Next Interview with Ancient Philosophy Scholar: Filip Karfik
We would like to invite you to watch the next interviews published on memoryclassics.eu website. The next interviews with historians of the Greek world (e.g. Cinzia Bearzot) are on the way, but we’d like to draw your attention to the conversation of Jaroslav Daneš, with whom we cooperated in the project Oral History and the Classics, with professor Filip Karfik (born 1963). Prof. Karfik is currently professor emeritus at the University of Fribourg and a former professor at Charles University in Prague.
First part of the interview is available here. Prof. Karfik shares his memories of his early interest in ancient languages and beginnings of his classical and philosophical studies. The video has English subtitles. The second part of this long and informative conversation is now under processing.
A. Habura’s Research Stay in Vilnius
We have already informed that the members of the Ancient Φilosophy Reception research group received a “Small Grant” from the Deputy Rector for Science and International Cooperation of the University of Zielona Góra. The aim of the AΦR team is to pursue research on the notes by Bohdan Zawadzki (1902-1966) from Władysław Tatarkiewicz’s (1886-1980) lectures on the philosophy of the Greeks. Now, we are glad to announce that the work is progressing.
The first phase of the research plan, that is, preliminary analysis of the manuscripts, has just been completed. It was thanks to the works of Adrian Habura, who travelled to Vilnius in May 2026 to assess the value of Zawadzki’s manuscripts and to identify the most significant issues that were emphasised by both, Zawadzki, the student, and Tatarkiewicz, the lecturing professor.
The next steps in the research plan include studies of the most important problems related to Tatarkiewicz’s lectures, as they were rendered by Zawadzki. The results will be presented in near future as conference or seminar papers and academic articles.
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