Rabbi Stephen Menashe Kliment of Brno, Czech Republic, will share an incredible story behind the 13,000 prayer and religious books confiscated from Jews during World War II throughout the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Translator Alex Zucker will be in conversation with photographer and curator Eva Heyd on the occasion of her new publication, Ticket to the New World, and exhibition of the same name.
A program commemorating the creative spirit of the Terezin artists who perished in the Holocaust. With Mark Ludwig, director at the Terezin Music Foundation, and violinist Michael Ludwig and pianist Beth Levin.
A discussion about various online platforms and new technologies that make performing arts accessible to global audiences while also considering the ways in which the advent of virtual possibilities during the pandemic has deeply impacted live arts.
Renowned English translators of Vaclav Havel’s works—Paul Wilson, Jan Novak and Stepan Simek—join playwright Edward Einhorn, Artistic Director of New York City’s Untitled Theater Company #61, to talk about the tricky parts of their projects and interlingual hurdles that accompany their wordcraft. Actors from Untitled Theater Company #61 will perform selected passages.
Pavla Niklova, Director of Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF), has invited participants from the oral history collection Havel Conversations and authors of the new book Havel v Americe (Havel in America)—featuring interviews from the project—to share their experiences. The event will also honor the achievements of Ambassador William Luers, Director of the Iran Project and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
A panel discussion moderated by Carl Gershman, the President of the National Endowment for Democracy, with Liao Yiwu, the winner of the 2018 Disturbing the Peace, Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk. The discussion will be further joined by Liu Xia, a fellow nominee, and Andrew Nathan, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a leading China specialist and human rights advocate.
Pros and Cons of Private and Government Support for the Arts is a panel discussion moderated by Frank Hentschker, Executive Director at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, with Attila Szabo, Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute of the Petofi Literary Museum, Agata Adamiecka-Sitek, Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, and Tea Alagic, Head of the MFA Directing Department at The New School for Drama.
PANEL DISCUSSION
How are the potentialities of theater conceived to fulfill an ideological design, how is ideology transmitted as theater to shape material and symbolic forms of experience? Discussion moderated by Hana Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University, with Martina Peckova Cerna, Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague, Zuzana Ulicianska, Theatre Institute in Bratislava, and Thomas Kriegsmann.
