Slavonic Cultures in the European Context: Developmental, Artistic, and Intellectual Specifics

This workshop on the upcoming edited volume of the same name will focus on the subject matter of the book and a discussion about current and future collaboration. The authors will present the topics covered in each chapter and, thanks to the discussion, will gain feedback from the other researchers involved in the project, the volume editors, and other members of the academic public who will take part in the workshop.

The goal of the volume is to examine select developmental, artistic, and intellectual specifics of Slavonic cultures in the European context. These characteristics have one thing in common: the fact that they are the results of the creative adoption of European models and at the same time of distancing from such models. This process led to the emergence of certain cultural-historical anomalies typical of Slavonic cultures. They became distinctive art forms, movements, and genres, or specific cultural practices, intellectual traditions, political ideas, and ideological currents. These distinctive features will be comprehensively and synoptically presented in the individual chapters of the book.

Topics:

• distinctive features of artistic periods / movements / genres / forms in Slavonic literatures, theatre, music, film, comics, and other art forms
• distinctive cultural traditions and artistic practices in Slavonic contexts
• delayed or accelerated development of Slavonic cultures in European and inter-Slavonic contexts
• reflections on relations between East and West, Russia and Europe
• representations of cultural Otherness, Orientalism/Occidentalism in Slavonic areas
• Slavonic pan-national and transnational concepts in comparison with European ideas
• the politicization of art and literary criticism in the Slavonic area and the greater European context

Related major research area of the Department of Slavonic Studies:
Comparative research of Slavonic literatures and cultures in the European context

Organizers:
Petr Stehlík (coordinator), Marek Příhoda, Pavel Pilch

Language:
Czech