Saturday, October 27, 2007

Get inspired

A conversation between Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk, with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. From the 2007 New Yorker Festival.

HOMELAND

Zadie Smith Interview

PEN WORLD VOICES: Zadie Smith

Le Conversazioni 2006 - Zadie Smith

Sir Salman Rushdie on Faith & Reason 1







Sir Salman Rushdie on Faith & Reason 2





Sir Salman Rushdie on Faith & Reason 3






Sir Salman Rushdie on Faith & Reason 4





Sir Salman Rushdie on Faith & Reason 5





Charlie Rose - MORRISON (FROM 11/21/03) / LAHIRI (FROM...

The Namesake: A Conversation Between Mira Nair and Jhumpa Lahiri





Hanif Kureishi and The Buddha of Suburbia

Week of Postcolonial and Ethnic Literature

Despite the fact that the tradition of both postcolonial and ethnic literature is deeply rooted in the Western literary milieu and the fiction produced by these writers is immensely popular not only with the readers but with the critics as well, their concept still represents an unknown terrain for a Slovak reader. This might be a result of a more than 40 year-long lasting isolation of Slovakia from the Western world which was caused by the political situation in the country in those days. Therefore, it is the ambition of the Department of English and American Studies to close this gap and provide an opportunity for our students to move beyond the borders of Slovakia via literature and get familiar with new cultural horizons.


Organizational Team

Drama Performance - True Colours

Allan Stevo - Reading

Ema Jelinkova - Finding a Niche in the Post-National Scottish Myth in the Works of Janice Galloway and Kate Atkinson

Spanish Gastronomy Workshop

Photo exhibition

As a part of the event, we announce two competitions for our students:

1. to test their translation skills (by selecting one of the extracts from postcolonial novels and translating it into Slovak) OR




translation contest - texts


2. to write a short essay on one of the following topics:






Events

This section contains useful information about events organized by the Department of English and American Studies at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia.

Tvorivé prekladateľské reflexie 3: 17 October 2012

Self and Eternity: 7-10 November 2011

Verita Sriratana: Invited Lecture, March 17, 2011

Nothing to be frightened of, 8-11 November 2010

Teaching intercultural awareness through literature and cultural studies, 9 September, 2010

The 11th Drama Festival, 26-28 April, 2010

Art in Memory, Memory in Art, 9-13 November 2009

Across Cultures, 10-14 November 2008

Skip Blumberg, 8 October 2008

The 9th Drama Festival, 17-18 March 2008

Week of Postcolonial and Ethnic Literature, 12-16 November 2007

The 8th Drama festival, 19–20 March 2007

National Literatures in the Globalised World, 23 November 2006

Aspects of Postcolonial Literature, 4 May 2006

Professor Steven Ekema Agbaw, May & November 2006