Events: March 2016
February 2016
April 2016
How to defeat Kremlin disinformation campaign?
March 1, 2016, 19:00
Russian Federation is waging hybrid warfare against European states. Its disinformation campaign aims to disintegrate the EU and NATO. How can we counter it? Panelists: Jakub Kalenský (Expert at EEAS East STRATCOM Team) and Yevhen Fedchenko (Founder of StopFake.org). Moderated by Jakub Janda, Deputy Director of European Values Think-Tank. More
Russia: The Curse of Empire
March 3, 2016, 19:00
“In the past Russia caused a great deal of suffering to many nations and ultimately to the entire world by, among other things, not knowing precisely where it began and where it ended.” Václav Havel, To the Castle and Back, 2006 More
Michael Žantovský: Václav Havel Here and Now
07/03/16 – 08/03/16
Are the ideas of the first post-1989 president still alive? Do they really have something to say today? How should we actually approach Václav Havel’s legacy? And what role does the Václav Havel Library play in promoting the life and work of one of the most important figures in Czech 20th century history? A serie of discussion of Michael Žantovský: More
Debate with Respekt: Putin’s Agents
March 8, 2016, 19:00
How Russian spies are stealing our secrets. A debate on the activities of the Russian secret services in the EU and Central Europe followed by the launch of Ondřej Kundra’s book Putinovi agenti (Putin’s Agents). More
Abnousse Shalmani: Khomeni, Sade and Me
March 9, 2016, 19:00
Author Abnousse Shalmani is visiting Prague on the occasion of the publication of the Czech edition of her book Khomeni, Sade and Me by the Garamond publishing house. Khomeni, Sade and Me is a pamphlet combining anecdotes from the writer’s life with reflections on social and political questions. More
Mahmoud Darwish, World-Renowned Palestinian Poet
March 10, 2016, 19:00
Celebration of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Mahmoud Darwish, the most eminent Palestinian poet, featuring readings of his poems in several languages: Czech, English and French. More
Taiwan – The Island of Freedom
March 11, 2016, 18:00
Film evening and panel discussion: Colonial History and the Democratization Process of Taiwan. More
For Our Freedom and Yours: Havel and Lithuania
March 14, 2016, 18:00
Lithuania independence was renewed on 11 March 1990, meaning that a quarter century has now passed since freedom and democracy changed the fates of the societies of the then Czechoslovakia and Lithuania. In the case of Lithuania, the transition to an independent state claimed human lives, sacrificed during an attack by Soviet forces on Vilnius’s television tower on 13 January 1991. More
Roma Women Write Differently
March 16, 2016, 19:00
Intimate meeting with four regular Václav Havel Library writers, Eva Danišová, Irena Eliášová, Jana Hejkrlíková and Iveta Kokyová, represented in the anthology Slunce zapadá už ráno (The Sun Sets in the Morning) (VHL, 2014). More
The Refugee Crisis in the CR and Germany
March 17, 2016, 19:00
Debate on the current social, political and media atmosphere and the differences between “Czech” and “German” views of the refugee crisis featuring German personalities with long connections to the Czech environment. More
Evening with Refat Chubarov
March 18, 2016, 20:00
Meeting with Refat Chubarov, the current leader of the Crimean Tartars, who will dicuss the future of the Crimea and Ukraine with Volodymyr Prytula, director of the Ukrainian Service of RFE/RL’s Krym.Realii project. More
Gender, the Dissent and Socialism
March 22, 2016, 19:00
How have gender stereotypes shaped prior to 1989 influenced us to this day? And when did the word feminism become a term of abuse? More
Is Russia Anti-Western or Not? – From the Utopia of Cybernetic Romanticism to Pjotr Pavlensky
March 23, 2016, 19:00
We think of the Soviet Union as a country cut off from the Western world by the Iron Curtain with official art of the socialist realist type and unofficial contemporary art and literature disseminated in samizdat, private studios and the kitchens of friends. However, the reality was more complicated. More
On the Integration of Foreigners in the Czech Republic and Europe
March 24, 2016, 19:00
In 2015 over 1,000,000 people from the Near and Middle East reached Europe. As EU member states attempt to limit refugees’ access to their territory the question arises as to how to deal with those who are already on the continent and who have the right to international protection. The panel discussion will consider the means and purposes of integration. More
Michael Žantovský in Brno: On Václav Havel and More
March 24, 2016, 14:00
Series of events of Michael Žantovský in Brno. More
Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák and Authorial Documentary Film
March 30, 2016, 19:00
Discussion evening with the R&K authorial duo, who, as well as delivering commentaries on excerpts from their films, will speak about their outlook on authorial documentary making, its transformation and development in recent years, Czech society, media literacy, manipulation and mystification...
Sursum Babylon
March 31, 2016, 19:00
The publishers and supporters of the arts and society review Babylon, which has been published in Prague since 1992, will present their new internet magazine project focused on political and arts news. Babylon writers have commented on the project pithily: Twenty-five years after the fall of communism, there’s nowhere to write. More