Publishing & Performance - AAALE012A

• Title: Writing, Publishing & Performance
• Form of teaching: seminar
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 18 (unknown)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
• 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 practical & organisational aspects of the Prague Microfestival (PMF) (www.praguemicrofestival.com).

Recommended reading:
Gary Peters, The Philosophy of Improvisation (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Louis Armand & Michel Delville, Erasurism (Bridwell/Project Poetica, 2026)

ASSESSMENT
1. attendance & active participation at seminar meetings (max 2 absences);

2. attendance & active participation in a designated role at the PMF;

3. written assessment (totalling 3,000 words, due 30 January), which will include one or more of the following:
a) 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 &/or erasurism.

*Please bring pen, pencil, paper to every session (also useful: scissors & glue).

*NB all aspects of the writing of the essay must be the student's own work (use of AI will be treated in the same way as plagiarism)

**Winter 2026 READING WEEK will take place 16-20 November (no classes)

Last update: Armand Louis, Ph.D. (30.09.2026)