{"id":23616,"date":"2026-02-06T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/wydarzenia\/spotkanie-archipelagi-pamieci-drago-jancar-i-europa-srodkowa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:24:30","slug":"spotkanie-archipelagi-pamieci-drago-jancar-i-europa-srodkowa","status":"publish","type":"wydarzenia","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wydarzenia\/spotkanie-archipelagi-pamieci-drago-jancar-i-europa-srodkowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Archipelagos of Memory. Drago Jan\u010dar and Central Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

25 March 2026, 18.00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us for a meeting with one of Central Europe’s most important writers, Drago Jan\u010dar, to discuss his book \u201cArchipelagos: A Personal Atlas of questions and experiences\u201d. The author will talk about the places and experiences that shaped his thinking about history, memory and the writer’s responsibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the discussion at the ICC, we will talk about Drago Jan\u010dar’s essays, which create a map of Europe seen from the perspective of individual fate \u2013 full of cracks, contradictions and recurring traumas. The conversation will also focus on the role of literature as a tool of conscience, a way of talking about 20th-century violence and the meaning of the concept of Central Europe today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conversation with the author will be moderated by Dr Dominika Kaniecka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biographies:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Drago Jan\u010dar<\/strong> \u2013 Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist, one of the most important contemporary Central European authors. His novels, short stories and plays are considered milestones of Slovenian prose, translated into many languages and appreciated around the world. A lawyer by training, he worked as an editor for the Maribor daily Ve\u010der, and from 1981 to 2016 he was associated with the cultural and scientific association Slovenska matica in Ljubljana as an editor and secretary. He is the winner of numerous literary awards, including the Austrian State Prize for European Literature \u2013 \u00d6sterreichischer Staatspreis f\u00fcr Europ\u00e4ische Literatur (2020). The characters in his works are passionate, torn by fate, entangled in history and chance. In addition to prose and drama, a significant part of his oeuvre consists of essays in which he analyses the contemporary condition of man and society with insight and courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Dominika Kaniecka<\/strong> \u2013 a graduate of Croatian Studies, since 2014 an assistant professor at the Institute of Slavonic Philology at the Jagiellonian University, she has also worked at the University of Zagreb and promoted Polish culture in Croatia on behalf of the Polish Embassy. She has also given lectures at universities in Ljubljana and Sarajevo. She is a member and co-founder of the inter-institutional Post-Yugoslav Area Laboratory at the University of Warsaw, a member of the Slavic Culture Committee of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016-2025) and the Polish Committee for Balkan History and Culture (AIESEE). She coordinated the Polish part of the international translation project \u201cFound in Translation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cArchipelagos. A Personal Atlas of questions and experiences\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Translated from Slovenian by Nikodem Szczyg\u0142owski and Joanna Pomorska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second volume of the Ister series, edited by \u0141ukasz Galuska, Paulina Ma\u0142ochleb and Bartosz Sadulski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publication is available in paper form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy the book \u201cArchipelagos. A Personal Atlas of questions and experiences\u201d at the MCK bookshop.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Archipelagi. Osobisty atlas pyta\u0144 i prze\u017cy\u0107<\/div>\n
\n Zbi\u00f3r esej\u00f3w s\u0142owe\u0144skiego pisarza opowiadaj\u0105cego ju\u017c od p\u00f3\u0142 wieku histori\u0119 swojego ma\u0142ego narodu w kontek\u015bcie spraw, kt\u00f3re tak naprawd\u0119 s\u0105 bliskie i zrozumia\u0142e dla znacznej cz\u0119\u015bci \u015arodkowoeuropejczyk\u00f3w.\nKsi\u0105\u017cka zawiera eseje starsze, jak \u201eAtlas\u201d oraz ca\u0142kiem nowe, jak esej \u201eArchipelag Jugos\u0142awia\u201d nawi\u0105zuj\u0105cy wprost do \u201eWspomnie\u0144 o Jugos\u0142awii\u201d \u2014 i wyj\u0105tkowo aktualne, jak esej \u201eStraszna zemsta\u201d, stanowi\u0105cy zapis refleksji Jan\u010dara z pierwszych dni rosyjskiej inwazji na Ukrain\u0119. Drago Jan\u010dar zabiera czytelnika w podr\u00f3\u017c \u2014 nie tylko mi\u0119dzy wyspami jugos\u0142owia\u0144skiego \u201earchipelagu\u201d, lecz tak\u017ce nad Bosfor, na pola Flandrii albo do Triestu. Jest to te\u017c podr\u00f3\u017c w czasie \u2013 do Mariboru lat dzieci\u0144stwa, na brzegi zasnutego mg\u0142ami jeziora Bohinj, kt\u00f3re potrafi opowiedzie\u0107 nie jedn\u0105 histori\u0119, ale te\u017c do obl\u0119\u017conego Vukovaru z pocz\u0105tku lat 90, do austriackiej Galicji Josepha Rotha czy do \u015bwiat\u00f3w Iva Andricia i Jamesa Joyce\u2019a. <\/div>\n\n
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\n Author of the publication: <\/strong> Drago Jan\u010dar
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