Events: January 2016
December 2015
February 2016
Karel Janeček: Democracy 2.1
January 11, 2016, 19:00
Mathematician Karel Janeček will introduce his innovative Democracy 2.1 (D21) voting system. More
The Holocaust and Other Genocides
January 13, 2016, 19:00
Martin Šmok of the USC Shoah Foundation and Petr Pánek, director of publishers Pant, will present the Czech translation of the book The Holocaust and Other Genocides and speak about the importance of education and about the mechanisms of genocide. More
Ladislav Heryán: An Earth Without a Horizon
January 14, 2016, 19:00
Presentation of the book Země bez obzoru (An Earth Without a Horizon), which was issued by the Vyšehrad publishing house in 2015. More
Us, Europe and the World
January 18, 2016, 19:00
A debate about Czech foreign policy values, national interests, human rights, European security and Václav Havel with co-creators of Havel’s foreign policy – Karel Schwarzenberg, Alexandr Vondra and Michael Žantovský.
Olga Lomová: China Itself
January 19, 2016, 19:00
Our economic and political convergence with the People’s Republic of China is accompanied by rhetoric of a civilisation going back many millennia, differing cultural traditions and the success of the Chinese model. More
Ivan Medek – A Certain Voice
January 20, 2016, 18:30
Evening dedicated to the musicologist and journalist Ivan Medek, a Charter 77 signatory and Voice of America editor whose mesmeric language helped shape the events of 1989 in Czechoslovakia. Ivan Medek, a living chronicle of the 20th century and an irreplaceable colleague of Václav Havel’s, will be recalled by Helena Medková, Ivan Binar and Pavel Fischer. The event will be introduced by Vilém Prečan and chaired by Tomáš Černý. More
Sádlo and Prague and Brno
January 21, 2016, 19:00
Reading by Jiří Sádlo from his latest book Praha a Brno (Prague and Brno). Evening hosted by Jáchym Topol. More
Havel at the Klinika Squat: The Underground Then and the Underground Now
January 25, 2016, 19:00
Musical recordings with commentary as an effort to compare the underground of “the Havel era” with today’s underground scene. More
Alan Pajer: Václav Havel in Photography
January 26, 2016, 19:00
Evening with photographer Alan Pajer, who captured Václav Havel in his photography over many years, but above all during his time as a presidential office photographer. Pajer’s photographs provide an insight into key moments in Czech politics in the 1990s.
Evening with Pavel Kohout
January 27, 2016, 19:00
Pavel Kohout, playwright and novelist, Czech and Austrian poet, representative of constructivist poetry, Prague Spring activist, one of Charter 77’s founders, a forced exile… in an interview with Michael Žantovský.
Igor Janke: Fighting Solidarity – Underground Army
January 28, 2016, 19:00
Polish journalist Igor Janke’s book is a gripping history of the most radical and best organised anti-communist organisation in the Eastern Bloc. Portraits of legendary leaders Kornel Morawiecki and Jadwiga Chmielowska alternate with snapshots of the everyday struggles of activists who after the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981 were determined to resist communism, some bearing arms. More