Czech-in to Literary Culture IV
Cultural Transfers: The Travels of Words, Ideas, and Images Across Cultural Systems
Date: April 20–24, 2026
Organizer: Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Institute of Slavic Studies
Monday
Venue: Institute of Slavic Studies, Ingardena St. 3, Room 115
- 09:00: Opening ceremony of the study week
- 09:30–11:00: Workshop 1: The City in Literature – Literature in the City (Dorota Bielec, Natalia Palich)
- 11:00–11:30: Break
- 11:30–13:00: Workshop 2: Constructing the Orient in Texts at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries (David Jirsa)
Tuesday
Venue: Klub RE, Świętego Krzyża St. 4
- 12:00–13:30: Workshop 3: Words in a Different Arrangement (Jaromír Typlt)
- 13:30–14:00: Break
- 14:00–15:00: Mutated Author Reading (Jaromír Typlt, Jiří Koten)
- 19:00: Czech Karaoke (Venue: Cafe Szafe, Felicjanek St. 10)
Wednesday
Venue: Institute of Slavic Studies, Ingardena St. 3, Room 115
- 09:00–10:30: Workshop 4: Representations of the Underworld in 19th-Century and Early 20th-Century Czech Literature (Jiří Koten)
- 10:30–11:00: Break
- 11:00–12:30: Workshop 5: Writing Between Languages – Translingualism in Czech Literature and in Practice (Joanna Derdowska)
Thursday
Venue: Institute of Slavic Studies, Ingardena St. 3, Room 115
- 09:00–10:30: Workshop 6: Dystopia in Space and Time – Čapek’s Robots in an Intermedial Perspective (Suzana Kos, Matija Ivačić)
- 10:30–11:00: Break
- 11:00–12:30: Workshop 7: Narrative and Pictorial Representation in Travel Writing (Jiří Hrabal)
- 16:30–17:45: Screening of short author films
- 18:00: Reception (Institute of Slavic Studies, 2nd floor)
Friday
- 09:00–12:00: Guided tour of Kraków Street Art (Start: Primary School No. 10, Blachnickiego St. 1)
- 18:00: Informal closing of the study week – concert “Ale ekipę żeście zmontowali” (Spółdzielnia Ogniwo, Smolki St. 11a)
Online Part
Date: May 7, 2026
- The Streets Tell Stories: On Literature Inscribed in the City