David Danaher: Václav Havel’s Conception of East and West
- Where: Montmartre Gallery
- When: June 5, 2013, 11:00 – 13:00
Where did the significance of the Cold War lie in Václav Havel’s view? Was the East prior to 1989 the very opposite of the West and can the changes that followed 1989 by regarded as a definitive victory for “Western” civilisation and “Western” cultural values? How does the subject of East and West relate in Havel’s writings to the subject of world globalisation after 1989? A brief overview of arguments selected from one chapter of David Danaher’s book Reading Václav Havel will serve as a stimulus to a broader discussion.
David Danaher is a professor at the Department of Slavic Studies and Literature at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is currently focussed on the work of Václav Havel and has also had interpretative studies of the author’s writings published in Bohemistics journals (Slovo a slovesnost, Slovo a smysl, Česká literatura) in the Czech Republic.