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CENSORSHIP AS A CREATIVE FORCE - LITERARY PANEL
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Friday 25th April 2008 09:15 at UCL
UCL in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute, the Hungarian Cultural Centre, the Czech Centre and the M.B. Grabowski Foundation
This international conference covers the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. It poses the question of whether and if so, how censorship could operate as a creative force in communist-ruled Central Europe.
While the principal focus of the conference is on literature and literary/press censorship, it also encompasses censorship in the theatre, film industry and television.
Participants:
- Dr. Dennis Deletant OBE - UCL-SSEES
- Professor George Gömöri - University of Cambridge
- Dr. John Bates - University of Glasgow
- Antoni Liehm - Czech editor and critic
- Dr. Jan Culik - University of Glasgow
- Jan Prokop - prof. History of Polish and French Literature. Author of numerous books on censorship.
- Józef Tejchma - Minister of Culture in the Polish People's Republic in the 70's and 80's.
- Grzegorz Boguta - founder of Polish samizdat publisher NOWA.
- Miklos Haraszti - Hungarian writer, Head of the OSCE, Vienna
- Dr. Katarzyna Zechenter - UCL-SSEESS
- Istvan Hegedus - Hungarian author on censorship
Fee (including refreshments): £10, £5 to non-UCL students, free to UCL staff and students.
Dates & Venues
- Friday 25th April 2008 09:15 at UCL
