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“During the time of my career, there have been some very extraordinary changes”: Interview with Her Excellency Barbara C. Richardson
By Makéta Šonková and Anna Formánková Although not as much talked about as with the U.S. or the U.K., Canada, too, shares long-cultivated ties to our country, and these ties have been growing strong recently. Partly, it might be thanks to the charismatic Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, it might also be thanks to…
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American Presidential Crises
By Pavla Wernerová While the president of the United States can be considered to be the most powerful person in the world, they are still not free to do anything they want. The president is still limited by many factors such as the Congress and the Supreme Court and even by such factors such as…
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Public Sculpture and Nationalism: The Not-Only-Visual Re-Birth of Irish Identity
By Markéta Šonková The summer of 2017 saw many upheavals. The U.S., too, experienced many. One of them was a public fight over the fate of Confederate statues and monuments. It was the white supremacists’ rally in Charlottesville, Va. which turned violent that renewed attention to these statues. Since then, they have been coming down…
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Building a Bridge between Theory and Practice: An Interview with Justin Hall
by Blanka Šustrová What was your first contact with comics? A humorous strip in the newspaper or a comics magazine you persuaded your parent to buy for you? Justin Hall, a cartoonist and an Assistant Professor in Comics at the California College of Arts, grew up with comics. Thanks to the Fulbright Program, he…
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The History of American Animation
by Zuzana Motalová Animation. It is present everywhere, from advertisements and PC games to feature films. Some believe that its development has already reached its peak, many more expect that both the artform and the technology behind it will continue to develop. Sometimes, however, it is good to look back to the history as…
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HIDDEN FIGURES
by Anna Jílková An American film of 2017, Hidden Figures portrays issues of the 1960s. These include the Cold War, civil and women’s rights activism and the first NASA space projects.
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The concept of post-truth in Donald Trump’s White House
By Markéta Šonková Political populism is, yet again, on the rise. Be it Marine Le Pen in France, the recently defeated Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, our own president Zeman, or Brexit. Terms such as “post-truth” and “alternative facts” have been creeping into the political discourse and established themselves as powerful tools of the…
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I Would Not Have Dreamt of an English Academic Career: An Interview with Professor Milada Franková
by Michaela Medveďová, Anežka Hrežová Imagine studying English during the period it was considered to be the “enemy” language. Few English-spoken movies, restrictions on books, and scarce contact with native speakers. This is what the Department of English and American Studies looked like in the sixties when Professor Milada Franková was a student here. Now, being…