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6 October 2025: We invite you to Mahen Library in Brno for a lecture by Kateřina Dolejší, who will present the Beyond the Horizon project with a special focus on its main source, the travel diary of Humprecht Jan Czernin, as part of the Czech Academy of Sciences' 2025 fall lecture series. /

Zveme vás 6. 10. 2025 do Mahenovy knihovny v Brně na přednášku Kateřiny Dolejší, která představí náš projekt Beyond the Horizon a hlavní pramen, z něhož čerpáme, cestovní památník Humprechta Jana Czernina, v rámci přednáškového cyklu Akademie věd ČR.

You are cordially invited to the public lecture on the key topic of our project - album amicorum of Humprecht Johann Czernin, jointly presented by Kateřina Dolejší and Eva Chodějovská, at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague on June 11, 2025.

Eva Chodějovská introduced the Beyond the Horizon project during the 71st annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Programme held in Boston, March, 20-22. The audience was especially interested in the key historical source the team is using: the album amicorum of the Bohemian nobleman Humprecht Johann Czernin preserved at The Pierport-Morgan Library in New York City.

On 22 October 2024, a member of our research team, Zdenk Hojda gave an invited lecture at University of Warsaw in the seminar of Prof. Wojciech Tygielski, one of the leading Polish specialists in the history of travel and on Italian-Polish cultural interchange. 

Zdeněk Hojda, Kateřina Dolejší and Eva Chodějovská presented a paper at the conference "Travelers of the Early Modern Era (16th - 18th centuries) on European Routes" held by University of Wroclaw, Poland. The conference was attended by experts at various stages of their academic careers coming from Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy and the Czech Republic (key note lecture was given by Jiří Kubeš from the University of Pardubice).

On October, 14, 2024 you are very welcome to the public lecture given by Alexandra Tesaříková, a member of the Team dealing with data collecting and structuring, in the Regional Museum in Jindřichlv Hradec. Right there, in this south-bohemian town, the Czernin family archives is stored - as an archival unit (fund) within the State Regional Archives in Třeboň, Dept. Jindřichův Hradec. The data-minimg phase of our project would not be possible without cooperation with our colleagues based in Třeboň and Jindřichův Hradec.

Listen to the interview with Eva Chodějovská on the history of travel in pre-modern times, or read the transcription enriched with images illustrating period travel practices.

https://cesky.radio.cz/poznat-svet-a-ziskat-kontakty-byl-ucel-kavalirskych-vyprav-mladych-slechticu-8825611

In February 2024, Dr. Rachel Midura, Virginia Tech University, USA, launched a scholarly platform called EMDigIt, a series of workshops for data-driven approaches to early modern travel. After several online meetings, there will be the first in-person workshop held on August, 5, 2024, in Arlington, VA, USA. Eva Chodějovská takes part giving the lecture called Traveling in Early Modern Europe between Theory and Practice. 

During the XXX edition of the International Conference on the History of Cartography held in Lyon, France from July, 1 to July, 5 2024, Eva Chodejovska will present a poster "Travel itineraries in Rome: an investigation of Early Modern sources across Europe" on guidebooks dealing with Rome preserved in Central-European libraries and on mapping the described urban itineraries. It is a joint work with Keti Lelo (Roma Tre University in Rome, Italy) which methodologicaly builds upon the outputs of the Beyond the Horizon project. 

https://ichc2024.univ-lyon3.fr/

You are kindly invited to attend the lecture by prof. Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata from Università degli studi Lazio Merridionale in Montecassino, Italy, held on May, 31 2024 in Brno.