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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The 28th SIEPM Annual Colloquium organised by the ERC-ACADEMIA within the research group TRIPTIC-EU at the Institute of Philosophy CAS, and SIEPM, one of the most prestigious academic events in medieval research, took place in Prague at the Academic Conference Centre from September 4 to 6, […]
The period of the emergence of the first universities is explored in new episodes of the podcast by the Czech Academy of Sciences, featuring historians of philosophy Ota Pavlíček and Lukáš Lička from the research group TRIPTIC-EU. They reveal how medieval scholars and their ideas traveled […]
The 5th International Consultation on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia took place on May 17, 2024. Ota Pavlíček, Lukáš Lička, Monika Mansfeld, Dan Török and Jan Škvrňák, all members of the TRIPTIC-EU research group, debated about the Central European quodlibets, the early church, medieval […]

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Our Team

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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