Research Centres

This list represents a selection of research clusters established at the Faculty of Arts—either purposefully within funded projects or organically as platforms for coordination in specific research areas. These range from large centres with dedicated infrastructure to smaller, informal groups of researchers working within or across disciplines:

  • SINOPHON – Interdisciplinary Research Centre
  • Material Culture Laboratory (MatKulLab) (Department of Asian Studies)
  • Centre for Digital Humanities in Literary and Book Studies (Department of Czech Studies)
  • Centre for Research on Travel Writing and the History of Written Representations of Intercultural Contacts (Department of Czech Studies)
  • Centre for Research on Moravian German Literature (Department of German Studies)
  • Erasmianum – Centre for Dutch and Flemish Language and Culture (Department of Dutch Studies)
  • International Semiotics Institute (Department of General Linguistics)
  • French Centre of Palacký University Olomouc (Department of Romance Studies)
  • Archaeological Laboratory (Department of History)
  • Unit for Regional History (Department of History)
  • Centre for Czechoslovak Exile Studies (Department of History)
  • Centre for Urban History (Department of History)
  • Centre for the History of Christian Politics (Department of History)
  • Centre for Religious History (Department of History)
  • Centre for Cultural, Media and Communication Studies (Department of Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism)
  • Centre for Comics Studies (Department of Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism)
  • Centre for Research on Moravian Press (Department of Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism)
  • Cultural Industries Studies (Department of Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism)
  • Psychology Laboratories (including psychophysiology; virtual reality and cyberpsychology; human–light interaction; traffic psychology; facial emotion expression; team collaboration analysis and development; personality research; iLAB – creative space) (Department of Psychology)
  • Laboratory for Social Science Research (Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology)
  • Centre for Research on Performativity (Department of Theatre and Film Studies)

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