Publishing & Performance - AAALE012A

• Title: Writing, Publishing & Performance
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 30 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Louis Armand, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Louis Armand, Ph.D.
• Is co-requisite for: AAALE012B

Annotation

This is an intensive seminar which will take place over the course of October only.

The focus of seminar activities will be a discussion of students' compositions / performance / production as well as participation in events, workshops, conducting author interviews, festival reports, reviews, etc. A volunteer sign-up sheet will be circulated.

*A preliminary meeting will take place in room 219b of the Philosophy Faculty at Tue 1 October 15:50-17:20. **NB the time/location of the meeting on 8 OCTOBER will be agreed after the first meeting. ***Meetings during PMF will take place off-campus at Hybernska 4, Sklep E, on TUESDAY 15 & 22 October 16:00-17:30. ****Subsequent informal meetings will take place at UniJazz TBA.

Students will be encouraged to participate in practical & organisational aspects of the Prague Microfestival / Microlab (www.praguemicrofestival.com) as student volunteers. There will also be the possibility of participating in the operations of Equus Press as part of an internship scheme (details on request).

Recommended reading:
Louis Armand et al, Existence is Resistance (www.existenceisresistance.com).
Nozar Kozak, Art Resistance against Russia’s “Non-Invasion” of Ukraine (https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ewjus/2022-v9-n1-ewjus06968/1088674ar/)
Gary Peters, The Philosophy of Improvisation (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Tomáš Glanc, Samizdat Past & Present (file:///C:/Users/FF%20UK/Downloads/nahled-EK29974.pdf)
Petra Loučová, The “Old” Samizdat Is Dead, Long Live the “New” Samizdat! (https://www.forumhistoriae.sk/sites/default/files/07-loucova-the-old-samizdat-is-dead-long-live-the-new-samizdat-the-liberated-samizdat-club-in-the-post-communist-czechoslovak-book-market_0.pdf)

ASSESSMENT
1. attendance at seminar meetings

2. attendance & active participation (as e.g. a student volunteer) in MicroLab workshops & Microfestival (including keeping a regular "workshop diary" to record your critical responses & reflections on topics related to the seminar focus) *or* internship (e.g. with Equus Press).

3. written assessment (totalling 3,000 words): this may be a research paper analysing Festival performances, texts, panel discussions, etc., in relation to a pre-agreed topic (e.g. experimentation, improvisation, samizdat, art as resistance, etc.).

4. group/individual practical presentation: this will ideally combine all aspects of the seminar -- writing, publishing, performance -- e.g. through production of a zine; a vlog; participation in or preparation of some other kind of publication (in print or online); a performance piece or event; a roundtable discussion, etc. *Suggested that students form working groups for this purpose: e.g. Interview Group; Anthology Group; Newsletter/Zine Group; Documentary Group. **Students wishing to focus on individual or collaborative creative work may form a separate group (creative work should respond to one of the seminar themes, e.g. samizdat, improvisation, etc.)

Last update: Armand Louis, Ph.D. (08.10.2024)