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Dr Marilynn Richtarik: Brian Friel and Field Day
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Irish Studies, invites you to a lecture “Brian Friel and Field Day” by Dr Marilynn Richtarik (Georgia State University). Marilynn Richtarik is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University and a leading expert on Northern Irish theatre and drama. She is the author of an acclaimed monograph […]
Tomáš Klír: “Images that heat – stove tiles in late medieval Bohemia”
Housing culture changed dramatically in the high and late medieval period across all social milieus in the Czech lands. One of the crucial changes concerned heating facilities. The heated but smoke-free rooms with stoves emerged, primarily in castles, later in towns and finally in peasant farmsteads. Designed tile stoves, situated usually in the most spectacular […]
Prof. Matthew Guterl (Brown University): Donald Trump, Capitalism, and the Endings of America
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Matthew Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Chair of American Studies at Brown University. Matthew Pratt Guterl is a historian of race and nation, with a focus on United States history from the Civil War to […]
Emily Guerry: “Passion relics and Patrons between Paris and Prague”
The symbolic significance of the Crown of Thorns forever changed when the relic arrived in Paris. King Louis IX of France (1214, r. 1226–1270, canonized 1297) received the Crown as part of a diplomatic exchange with Emperor Baldwin II (1217, r. 1237–1273). For the kingdom of France, the subsequent acquisition of more Byzantine reliquaries between 1241 […]
Vincent Gillespie: “Man of Sorrows”
The talk will explore cognitive stillness and affective movement in the tradition of Christ as The Man of Sorrows.
Helena Znojemská: „The Franks Casket and the Appositive Style“
In his seminal book, Beowulf and the Appositive Style, Fred C. Robinson presented the complex structure of the epic as a creative application, on a large scale, of the principle underlying the Old English poetic technique of variation. Since then, the semantically open juxtaposition of contrastive, parallel or subtly modified statements has been traced and explored in […]
Dr Mark Nixon: Samuel Beckett – The Manuscripts and the Library
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Irish Studies invite you to a lecture “Samuel Beckett: The Manuscripts and the Library” by Dr Mark Nixon (University of Reading). Mark Nixon is Associate Professor at the Department of English Literature and Beckett Fellow at the University of Reading in the UK. He is also a director of […]
