Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
Mgr. Ivana Lukáč Labancová, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Lukáč Labancová
I.2 - Name
Ivana
I.3 - Degrees
Mgr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1993
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Slovak History
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Safárikovo námestie 6
I.7 - Position
Research Fellow
I.8 - E-mail address
ivana.lukac@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/51916?do=filterForm-submit&university=701000000&sort=surname&employment_state=yes&filter=Vyh%C4%BEada%C5%A5
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Slovak History
I.11 - ORCID iD
0009-0000-2060-1629

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2015
II.c - Study field and programme
Degree Programme in Teaching History and Slovak Language and Literature
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2017
II.c - Study field and programme
Degree Programme in Teaching History and Slovak Language and Literature
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2022
II.c - Study field and programme
Slovak History
II.4 - Associate professor
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Research Fellow Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Art September 1, 2025 – present
Assistant Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences April 1, 2024 – present
Lecturer Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Art June 1, 2025 – August 31, 2025
Research Fellow Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Art January 1, 2023 – May 31, 2025

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Slovak PhD Forum in Žilina Slovak Association of Doctoral Students 2017
Digital Scholarly Editions: Manuscripts, Texts, and TEI Encoding Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg 2018
Basic of XML and TEI Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 2019
Medieval Manuscripts Summer School Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg 2019
Professional Training in Digitisation (GIS, Cultural Heritage Digitisation, etc.) Trnava University in Trnava 2020
SCUSI Summer School of Digitalization Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg 2021
HTR Workshop Charles University in Prague 2023
Accredited Programme for Teachers of Slovak as a Foreign Language Comenius University in Bratislava, Studia Academica Slovaca 2024
Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts — ANTIDOTE, vol. I Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2025
Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts — ANTIDOTE, vol. II University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland 2025

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Methods and Techniques of Historical Research History I. Historical Sciences
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Introduction into Digital Humanities History I. Historical Sciences
Medieval Monasteries in Slovakia History I. Historical Sciences
Digital Database and Edition Development History II. Historical Sciences
Slovak Historiography in the First Half of the 19th Century History II. Historical Sciences
Figures of the Slovak National Revival (1780–1849) History I. Historical Sciences
“The Art of Dying Well” or the Phenomenon of Death in the Early Modern Period History I. Historical Sciences
Continuity and Change: An Introduction to the Study of the First Half of the 19th Century History II. Historical Sciences
Slovak History and Culture in the Pre-Modern Period (1400 - 1850) History I.+II. Historical Sciences

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
16
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
9
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
1
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
1
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
4
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
4
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

IVANA LABANCOVÁ. Jazyk kazateľnice : Multilingvizmus vo františkánskom kazateľstve 18. storočia (Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 7). Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2021, 170 s.

2

IVANA LABANCOVÁ – STANISLAVA KUZMOVÁ (eds.). Teologicko-náboženské dokumenty, tom. 1: Františkánske kázne z 18. storočia (Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 6). Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2021, 165 s.

3

IVANA LABANCOVÁ – VLADIMÍR OLEJNÍK – ADAM MESIARKIN (eds.): Odborno-náučné dokumenty, tom. 1: Zbierka poučení o liečiteľstve a prírode zo 17. storočia (Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 3). Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2019, 550 s.

4

LABANCOVÁ, Ivana. Niekoľko poznámok k dielu "Schola salernitana de conservanda bona valetudine". In Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. III: Documenta theoretico-praeceptiva. Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, 2019, s. 7-22.

5

LABANCOVÁ, Ivana. Františkánske kázne z 18. storočia. Ich charakteristika, osudy a ďalšie perspektívy. In Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 6. Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2021, 9-24 s.

6

LABANCOVÁ, Ivana – PALKO, Jakub (eds.). MEDEA – Studia mediaevalia et antiqua, roč. XXIII, č. 1, 2020, 153 s.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

IVANA LABANCOVÁ. Jazyk kazateľnice : Multilingvizmus vo františkánskom kazateľstve 18. storočia (Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 7). Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2021, 170 s.

2

IVANA LABANCOVÁ – STANISLAVA KUZMOVÁ (eds.). Teologicko-náboženské dokumenty, tom. 1: Františkánske kázne z 18. storočia (Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 6). Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2021, 165 s.

3

LABANCOVÁ, Ivana. Františkánske kázne z 18. storočia. Ich charakteristika, osudy a ďalšie perspektívy. In Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 6. Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2021, 9-24 s.

4

LABANCOVÁ, Ivana – PALKO, Jakub (eds.). MEDEA – Studia mediaevalia et antiqua, roč. XXIII, č. 1, 2020, 153 s.

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

IVANA LABANCOVÁ. Jazyk kazateľnice : Multilingvizmus vo františkánskom kazateľstve 18. storočia (Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 7). Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2021, 170 s.

Maliniak, P. 2024. Podoby viacjazyčnosti v rukopisných kázňach Izáka Abrahamidesa Hrochotského. In Slavica Slovaca, vol. 59, no.1, pp. 150-158. 0037-6787 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/SlavSlov.2024.1.15

2

IVANA LABANCOVÁ – STANISLAVA KUZMOVÁ (eds.). Teologicko-náboženské dokumenty, tom. 1: Františkánske kázne z 18. storočia (Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 6). Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2021, 165 s

Maliniak, P. 2024. Podoby viacjazyčnosti v rukopisných kázňach Izáka Abrahamidesa Hrochotského. In Slavica Slovaca, vol. 59, no.1, pp. 150-158. 0037-6787 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/SlavSlov.2024.1.15

3

IVANA LABANCOVÁ – VLADIMÍR OLEJNÍK – ADAM MESIARKIN (eds.): Odborno-náučné dokumenty, tom. 1: Zbierka poučení o liečiteľstve a prírode zo 17. storočia (Monumenta Linguae Slovacae, vol. 3). Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2019, 550 s.

Gogola, Matej (Autor) (100%) In: Fenomén vojny v kontexte dejín medicíny [textový dokument (print)]. Bratislava (Slovensko) : Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave. Filozofická fakulta UK. Stimul, 2020. – (Historia Medicinae Slovaca ; 5). – ISBN 978-80-8127-273-8, s. 200-204 [tlačená forma]

MESIARKIN, A.: Liečiteľské pasáže prírodovednej zbierky Pavla Mala. In: Fenomén vojny v kontexte dejín medicíny [textový dokument (print)]. Bratislava (Slovensko) : Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave. Filozofická fakulta UK. Stimul, 2020. – (Historia Medicinae Slovaca ; 5). – ISBN 978-80-8127-273-8, s. 200-204 [tlačená forma]

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

2025–2029

APVV-24-0544 Grant: Slovak in the Multilingual Context of the Early Modern Period: Sources and Digital Approaches (Co-Investigator)

2

2025–2028

VEGA Grant No. 1/0803/25: Religiosity in the Context of Social and Cultural History in the Kingdom of Hungary in Central European Perspectives (1300–1700) (Co-Investigator)

3

2021–2025

APVV-20-0598 Grant: The Role of Slovak in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Early Modern Period (Postdoctoral Researcher)

4

2024

Austria–Slovakia Action Project: Winter School of Handwritten Text Recognition of Medieval Manuscripts (Principal Investigator)

5

2023

Visegrad Fund Grant: Continuity and Change – Medieval Central Europe (Principal Investigator)

6

2021–2023

VEGA Grant No. 1/0881/22: Models and Mechanisms of Social Communication in Preaching in the Territory of Present-Day Slovakia from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period (Co-Investigator)

7

2019–2022

APVV SK-PT-18-0043 Grant: Europe in Vernacular Languages: The Rise of Vernaculars at the Borders of the Latin World in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Contexts and Ideas (Co-Investigator)

8

2017–2021

APVV-16-0374 Grant: “Slovacica from the Former Kingdom of Hungary, with a Focus on Upper Hungary (1500–1780)”

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Opening workshop of the Slovak-Portuguese bilateral project, co-organizer Department of Slovak History May 14–17, 2019
SCUSI Summer School of Digitalization, tutor Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg August 16–21, 2021
Lecture Series Reči o reči (Talks about Language), Organizer Department of Slovak History November 2021 – ongoing
Closing workshop of the Slovak-Portuguese bilateral project (co-organizer) Department of Slovak History November 11, 2022
Organization of the MECERN Congress (Co-Organizer) Faculty of Art, Comenius University in Bratislava April 26–29, 2023
Welcome to History (Organizer) Department of Slovak History 2023, 2024
Handwritten Text Recognition Winter School (co-organizer) Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (IMAFO) in Wien November 2023 – January 2024
Handwritten Text Recognition Winter School (co-organizer) Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (IMAFO) in Wien September 2024 – December 2024
Student Excursion to Bologna and Florence (Co-Organizer) Department of Slovak History May 9–13, 2025
Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts — ANTIDOTE (teacher, expert) University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland June 2025

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Institut für Mittelalterforschung) Hollandstraße 11-13 1020 Wien March 1 – June 30, 2021 Ernst Mach Grant (der Aktion Österreich-Slowakei)
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Institut für Mittelalterforschung) Georg-Coch-Platz 2 1010 Wien September 1, 2023 – January 31, 2024 Ernst Mach Grant (der Aktion Österreich-Slowakei)
Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw ul. Ratuszowa 11. 03-450 Warszawa April–June 2024 Visegrad Fund

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned
Awards

In 2020, I was awarded the Academic Commendation of the Rector of Comenius University on the occasion of the International Students’ Day celebrations for successful representation of the University and Faculty.

Conferences, Workshops, and Invited Lectures

June 2025 | Keynote Speaker at the ČSOB Bootcamp, Šamorín (international audience)

Topic: A Journey through Slovak History and Culture

April 2025 | Invited Lectures at Palacký University Olomouc

Topics: How to Use (and Not Misuse) Artificial Intelligence; The Sermon as a Historical Source

May 2024 | Invited Lecture for Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego, Warsaw

Topic: Monumenta Linguae Slovacae – Editing Pre-Standard Texts

November 2023 | Conference Kazateľská tvorba, jej recepcia a stimuly, Bratislava

Paper: Digital Humanities – A Passing Trend or a Useful Tool? Methods of Digital Humanities in Sermon Research

November 2023 | Workshop Digital Database on Sermons, Bratislava

September 2023 | Meeting of Languages, Ethnicities and Cultures in the Danube Region from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period, Hainburg an der Donau, Austria

April 2023 | MECERN Conference

Paper: Sermon: A Model Genre of Continuity or a Genre Reflecting Social Trends?

February 2023 | Digital Humanities Storming, Prague

November 2022 | Vernacular Languages at the Borders of the Latin World in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period: Contexts, Ideas, Genres, Bratislava (final workshop of the Slovak–Portuguese project)

September 2022 | Monastic Orders and the Emergence of Vernacular Languages: Philosophy, Spirituality, History, Literature, Sermons, Alcobaça, Portugal

December 2021 | Imago, Actus et Verbum: Challenges and Questions in Medieval Studies, Lisbon

November 2021 | What Does Language Reveal to a Historian? Lecture delivered within the series Reči o reči

November 2019 | Vernacular Communities: Texts and Interactions in the European Borders in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, Porto

October 2019 | Entangled Knowledges. Education and Culture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (14th–19th Centuries), Florence

May 2019 | Workshop Europe in Vernacular. The Rise of Vernacular Languages at the Borders of the Latin World in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. Contexts and Ideas, Bratislava

Teaching Experience

Summer School of Slovak Language and Culture (SAS) – Lecturer of Slovak Language (A1.1) (2020, 2021, 2024)

  • Introduction to Digital Humanities (2021–2024)
  • Medieval Monasteries in Present-Day Slovakia (2023)
  • Reading, Interpretation and Basic Encoding of 16th–18th Century Slovak Manuscripts (2021, 2022)
  • Creation of Digital Databases and Editions (2022)
  • Slovak History in the Middle Ages (Studia Academica Slovaca) (2020, 2021)
  • University of the Third Age – Lecture: Bratislava and the Štúr Generation (April 4, 2025)
Guest Lectures
  • Bibliographic Management Software for Historians (2023)
  • Using AI in Historical Research (2024, 2025)
  • Automatic Handwritten Text Recognition Software (2025)
Supervision and Academic Evaluation
  • Reviewer of Bachelor’s and Master’s Theses: 8 reviews (since 2018)
Student-Oriented Activities

Organization of first-year orientation activities:

  • Welcome to History (2023, 2024)

Organization of the Student Scientific Conference 2025 (Committee Member)

Open Day Organization (Department of Slovak History), 2018–2025

(until 2023 as principal coordinator)

Organization of Student Excursions:

Krakow (2018), Budapest (2019), Austria and Czech Republic (2020 – cancelled due to COVID-19), Vienna (2023), Bologna and Florence (2025)

ProjectsWinter School of Handwritten Text Recognition (Austria–Slovakia Action Grant)

Implemented September–December 2024

Held in Vienna at IMAFO (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Aim: training students in Digital Humanities

Participants: 6 students from Slovakia (international participation)

ANTIDOTE Project (2024–2027)

International cooperation with institutions from the Czech Republic, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Iceland, and France

Annual series of three workshops (each hosted by a different institution)

2026: Bratislava as main organizer

Participants from Comenius University (2024/2025): 4 students

Aim: train students in Digital Humanities and prepare specialists capable of contributing to a digital sermon database (in cooperation with Dr. Stanislava Kuzmová)

→ Organization of the ANTIDOTE Summer School in Bratislava (May 2026)

Editorial Activity

Editor-in-Chief of Medea – Studia Mediaevalia et Antiqua (2020–2025)

Digital Humanities Activities
  • Preparation of a digital edition based on an existing printed edition (ANTIDOTE project output)
  • Development of a digital database of sermons (VEGA 1/0803/25 project output)
Digital Humanities Skills
  • Creation of digital editions and databases (XML, TEI)
  • Automatic Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR / AI)
  • Website management (WordPress; founder and administrator of www.slovacika.sk; departmental webmaster)
  • Geographic Information Systems (basic knowledge of QGIS)
Departmental Service
  • Founder and administrator of departmental social media (since 2017)
  • Departmental webmaster
  • Academic advisor for BA and MA students (September 2025 – present)

Date of last update
2026-02-27