Open Seminar 1

Subject guarantor:

Karel VACHEK

Name of lecturer(s):

Karel VACHEK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

To introduce students to the period cultural context and ensure their development in theory.

Mode of study:

Classes and guest discussions.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Analytical and Critical skills.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

At least 10 important dialogues in one semester (presuming student participation). An „open“ course since 1974, where important figures in their fields (contrary to the flood of irrelevant persons) present various manners of effective thinking in relation to the results they achieved. Researchers, artists and other eminent figures are invited because their creations in all the human trades fall under the same rules.

The course is regularly attended by these figures:

Writers/Poets - Petr Král, Petr Kabeš, Ivan Martin Jirous, Ivan Wernisch, Eugen Brikcius, Zbyněk Hejda, J. H. Krchovský, Stanislav Dvorský,

Alena Nádvorníková, František Dryje, Andrej Stankovič;

Philosophers - Petr Rezek, Karel Kosík, Václav Bělohradský, Zdeněk Neubauer, Miroslav Petříček, Antonín Kosík, Erazim Kohák, Zdeněk Vašíček;

Politicians, Political Scientists and Civil Activists - Jiří Pehe, Petr Uhl, Jakub Polák, Petr Cibulka, Pavel Dostál, John Bok, Ivan Dejmal,

Emanuel Mandler, Václav Benda, Jiří Slačálek, Václav Trojan;

Writers - Karel Pecka, Jiří Stránský, Ludvík Vaculík, Eda Kriseová, Lenka Procházková, Daniela Hodrová, Jáchym Topol, Eva Kantůrková, Pavel Kohout,

Vlastimil Třešňák;

Musicians - Václav Hálek, Josef Nos, Jan Vodňanský, Jan Klusák, Vratislav Brabenec, Vladimír Merta;

Film makers - Jiří Krejčík, Saša Gedeon, Ladislav Helge, Jan Němec, Jan Švankmajer, Jan Hřebejk, Václav Mergl, Stanislav Milota, Lubor Dohnal,

Jan Gogola ml., Tomáš Škrdlant, Tomáš Vorel;

Journalists - Jan Rejžek, Petruška Šustrová;

Thespians- Otomar Krejča, Ivan Vyskočil, Vlasta Chramostová, J. A . Pitínský, Ctibor Turba, Boris Hýbner, Václav Nebeský, Jiří Štercl, Jakub Špalek;

Architects - Alena Šrámková, Jan Přikryl, Zdeněk Lukeš;

Theologians and Clergymen - Anastáz Opasek, Kartol Sidon, Odillo Štampach, Jiří Reichert, Svatopluk Karásek;

Artists - Milan Knížák, Michael Rittstein, Pavel Brázda, Michal Blažek, Petr Nikl, Vladimír Kokolia, Jiří David, Adriena Šimotová, David Černý,

Tomáš Vosolsobě, Karel Saudek, Zdeněk Beran;

Photographers - Jindřich Štreit, Jan Saudek;

Mathematicians - Petr Vopěnka, Jiří Nešetřil, Jiří Fiala;

Biologists - Jiří Vosátka, Jana Albrechtová, Milan Grundler, Petr Haager;

Molecular Chemists - Rudolf Zahradník;

Sinologist - Petr Švarný;

Romist - Milena Hubschmanová;

Sociologist - Fedor Gál, Zdeněk Konopásek;

Social ecologist - Bohuslav Blažek, Hana Librová;

Medical Research - Vratislav Horák;

Art Theorists - Jarmila Vacková, Josef Kroutvor, Tomáš Kulka, Jiří Cieslar, Jiří Švestka, Keiko Sei;

Translators - Anna Kareninová, Ladislav Šerý, Jaroslav Kořán;

Experimental filmmakers on the edge of classical film - Bohumil Karásek, Woody Vasulka, Martin Čihák, Michal Bielický;

Toy collector and Artist - Ivan Steiger;

Goat farmer and Cultural Festival Organizer - Stanislav Penc;

Translator and Publisher of Alchemistic writings- Vladislav Zadrobílek;

Historian - Josef Polišenský;

Duha movement representative - Jan Beránek;

Psychiatrist- Petr Zvolský.

Recommended or required reading:

Sterne, Laurence. Život a názory blahorodého pana Tristrama Shandyho, SNKLU, Praha 1963, přeložil Aloys Skoumal, znovu Odeon, Praha 1971 a 1985.

Dos Passos, John. U.S.A.: USA. Dvaačtyřicátá rovnoběžka. Devatenáct set devatenáct. Haldy peněz. (A. J. Šťastný. Praha, SNKLU 1962)

Komenský, Jan Ámos. Všenáprava. Brno: Soliton, 2008.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

Active debate in class, participation in credit discussions in which individual statements and course topics are covered in a wide cultural context.

Course web page:

Note:

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	místnost 211 Sborovna KDT (Lažanský palác) VACHEK K. 19:00–20:35 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	19:00–20:35	VACHEK K.	Sborovna KDT Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ: Restaurování fotografie (optional subject)