果冻影院

Co-organised with the Centre for the Study of Central Europe, 果冻影院 SSEES and the Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, this one-day conference, open to the public, aims to introduce the reading public as well as publishers, journalists, translators, students and scholars of Central European and Slovak history and politics to the latest developments on the Slovak literary scene.

Programme

9:30听听听 Registration 听听听听听听听听听听听

9:45 听听 Welcome:听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Professor Diane P. Koenker, 果冻影院 SSEES Director

Opening remarks:听听听 His Excellency 慕ubom铆r Reh谩k, Slovak Ambassador to the UK

Keynote address:听 听 Peter Zusi

Introduction:听听听听听听听听听 听 Julia Sherwood

10:00-11:30听听 Panel 1 - The Slovak Social and Literary Landscape After 1989

• Karen Henderson: Social and political development after 1989: was the Slovak transition unique?
• Ivana Taranenkov谩: Stories of 鈥渢ime out of joint鈥�: Slovak literature after 1989
• Radoslav Passia: Literary life in Slovakia after 1989

Chair: Thomas Lorman

11:30-11:45听听 Coffee Break

Book display: Slovak literature since 1989 in the 果冻影院 SSEES Library

(Zuzana Pin膷铆kov谩, SSEES library)

11:45-13:15听 Panel 2 - After the 鈥楨nd of History鈥�

• Dagmar Kro膷anov谩: Modern Slovak history on the stage after 1989
• Peter Darovec: Revolution in literature, literature in revolution (The case of Peter Pi拧钮anek)
• Tim Beasley-Murray: Jana Jur谩艌辞惫谩, the Tomcat, and the Right to Write
• Charles Sabatos: Contemporary Transnational Slovak Women's Writing

Chair: Peter Zusi

13.15-14.15.听 Lunch break 听听听听听听

14.15-15.45听 听Panel 3 - Literary life in Slovakia

• J谩n Gavura: The Role of small publishing houses in post-communist Slovakia
• Rajendra Chitnis: Comparing Czech and Slovak literature in English translation and its role in shaping Slovak identity
• Ivana Hostov谩: Slovak Poetry in English translation after the Velvet Revolution: can it ever be commercially successful (but should it even try)?听

Chair: Tim Beasley-Murray

15.45-16.00听 听Coffee break

Book display: Slovak literature since 1989 in the 果冻影院 SSEES Library

(Zuzana Pin膷铆kov谩, SSEES library)

16.00 -17.30听 听Panel 4 - Putting Slovak literature on the Anglophone map

• Julia Sherwood:听 Challenges of popularising Slovak literature in the anglophone world
• Susan Curtis: Challenges of publishing translated literature in the UK
• Katarina Gephardt 鈥揂 planned Companion to Contemporary Slovak Literature
• Pitches 鈥� brief recommendations of books that should be translated into English

Chair: David Short

17:30听 Drinks reception hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovakia

听听听听听听听听听 Masaryk Room, School of Slavonic and East European Studies,

16 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW

Leading specialists from Slovakia, the UK and US will present a survey of the听Slovak social and literary landscape and social developments over the past 30 years and major literary trends. Four panels will explore how recent Slovak history and social transformation after 1989 has been reflected in literature, also in the context of neighbouring post-communist countries.听 Panellists will introduce the vibrant contemporary literary scene in Slovakia and discuss the best ways of putting Slovak literature on the Anglophone map and make recommendations for books that should be translated into English and why.听

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