A. Sipulova, J. Boldizsar, E. Lovasova, M. Hribikova (Kosice, Slovak Republic), A. Jörres (Berlin, Germany), M. Polenakovic (Skopje, R. Macedonia), J. Vienken (Bad Homburg, Germany), S. Bowry (Bad Homburg, Germany), E. Piskin (Ankara, Turkey), J. Klinkmann, W. Schimmelpfennig, H. Lantow, W. Rigger. (Teterow, Germany), A. Sikole (Skopje, R. Macedonia), A. Oncevski, P. Dejanov, V. Gerasimovska, M. Polenakovic (Skopje, R. Macedonia), J. Wojcicki (Warsaw, Poland), K. Affeld (Berlin, Germany), G. Rakhorst et al. (Groningen, The Netherlands), Z. Mitrev (Skopje, R. Macedonia), S. Kedev, G. Guagliumi, O. Valsecchi, M. Tespili (Skopje, R. Macedonia, Bergamo, Italy) have presented their papers at the Symposium. The presentations provoked a fruitful discussion and it was concluded that they should be published.The papers were published in the International Journal of Artificial Organs of the European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO) as a special issue on “Artificial Organs 2000 ESAO Satellite Symposium -Skopje, R. Macedonia”, Guest Editors: M. H. Polenakovic, Skopje and J. Vienken, Bad Homburg; Vol. 25, No. 5, 2002.

Ancient, Byzantine and Macedonian Epic Poetry in the Book The Shadow of King Marko. Book review: Vitomir Mitevski (2017). The Shadow of King Marko: Ancient, Byzantine and Macedonian Epic Poetry. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, SkopjeThe book The Shadow of King Marko by prof. V. Mitevski can be perceived as some kind of a mental reflection on a very complex topic that treats Indo-European, Byzantine and Macedonian tradition. Such is this work, complex, extensively analytic, sometimes synthetic, particularly in the introductory parts that present the paths of the research process, but also in the conclusions that are expressed through numerous analytical passages. Main hypotheses are consequentially formed, derived and proven. Author’s style, short sentence period, clearly formulated idea, enable the reader to easily follow the complex topics. This book is clearly scientific per se. It can be listed among numerous literal-critical and literal-historical studies that originated since the ancient times, in the era of sophists, peripatetics and Alexandrian philosophers, but also in the new-age philological, systematic and scientific, classical studies. This book, beyond any doubt, can be an inspiring reading not only for the classical philologists, but also for the large number of experts in the field of humanistic sciences, Slavicists, neohellenists, ethnologists, folklorists, historians, byzantologists etc. The Shadow of King Marko is casted way back in the space and time, and there is a good chance that the shadow of this book will be casted a long way in the future. Античката, византиската и македонската епска поезија во делото „Сенката на Марко Крале„ Резиме: Vitomir Mitevski (2017). The Shadow of King Marko: Ancient, Byzantine and Macedonian Epic Poetry. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, SkopjeКнигата на проф. В. Митевски, „Сенката на Марко Крале„, може да се доживее како своевиден ментален одблесок на една мошне сложена тема која се занимава со индоевропската, византиската и македонската епска традиција. Такво е и ова дело, комплексно, аналитичко во најголем степен, напати синтетичко, најчесто во воведните делови кога се навестуваат линиите на истражувањето, но и во заклучоците кои проблеснуваат низ бројните аналитички пасажи. Главните тези се консекветно формулирани, изведени и докажани. Стилот на авторот, кусата реченична периода, јасно формулираната мисла, овозможува лесно да се следат комплексните теми. Ова дело е бездруго научно – per sе. Тоа се придружува на бројните книжевно-критички и книжевно-историски студии кои настанале уште во антиката, во времето на софистите, перипатетичарите и александриските филолози, но и на нововековните филолошки, систематски и научни, класични студии. Бездруго, оваа книга може да биде инспиративно четиво не само за класичните филолози, туку и за голем број на стручњаци од областа на хуманистичките науки, слависти, неохеленисти, етнолози, фолклористи, историчари, византолози и т.н. „Сенката на Марко Крале„ се протега далеку наназад во времето и просторот, но и сенката на оваа книга има изгледи да се протега далеку нанапред. Antyczna, bizantyjska, i macedońska poezja epicka w monografii Cień Marka Królewicza. Recenzja książki: Vitomir Mitevski (2017). The Shadow of King Marko: Ancient, Byzantine and Macedonian Epic Poetry. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, SkopjeMonografię Vitomira Mitevskiego, Cień Marka Królewicza, można traktować jako swego rodzaju odblask mentalny pewnego bardzo złożonego tematu, który jest powiązany z indoeuropejską, bizantyjską i macedońską tradycją. To samo można powiedzieć o samej monografii, kompleksowej, w najwyższym stopniu analitycznej, a zarazem mającej ambicje syntetyczne, widoczne zwłaszcza we wprowadzeniu do każdego rozdziału i w podsumowaniach wieńczących liczne passusy analityczne. Formułowane konsekwentnie główne tezy książki zostały przedstawione i poparte dowodami. Także styl wywodu autora, charakteryzujący się krótkimi zdaniami jasno formułującymi myśl, pozwala [czytelnikowi] na łatwe śledzenie tematu głównego. Jest to książka naukowa per se. Te [cechy] charakteryzują liczne studia krytyczno-literackie i historyczno-literackie od starożytności, w czasach Sofistów, perypatetyków i Aleksandryskiej szkoły filologicznej aż po czasy studiów klasycznych, filologicznych i naukowych. Prezentowana książka, bez wątpienia może być inspirującą lekturą nie tylko dla filologów klasycznych, ale także dla wielu specjalistów z dziedziny nauk humanistycznych, slawistów, neogrecystów, etnologów, folklorystów, historyków, bizantologów itd. Cień Marka Królewicza sięga daleko w przeszłość czasów i przestrzeni, ale cień tej książki ma szansę sięgnąć także daleko w przyszłość.

The article examines the materials and constructional features of ten silver seals of the Doge of Venice originating from the collection of Academician Nikolai Petrovich Likhachev (1862—1936) and kept at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Addressing to this collection is justified and logical, since Nikolai Likhachev was the founder of sphragistics in Russia, and his collection played a special role in the formation of this auxiliary historical discipline. The silver seals stand out from the entire set of Western European seals due to their unusual construction, which has no analogues in Western European sigillography. They are made like hollow silver boxes, filled with a unknown substance. Optical microscopy in reflected light, X-ray fluorescence analysis and FTIR spectroscopy were used for technological analysis. X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) showed that the box was made of copper-silver alloy (Ag 94.5—83.55 %) in various percentages with minor admixtures of Zn, Pb, Fe, Ni, Au. Three seals contain Hg (up to 3 %). However, visual inspection did not confirm the version of amalgamation, as there are no characteristic rubbings. This question requires further investigation. FTIR spectroscopy of one of the specimens revealed that the specimen was not composed of resin, as the organoleptic analysis would suggest, but of beeswax, which had reacted with the metal, resulting in the formation of salts of free fatty acids contained in the wax. Finally, it was found that the design of three of the ten seals did not allow them to be securely attached to the document. Thus, these seals did not perform their main function — protection against forgery. This fact, combined with the more difficult technique compared to others, may explain the rarity of seals of this construction.

This article deals with one of the main directions of research of T. S. Bayer (1694—1738), the first orientalist at the Russian Academy of Sciences. His interest in Tibetan and Mongolian writings was formed several years before his arrival in St. Petersburg, but it was instigated mainly by the sources connected with Russia. In the 1720s, two preliminary works by Bayer on this topic were published, one of them containing a translation of a text related to the ritual practice of Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism, the first one in the history of European science. After moving to Russia, Bayer got the opportunity to publish a three-graphic syllabary that had been brought from Siberia by D. G. Messerschmidt (1685—1735) and contained a full set of letters and ligatures of the Indian Rañjana (Lañtsa) script, Tibetan and Mongolian alphabets. The circumstances of the acquaintance of the two scholars had a tragic connotation for Messerschmidt, who was deprived of the right to deal with the collections he himself brought to Saint Petersburg, and, nevertheless, their relationship was not hostile. This is confirmed by some materials from Bayer’s personal collection, presently kept at the Glasgow University Library, in particular his copy of a small Tibetan syllabary which seems to have been provided to him by Messerschmidt (the autograph is lost). This manuscript is published in the appendix to the article.

The article examines the preservation of historical memory in Russian cities of the 18th century. The sources of the study are the answers to historical questions received from the provincial offices, to the questionnaires of the Office of Heraldry (1720s), the Academy of Sciences (1760s) and the Land Gentry Corps (1760s). The geographical scope of the study is limited to the European part of the Russian Empire with an emphasis on the study of ideas about the medieval past in ancient Russian cities. The analysis of these materials demonstrates the weak historical knowledge of clerks. Written evidence of the city's past has been lost in most archives. The memory of the Tatar raids and the devastation of cities during the Time of Troubles was transmitted through oral traditions and stories of old people. In most cities, the respondents did not remember the wars of the past years, and those who mentioned the sieges of the city by the enemy found it difficult to say when it was. In contrast to the oblivion of the events of secular history, the memory of the history of the church, the time and circumstances of the founding of temples and monasteries was much better preserved. As a result, among the historical figures, the rulers who ordered the cathedrals to be built, as well as venerated local saints.

A conference titled ‘Old and New Heroes of History: Nation States in Quest for Identity’ was held on the 8th of February 2024, at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO). It was organized by the Center of the Indo-Pacific region of IMEMO. The conference Chief-moderators were Semenenko I.S., Corresponding Member of the RAS, Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Head of Centre for Comparative Socioeconomic and Political Studies, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of IMEMO and Prokhorenko I.L. Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Head of the Sector for International Organizations and Global Political Governance, Department for International Political Problems, IMEMO. The questions under analysis included the following points: the features and key directions of identity politics of various states of the world, the role and significance of identity conflict in world politics, rethinking the heritage of the past and the search for new ‘heroes’ for modern societies. The discussion was focused on the role of identity personifiers and the study of identity conflict in the context of the formation of a polycentric world. The speakers were as follows: Semenenko I.S. and Prokhorenko I.L. addressed the plenary meeting; staff members of IMEMO: the Center of the Indo-Pacific region– Head of the Center Cand. Sci. (Hist.) Kupriyanov A.V., Junior Research Fellow Makarevich G.G., Senior Research Assistant Kosareva E.S., Cand. Sci. (Polit. Sci.) Research Fellow Terskikh M.A., Junior Research Fellow Zaitsev I.A., Cand. Sci. (Polit Sci.) Research Fellow Lomova A.A., Turayanova L.T.; staff members of the Center for Middle East Studies – Research Fellow Ibragimov I.E. and Junior Research Fellow Guzhev I.A.; staff members of the Center for Development and Modernization Studies – Research Fellows Arabadzhyan A.Z. and Karamaev S.G.; staff member of the Center for European Studies Cand. Sci. (Hist.) Research Fellow Podchasov N.A. Fellows of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences delivered their speech: Cand. Sci. (Econ.) Leading Researcher of the Center for Middle East Countries Studies Arabadzhyan Z.A., members of the Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania: Cand. Sci. (Hist.), Academic Secretary of the Center Senior Researcher Astafieva E.M., Cand. Sci. (Econ.) Leading Researcher of the Center and the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of RAS Popov A.V., staff members of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Research Fellows of the Center for Vietnam and ASEAN Studies Burova E.S., Kucherenko G.N., Shaternikov P.S., Research Fellow of the Center for the Study of Contemparary History of China and Its Relations with Russia Voloshina A.V.; staff members of the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (IAS RAS): Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies Cand. Sci. (Hist.) Leading Researcher Denisova T.S., Head of the Center for Southern Africa Studies Cand. Sci. (Hist.) Senior Research Fellow Tokarev A.A., Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Southern Africa Studies Cand. Sci. (Hist.) Cand. Sci. (Hist. of Arts) Skubko Y.S., Junior Researcher Nesterova E.S., Senior Research Fellow of the Center for History and Cultural Anthropology Cand. Sci. (Hist.) Associate Professor of the Department of General History, P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University (YarSU) Khokholkova N.E., YarSU students and staff members Cand. Sci. (Hist.) Associate Professor of the Department of Regional Studies and Tourism Savin D.A., Professor and Doct. Sci. (Hist.), Professor of the Department of General History Gavristova T.M., post-graduate student of the Department of General History of YarSU, history teacher of the Municipal educational institution ‘Nekrasov Secondary school No. 4 with in-depth study of the English language’ of Yaroslavl city Tsvetkov E.G., Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN) staff member – Senior Research Fellow of the Center for History and Cultural Anthropology of the Department of Internal Political Research Cand. Sci. (Hist.) Vorobiev D.N.; staff member of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Cand. Sci. (Hist.) Associate Professor of the Department of American studies of the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Foreign Regional Studies RSUH Panov A.S. and Master’s student of the Department of Theory and History of Humanities, Institute of Philology and History of RSUH Grebneva N.I.; and master's student of the MGIMO University Kupalov-Yaropolk A.I. The review of the conference materials was compiled by the staff members of the Center of the Indo-Pacific region of IMEMO Cand. Sci. (Polit. Sci.) Research Fellow Lomova A.A. (lomova.dip@list.ru, ORCID: 0009-0004-3178-7480) and Junior Research Fellow Shirgazina E.R. (e.shirgazina8@imemo.ru, ORCID: 0000-0001-7715-2991) and Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Modernization Studies Karamaev S.G. (tiomkin@imemo.ru, ORCID: 0000-0001-5137-3948).

The aim of this research is to examine the public policy influences on academic investigations that contain a substantial convergence among human resource management–industrial relations and corporate social responsibility–stakeholder approach by means of using bibliometric and content analyses of relevant publications in the Scopus and ScienceDirect databases. Totally, 160 publications were subject to bibliometric, cluster, and summative content analyses. In this context, this study claims that public policy in the EU influences academic investigations and scholars. The investigation draws attention to the importance of active participation of different public institutions and key stakeholders (e.g., trade unions, works councils, academic associations) that prepare a basis for collaboration, solidarity, and communication for strengthening EU social model, social dialogue, collective bargaining, and the protection of social rights. The research findings illuminate the fact that European public policies have significant effects on shaping and encouraging investigations that are considered within the scope of IR–HRM and CSR–SA. One of the most crucial recommendations of this study is that the investigations which are out of this framework can be considered quite idealistic. Therefore, researchers may attempt to publish more scientific investigations in frame of IR–HRM and CSR–SA to enhance the comprehensiveness and depth of these two clusters.

In the early modern period, the relentless growth in the copies of printed books and the increasing competition between craftsmen meant that, since the invention of Gutenberg until the 19th century, European bookbinders were forced to look for cheaper and quicker binding techniques. Based on this assumption, the article focuses on some of the bindings of books printed from the middle of the 16th until the middle of the 17th century which belonged to the library of Vilnius Jesuit Academy. This study is part of a broader research on the bindings of the Vilnius Jesuit Academy Library, and the article is limited to two groups of sources: books printed in Italy and books printed in the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). The historical bindings are discussed by following the approach targeting the field of decorative arts and material culture studies, which is also well known as the ‘archaeology’ of the book or the bookbinding. It focuses not only on the decorative features of the cover of the book, but also on the structural features of the bindings which reveal comprehensively the work of the craftsmen of the past. This method of analysis is particularly useful for discussing not only decorated but also undecorated bindings which have so far received very limited attention in the research of the old Lithuanian book. As a result, the research revealed that the modest parchment bindings form nearly a half of all the examined bindings of the collection, and confirm the practical rather than the representational aspect of the Jesuit Library. According to the complexity of the technical execution and the number of operations involved in the process of binding, five binding techniques have been distinguished, ranging from the most complex to the simplest bindings, closely related with a retail bindings. What is more, a consistent number of parchment bindings are denoted by structural features, which is close to the Italian bookbinding tradition. The predominance of the latter in the group of Italian prints makes it possible to consider the possibility of already bound books entering the library of Vilnius Jesuit Academy. Moreover, the research has revealed certain binding features linked to the bookbinding traditions in Italy and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Are entrepreneurs born or made on campus? This is one of the most frequent questions in the literature about student entrepreneurship. The field of study about career anchors is one of the most investigated factors, and it is widely recognized that entrepreneurship education should be expanded beyond economics faculties and business schools. The purpose of this paper is to present the process of designing and delivering a cross-campus Entrepreneurship course customized on varied non-economic fields of study (engineering, mathematics, nature sciences, health, social sciences, humanities, and arts) and tailored to the local business environment developed in an integrated manner in the package with two other courses: Career coaching and Life skills. The courses were developed within a project financed by the European Social Fund - "Entrepreneur for the Future" (AntreV), from 2019-2021. Upon completion of the AntreV project, the developed courses were integrated into the curricula of the 14 faculties of the University of X, Romania (as optional or facultative courses) starting from the academic year 2021-2022. The paper provides an innovative approach to cross-campus entrepreneurship education, specifically on course design and delivery, that integrates education for entrepreneurship with career coaching and life skills education.

The article’s purpose is to publish interesting and significant archival materials, introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, namely: Biographical Data, Recorded from O. L. Kulchytska in September 1–3 1947 in the Sanatorium “Syniak” in Transcarpathia; Olena Kulchytska’s Autobiography of the 1940s old and an excerpt from a S. Butnyk-Siverskyi’s archival encyclopedic entry about his participation in Olena Kulchytska’s exhibitions up to and including 1947, accompanied by an introductory article and commentary. These archival documents will be interesting and useful in further research of creative biographies of the mistresses. The materials are stored at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and are published with keeping to authorial style, spelling, and punctuation with minor correcting. The creation of the sisters Olena Lvivna Kulchytska (1877–1967) and Olha-Melaniia Lvivna (1873–1940) Kulchytska occupies a prominent, significant place in the history of domestic art and organically fits into the context of European art. Natural talent, intelligence, brilliant knowledge of their craft, artistic taste, ability to emanate their own refined and unique world, their attitudes to art, dignity of soul and intentions – these are the features that were inherent in both sisters. The range of Olena Kulchytska’s creative heritage is wide and well-known among specialists, educated public, and admirers of fine arts. The artist successfully worked in various kinds of art: graphic art, painting, and applied arts. A gifted draftsman, watercolourist, aquafortist, and illustrator, in particular of children’s books, it is she who is associated with the revival of woodcutting and linocutting techniques in domestic art. Olena Kulchytska worked in the portraiture, genre painting, landscape painting, as well as in the genre of religious painting (she created a unique iconostasis); she was engaged in art weaving, modelling and designing of clothes, furniture, and architectural décor. In addition, she made sketches for ceramics and carpets. Known for her wonderful enamels, the mistress also worked in the fields of metal, small-scale sculpture, and jewellery. Olena Kulchytska devoted a lot of time to teaching and ethnography. Her intense exhibition activity is also impressive. Olha Kulchytska is a renowned mistress of decorative and applied arts, a carpet weaver; she was also engaged in pedagogical practice. Together with her sister, she created distinguished works of carpet art. Certainly, the archival materials now published should greatly complement creative biographies of the mistresses, mostly Olena Kulchytska, with new details.

The studies on book culture and the functioning of various libraries have been present in academic circle for many decades. For obvious reasons the interest in books among the illustrious members of Radziwiłł magnate family as well as their scope of activity as the patrons of culture have been analyzed by historians. In the context, the history of the famous Radziwiłł library in Nesvizh can be considered as a separate research topic. This magnificent collection was confiscated after the first partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1772) by order of Empress Catherine the Great. Some 15.000 volumes were transported to Saint Petersburg and offered to the Russian Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts (later Russian Academy of Sciences).Nicolas Radziwiłł the Black (1515–1565) is considered to be the founder of the Nesvizh library; however, its full development can be dated back to the time of Nicholas Christopher Radziwiłł “the Orphan” (1549–1616), who rebuilt the ducal palace and organized a library in one of the specially adopted rooms. The Nesvizh collection has been enriched by numerous donations, including that of cardinal and bishop of Vilnius George Radziwiłł (1556–1600), Sigismund Charles Radziwiłł (1591–1642), and many other members ofthe family.The presented catalogue was compiled under the request of Duke Alexander Louis Radziwiłł. This magnate, born in 1594 as a son of Nicolas Christopher Radziwiłł and Elisabeth Eufemia née Wiśniowiecka, received a most privileged education. In 1610 he began his studies in Germany then traveled throughout Germany, France and Italy. He returned to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by the end of 1620, but in 1624 he left for Italy again, this time in the company of Prince Vladislas Vasa. In summer 1625 he again returned to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but soon was totally immersed in political life. Thanks to family connections he advanced his career very fast, becoming in the court marshal of Lithuania in 1635, and grand marshal of Lithuania only two years later. In December 1652 he went to Italy again and died in Bologna March 30, 1654. The manuscript catalogue of the library of Alexander Louis Radziwiłł is currently preserved in the Kórnicka Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Ms BK 1320). It contains of two parts. The first of them (f. 1–25r), compiled according to subjects, was written down in April 1651, then second one (f. 26r–46v), compiled alphabetically – in May and June this year. The catalogues are not identical. The first part, divided into classes, is more comprehensive than the second one (alphabetical). The catalogue was composed by John Hanowicz, mayor of Nesvezh. The manuscript has been marked with the ex-libris of the Radziwiłł library (Ex Bibliotheca Radivilliana Ducali Nesvisiensi) and pressmark (Loc. X, No 17). Hanowicz did not state usually the information about the place and year of publication, which makes the precise identification of the books very difficult. Therefore, one can only predict the exact number of the books (and volumes) preserved in the Nesvezh library at that time. It also happened that Hanowicz stated a title of this same book in both versions: once in the original Latin version and then in (abbreviated) Polish form. Among items included the catalogue one can also find manuscripts, maps, drawings and landed estate documents. Most the books were bound with white or red leather, less frequently with green, cherish, orange or red colored leather, and seldom with morocco leather or paper. The bibliographical descriptions provided in the footnotes should be considered only as suggestions, for only direct analysis of a given book (in visu) allows one to identify and link a book with the Radziwiłł Library. Some of the most precious books were kept in the castle treasury. The Nesvizh collections included also musical pieces, e.g. the libretto (?) of the first opera – Il ratto di Helena – performed on September 4th, 1636, in the theater of the lower ducal castle in Vilnius. The music of the famous opera was composed by an anonymous author, but the libretto was produced by Virgilio Puccitelli.The significance of the magnate families (e.g. that of the Radziwiłłs or the Sapiehas) as promoters and patrons of fine arts and literature was enormous and hard to over-estimate in the history of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A further and detailed study on the content of the Nesvizh library of Duke Alexander Louis Radziwiłł in 1651 gives one the opportunity to present in full and broad contexts a truly European library collection of Baroque culture in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

In 2023 Problemy Ekorozwoju/ Problems of Sustainable Development turned 18, entering adulthood one could say. The journal debuted on January 1, 2006 as a philosophical journal published only in Polish. From 2008 we begun to publish papers also in English and soon decided to publish only in English. The scope of the journal was expanded and we begun to be multidisciplinary, publishing papers from the humanities, economics and technical sciences (especially environmental engineering).We have always, however, been devoted to sustainable development problematics. Our wider approach offers a chance for Polish scientists to present their research in an international journal (also from the field of humanities, where there are fewer possibilities for international presentations) to foreign scholars and vice versa. Since there are no fees, the journal also is more accessible for scientists from poorer countries. So far we have published 36 numbers (18 issues) with almost 700 scientific papers. From 2010 the journal has been fully indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus. The current IF is 1.1 (in the previous year it was 0.864). Other metrics include: CiteScore (Scopus): 1.9, highest percentile: 57%, Index Copernicus Value ICV: 148.59 and SJR Scimago Journal & Country Rank h-Index: 21. Over the last few years one could observe improvement in all of our international parameters. We have always been an Open Access journal. In recent years we introduced DOI numbers, Open Access Statement and Copyright Rights, Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement. Soon we will also be visible in the Journal Checker Tool. From this number we are introducing Open Journal System (OJS). Currently the journal has the patronage of the European Academy of Science and Arts (Salzburg, Austria). The publisher is and has always been the Lublin University of Technology (Lublin, Poland).

The aim of the paper is to present the author’s observations on the publication process of the Eastern European journals on Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences indexed in international databases. As this kind of publication is a relatively new practice in this part of Europe and a lot of researchers are not well prepared for how long-lasting and time-consuming the publication process of the Scopus and Web of Science journals may be, the common steps are presented, starting with the specifics of the e-platforms used by most of the publishers. The importance of meeting the technical requirements of the particular journal is also discussed as well as the place and the role of the peer-review process in the whole procedure. The most frequent problems and challenges that editors and journals face when this step has to be completed are reported and the reasons for the current situation are presented. As peer reviewing is a crucial part of the publication process, it is analyzed in detail. Special attention is paid to the importance of the final editing and proofreading of the manuscript. Apart from all these phases of the publishing process in the prestigious journals, some other questions concerning the use of specific languages, the accessibility of the published work, and the evaluation of the academic achievements are discussed. The paper also addresses the importance of free access to resources and of the freedom to disseminate intellectual work.