Giles Duley began his career as a fashion photographer, but he soon left the world of celebrities behind and started to map the stories of people who live in turbulent parts of the world, often in areas plagued by war. When working in Afghanistan in 2011, he stepped on a mine and lost both legs and an […]
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Discussion with the American poet David Shapiro
The American poet David Shapiro is the author of the poem “The Funeral of Jan Palach” which inspired John Hejduk’s monument. The text of the poem is part of the installation. David Shapiro was a friend of John Hejduk and was also acquainted with Václav Havel. For more information about David Shapiro, see the poet’s profile at Poetry Foundation […]
John D’Amicantonio: The censorship or banned books (Information Resource Officer, US embassy, Vienna)
John D’Amicantonio, Information Resource Officer for Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, has served in U.S. embassies in Baghdad, Abu Dhabi and Brasilia. Before joining the State Department in 2004 John was an academic librarian at California State University, Long Beach for 16 years. Prior to obtaining his M.S.L.S. in 1988 John […]
Israeli Historian Shlomo Sand: The Invention of the Jewish Nation
How has the story of the Jewish identity been developing? What was the role of Zionism in this story? What does Jewish national identity have in common with European nationalisms? What does it mean to be a post-Zionist today? The lecture and the following discussion will be hosted by Pavel Barša. The whole event shall be […]
Migration and Public Discourse
Plenary Lecture: Ruth Wodak (linguistics, Lancaster University): Language of Walls Matěj Spurný: to be specified (history, FA CU) Alena Pařízková: Metaphors we live with the refugee situation (anthropology and sociology, FF ZČU) Eva Lehečková, Michal Hořejší: The role of political correctness in public discourse on immigration (linguistics, FF UK)
