25 May 2022 Academic Publishers and Where to Find Them: Getting Published in Book Form 2:00 PM Fakulta strojního inženýrství VUT v Brně Vás srdečně zve na workshopAcademic Publishers and Where to Find Them:Getting Published in Book Form
19 May 2022 Doktorská zkouška a obhajoba disertační práce - Mgr. Čapek 5:30 PM Pozvánka na veřejné zasedání komise pro státní doktorskou zkoušku a obhajobu disertační práce, které se koná ve čtvrtek 19. května 2022 od 17:30 hodin
12 May 2022 Lecture: Entering the World of Alice Munro 1:00 PM In this class I look at how Alice Munro leads readers into fictional worlds. I consider her first sentences and reflect on style and variety in her stories, especially in light of the claim that there is a distinct style to her prose. An examination of her first sentences leads to at least one conclusion: for all their stylistic diversity, Munro’s lead-off sentences tend to establish a tension between what is realistic and tangible and what is seeming, what lies beneath or hidden.
29 Apr 2022 Investigating the semiotic particularities and pragmatic functions of pandemic memes 2:00 PM Guest lectureprof. Villy Tsakona (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)Investigating the semiotic particularities and pragmatic functions of pandemic memesFriday 29.4.2022, 2-3 pm, B2-23
29 Apr 2022 Northern Wind of Change: Improving the working conditions of literary translators 8:30 AM International conference of literary translators - best practices from Norway, Iceland and the Czech Republic.
25 Apr 2022 Emmanuel Desveaux: From popular imagery to contemporary realities : US and Canadian Native people in historical perspectives 6:00 PM
25 Apr 2022 Indigenous Americas? Representation and appropriation of in modern American Art and design 5:30 PM How did modern artists, designers and architects approach indigenous cultural heritage in the United States?
6 Apr 2022 Mapping Joyce’s Modernism: ‘The Dead’ and ‘Telemachus’ 10:00 AM According to James Joyce’s father, his son’s mind worked like a prototype of Google Maps: ‘If that fellow was dropped in the middle of the Sahara, he’d sit, be God, and make a map of it’ (Eileen Schaurek qtd in Ellmann 1982, 28).