Collegium Artium
Encyclopedia
Collegium Artium is an independent, NGO
and non-profit
foundation promoting excellence in the field of Humanities
. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Krakow
, Poland
.
CA's key goals: to support art history
, Byzantine studies
in East-Central Europe
and developing the international scientific cooperation.
Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any government. The term originated from the United Nations , and is normally used to refer to organizations that do not form part of the government and are...
and non-profit
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
foundation promoting excellence in the field of Humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
. It was founded in 2008 and is based in Krakow
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
.
CA's key goals: to support art history
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
, Byzantine studies
Byzantine studies
Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, costumes, religion, art, such as literature and music, science, economy, and politics of the Byzantine Empire. The discipline's founder in Germany is considered to be the philologist Hieronymus...
in East-Central Europe
East-Central Europe
East-Central Europe – a term defining the countries located between German-speaking countries and Russia. Those lands are described as situated “between two”: between two worlds, between two stages, between two futures...
and developing the international scientific cooperation.
Advisory Board
- prof. Małgorzata Dąbrowska (University of Łódź)
- prof. Jerzy Miziołek (University of Warsaw)
Scientific Committee
- prof. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
) - prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak (Lviv UniversityLviv UniversityThe Lviv University or officially the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv is the oldest continuously operating university in Ukraine...
) - prof. Michel Kaplan (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- prof. Stanko Kokole (University of PrimorskaUniversity of PrimorskaUniversity of Primorska is the third university in Slovenia. It is located in Koper, Izola, and Portorož and is named for the Slovenian Littoral region , where it is located.-History:The very first efforts to found a university in the Littoral were made almost one hundred years ago,...
) - prof. Ihor ŠevčenkoIhor ŠevcenkoIhor Ševčenko was a Polish-born philologist and historian of Ukrainian origin. He died 26 December 2009 in Cambridge, MA. A memorial website, where remembrances can be posted, has been established at https://sites.google.com/site/ihorsevcenko/home...
(+) (Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
)
Directorate
- Director - Jacek Maj, Ph.D. candidate (Humboldt University of BerlinHumboldt University of BerlinThe Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...
) - Vice-Director - dr Joanna Wolańska (Istituto per le Ricerche di Storia dell'ArteIRSAIRSA primarily operates as a publishing house in the field of scholarly art historical texts. It is the publisher of the international periodical Artibus et Historiae; however, it also publishes important volumes by eminent scholars through its...
)