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 Bartosz Hlebowicz
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Variants of Truth | Jankowska | Khoury
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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 | 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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On Being Yourself | Bice | Matsuda
On Being Yourself | Bice | Matsuda
Meeting with Aoko Matsuda
Host: Agata Bice
In her debut collection of short stories, Stackable, Matsuda humorously paints a critical picture of contemporary society in which individuals become victims of a toxic mix of moral and institutional pressures. The pages of her works are filled with characters who try at all costs to fit into the roles imposed on them. The outcome of this approach is a seemingly homogeneous world, yet full of inequality, sexism and intolerance. In his latest novel, Jizoku kanōna tamashii no riyō (“The Sustainable Use of Our Souls”) Matsuda creates a futuristic world where restrictive social mechanisms cease to function overnight. Her protagonists can suddenly just be themselves. Is such a world possible? And if so, what would have to change for us to create it? What might the “sustainable development of the individual” look like if emphasis were placed on individual needs, in particular the needs of women living in a society constructed and governed by men?
23 October, at 18:00 Online
Literary Empathy | Jankowicz | Saunders
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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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