Conrad Festival 2025
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0A grand conglomeration of hopes, fears and desires | Anna Pochmara, Bartosz Wójcik
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Hotel Balkan | Miroslava Kuľková
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Reading lesson | Katarzyna Kubisiowska
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Why do we need the classics? | Szymon Kloska, Anna Marchewka
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Meeting with representatives of Wydawnictwo Tore
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Radical Hope A debate around Jonathan Lear's book
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About-face. A story of women in change. | Joanna Gierak-Onoszko
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Can a horse learn to count?
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Exhibition: Centenary of the Polish PEN Club 1925-2025 | 20–26.10
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Reading lesson | Katarzyna Trzeciak
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Poland of New Beginnings | Jan M. Piskorski, Ishbel Szatrawska, Michał Tabaczyński
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Against Powerlessness | Agnieszka Dauksza, Tomasz Rakowski
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After Wars | Oleksandr Mykhed, Antonina Palarczyk, Faruk Šehić
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Synastria. A song of deed. | Marcin Świątkowski
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A Leap into the Unknown | Chloe Dalton
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How to learn in a changing world?
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Our Scars | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
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No surfing in the Dead Internet
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Summer, come here!
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Reading lesson | Jacek Staniszewski
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When People Hear the Word “Avant-garde,” They Go Home | Małgorzata Halber, Rafał Księżyk, Dariusz Misiuna
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ARTFX
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Bored Wolves as Melting Pot Publisher in a City of Mixed-up Literature
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Tune In and Drop Out | Dariusz „Brzóska” Brzóskiewicz, Urszula Jabłońska, Łukasz Orbitowski
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Apologies for the ugly writing. Meeting | Antonina Tosiek
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In the Grip of the Queen of the Mountains | Daniel Wisser
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Event canceled | Bouncing Back from Rock Bottom | Jasmin Schreiber
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Man and machine. | Martyna Skibińska and Jacek Ambrożewski
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Educating for Reading. Inspirations
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Reading lesson | Agnieszka Dauksza
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On the prose of Leopold Buczkowski. Mini-lecture by Ryszard Nycz
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In Other Words | Anna Goc, Karolina Wiktor
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Przybyszewski returns. Why do we need a meteor from a century ago today? Discussion Gabriela Matuszek-Stec, Ryszard Nycz
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Other Lives, Other Polands | Weronika Murek, Robert J. Szmidt, Adam Ubertowski
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Spaces of Freedom. Unlearning History
Spaces of Freedom. Unlearning History
Moderated by Milena Berić
Participants: Ivana Bodrožić, Faruk Šehić, Radmila Petrović
For a long time, the Balkans has been stereotyped as a boiling pot of hatred, mutual mistrust, and the exaggeration of minor differences. But is this characterization accurate? Or does it only tell part of the story? Milena Berić will explore what the Balkans truly are—a shared cultural space in flux—through a 45-minute conversation with three distinguished authors who live, work, and create within its often ambiguous boundaries: Ivana Bodrožić from Croatia, Faruk Šehić from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Radmila Petrović from Serbia.
Moderated by Vladimir Arsenijević
Participants: Ana Ćurčin, Mima Simić, Rumena Bužarovska
After the violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, the shared language—Serbo-Croatian—also fractured into four distinct linguistic variants, each with its own political implications. Today, linguists and politicians in the region often hold sharply opposing views on whether we speak one language with multiple variants or separate tongues altogether. While experts argue that these are simply different versions of the same language, nationalists and advocates of linguistic separation promote division and even apartheid, using language as a tool to redraw borders and reinforce identities. One thing is certain: there is very little that can be translated there, as the differences and similarities extend beyond words alone.
In this panel, Vladimir Arsenijević will attempt to untangle this complex situation, exploring how it impacts everyday communication as well as reading, writing, and speaking across the region but also how it affects those among us who actually use other languages. He will engage with interlocutors from Serbia, Croatia, and North Macedonia—Ana Ćurčin, Mima Simić, and Rumena Bužarovska—to shed light on how this linguistic divide influences regional relationships and individual identities.
22 October, at 17:00 Potocki Palace
Humanities in the City. Divergent emancipations
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Sadness That Follows Us | Norman Erikson Pasaribu
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Event canceled. | Our Close Enemies | Horacio Castellanos Moya
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Spaces of Freedom. Presentation of contemporary literary works from South East Europe
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Meeting with representatives of the Norwegian book market
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Signal-to-noise ratio
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Reading lesson | Marcin Wilk
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Ultimate Realities | Zośka Papużanka, Katarzyna Sobczuk
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Literature in exile
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The End of the World and What Comes Next | Marek Baraniecki, Michał Cetnarowski, Magdalena Salik
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Literature as a common good. Stories that belong to many. Premiere of Czas Literatury
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Unsaved. Tadeusz Borowski. Biography. | Marta Byczkowska-Nowak
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Meeting with Ostap Ukraints
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Unlike Paradise | Hanna Nordenhök
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1989. The Musical
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We Are Somewhere Else | Yan Ge
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CELA publishers' breakfast and translators' pitching
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Cultural Choreography: Harnessing Zeitgeist to Make Media (How to Know What’s Coming Next in Media and Capitalize on it)
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CELA - Speed Dating. Meeting with translators
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What We Carry in Our Bag | Weronika Gogola, Jan Pucek, Ziemowit Szczerek
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Sensing Zeitgeist Research and Pattern Recognition Method by Sem Devillart
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Meeting the Conrad Prize Nominees
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The Sadness of a Fairy Tale Come True | Vincenzo Latronico
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New voices from Europe. Meeting with CELA writers
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PIKowy Laur Competition Gala
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Little Things Left Unfulfilled | Colm Tóibín
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Industry event
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Event canceled. | Meeting with Meru Gokhale
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Are the Teutonic Knights the cool guys? On historical comic books
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City of dreams or city of disappointments? A literary walk through Nowa Huta in search of radical hope
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Literary addresses of Krakow. Urban game
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Papers in the couch. On Solidarity for children. | Michał Rusinek and Joanna Rusinek
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We Have No Choice but to Go On | Bartłomiej Dobroczyński
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I've Seen the Future. Science fiction from past centuries and its screen adaptations. Facing the challenges of the future
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Creative well-being - workshop
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The Goncourt Prize | Kamel Daoud
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Presentation of books translated from Spanish
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Europe in translation. Meeting with CELA translators
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Voices of a new generation of translators. Meeting with graduates of the Translatorium mentoring programme
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Lives of the Returned | Abdulrazak Gurnah
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New prose. Performative reading of texts from the Anthology of the KMLU Novel Writing Course 2024/2025
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Survival Is Insufficient | Emily St. John Mandel
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Towards the flow. A walk around the Borek Fałęcki tram and bus terminus
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Where to Seek Rescue? | Pilar Adón, Sara Mesa, Katarzyna Okrasko, Ewa Zaleska
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