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opacity: 0.82; max-width: 560px; margin: 0 0 16px;\">I&#8217;m a researcher at the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.muni.cz\/en\/about-us\/organizational-structure\/institute-of-computer-science\" style=\"color: #2e4a34; font-weight: 500;\">Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University<\/a>, working across archival theory, digital methods, and humanities computing. This site collects my research, teaching materials, and the tools I build along the way.<\/p>\n      <div style=\"display: flex; gap: 8px; flex-wrap: wrap; margin: 0 0 16px;\">\n        <span style=\"font-size: 13px; padding: 5px 12px; border: 1px solid rgba(92,138,104,0.4); border-radius: 999px; color: #2e4a34;\">Digital humanities<\/span>\n        <span style=\"font-size: 13px; padding: 5px 12px; border: 1px solid rgba(92,138,104,0.4); border-radius: 999px; color: #2e4a34;\">OCR\/HTR<\/span>\n        <span style=\"font-size: 13px; padding: 5px 12px; border: 1px solid rgba(92,138,104,0.4); border-radius: 999px; color: #2e4a34;\">Archival research<\/span>\n        <span style=\"font-size: 13px; padding: 5px 12px; border: 1px solid rgba(92,138,104,0.4); border-radius: 999px; color: #2e4a34;\">Eurasianism<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <p style=\"font-size: 15px; opacity: 0.7; max-width: 560px; margin: 0;\">This website is under construction \u2014 more to come soon.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"mr-photo\" style=\"width:280px;height:280px;border-radius:50%;justify-self:end;position:relative;z-index:1;background:rgba(92,138,104,0.08);border:1px solid rgba(92,138,104,0.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;overflow:hidden;\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michalracyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Navrh-bez-nazvu.png\" alt=\"Michal Racyn\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;border-radius:50%;\">\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n<section class=\"mr-sec\" style=\"max-width: 1080px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 48px 48px 64px; border-top: 1px solid #e0dad1;\">\n    <h2 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0 0 24px;\">Meet me<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"mr-grid\" style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); gap: 20px;\">\n      <div style=\"border: 1px solid #e6e0d7; border-radius: 10px; padding: 24px; background: #fefbf8;\">\n        <div style=\"font-size: 13px; opacity: 0.55; margin-bottom: 8px;\">Historical Network Research Conference \u00b7 Turin \u00b7 July 20\u201322, 2026<\/div>\n        <h3 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0 0 10px; line-height: 1.3;\">I&#8217;ll be attending<\/h3>\n        <p style=\"font-size: 14.5px; opacity: 0.8; margin: 0 0 12px;\">Not presenting this time \u2014 just there to listen, learn, and talk shop. Feel free to say hi if you spot me.<\/p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/historicalnetworkresearch.github.io\/turin\/program\/\" style=\"color: #2e4a34; font-weight: 500; font-size: 14.5px;\">View the program \u2192<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"border: 1px solid #e6e0d7; border-radius: 10px; padding: 24px; background: #fefbf8;\">\n        <div style=\"font-size: 13px; opacity: 0.55; margin-bottom: 8px;\">DH2026 \u00b7 &#8220;Engagement&#8221; \u00b7 Daejeon, South Korea<\/div>\n        <h3 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0 0 10px; line-height: 1.3;\">See my workshop online<\/h3>\n        <p style=\"font-size: 14.5px; opacity: 0.8; margin: 0 0 12px;\">My workshop, &#8220;Building a Unified Open-Source Pipeline for Archival Data Analysis,&#8221; runs Monday, July 27 (afternoon, 14:00\u201318:00 KST) as part of the pre-conference program, streamed live for remote attendees. 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font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0 0 10px; line-height: 1.3;\">Modular Open-Source Workflow for the Analysis of Archival Documents<\/h3>\n        <p style=\"font-size: 14.5px; opacity: 0.8; margin: 0 0 12px;\">A modular workflow built on open-source tools (ownCloud, Zotero, Arkindex, Nodegoat, Logseq, Open WebUI) that I use in my own research on archival documents and have been developing long-term. You can get to know the workflow through my conference outputs on digital humanities.<\/p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.muni.cz\/en\/research\/projects\/76845\" style=\"color: #2e4a34; font-weight: 500; font-size: 14.5px;\">Project details \u2192<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"border: 1px solid #e6e0d7; border-radius: 10px; padding: 24px; background: #fefbf8;\">\n        <div style=\"font-size: 13px; opacity: 0.55; margin-bottom: 8px;\">MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship \u00b7 September 2026 \u2013 August 2029<\/div>\n        <h3 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0 0 10px; line-height: 1.3;\">COLD-WAR-EURASIA: Transformation of Eurasianism in US Cold War Slavic Studies<\/h3>\n        <p style=\"font-size: 14.5px; opacity: 0.8; margin: 0 0 12px;\">A Horizon Europe project, in cooperation with Columbia University, applying digital analysis to unpublished archival documents from Prague, Saint Petersburg, and New York to trace how Eurasianist thought evolved in US Cold War academia \u2014 centered on historian G. V. Vernadsky.<\/p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/id\/101194639\" style=\"color: #2e4a34; font-weight: 500; font-size: 14.5px;\">Project details \u2192<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"mr-sec\" style=\"max-width: 1080px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 48px 48px 64px; border-top: 1px solid #e0dad1;\">\n    <h2 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0 0 24px;\">Publications<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"mr-book\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e6e0d7; border-radius: 10px; background: #fefbf8; padding: 28px; display: grid; grid-template-columns: 160px 1fr; gap: 28px; align-items: center; margin-bottom: 28px;\">\n      <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/transformation-of-eurasianism-in-soviet-intellectual-milieu-1950s1990s-9781666972023\/\" style=\"display: block; width: 160px; height: 240px; border-radius: 4px; overflow: hidden; box-shadow: 0 6px 18px rgba(37,30,24,0.18); background: #2e4a34; position: relative;\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michalracyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9781978761490.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover: The Transformation of Eurasianism in Soviet Intellectual Milieu, 1950s\u20131990s\" style=\"position: absolute; inset: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover;\">\n      <\/a>\n      <div>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 13px; opacity: 0.55; margin-bottom: 8px;\">Book \u00b7 Bloomsbury<\/div>\n        <h3 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0 0 10px; line-height: 1.3;\">The Transformation of Eurasianism in Soviet Intellectual Milieu, 1950s\u20131990s<\/h3>\n        <p style=\"font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; opacity: 0.65; margin: 0 0 10px; font-family: 'Newsreader', serif;\">Blurring the Lines and Establishing Artificial Continuity<\/p>\n        <p style=\"font-size: 14.5px; opacity: 0.8; margin: 0 0 14px; max-width: 560px;\">A study of how Eurasianist historiographic and historisophic concepts developed and transformed within Soviet academia \u2014 tracing the contacts between interwar Eurasianists P. N. Savitsky and G. V. Vernadsky and Soviet intellectuals, above all L. N. Gumilev, from the end of WWII to the collapse of the USSR.<\/p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/transformation-of-eurasianism-in-soviet-intellectual-milieu-1950s1990s-9781666972023\/\" style=\"color: #2e4a34; font-weight: 500; font-size: 14.5px;\">View at Bloomsbury \u2192<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 14px; max-width: 720px;\">\n      <div style=\"padding-bottom: 14px; border-bottom: 1px solid #efe9e0;\">\n        <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/356962051_Between_Eurasianism_and_Nationalism_-_Reshaping_Russian_identity_in_the_Soviet_intellectual_milieu_of_the_1980s\" style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 15.5px; font-weight: 500;\">Between Eurasianism and Nationalism \u2013 Reshaping Russian Identity in the Soviet Intellectual Milieu of the 1980s<\/a>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 13px; opacity: 0.55; margin-top: 3px;\">Article \u00b7 2021<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"padding-bottom: 14px; border-bottom: 1px solid #efe9e0;\">\n        <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/124876581\/Development_and_Transformation_of_Eurasianism_during_the_Cold_War_Research_of_Archival_Documents\" style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 15.5px; font-weight: 500;\">Development and Transformation of Eurasianism during the Cold War: Research of Archival Documents<\/a>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 13px; opacity: 0.55; margin-top: 3px;\">Conference output<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div style=\"padding-bottom: 14px; border-bottom: 1px solid #efe9e0;\">\n        <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/muni.academia.edu\/MichalRacyn\" style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 15.5px; font-weight: 500;\">Eurasianist Approach to the Concepts of Russian Formalism in Selected Works of N. S. Trubetzkoy and P. N. Savitsky<\/a>\n        <div style=\"font-size: 13px; opacity: 0.55; margin-top: 3px;\">Article<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2076-0149\" style=\"color: #2e4a34; font-weight: 500; font-size: 14.5px;\">Full publication list on ORCID \u2192<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n<section id=\"contact\" class=\"mr-sec\" style=\"max-width: 1080px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 48px 48px 72px; border-top: 1px solid #e0dad1;\">\n    <h2 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0 0 10px;\">Feel free to contact me<\/h2>\n    <p style=\"opacity: 0.8; margin: 0 0 28px; font-size: 15px;\">Reach out on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michalracyn\" style=\"color: #2e4a34; font-weight: 500;\">LinkedIn<\/a>, or send a message below.<\/p>\n\n    <form action=\"https:\/\/formsubmit.co\/racyn@phil.muni.cz\" method=\"POST\" style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; max-width: 480px;\">\n      <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_subject\" value=\"New message from michalracyn.com\">\n      <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_captcha\" value=\"false\">\n      <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" placeholder=\"Your name\" required=\"\" style=\"padding: 12px 16px; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid #d2cdc7; font-size: 15px; background: #fefbf8; font-family: inherit;\">\n      <input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" placeholder=\"you@example.com\" required=\"\" style=\"padding: 12px 16px; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid #d2cdc7; font-size: 15px; background: #fefbf8; font-family: inherit;\">\n      <textarea name=\"message\" placeholder=\"Your message\" required=\"\" rows=\"5\" style=\"padding: 12px 16px; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid #d2cdc7; font-size: 15px; background: #fefbf8; font-family: inherit; resize: vertical;\"><\/textarea>\n      <button type=\"submit\" style=\"align-self: flex-start; background: #2e4a34; color: #f9f4ee; border: none; padding: 12px 26px; border-radius: 6px; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 500; cursor: pointer;\">Send message<\/button>\n    <\/form>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <footer style=\"max-width: 1080px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 24px 48px 32px; border-top: 1px solid #e0dad1; font-size: 13px; opacity: 0.55; text-align: center;\">\u00a9 2026 Michal Racyn<\/footer>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michal Racyn, Ph.D. Michal Racyn, Ph.D. Work to create the dots, then marvel at how they connect. 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