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1.	Memory politics and commemorative practices in contemporary Belarus	The doctoral research will focus on the analysis and interpretation of specific commemorative practices (state-sponsored and unofficial celebrations, monuments, public speeches, and other fragments of public discourse) in post-Soviet Belarus within the broader context of memory politics. From a methodological perspective, the project is conceived as an interdisciplinary study drawing on the tools of literary semiotics and critical linguistics, while engaging with and applying key concepts from cultural and collective memory studies (J. Assmann, A. Assmann, S. Boym, A. Etkind, among others). The research may be designed as a set of several case studies, with particular attention to differences between official and oppositional/exile commemorative practices associated with key events, such as anti-Russian uprisings of the 18th and 19th centuries, the establishment of the Belarusian People’s Republic, Stalin-era repressions, traumas of the Second World War, the Chernobyl disaster, or political turbulences of the post-Soviet period. The prerequisites for the successful completion of the research project include a high level of philological training, active knowledge of Russian and English, and adequate translation skills for working with texts in other languages.
2.	The First Generation of Slovak Translators from Slovenian in the Context of Slovak-Slovenian Interliterary and Cultural Relations	The doctoral thesis will focus on research into Slovak translations from Slovenian, authored by members of the first generation of translators who entered Slovakia's literary and cultural life in the 1930s. Most of these individuals participated in exchange programmes at the University of Ljubljana between the two world wars, where they acquired the language skills necessary to translate works from Slovenian literature (K. K. Geraldini, J. Ambruš, M. Václav, J. Irmler, J. Kosorín) and their contemporaries (V. Mierka, V. Hečko, M. Čollák, J. Haranta). The thesis will analyse their translated texts in the context of broader Slovak-Slovenian interliterary and intercultural connections.

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Memory politics and commemorative practices in contemporary Belarus

The doctoral research will focus on the analysis and interpretation of specific commemorative practices (state-sponsored and unofficial celebrations, monuments, public speeches, and other fragments of public discourse) in post-Soviet Belarus within the broader context of memory politics. From a methodological perspective, the project is conceived as an interdisciplinary study drawing on the tools of literary semiotics and critical linguistics, while engaging with and applying key concepts from cultural and collective memory studies (J. Assmann, A. Assmann, S. Boym, A. Etkind, among others). The research may be designed as a set of several case studies, with particular attention to differences between official and oppositional/exile commemorative practices associated with key events, such as anti-Russian uprisings of the 18th and 19th centuries, the establishment of the Belarusian People’s Republic, Stalin-era repressions, traumas of the Second World War, the Chernobyl disaster, or political turbulences of the post-Soviet period. The prerequisites for the successful completion of the research project include a high level of philological training, active knowledge of Russian and English, and adequate translation skills for working with texts in other languages.

The First Generation of Slovak Translators from Slovenian in the Context of Slovak-Slovenian Interliterary and Cultural Relations

The doctoral thesis will focus on research into Slovak translations from Slovenian, authored by members of the first generation of translators who entered Slovakia's literary and cultural life in the 1930s. Most of these individuals participated in exchange programmes at the University of Ljubljana between the two world wars, where they acquired the language skills necessary to translate works from Slovenian literature (K. K. Geraldini, J. Ambruš, M. Václav, J. Irmler, J. Kosorín) and their contemporaries (V. Mierka, V. Hečko, M. Čollák, J. Haranta). The thesis will analyse their translated texts in the context of broader Slovak-Slovenian interliterary and intercultural connections.