{"id":50293,"date":"2025-12-15T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50293"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:18:30","slug":"bha-webinar-vaclav-vratislav-of-mitrovice-bohemia-travelogue-to-ottoman-empire-through-balkans-and-his-captive-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50293","title":{"rendered":"BHA Webinar \u201cV\u00e1clav Vratislav of Mitrovice (Bohemia) travelogue to Ottoman Empire through Balkans and his captive narrative\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BHA Webinar Series (Zoom)<br>Petra Ko\u0161\u0165\u00e1lov\u00e1, PhD (Department of East European Studies, Charles University, Prague)<br>Date &amp; Hour: December 18 (Thursday), 10:00 CET \/ 11:00 EET<br>Moderator: Christene d\u2019Anca, PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara)<br>Technical assistance: Timothy French, contact: timothymfrench@yahoo.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Webinar ID: 848 1107 1698<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/84811071698\">https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/84811071698<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation deals with the multifaceted phenomenon of border identity and the self-identification process within the frame of Ottoman, Habsburg and Polish-Lithuanian borderlands based on the example of early seventeenth century Czech travel accounts. 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