ABOUT THE PROJECT

ACADEMIA is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC StG, no. 949710) led by the PI  Ota Pavlíček from the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. The project focuses on the history of European universities, in particular on quodlibets, the currently underresearched genre of debates which flourished at the Faculties of Arts of European universities from the 14th to the 17th century and which were the precursors of modern academic practice. 

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Ota Pavlíček, PI of the ACADEMIA ERC project, was awarded the 2024 Neuron Prize for promising scientists in the field of social sciences on 19 January 2025. The prestigious Neuron Prize recognises the professional achievements of Czech scientists. International Scientific Council awards prizes in seven categories […]
Dr. Lukáš Lička, a member of the TRIPTIC-EU ERC-Academia research group, took part in a series of academic lectures hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin on October 28, 2024. His lecture ‘From Oxford to Nuremberg. On the Fate of a Late Medieval Optical Treatise‘ investigated the […]
Dr. Ota Pavlíček, PI of the ERC-Academia, participated in the 9th Annual Meeting for Reading Medieval Manuscripts held in Meneou-Pervolia, Cyprus, from October 18 to 25, 2024. During the event, he delivered a paper titled “The Hierarchy of University Disciplines Based on the Dignity of Habits […]

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Meet the members of our research group TRIPTIC-EU  (Research Group for Transdisciplinary Investigation of Philosophical, Textual and Intellectual Culture in the Early Universities) at the Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Science.

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