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Pavla Jazairiová: Another Africa 
February 4, 2019, 19:00

Jiná Afrika (Another Africa) by journalist Pavla Jazairiová, an expanded version of the successful book, is focused on north and west Africa: Mali, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia. From many perspectives, Africa is a place of misery, despair and decay. This leads many Africans to wish to depart for Europe and begin new lives. Jazairiová’s perspective, shorn of illusions or any hints of folklore, is a painful but valuable effort to avoid cheap moralising and to look for explanations. The book also includes informed glosses by Jana Hybášková, the European Union’s ambassador to Namibia.  More

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Petr Hruška: It’s Never Said 
February 7, 2019, 19:00

Publishers Host have just issued Nikde není řečeno (It’s Never Said), a new poetry collection by Petr Hruška. The Ostrava native works as a literary historian at the Institute of Czech Literature at the Czech Academy of Sciences and as well as poetry (such as Obývací nepokoje/ Living Discomforts, Auta vjíždějí do lodí/ Cars Boarding a Boat, Darmata) also writes prose (the collection Jedna věta/ One Sentence for Revolver Revue, columns for Respekt and the online Bubeník Revolveru). Hruška’s books do not come out frequently and his behaviour occasionally sparks a rumpus, such as most recently when he quit the jury of the State Literature Prize in protest at a deal with the Communists that allowed for the formation of the current Czech government. More

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Mark Slouka: Labyrinth of the Heart 
February 11, 2019, 19:00

A meeting with the Czech-American novelist More

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Debate with Respekt 
February 12, 2019, 19:00

Discussion with Respekt editors and their guests on a topical issue. For more information visit www.vaclavhavel.cz

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Karel Hiršl’s Path to the Resistance 
February 13, 2019, 19:00

Letters written by Karel Hiršl to friends forced to work in the Reich are not just a personal and historical testimony but also a generational one. In the missives the then 20-year-old worked his way through the legacy of Czech and world literature in order, following the shock of Munich, to find a new spiritual orientation under which the world could be made better and more just. Like many, he found the answer in the ideas of socialism and in the establishment of the resistance organisation Vanguard. On 2 May 1945, Karel Hiršl was among 50 young Communist resistance fighters executed at the Small Fortress at Terezín. Those who survived, including philosopher Karel Kosík, were in the vanguard of the Prague Spring in the 1960s.  More

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On Love, Darkness and Amos Oz 
February 18, 2019, 19:00

Evening dedicated to Amos Oz, one of the most acclaimed of Israeli writers and intellectuals. The author of over 30 works of literature, essays and memoirs he died on 28 December last year. His oeuvre created indelible portraits of Israeli reality and the country’s political and spiritual roots and conflicts. His most important books include My Michael (1968), Unto Death (1971) and the memoir A Tale of Darkness (2002). More

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Václav Havel and Film: Screenplays, Analyses and Reflections, 1957–1989 
February 19, 2019, 19:00

Launch of the book Václav Havel a Film. Scénáře, analýzy a úvahy z let 1957–1989 (Vaclav Havel and Film: Screenplays, Analyses and Reflections, 1957–1989). The freshly issued collection of work by Václav Havel includes research discoveries, such as previously unpublished screenplays and texts for and about film. It has been edited by Professor Jan Bernard of FAMU film school and is being published by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with the National Film Archive. More

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Václav Havel: Protest, Divadlo na tahu 
February 20, 2019, 19:00

To sign or not to sign? A one-act play about a complicated question and even more complicated answer, about a long-standing dilemma that represents an essential subject for the author of dramas. Times are bad. Petitions and protests are all the rage in Czechoslovakia and internationally. But do such activities have any meaning? Can the dissatisfied and unreconciled influence what is happening around them? Do they influence the actions and consciences of politicians? Is that enough? Join us in looking back at 1978’s Protest, one of Havel’s lesser-known Vaněk plays.

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Journalists in Danger 
February 21, 2019, 19:00

It is exactly a year since the death of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak. The talented reporter and his partner Martina Kušnírová were murdered on 21 February 2018. The investigative journalist wrote for the website Aktuality.sk and was writing about alleged links between the Italian mafia and top Slovak government officials. The crime rocked Slovakia, sparked the biggest demonstrations since the fall of communism and subsequently led to the resignations of interior minister Robert Kaliňák and prime minister Robert Fico and the departure of police chief Tibor Gašpar. More

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Republic Café: The Czech Lot 
February 26, 2019, 19:00

The Czech lotthe Czech lot? Milan Kundera’s December 1968 article and Václav Havel’s almost immediate response “caused” a long-running debate among Czech intellectuals that returns in regular waves to the pages of our culture magazines.  More

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Evenings with Reporters: Poles and Czechs 30 Years Later 
February 27, 2019, 19:00

For Central European states, 1989 represented both a new starting line and the challenge of dealing with many internal problems. Thirty years after the fall of communism, Polish and Czech journalists and public figures will discuss changes in the two countries. This yearlong debate series has grown out of cooperation between the Václav Havel Library and the Polish Institute in Prague. More

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