Czech Culture:

Literature, Theatre, New Media, Environment

- EN

4 ECTS

7 weeks/2 hours week

Max. 20 students

Wednesday: 10:00- 11:30 (room 310, 3rd floor, main building of the Faculty of Arts)

Final assessment requirements:

Regular attendance + final written test immediately after the last lecture; only one absence allowed. In case of two absences, student must submit a paper (5 standard pages + references; in English/French/Russian or Czech) to ass. prof. Voldřichová Beránková (co-ordinator of the module) in order to obtain the credits. The topic of the paper must be related to the module. More than two absences will result in a "fail" for the entire course.

Czech Culture is a graded module. Grading is based on results of the final written test: 1 = excellent, 2 = good, 3 = average, 4 = fail

21. 10. 2015: 10:00 - 11:30

1) doc. PhDr. Lucie Doležalová, PhD., lucie.dolezalova@ff.cuni.cz

Medieval Manuscripts from the Czech Lands

4. 11. 2015: 10.00-11.30

2) PhDr. Miroslav Lapka, CSc., miloslav.lapka@ff.cuni.cz

European and Czech traditions and landscape. Landscape as human experience and object of science. Introduction.

(Prehistoric experiences with landscapes, pre-scientific terms in ecology and landscape. Competing definitions of landscape in science, art, ecology and sociology. Albert Einstein, Edmund Husserl, Jan Patočka.

Netherlandslandscape painting and its influence on the cultural construction of the contemporary uses of the term "landscape". Theory of Sublime in defence of landscape interest. Great landscape traditions, including the founding definition of landscape by Alexander von Humboldt 1800 and the ideas of Peter Brueghel (the elder) and Caspar David Friedrich.Cultural Symbols in landscapes - part of our living home-place.

Recommended readings: Edmund Husserl: The Crisis of European Science and Transcendental Philosophy, English translation for example by D. Car.Evanston:NordtwesternUniversityPress, 1970.

Recommended readings: Edmund Husserl: The Crisis of European Science and Transcendental Philosophy, English translation for example by D. Car.Evanston:NordtwesternUniversityPress, 1970.

11. 11. 2015: 10.00-11.30

3) PhDr. Miroslav Lapka, CSc., miloslav.lapka@centrum.cz

Phenomenon of Green Man in Prague Start in classroom and short trip in downtown Prague to recognize symbol of Green man.

Recommended readings: Schema, S. Landscape and Memory. 1st ed.New York, Vintage Books, 1966.

18. 11. 2015: 10.00-11:30

4) PhDr. Záviš Šuman, PhD.: zavissuman@hotmail.com

Jakub Deml: Between Earth and Heaven. A Portrait of a Modern Czech Catholic Poet, Priest and Troublemaker

25. 11. 2015: 9.00-10.30

5) Mgr. Alena Sarkissian, Ph.D., sarkissian@ics.cas.cz

Oedipus on the Stairs: Sophocles' Oedipus on the Czech Stage

2. 12. 2015: 10.00-11.30

6) Mgr. Martin Pšenička, PhD., martin.psenicka@ff.cuni.cz

Topography of Theatre in Prague

9. 12. 2015: 10.00-11.30

7) Mgr. Petr Christov, PhD., petr.christov@ff.cuni.cz, christov@centrum.cz

Laterna Magika and (Hi)Story of Black Light Theatre

+++ final written test immediately after the last lecture