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An Evening with Eda Kriseová 
March 2, 2015, 19:00

The novelist and former advisor to Václav Havel will read from her most recent book Duši, tělo opatruj (Soul, Cherish the Body). Among other subjects, she will discuss the inspiration for the characters in her short stories, novellas and novels, as well as the latest edition of her book Václav Havel.  Vojtěch and Irena Havel will perform live music.

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Abbé Libánský: Václav Havel and the Transformations of Czech Society in Photography I 
March 3, 2015, 19:00

The series presents the work of documentary photographers whose work captured Václav Havel over many years. The first evening will get underway with a projection by artist Abbé J. Libánský of images from Prague’s underground scene in the 1970s, an informal chronical of people pushed to the fringes of society, a world that Václav Havel also inhabited.

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Journey to the Soviet Union 
March 4, 2015, 14:00

Just a few days after his speech at the United States Congress in 1990, Václav Havel visited Moscow... More

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Prague Odyssey – The Future of the City as a Common Mission I 
March 5, 2015, 19:00

A discussion series on the future of Prague as a successful, safe, healthy and competitive 21st century city. In cooperation with the Prague Institute of Planning and Development.

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Marie Rút Křížková: Listen and Respond 
March 9, 2015, 19:00

Presentation of Slyšet A Odpovídat (Listen and Respond), the memoirs of Marie Rút Křížková, editor of the works of Jiří Orten and Charter 77 spokesperson. The evening will be hosted by Ester Janečková. Other speakers will include Mireia Ryšková and the Czech minister of culture, Daniel Herman.

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The Revolt of Islam: the Middle East in turmoil 
March 10, 2015, 18:00

Lecture and discussion organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Italian Embassy in Prague and Václav Havel Library with a major Italian journalist Antonio Ferrari, who is a longtime special correspondent of the largest Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in the Middle East. More

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The Underground Phenomenon: Beatrice Landovská 
March 11, 2015, 10:00

A series of lectures on the Czech underground as a social, political and historical phenomenon organised by the Historical Sociology department at Charles University’s Faculty of Humanities and the Václav Havel Library and headed by sociologist Nicolas Maslowski.

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New Hope in Politics 
March 11, 2015, 19:00

Another evening with Marek Orko Vácha, this time with guests Janem Čižinský (mayor of Prague 7), Matěj Hollan (3rd deputy mayor of Brno) and Zdeněk Papoušek (senator for the Brno-city constituency). More

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Tomáš Glanc: Psychedelic Poetics in Russia 
March 12, 2015, 20:00

Altered states of consciousness were a subject of fascination for representatives of Russian Symbolism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, or even earlier if we consider the significant role of opiates in the spiritual life of Anna Karenina from Tolstoy’s novel. Mikhail Bulgakov was another literary figure who masterfully described how the regular intake of morphine could turn reality on its head. More

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Talks Across Borders – With Jörg Plath and Radka Denemarková 
March 16, 2015, 19:00

Final evening in a three-part series following in the tradition of the “Talks on neighbourliness”, focused on Czech-German relations, initiated by Václav Havel in 1995. More

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Contemporary Indians’ Idle No More! Protest 
March 17, 2015, 19:00

Lecture by Charles University anthropologist Jakub Hutera. In 2012 the Canadian government approved a law that in part deregulated the legal protection of the majority of the country’s lakes, rivers and large swathes of the coasts of three oceans. More

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Magnesia Litera I 
March 18, 2015, 19:00

Reading by authors nominated for some of the seven categories in the annual Magnesia Litera book awards. Three or four writers from various categories will read at the gathering. Presented by Pavel Mandys from organisers the Litera civic association.

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On Czech National Identity 
March 19, 2015, 19:00

A meeting with author František Kautman. The evening will take place in connection with the publication of O českou národní identitu (On Czech National Identity), an important work by František Kautman,  a literary historian, critic, essayist, prose writer and poet who was also a Charter 77 spokesperson. More

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Taiwan, Island of Literature 
March 23, 2015, 19:00

In recent years, noteworthy literature written in Chinese in Taiwan since the 1960s has begun to reach Czech readers. The writers Lu Pching and Wu Ming-I will discuss literature, language and society in Taiwan, as well as their own work. Excerpts from the Chinese originals and Czech translations will be read during the evening, while a discussion will be chaired by leading sinologist Olga Lomová (Charles University).

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Cabinet Havel: Media Dictate, the Cult of Profit 
March 24, 2015, 17:00

How does today’s media work? Can we orient ourselves in it and does one really have alternatives? What influence do media outlets have on our lives and our views? Do they deliver important information or just create a smokescreen? How does self-censorship work, and is the reader a victim or an accomplice? More

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The Underground Phenomenon: Jáchym Topol 
March 25, 2015, 10:00

A series of lectures on the Czech underground as a social, political and historical phenomenon organised by the Historical Sociology department at Charles University’s Faculty of Humanities and the Václav Havel Library and headed by sociologist Nicolas Maslowski.

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Magnesia Litera II 
March 25, 2015, 19:00

Reading by authors nominated for some of the seven categories in the annual Magnesia Litera book awards. Three or four writers from various categories will read at the gathering. Presented by Pavel Mandys from organisers the Litera civic association.

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Debate with Respekt: War at Europe’s Doors 
March 26, 2015, 19:00

How should the Czech Republic react to the Ukrainian crisis? Confirmed guests: Lubomír Zaorálek, Karel Schwarzenberg, Michaela Šojdrová, Libor Dvořák, Jakub Janda. Hosted by Tomáš Sacher.

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Talks in English: Crossed lines – do we really understand one another? 
March 30, 2015, 19:00

The next in a series of talks in English with colleagues and friends of Václav Havel. Discussion with Pavel Fischer and Jiří Šitler, both diplomats and colleagues of Václav Havel, chaired  by David Vaughan. One of the challenges of the diplomat is to try to understand the way others think. But is this really possible? More

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Squatting: Civic Activism versus Czech Law 
March 31, 2015, 19:00

Where do the boundaries of private ownership lie? What would the decriminalisation or even legalisation of squatting mean for Czech law? Journalist Ivan Brezina, ecologist Arnošt Novák (Klinika initiative), City of Prague councillor for territorial development Matěj Stropnický and lawyer Pavel Uhl will discuss the essence of squatting and its legal aspect.

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