PRVOUK brings together researchers who have until now known each other by name ****************************************************************************************** * PRVOUK brings together researchers who have until now known each other by name ****************************************************************************************** A year ago, Charles University launched PRVOUK, a set of programmes offering scientists an the opportunity for interdisciplinary co-operation and intergenerational research teams. H was the launch of the dialogue between disciplines and generations in the programme entitl Interdisciplinary Perspective? Doc. Marie Šedivá Koldinská, a member of the programme's bo Could you briefly introduce that part of PRVOUK in which you are involved? The joint name that has been chosen, History in Interdisciplinary Perspective, was the one what was our main objective, i.e. to bring together representatives from diverse disciplin archaeology and archival studies to linguistics and art history to librarian studies. The first conferences that have been held so far have definitely shown that this interdisc can be applied with success and can be very beneficial for contemporary science and resear University's Faculty of Arts. Since we started to design the programme, we have been extremely interested in being able of mixed generations, that requirement being explicitly rooted in the very principles of P fresh experience I have from a conference on the Czech Bible shows that we have managed to colleagues in the programme. Some made a direct contribution to the conference with their others have been helpful in organizational matters and preparation of publications. We wan used to the fact that this, too, is part of science. Looking back on the past year since the programme started, what conferences have been held publications have appeared? Our colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology held a conference entitled Archaeology an brilliant idea to avoid looking only inside the academia and opening up instead. As I have mentioned, this April saw a conference entitled The Czech Bible. Cultural, Ideol Political Phenomenon Throughout the Centuries. A conference is scheduled for this autumn, Political Culture or Political Cultures in Interwar Czechoslovakia? Both these conferences publications in the form of monothematic issues of the journal History, Questions, Issues Institute of Czech History. Moreover, several important monographs have been published under the programme. Richard Bi Institute of Art History introduced a magnificent monograph Mezi barokem a klasicismem (Be and Classisicm). Prof. Martin Rychlík of the Institute of Czech History has contributed wi titled Rozdělení Československa (The Split of Czechoslovakia). Titles soon to be released effort by prof. Jan Royt and doc. Michaela Ottová of the Institute of Art History, Středov a sochařství v expozici v kostele Nanebevzetí Panny Marie v Mostě (Medieval Painting and S Display in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Most) as well as a large col Základní problémy studia raného novověku (Basic Issues in Researching Early Modern History team of authors under my leadership. The programme aspires to “strengthen the position of the University as a leading instituti research in Central Europe”; what is the institutional basis of historical research at Cha Those involved in our programme also include fellow scholars who are not directly affiliat related disciplines, instead coming from interdisciplinary fields revolving around a speci culture (e.g. Balkan studies, Central European studies, or Ibero-American studies) with wh common interests in science and research. Looking at it this way makes it evident that historical research is covered by more than t related CU FA departments (Institute of Czech History, Institute of World History and Inst and Social History), which would normally be the automatic answer to your question. Histor and organically, permeates through all the humanities-oriented faculties. This fact reflec of approaches to research, and it is very important that historical research is not restri department and is done elsewhere, if in a different way. It has turned out that mutual interdisciplinary communication is possible, and the confere the programme bring deeper personal relations among scholars who until now have known each name. Hopefully, co-operation across disciplines will bear fruit in the future. The programme History in Interdisciplinary Perspective is divided into several sub-program primarily on the publishing of sources and on editing matters. The subprogramme called Formation and Development of National Identities in Central Europe Marie Šedivá; the other three subprogrammes are as follows – Europe and (versus) the World Opatrný; the area-oriented subprogramme entitled Shaping – Assimilation – Coexistence – In subprogramme The Czech Lands as an Open Space of Distinctive Historical Experience in Euro Doc. Mgr. Marie Šedivá Koldinská, Ph.D., is a historian affiliated with the Institute of C History. Her research and academic interests include Early Modern Age (especially Czech no