| Place of Conference: Bratislava |
| Date of Conference: November 18 – 22, 2019 |
| Responsible Persons: Peter Žeňuch, Peter Zubko, Katarína Žeňuchová |
| Organisers: Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of the SAS, Institute of Slavonic Studies of the CAS, v. v. i., Slovak Committee of Slavists |
Cultural communication in a system based on relations on the level of language, history, and culture in the Slavic milieu is reflected by interlanguage, interethnic, interconfessional, and intercultural processes. They formed and still form the Slavic cultural space from the earliest times. Older and newer Slavic cultural strata created against background of natural contacts with the Latin and Byzantine-Slavic cultural-historical horizon represents a unique set of phenomena that are an important basis for knowledge of the current and the further developpment of Slovak culture in the European milieu.
The linguistic, cultural, ethno-confessional, historical, and literary research of the Slovak spiritual culture was in progress in different periods of time at different intensity and it always depended on the current sociohistorical conditions and the possibilities offered by individual state political systems, in which research could be realised. It is necessary to know the diverse sources and the source material, therefore, the current research results will be presented in the context of actual projects.
The conference is realised as outputs of the following projects: Everyday Life in Interaction of Latin and Byzantine Culture on Example of Carpathian Region in Modern Period (VEGA 2/0025/18), State and Prospects of Ethnolinguistic Research in Slovakia (VEGA 2/0045/17), and Language and Culture under the Carpathians in terms of Current Slovak-Czech Reaserch (MAD).
Conference Topics:
I. Slovak Ethnolinguistics – sources, results, and perspectives (Katarína Žeňuchová). The aim of the conference´s topic is to present knowledge about sources and current Slovak ethnolinguistic research in the national and international contexts. Papers are expected to serve as a basis for ethnolinguistic research of the sources of spiritual culture of Slovakia within the topic.
II. Everyday Life in Slovak Spiritual Culture (Peter Zubko). The aim of the conference´s topic is to explain the multispectral views of Slovak confessional communities on the cultural development of Slovak culture. Although it is a cognitive and emotional nature, because it is formed by personal and in wider contexts social interactinos, it is easily predictable. It produces not only a sense of security but also tensions. Therefore, research on specific norms and patterns of human behavior influenced by confessional vision of the world is an important prerequisite for a systematized view on multispectral everyday life of spiritual culture.