Central European Forum 2017 / Programme

HOW A GOOD PERSON TURNS EVIL

November 5, 2017

http://www.ceeforum.eu/en/2017/11/english-stredoeuropske-forum-2017-program/

A Lesson in Defiance with Lyudmila Ulitskaya 

The celebrated Russian writer will discuss civil courage and civil reality in present-day Russia. The programme will include a reading from her novel Jacob’s Ladder, recently published in Ján Štrasser’s Slovak translation.

Party of Love http://slavenkadrakulic.com/party-of-love-at-the-central-european-forum/

The power of negative emotions in politics cannot be countered by ridding it of emotions altogether. Forced ideologies combined with cynicism destroy politics. Where should we seek solutions?

Slavenka Drakulić (Zagreb) – Max Harris (Auckland/ Oxford) – Ivan Krastev (Sofia) – Tomáš Sedláček (Prague)

Evil, framed

SLAVENKA DRAKULIĆ 21 November 2017

http://www.eurozine.com/evil-framed/

this same photo was selected, by Time magazine and an international team of curators, to be among the 100 most influential photographs of all time.

Ron Haviv’s photo is a picture of war, any war. All the ingredients are here. But also of a civil war, of people who lived too close to each other not to kill one another with emotions.