15th International Symposium on the Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice (BRRP). Date: 18–19 June 2026. Location: Prague, Czech Republic.

We are pleased to announce the upcoming 15th International BRRP Symposium, which will explore the intersection of the Bohemian Reformation and the academic world of medieval and early modern universities. The event is organised as part of the ACADEMIA project (ERC Grant Agreement No. 949710) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Date: 18–19 June 2026
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Venue Information
– Day 1 (18 June): Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1.
– Day 2 (19 June): Meeting Room of the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, Prague 1.

Registration
Registration is required for all non-presenting participants by 14 June 2026.
– Link to Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfT9NFRXpLmFT2bMQxhfkgh0PpyTGjzIbHp8Cqe5fPgvQZPsg/viewform?usp=dialog
– Contact Email: bohemian.reformation@gmail.com

Programme :

Thursday, 18 June (Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a)

13:30 Registration

14:00 Welcome & Introduction

Session I Chair: Petra Mutlová
14:15 – 14:45 Léon Delarue (Strasbourg): Scholastic Antihussitism at the University of Leipzig: Catholic Roman Order against Reformation Bohemian Disorder
14:45 – 15:15 Luigi Campi (Milano): Prokop of Kladruby’s Introductory Speech at his Quodlibetal Debate at the Prague Faculty of Arts and the Bohemian Reformation

15:15 – 15:30 Discussion

15:30 – 15:45 Tea

Session II Chair: Luigi Campi
15:45 – 16:15 Andrea Fiamma (Prague): Early Humanism on the Eve of the Bohemian Reformation? Ovid, Petrarch, and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in Recommendation Speeches at Prague University (1393–1410)
16:15 – 16:45 Ota Pavlíček (Prague): Arts Quodlibetal Manuscripts and the Bohemian Reformation: Rethinking Destruction and Survival across Europe

16:45 – 17:00 Discussion

17:00 – 17:15 Tea

17:15 – 17:45 Zuzana Lukšová, Lucie Mazalová (Brno): Project presentation: Framing the Antichrist at Prague University: The Role of the 1412 Quodlibetal Positio de Anticristo by Jakoubek of Stříbro

17:45 Discussion

18:00 Book presentation: L. Campi, O. Pavlíček (eds.), The Greatest Debate: The 1409 Arts Quodlibet at the University of Prague, Brepols 2025.

Friday, 19 June (Meeting Room of the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1)

Session III Chair: Ota Pavlíček
11:00 – 11:30 Eliška Baťová (Prague): « Incipite laici »: Typology of Late Medieval Books with Czech Liturgical Singing
11:30 – 12:00 Ole Fredrik Kullerud (Halden): Late Medieval Legacies. Confessional Recastings: Eucharistic Memory in Czech and Slovak Lutheran Eucharistic Hymnody with Particular Reference to Jiri Tranovsky (c. 1592–1637)

12:00 – 12:15 Discussion

12:15 Lunch

Session IV Chair: Lenka Řezníková
13:45 – 14:15 Dan Török (Prague): “The Hussite Trap”: Johannes Eck’s Strategic Design at the Leipzig Disputation of 1519
14:15 – 14:45 Petr Pavlas (Prague): “What begins is rude, what finishes has to be absolute.” Eschatology in J. A. Comenius’ Universal Reform

14:45 – 15:00 Discussion

15:00 – 15:30 Tea

15:30 Book presentation: P. Pavlas, L. Řezníková, L. Storchová (eds.), Cognitive Metaphors and Encyclopaedic Knowledge. Exploring Semantic Transformations in Early Modernity, Prague 2025.

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