FACULTY OF
ARTS Dean’s Office, Arne Nováka 1, 660 88 Brno |
until February 15, 2000 | from March 29, 2000 | |
Dean: | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivan Seidl | Dr. Jan Pavlík |
Vice-deans: | Prof. Dr. Jana Nechutová |
Prof. PhDr. Jana Nechutová (until June 30, 2000) |
Prof. Dr. Miloš Štìdroò | Assoc. Prof. Milada Franková | |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jan Zouhar. |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jan Zouhar. |
|
Dr. Jan Pavlík | ||
President of the Academic Senate: | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bøetislav Horyna, CSc. |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bøetislav Horyna, Ph.D. |
Secretary: | Ing. Otakar Vaòura | Ing. Otakar Vaòura |
The
Faculty of Arts (FA) of Masaryk University provides courses in philological
studies (language and literature of over 20 languages and general linguistics),
historical studies (archaeology, archive studies, history, museology, auxiliary
historical disciplines), the study of liberal arts (history of visual arts,
drama history, aesthetics, film studies, musical studies and classical
archaeology), human and social sciences (ethnology, philosophy, pedagogy,
psychology, religious studies, social pedagogy and counselling, and information
and library sciences).
In
the year 2000, 4088 people applied to study at the Faculty of Arts. In the
academic year 2000/2001, there were no changes in the study regulations. The
study is credit-based and organised in cycles, whereby the first cycle of study
is completed by passing a comprehensive or Bachelor’s exam.
A
number people of the departmens of Faculty of Arts are honorary or full members
of important institutions both in the Czech Republic and abroad. Dr. Thomas
Donaldson Sparling, B.A. is the chairman of the Central European Network of
Canadian Studies; Dr. Jitka Vlèková is a member of the British
Association for Study of Australia (BASA); Prof. Dr. Richard Jeøábek is an
elected representative of the Czech Republic on the board of the Société
Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore of the UNESCO based in Vienna,
a member of the Union Internationale des Sciences Anthropologiques et
Ethnologiques (UISAE) in the USA, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Volkskunde (DGV) in Göttingen. Prof. Dr. Dušan Holý is a member of the
Society for Ethnomusicology in the USA; Prof. Dr. Antonín Bartonìk is a member
of CIPEM (Centre International Permanent des Etudes Mycénéennes) in Paris,
the chairman of the Brno branch of the Union of Classical Philologists, and an
honorary member of the Greek Scholarly Society in the Czech Republic. Prof. Dr.
Jaroslav Støítecký is a member of the International Expert Council of the
Commission for Culture Sciences and History of Theatre of the Austrian Academy
of Science, and a member of the Commission for the Social History of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire of the International Expert Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Masaøík is a committee member of the Academy in Mannheim and
the chairman of the Czech Association of German Scholars. Prof. Dr. Josef Hladký
is the chairman of the Czech Association of English Scholars. Prof. Dr. Josef Švancara
is an honorary member of the Czech and Moravian Psychology Association. Prof.
Dr. Jiøí Kroupa acts as chairman of the Czech Association for Research on the
18th Century, which is a part of the ISECS. Prof. Dr. Vladimír Podborský acts
as chairman of the Regional Archaeological Committee, an advisory body to the
director of the Historical Monument Institute in Brno, and also a member of the
Archaeological Committee of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Assoc.
Prof. Dr. Lubomír Slavíèek is chairman of the Society for the History of Arts
in the Czech Lands and a member of the National Committee for the History of Art
of CIHA. Dr. Milada Rabušicová is a member of the Czech Committee of the World
Organisation for Pre-School Education (OMEP). Dr. Alena Køížová, Ph.D. is a
member of F.I.D.E.M., the international medal design and engraving organisation.
Dr. Július Gajdoš, Ph.D. is a member of the executive council of the European
Network of Cultural Administrators Training Centre (ENCATC) in Copenhagen.
Last
year, the Faculty of Arts suffered the loss through death of several outstanding
personalities: Prof. Dr. Jan Firbas, an internationally acclaimed English
scholar, Doctor Honoris causa (Leeds, Leuven, Turku) and member of many
academic societies, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivan Seidl, Romanist and Italian Scholar
who in 1999 was awarded the Knight's Order of the Republic of Italy for
promoting cultural relationship between Italy and the Czech Republic, Dr. Libor
Štukavec, an outstanding translator specializing in Swedish literature for
children, bearer of the Honour of the Swedish Queen, and Prof. Dr. Zdenìk Kudìlka,
one of the most important Czech art historians and experts on Modern and Baroque
architecture.
Of
the many conferences, seminars and colloquia organised by the Faculty of Arts
institutions and departments in 2000, let us mention the following:
Institute
of Czech Literature organised the conference Arne
Novák – Literary Historian and Critic. This conference focused on Novák’s
works on literature, his work as a university teacher, dignitary and journalist,
and his activities as a personality of cultural and social life. The Institute
of the Czech Language organised the symposium Czech
– Universal Features and Specific Traits 3 (in support of work on
the linguistic dictionary with working title Czech in Linguistic Terms). At the
International Music Festival in Brno, the Institute of Musicology organised the
international musicological colloquium entitled Musicology
on the Threshold of the New Millennium. The Institute of Slavonic Studies
organised the fourth Brno Slovak Studies Symposium devoted to the Czech and Slovak
language and literature relationships.
In
co-operation with the Brno branch of the Austrian Institute for Eastern and
South-Eastern Europe, the Institute of Theatre and Film Studies of the Faculty
participated as a co-ordinator in the organisation of the international theatre
conference Theatre as a Place of Cross
Cultural Exchange in Eastern and Central Europe,
and it organised Days of Japanese Film
in co-operation with Tokai University.
The FA Institute of Pedagogy organised the seminar Consultancy
in the Context of School Development on the need of comprehensive
consultancy services. In co-operation with the Hellenika Foundation, the
Institute of Classical Studies introduced traditional Greek culture to the
general public at the Brno Greek Days.
Continuous attention is given to the creative activities of students and young
staff members: the Institute of Slavonic Studies organised a student conference
on the best academic work in Slavonic studies in the following sections:
literature, linguistics, culture and translation. The Institute of Theatre and
Film Studies organised the fourth International
Symposium of Young Theatre Scholars – Theatre Directing on a New Road? .
Lectures,
meetings with students and meetings with colleagues were also held by the many
foreign guests at the Faculty:
With
the participation of Embassy of Iran diplomats, the Institute of Theatre and
Film Studies organised a special screening of the Iranian film "Covered in Blue",
attended by Mr. Abbas Noruzi, the filmmaker Ms. Rachsan Bani-Etemad and
Ms. Fateme Motamed-Aria, the main female protagonist. Assoc. Prof. Alexander
Cizek gave a lecture on medieval rhetoric; Prof. Konrad Vollman (Germany) gave a
lecture on the Medieval Latin epic poem; Otto Braasch from Germany gave a
lecture on aerial archaeology and carried out an aerial archaeological survey of
Moravia; Prof. Juergen Martini from Germany organised an intensive course on
South African literature The Faculty of Arts was also visited by the leading
Italian professor of neo-Greek studies Constantino Nikas; by leading Viennese
professor of Slavonic studies Vintr; Prof. Grigorij Pivtorak from Moscow, a
specialist in the history of the Ukraine and in Ukrainian; Assoc. Prof. Tatiana
M. Nikolajeva from Russia gave a series of lectures on Pushkin; leading experts
in the early Middle Ages – Dr. Andrej Ploterski (Slovenia), Dr. Erik
Szameit (Austria) and Dr. Hans Losert (Germany) – gave lectures and took part
in seminars on issues of the early Medieval period in Central Europe.
Last
year a total of 234 Faculty teachers went abroad to study, lecture and
participate in congresses and symposia. Some of the most interesting include the
following: Assoc. Prof. Pol took part in the international conference Civitas
Kosovo in Pristina as an expert of the European Council; Dr. Dalibor
Papoušek took part in the 18th Congress
of the International Association for the History
of Religion in Durban (South Africa); Dr. Køížová was the
Czech delegate at the international medal design and engraving organisation F.I.D.E.M.
congress in Weimar, for which she prepared the Czech collection; Assoc. Prof. Vašina
took part in the 2nd International Somatic Psychotherapy Congress in Brazil; and Assoc.
Prof. Zouhar attended the international conference on Globalisation and Integration Processes in Central and
Eastern Europe.
Interest
among foreign students in the study at the Faculty of Arts has continued to grow.
This year, Faculty accepted over 100 foreign students, including Ministry of
Education fellowship students, compatriots, visiting students and students
within the SOCRATES/ ERASMUS/ CEEPUS programmes (which involves more fields
every year). There was also an increase in interest in bilateral agreements with
other universities (e.g. Chattanooga, Kiev, Plovdiv and Naples). Faculty of Arts
and the Department of Czech for Foreigners offer every year semester-long
fellowships for 8 to 10 foreign students of Czech studies. Between 28 July and
25 August 2000, 127 students from 29 countries attended the
33rd Summer School of Slavonic
Studies, which regularly
represents the most important foreign student event organised by the Faculty.
Throughout the year, the Department of Czech for Foreigners offered several
types of intensive courses of the Czech language at various levels.
On
1 September 2000, the Department of the Czech Language opened the
Centre of Linguistics Czech Studies for Foreigners, which
offers specialised courses to foreigners based on their individual requirements.
In
2000, the Faculty staff worked on a total of 36 grants, of which 18 were
for the Czech Grant Agency and three for the Development Fund for Higher
Education of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic. The Institutes of
Musicology, Archaeology and Museology continued to work on extensive three-year
projects awarded by the Ministry of Education in 1999. A total of 13 small-scale
grants were obtained from, e.g., the MoEYS, OOSI, CEEPUS and AKTION. Twenty-eight
Faculty of Arts teachers were active on committees of various grant agencies.
The
Faculty of Arts teachers and research workers published many treatises, papers
and articles in proceedings and journals, both at home and abroad. They were,
among others, Jan Zouhar (The Previous End of the Century), Ivan Dorovský (Slavs
and Europe), Jana Nechutová (Latin Literature in Medieval Bohemia Until 1400),
Dušan Lužný (Green Bodhisattvas: Socially and Environmentally Involved
Buddhism, Bøetislav Horyna (Myths of One Word), Milan Pol (Intervision and
Supervision as Challenging Options for Co-operation), Krystyna Kardyni-Pelikánová
(Spotkania literackie), Zdeòka Hladká (Figurative Names of Plants in Czech
Dialects), Eva Lukavská (Ernesto Sábato: Labyrinth Journey), Antonín Bartonìk
(Handbuch des mykenischen Grieschisch), and Ludmila Urbanová and Jana
Chamonikolasová (Chapter I. Phonetics and Phonology).
Last
year, Faculty of Arts teachers received ten prizes, three of which were
international (Prof. Dorovský). The others are listed below: