13/09/2023 Guy Fontaine, Professeur, Cours d’introduction
« Polish writer Mariusz SZCZYGIEL’s novel Gottland describes the years of Stalinism in Tchekoslovakia.We are in 1949, the year during which dictator JosephSTALIN’s 70th birthday is celebrated in Praha. »
20/09/2023 Magdalena Platzova, Czech novelist and translator,
Kafka in his context
Two lethal yet fruitful struggles were central to Kafka’s existence and art : writing as a German speaking Jew in the Czech lands, and the unattainable desire to both marry an remain in solitude.
04/10/2023 Velina Minkoff, Bulgarian novelist and translator
A journey through Bulgarian literature and geopolitical situation in Bulgaria
11/10/2023 Luc Devoldere, Belgian editor, writer, memberof Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Literature
Humanism in the Low Countries during the 16th Century
The lecture will focus on the role of Latin as lingua francaof the Republic of Letters in Europe.Three authors from the Low Countries, writing in Latin, will shortly be introduced :the iconic humanist and scholar Erasmus, the mannerist love poet Janus Secundus and the diplomat and scholar Augerius Busbequius (Ogier Gisleen van Busbeke). With excerpts in English translation from « Laus Stultitiae », Praise of Folly (Erasmus) ; « Basia », Kisses(Janus Secundus) and « Turcicae epistolae », Turkish Letters (Ogier Gisleen van Busbeke).
25/10/2023 Luc Devoldere, Belgian editor, writer, memberof Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Literature
Imperium Romanum: a political experiment of empirical pragmatism
Rome gave Europe the political construction of the Imperium Romanum. This construction continues to fascinate through its pragmatism and empiricism (Emperor Hadrian and Trajan). The lecture also focuses onthe experience, coveted by Plato, of a philosopher in power: Marcus Aurelius.
08/11/2023 Velina Minkoff, Bulgarian novelist and translator
Lecture about the contemporary Bulgarian novelist Velina Minkoff translates from Bulgarian to English : Alek Popov. Before presenting this important Bulgarian writer Velina will explore the realist socialist Bulgarian literary creation
15/11/2023 Timour Muhidine, Professor of Turkish Literature and Language INALCO Paris
George Orwell, Animal Farms : bitter consideration about communist utopia
22/11/2023 Timour Muhidine, Professor of Turkish Literature and Language INALCO Paris, and novelist
A journey through Turkish literature, from the origine to Oran Pamuk
06/12/2023 Lenka Hornakova, romancière et dessinatrice Tchèque
Un regard bleu, de Comenius à Wermeer
Exceptionnellement ce cours sera donné en Français à la demande de la romancière tchèque Lenka Hornakova, prix Renaudot des Lycéens.
La conférence de Lenka portera sur L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’Ëtre et l’œuvre de Milan Kundera en général ainsi que la thématique de la beauté.
