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The online course isorganized by the University of Zurich and the Charles University. We focus on the history of the dissident movements in Eastern and Central Europe. The focus will be on the inherent pluralism within the dissident movements, the differences of opinion, the forgotten trends, and the suppressed issues and problems that could not be opened up so as not to undermine the compactness of the resistance. Such discursive phenomena, which are sometimes called wounding adherence or dispositifs of silence, have great testimonial and artistic value, showing why plurality on the one hand and individual solitary aesthetic and ethical gestures on the other. The course will also explore the so-called "grey zone", the boundaries of dissent and the way dissent is shaped through examples of literature and other media and the international collaboration within the dissident movement. The exile will be also focused. The course is composed of lectures by specialists in Eastern European literary history from different countries and institutions, which is precisely made possible by the online setting The detailed schedule of the course is available on the Moodle. https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=13174#section-3 log in: PrahaZurich Last update: Heczková Libuše, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (07.02.2025)
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Each lecture is accopmanied by a set of the texts. Each studnet is supposed to write down the question before the lecture and to write the specific protocol about it afterwards (the question will be a part of this protocol). Studnets will meet personaly with the course coordinator once per semestr. A final short essay will be submitted at the end of the course. If possibel the field trip to Zurich will be part of the course. An optional excursion of Czech students (small summer school) in Zurich will take place at the end of May or beginning of June (to be specified). Last update: Heczková Libuše, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (07.02.2025)
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Achino-Loeb, Maria-Luisa (ed.) 2006 Silence: the currency of power. New York: Berghahn Books. Bolton, Jonathan (2012). Worlds of Dissent. Harvard: Harvard UP. Flanagan, Brenda and Hana Waisserova (2024). Women's Artistic Dissent: Womanhood and Oppression in Pre-1989 Central Europe. Lexington Books. Harlow, Barbara: Barred (1992). Women, Writing and Political Detention. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press. Havelková, Hana – Oates - Indruchová, Libora, eds. (2014). „Expropriated voice: transformation of gender culture under state socialism; Czech society 1948-89.“ In eidem, eds.: The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism. An expropriated voice. London: Routledge Mezi disentem, undergroundem a šedou zónou. Neoficiální bulharská literatura 1944 – 1989. Praha: Academia /Slovanský ústav AV ČR, 2021, 511 s. /the english exctrats will be avialable/ Skilling, H. Gordon (1989). Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe, London: Macmillan Wutsdorff, Irina, (2010). „Post‑Structuralism under Communist Conditions? The Construction of Identity in Czech Dissident Literature“, Slovo a smysl 14, vol VII, 2010, pp. 103-114. Akvile Reklaityte (2023) Meaning Twist: National Images in Lithuanian Poetry of the Late Soviet Period, Letonica, no. 51, p. 72–95. Last update: Heczková Libuše, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (10.12.2024)
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The course is based on individual lectures by specialists from European and non-European institutions. Garants of the lectures: prof. Tomáš Glanc Zürich University, prof. Sylvia Sasse Zürich University, Libuše Heczková Charles University Dissidents among dissidents in Exile: 18.02. Libuše Heczková, Tomáš Glanc: Introduction of the course syllabus and the shared module programme in general, a terminological reflection on the concepts of "dissident" and "exile" from our point of view with concrete examples, recommendations of basic and recently published literature (Waissarova, Nathans) and a presentation of the concept that gave this course its name (Ilya Budraitskis). 25.02. Ilja Budraitskis (University of California, Berkeley): Dissidents among dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia. 04.03. Veronika Tuckerová (Harvard University): Goldstücker, Škvorecký, Jedlička, Preisner. 11.03. Olga Olkheft (Bielefeld University): Exile, Dissidents, Canon: Inventing «Russian Avant-Garde» in the Cold War. 18.03. Tomáš Pospiszyl (Academy of Science, Czech Republic) Eastern European visual art in exile: aesthetics, ethics, commerce, society, politics. 25.03. Hana Waisserova (University of Nebraska–Lincoln): “Manosphere” age and dissidents among dissidents: What can we learn from Creative Czech women? 01.04. Jakub Mikulecký (Slavonic Institute, Academy of Science, Czech Republic): Dissent and exile in the Bulgarian context. 08.04. Pavel Kolář (University Konstanz): Dissidents among dissidents in Exile Humanities. 15.04. Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania): To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement. 22.04. Vladimír Urbánek: Norwegian Agent Milada Blekastad. 29.04. Ivan Landa: Marxists, Stalinists and revisionists in exile. 06.05. István Rév (OSA): Dissidents among dissidents in OSA (to be confirmed) 13.05. Rėklaitytė Akvilė (LIETUVIŲ LITERATŪROS IR TAUTOSAKOS INSTITUTAS): Dissent, exile, colonisation: the Lithuanian perspective. 20.05. Veronika Ambros (University of Toronto): Lubomír Doležel as a Narratological Dissident of Prague. Structuralism in Canadian Exile 27.05. Josef Hrdlička (Charles University): Poetry in Exile: Eastern European Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition Last update: Heczková Libuše, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (07.02.2025)
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