Publishing & Performance - AAALE012A

• Title: Writing, Publishing & Performance
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 15 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Louis Armand, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Louis Armand, Ph.D.
• Is co-requisite for: AAALE012B

Annotation

This is an intensive seminar restricted to students with a high level of English proficiency & a strong interest in writing, publishing & performance.

The focus of seminar activities will be practical exercises in composition / performance / production, as well as participation in events, workshops, author interviews, festival reports, reviews, etc.

Students will be strongly encouraged to participate in practical & organisational aspects of the Prague Microfestival (PMF) (www.praguemicrofestival.com) & to attend PMF workshops. There will also be the possibility of participating in the operations of Equus Press as part of an internship scheme (details on request).

Recommended reading:
Gary Peters, The Philosophy of Improvisation (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Tomáš Glanc, Samizdat Past & Present (file:///C:/Users/FF%20UK/Downloads/nahled-EK29974.pdf)
Petra Loučová, The “Old” Samizdat Is Dead, Long Live the “New” Samizdat! (https://www.forumhistoriae.sk/sites/default/files/07-loucova-the-old-samizdat-is-dead-long-live-the-new-samizdat-the-liberated-samizdat-club-in-the-post-communist-czechoslovak-book-market_0.pdf)

ASSESSMENT
1. attendance & active participation at seminar meetings;

2. attendance & active participation at the PMF;

3. maintaining a regular "journal" to record your critical responses & reflections on topics related to the seminar;

4. written assessment (totalling 3,000 words), which will include:
a) a report on the PMF;
b) an interview with a Prague anglophone performer/writer/publisher;
c) a profile of the Prague anglophone arts scene;
d) a review of (a) Prague anglophone book(s), publisher, event, collective, etc.
e) a short "essay" on the theme of improvisation, dissolution &/or alienation.

5. group/individual practical presentation: this will ideally combine all aspects of the seminar -- writing, publishing, performance -- e.g. through production of a zine; a vlog; participation in or preparation of some other kind of publication (in print or online); a performance piece or event; a roundtable discussion, etc. *Suggested that students form working groups for this purpose. **Students wishing to focus on individual or collaborative creative work may form a separate group (creative work should respond to one of the above themes (see 4e).

Last update: UAAARMAL (14.09.2025)