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The Islamic nationalism (Tur. mukkadesatçılık) of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1905-1983) is today often seen in Turkish society as an ideological weapon and doctrine against Atatürk’s Kemalism, which significantly shaped the thinking and actions of contemporary pro-Islamic circles in the country. The iconic status of this prominent thinker, poet, novelist, theoretician and radical Islamist representative became the focus of scholarly research in the international context practically only after 2000. Based on a detailed analysis of his work, we anticipate a critical evaluation of Kısakürek’s theory of the Islamic state and his political views after 1950.

The aim of this project is to collect, analyze and evaluate original written, pictorial and 3D source material from the period 1843–1945 by Slovak authors with an interest in ancient Egypt who lived in the mentioned period on the territory of today’s Slovakia in the former Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Czechoslovakia. This source material in any way associated with ancient Egypt or Egyptology may relate to history, art, architecture, correspondence, travel, collections, education, etc., and was publicly published/accessible/exhibited (magazines, newspapers, letters, literature, postcards, exhibition) or comes from private archives/collections/possessions. The existence of such material and its evaluation aim to document the diversity and extent of individual a societal interest in this ancient civilization in the Slovak culture of the mentioned historical period.

Polish-Slovak research at the Egyptian site of Tell el-Retaba has discovered several components of the 19th and 20th Dynasties' defensive capabilities since 2007. The research should focus on placing them in the context of defence capabilities explored in the north-eastern Nile Delta and northern Sinai and verify hypotheses related to the strategic importance of drinking water sources and their control in desert, semi-desert, and saline sea and lake water environments. It should also verify the methods of controlling drinking water sources by military garrisons, compare the construction of fortresses, their ramparts and moats, as well as defensive and logistical usage, based on archaeological, written and iconographic sources.

Hungarian kingdom was part of the European trend of exploring other continents, although in its case this trend did not lead to the creation of colonies. Research should focus on the historical and social context of the journeys, as well as on examining the methods, reasons and goals of travel and the social composition of Upper Hungarian travellers to Africa and Asia in the long 19th century based on contemporary literature, media, travelogues, archival and registry research. Comparison with travellers from neighbouring territories and countries would be also be welcome. Research should also focus on the potential contribution of these trips to historical collections and art in the territory of today's Slovakia.

The aim of this dissertation is to examine the archaeological open air museums (AOAM) as a unique and specific type of museum institution - the museum in nature, with a focus on its mission, functioning and social role. This thesis focuses on the practical aspects of collection management and presentation (display of relics and reconstructions of authentic archaeological sites), the operation of AOAM and their interaction with the public. The key point of the archaeological part will be the importance and use of experimental archaeology, reconstruction and experiment in the presentation and popularization of archaeological heritage, known as living history. This dissertation project will focus on selected AOAM and archaeoparks in the Czech and Slovak environment, such as Modrá u Velehradu, Všestary, Havránok, Bojná and others. It will also focus on the comparison of their specifics with foreign countries in a broader Central European context, which will allow to name and define trends in the modern presentation of archaeology.

The topic includes the development of the use and interpretation of the importance of the dominant site of the Liptovská basin - the hill Liptovská Mara - Havránok in the protohistoric period based on the rich materials from the long-term excavations of the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV). The hill was fortified and used as an important sacrificial place from the Middle La Téne to the beginning of the Roman period. The topic will also include reconsideration of the reconstructions of selected archaeological features and the use of the site for cultural tourism.

The definition of the development of trade and exchange relations in the specified area in the Protohistoric and Early Medieval Periods. The interpretation of the minting and use/non-use of coins and other instruments of exchange and their various functions in different periods and communities, focused on the local coin production and relevant raw material resources in Slovakia.

The thesis focuses on exploring the lives of women in the Eastern Hallstatt culture from various perspectives. Its primary aim is to identify women in the archaeological record and address questions such as: What was the position, role, and perception of women in Hallstatt society? To what extent did burial rites and grave goods reflect the social identities of women within the horizontal and vertical social structure? What factors influenced female visual identity (including costumes)? And what potential profane and ritual activities were performed by women? The distribution area of the Eastern Hallstatt culture consisted of several regional groups. Therefore, it will be important to identify any potential common features or differences in the researched issues across the various regions of the Eastern Hallstatt culture (with the aim of identifying possible interregional female communication networks). In addition to case studies of richly furnished graves, the graves of women with less rich grave goods or without any grave goods present an additional methodological and interpretative challenge. The starting point of the thesis is almost exclusively on published cemeteries, supplemented by information from settlements. The successful completion of the thesis also requires an interdisciplinary approach – particularly the involvement of knowledge from physical anthropology, paleodemography, ethnoarchaeology, as well as cultural, social, and gender anthropology. An additional contribution could be the comparison with the results of similar research in the Western Hallstatt culture, which has received more attention than the Eastern Hallstatt area. The issue of women and the female aspect has not yet been comprehensively addressed for the Eastern Hallstatt culture. Therefore, this topic is promising not only for the doctoral study itself but also offers the potential for further exploration during postdoctoral research, considering additional aspects.

Between the 14th and 17th centuries, significant social and economic changes took place in Upper Hungary, which is also reflected in the development of ceramics. The Hussite raids and the Ottoman invasion influenced the life of the inhabitants of Upper Požitavie. The thesis focuses on the analysis of ceramics from the castles of Gýmeš and Hrušov, which will be compared with the findings of ceramics from the surrounding villages and the town Zlaté Moravce. The first pottery centres in Pukanec and Brehy were discovered, whose products supplied the area under study.