Conrad Festival 2021
The Nature of the FutureMy festival
0The Future of Madness | Appignanesi | Marcinów
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Literary Worlds | Fiedorczuk | Murek
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A Transformation | Kang | Najbar-Miller
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A Reading Class with Katarzyna Kubisiowska
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Variants of Truth | Churi | Jankowska
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Literary Worlds
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Constant Exile | Domosławski | Markowski | Rosiak | Wagner
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A Reading Class with Bartosz Hlebowicz
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Emancipated | Dzido | Sarnowska
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Literary Worlds | Kaczanowski | Kałuża
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The End of the Darktime | Hudymač | Hůlova
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A Reading Class with Agnieszka Pajączkowska
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A Woman Photographer at War Fotografka na wojnie | Janeczek | Lipczak
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Literary Worlds | Klich | Kuźniak
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What About the Patriarchy? | Graff | Solnit
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A Reading Class with Juliusz Kurkiewicz
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Neo-Colonisation | Boochiani | Żyła
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Literary Worlds | Foks | Nowicka
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Death at the Wrong Address | Kotlowitz | Sturis
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Stories of the Harmed | Arendt | Hobson
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The Meaning of an Anomaly Le Tellier | Swoboda
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Literary Worlds | Łubieński | Masłowska
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About Those Who Have No Voice | Luiselli | Pindel
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Literary Empathy | Jankowicz | Saunders
Literary Empathy | Jankowicz | Saunders
In one of his essays, George Saunders compares a literary text to a black box that we enter while reading. It resembles a laboratory experiment that offers us new possibilities. Against the first associations, the black colour of the box does not portend anything bad. Saunders believes that poems, short stories and novels are sensory chambers in which our emotional system is influenced by various impulses. Once the reading is over – and if the process is successful – we become different people. There are few creators so utterly convinced of the beneficial impact of literature on our lives. But what does this mean? What kind of impact are we talking about exactly? Is there any proof of any ingenious text that has caused a positive change of such significance both for individuals and social groups? We will talk to George Saunders about the various benefits that we owe to literature.
23 October, at 20:00 online
Boxes for Anger | Novak | Wojtaszek
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Literary Worlds | Płaza | Sowiński
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The Terrible Nature of Childhood | Chowaniec | Rijneveld
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A Literary Form of Life | Giraud | Nothomb
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Conrad Award Gala
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Pasma towarzyszące
The nature of the future - a year-long series of meetingsMeeting with Jonathan Lear
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The nature of the future - a year-long series of meetingsMeeting with Arundhati Roy
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