Appendix 4

country report – Czech Republic

October 2002 – March 2003

1. New courses and new centres

Masaryk University, Brno

- Native Writing in Canada and the US (Katerina Prajznerova and Klara Kolinska,

Dept. of English and American Studies; in English)

- Canadian Multicultural Literature (survey course in contemporary Anglophone

literature – Katerina Prajznerova; in English)

Palacky University, Olomouc

- Francais canadien (Jaromir Kadlec)

- Histoire de Canada (Lucie Semerakova)

- Litterature canadienne (Lucie Semerakova)

- Introduction to Canadian Studies (Jiri Flajsr, Dept. of English and American Studies)

- Landscapes in American and Canadian Literature (Jiri Flajsr)

2. Conferences, conference participation

« Perspectives du roman », 4-5 octobre 2002, Brno

- Petr Kyloušek (Masaryk University, Brno), „Une modernité québécoise. Le cas de

Jacques Ferron“

“Canada in the European Mind”, Debrecen, 24-27 October 2002

- Klara Kolinska (Masaryk University, Brno), “Frederick Philip Grove’s Immigrantship

and the Theory of Wonder”

Séminaire international d’études doctorales, 5-8 février 2003, Brno

- Petr Kyloušek (Masaryk University, Brno), „Le littéraire et le politique –

positionnement «discriminatoire» et/ou «intégrateur» de l’axiologie“

- Petr Vurm, (Masaryk University, Brno), „L’impossibilité de dire un enfant. Une

approche de Réjean Ducharme“

3rd annual meeting of Czech and Slovak Canadianists, Hradec Kralove, 27-28 March

2003

- Don Sparling (Masaryk University, Brno), “Canada, Quebec, the United States and

the Czech Republic – Differing Values?”

- Petr Kylousek (Masaryk University, Brno), “Le discours politique de la literature

quebecoise des annees 1960”

- Jiri Karasek (Masaryk University, Brno), “Cactus and maple leaf in Ashcroft, B.C.:

the (un)usual image of Canadian identity”

- Jaromir Kadlec (Palacky University, Olomouc), “Le francais en Acadie

d’aujourd’hui”

3. Academic publications

Don Sparling, ”History and Identity – The Case of Historical Fiction”. Exploring Canadian Identities / Vers l’Exploration des Identités Canadiennes. Ed. Ewa Welnic, Anna Branach-Kallas and Jakub Wójcik. Torún: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika, 2002, 251-260. ISBN 83-231-1483-8.

Don Sparling, “The Representation of Ethnic Minoríties in Literary Texts for Use in Schools“. Writing Canadians: Identity in Canadian Literature. Ed. Martin Kuester and Wolfram R. Keller. Marburg: Universitätsbibliotek Marburg, 2002, 83-93. ISBN 3-8185-0369-9.

Petr Kyloušek, „Une modernité québécoise. Le cas de Jacques Ferron“, Études Romanes de Brno, L 24, 2003, pp. 110-126.

Petr Kyloušek, Slovník francouzsky píšících spisovatelů (Dictionnaire des écrivains français et francophones), Praha, Libri 2002; 1450 entrées, dont 60 consacrées à la littérature canadienne française et québécoise; une introduction sur la littérature canadienne française et québécoise, pp. 44-51

4. Visiting lecturers

Alan Bowker, head of the International Academic Relations Division of the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada; lecture in Brno on “The

Importance of Canada”

5. Grants

Palacky University, Olomouc

- grant from Czech govt. Fund for University Development to introduce Canadian

Studies into the curriculum of the French Department

- grant from Czech govt. Fund for University Development to introduce Canadian

Studies into the curriculum of the English Department

Masaryk University, Brno

- grant from Czech Grant Agency for preparation of book on Dějiny kanadsko-

francouzské literatury (Histoire de la littérature canadienne française et québécoise)

6. Young Canadianists

Masaryk University, Brno

- 5 MA theses in progress (English lit., political science), 6 PhDs (Native literature,

theatre studies, Francophone literature, political science)

- MA thesis by Jiri Karasek on Canadian National Identity in Ashcroft, B.C.: A Case

Study defended in January 2003

Palacky University, Olomouc

- 1 MA thesis and 1 PhD thesis in progress in French, 3 MA theses in English

Charles University, Prague

- 2 PhDs in progress (English literature, political science)

7. Cultural activities related to Canada

- Exhibition of Inuit prints at Naprstek Museum in Prague

- Canadian dance and threatre season in Prague

- Festival of Gay and Lesbian Films in Brno shows two films by Canadian filmmakers,

Patricia Rozema’s I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing and John Greyson’s Lilies; the

latter film opens the festival.

8. Translations and special issues of journals

Eva Le Grand, Gaëtan Lévesque, Hledáni Ameriky. Antologie současného quebeckého románu (A la recherche de l’Amérique. Anthologie du roman québécois contemporain), traduuit par Petr Kyloušek, Petr Vurm, Luděk Janda, Barbora Antonová, Mariana Kunešová

9. Other

The on-line magazine iliteratura now has a separate section on Canadian Books

co-edited by Klara Kolinska and Katerina Prajznerova (Brno)