LKVTI A. J. Greimo centras kviečia į slovakų mokslininkės Magdalenos Bystrzak paskaitą apie tradicionalistų ir modernizuotojų polemiką slovakų kultūroje Opposing Traditionalism. Slovak Models for Modernizing Culture.

Apie paskaitą:

In the words of the eminent Polish historian Jerzy Jedlicki, there are “samobytnicy” and “zapadnicy” (“nativists” and “westernizers”) everywhere. Nativists defend the status quo whilst modernizers participate in and interpret the collision of civilisations. Milan Hamada, a Slovak literary scholar and literary critic, drew attention to a specific regularity in the history of Slovak culture: the presence of a monolithic, normative (pro-national) narrative that confronts the alternative reluctantly. This emancipatory model of culture, based on the fear of foreign influence, is termed by some as traditionalist and conservative, as well as rebirth-oriented. It sets the symbolic boundaries which Slovak modernizers have confronted.

In this lecture, a special stress will be put on the conception of cultural reform which Alexander Matuška (1910–1975) – an outstanding representative of the anti-traditionalist milieu in the thirties of the 20th century – presented in his juvenile polemics published in the years 1930-1938. I will also consider a research hypothesis that these disputes over the national cultural model and its modernization are of a transnational character (Slovak, Czech, Polish).

Paskaita vyks anglų kalba, pirmadienį, gegužės 6 d., 15 val., J. Balkevičiaus auditorijoje.