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11th Pula Essay Days - Optimism

Istrian Branch of the

CROATIAN WRITERS' ASSOCIATION
and NOVA ISTRA Journal

18th & 19th October 2013

Topic:
O P T I M I S M

Croatian Writers' Club
Sv. Ivana 1
Pula, Croatia

Programme Author and Presenter
BORIS DOMAGOJ BILETIĆ

Participants

Josip Cvenić
Branko Čegec
Vesna Krmpotić
Dragutin Lučić Luce
Irena Lukšić
Julijana Matanović
Ivan Molek
Jovan Nikolaidis
Sibila Petlevski
Janko Rožič
Helena Sablić Tomić
Marko Sosič
Goran Starčević
Josip Ivančić Pino
Valter Smoković Garofulo
Tina Širec Džodan
Sanja Širec Rovis

Programme - FRIDAY, 18. X. 2013.

Five to Twelve: OP-TI-MISM: Introductory Happening… Josip Pino Ivančić

2 a.m.
Proclamation of the Zvane Črnja Prize Winner – The Best Croatian Essay Book in 2013

1 p.m.
Session Beginning: OPTIMISM
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Irena Lukšić
OPTIMISM?! / Considerations on the Life in Art

Josip Cvenić
Optimism as the Philosophy of Sustainability

Branko Čegec
Possibilities of Optimism in the Shadow of New Totalitarianism
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Book Presentation 'Wolf in the Supermarket' by Goran Starčević (Author, J. Rožič, B.D. Biletić)
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Dragutin Lučić Luce
Optimism as a Modus of the European Nihilism

Helena Sablić Tomić
Woman and Optimism

Marko Sosič
Towards Conscious Utopia

7 p.m.
Exhibition Opening 'Inkacani marinaji / Screwed-up Sailors by Valter Smoković Garofulo
(Introduction by: T. Širec Džodan)

Programme - SATURDAY, 19. X. 2013.

10 a.m.
Session Continuation: OPTIMISM
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Janko Rožić
Optimum of Optimism

Vesna Krmpotić
You, the Wave, Remember That You Are the Sea!

Ivan Molek
Challenge of De-Creation. Moment of Optimism in the Poetics of 'Wild Soul'

Julijana Matanović
Writing – the Key Word of Definition of Optimism
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Book Presentation 'Ballerina, Ballerina' by Marko Sosič
(Author, S. Širec Rovis, B.D. Biletić)
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Goran Starčević
Optimism and Pessimism in the Function of Backwater Town

Sibila Petlevski
On the Stylistics of Optimism and Panglossian Rhetoric

Jovan Nikolaidis
Life Is in Front of Us: Variations on Optimism
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Discussion

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12th Pula Essay Days - Croatian literature in the nieghbourhood

Istrian Branch of the
CROATIAN WRITERS' ASSOCIATION
and NOVA ISTRA Journal

17th & 18th October 2014

Topic:
CROATIAN LITERATURE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Croatian Writers' Club
Sv. Ivana 1
Pula, Croatia

Programme Author and Presenter
BORIS DOMAGOJ BILETIĆ

Free entry for all programs.

Welcome!

Participants

Ljiljana Avirović
Stjepan Blažetin (István Blazsetin)
Milan Bošnjak
Vinko Brešić
Valnea Delbianco
Zvonko Kovač
Željka Lovrenčić
Antun Lučić
Jelena Lužina
Zoltán Medve
Milorad Nikčević
Mile Pešorda
Milorad Stojević
Đurđa Strsoglavec
Sanja Vulić
Đuro Vidmarović
Tomislav Žigmanov
/ / /
David Ivić
Bruno Krajcar
Valter Milovan Maer
Daniel Načinović

Programme - FRIDAY, 17. X. 2014.

11 a.m.
Proclamation of the Zvane Črnja Prize Winner 2014

12 a.m.
Vinko Brešić
What is the Literary Neighbourhood?
Valnea Delbianco
Reading the Early Modern History Croatian Literature from the Italian Perspective
Zoltan Medve
The Contemporary Croatian Literature in Hungary
Milorad Nikčević
A Comprehensive Survey of Croatian and Montenegrin Literary-Cultural Contacts since the Dawn of Time
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Book Presentation – "Od pustinje do ledenjaka: književnost čileanskih Hrvata" Željke Lovrenčić
Book Presentation (Ž. Lovrenčić, S. Vulić, B.D. Biletić)
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Đurđa Strsoglavec
Old Debts and Recent Titles
Mile Pešorda
The Unity in a Cluster of Voices – the Croatian Literary Spring in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sanja Vulić
The Croatian Literature in Slovakia and Moravska
Milorad Stojević
Franc Rotter, a Man without Language

7 p.m.
Photo Exhibition Opening (D. Ivić, D. Načinović, B. Krajcar, Maer)

Programme - SATURDAY, 18. X. 2014.

10 a.m.
Antun Lučić
Going into the Literary Heritage
Đuro Vidmarović
The Last Croatian Poets in Boka Kotorska?
Jelena Lužina
The Croatian Literature in the Macedonian Cyrillic Script
Milan Bošnjak
Father Jozo Župić's Narration – a Story from the Foreign Country and/or from the Heart?
Zvonko Kovač
The New Intercultural Literature?
(With "An Anthology of Contemporary Literature of National Minorities and Emigration in Slovenia")
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Željka Lovrenčić
The Poetry of Dorotea Ziechmann Lipković
Tomislav Žigmanov
Sketches on the Insular Nature of Croatian Literature in Vojvodina
Stjepan Blažetin (István Blazsetin)
On the Literature of the Croats in Hungary
Ljiljana Avirović
Translating Essays in the Light of the Most Recent Theories
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Discussion

6 p.m.
Bookshop "Petit":
"Zastor i zvijezde" Daniela Načinovića – Book Presentation
(D. Načinović, J. Lužina, B. Krajcar, B.D. Biletić, David Ivić)

7.30 p.m.
Art Gallery – Kunst-Cafe "Cvajner":
Concert Maer Band

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13th Pula Essay Days - (Un)Freedom or Democratic Censorship

Istrian Branch of the
CROATIAN WRITERS' ASSOCIATION
and NOVA ISTRA Journal

Croatian Writers' Club – Pula

16th & 17th October 2015

Topic:

(Un)Freedom or Democratic Censorship

Programme Author and Presenter:
BORIS DOMAGOJ BILETIĆ

CWC, Sv. Ivana 1, Pula, Hrvatska

Free entrance.

Welcome!

Programme of the Pula Essay Days Sponsored by:

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Pula, County of Istria

& Tourist Board of Pula.

Agradecimiento especial al / Special thanks to:

Gobierno de Chile – Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes

– Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura

The Chilean Government – National Council for Culture and the Arts

– National Book and Reading Council

Design: Ivić Design, Gologorica

Print: Grafomark d.o.o, Zagreb

We haven't asked for any media coverage.

Announcement

14th Pula Essay Days, October 2016

Topic:

What Do I Mean When I Say – Reality?

Participants

MAGDALENA DYRAS, Krakov/Krakow
BOŽICA JELUŠIĆ
SLAVEN LETICA
ŽELJKA LOVRENČIĆ
DRAGUTIN LUČIĆ LUCE
IRENA LUKŠIĆ
JELENA LUŽINA, Skopje
IVICA MATIČEVIĆ
MIROSLAV MIĆANOVIĆ
CRISTIAN MONTES CAPÓ, Santiago de Chile
DIEGO MUÑOZ VALENZUELA, Santiago de Chile
FAHRUDIN NOVALIĆ
IZTOK OSOJNIK, Ljubljana
PAVAO PAVLIČIĆ
NINO RASPUDIĆ
HELENA SABLIĆ TOMIĆ
MILAN SOKLIĆ
ALEN TAFRA
ZDRAVKO ZIMA
DARIJA ŽILIĆ

/ / /

JOSIP BRATULIĆ
GORAN FILIPI
DAVID IVIĆ
LIVIO MOROSIN & BAND
DANIEL NAČINOVIĆ
ANTUN PAVEŠKOVIĆ

Programme - Friday 16th October 2015

10 a.m.
To Mark Briefly and Properly:
20th Annual File of Nova Istra & 25th Anniversary of the Istrian Branch of the CWA
(J. Bratulić, J. Lužina, G. Filipi, D. Načinović, B.D. Biletić)

11 a.m.
Proclamation of the Zvane Črnja Prize Winner 2015

12 a.m.: 1st session
Pavao Pavličić
First Draft of the Censorship Act

Božica Jelušić
Freedom – from What and for What?

Iztok Osojnik
What Does Freedom Mean

Helena Sablić Tomić
Women and Censorship

Alen Tafra
Chains as Wings, Flight as Fall

Break

Book Presentation – ESSAYS by Zvane Črnja
(A. Pavešković, J. Bratulić, J. Lužina, B.D. Biletić)

Jelena Lužina
Cage Looking for a Bird or a Simulacrum of Theatre Freedom

Fahrudin Novalić
Freedom as a Prerequisite for Development

Cristian Montes Capó
Imaginación, libertad y sustrato apocalíptico en la narrativa chilena del siglo XXI.
Imagination, Freedom an Apocalyptic Substrate in the Chilean Narrative of the 21st Century

Željka Lovrenčić
(Un)freedom and Fantasy Literature

Miroslav Mićanović
Freedom? Yes, Please! (Lost: Between Irony and Melancholy)

7 p.m.
Bookshop Petit:
Book Presentation – A LITERARY PORTRAIT: MIROSLAV SINČIĆ
(M. Sinčić, J. Lužina, D. Ivić, D. Načinović, B.D. Biletić)

Programme - Saturday 17th October 2015

10 a.m.: 2nd session
Milan Soklić
Principled Contingency or an Intellectual in the Jaws of Life

Magdalena Dyras
Censorship of Art (Theatre, Visual Arts)

Slaven Letica
The Story of two Josephs

Irena Lukšić
Faces of Freedom: Reflections

Zdravko Zima
One Poetic Question

Break

Book Presentation – THE WORLD I KNOW, Selected Poems by Boris Maruna
(I. Matičević, M. Mićanović, Z. Zima)

Ivica Matičević
Desert of Freedom. America in Boris Maruna’s Poetry

Diego Muñoz Valenzuela
Antiutopías: sombras sobre el sueño de la libertad
Antiutopias: Shadows above the Dream about Freedom

Darija Žilić
Contemporary Iranian Women’s Poetry

Nino Raspudić
Issue of Migrants in the Croatian Public:
Ethical Media Policy and Preventive Emotional Blackmail

Dragutin Lučić Luce
Svejk and Media Freedom

Discussion

6. p.m.
Art Gallery – Kunst-Cafè „Cvajner“:
Book Presentation
(Flores para un Cyborg / Flowers for a Cyborg)
Diego Muñoz Valenzuela
(D.M. Valenzuela, prevoditeljica Ž. Lovrenčić, J. Lužina)

7 p.m.
Art Gallery – Kunst-Cafè „Cvajner“:
Concert Livio Morosin & Anica Franjul (klavijature)