I FEEL LIKE READING
FRIDAY, 4 DECEMBER 2015, 12:00, CROATIAN DEFENDERS HOME, RED SALON
Croatian Radio Television is organising a roundtable to discuss how to raise reading awareness among the young in a world where information bits change form and content minute after minute, in a world where everything is available and everything goes. Discussing about how to motivate people to read will be the literati Kruno Lokotar, Zoran Ferić and Mima Simić, as well as musician Gordan Muratović – Coco Mosquito, former football player Ivan Ergić and editor-in-chief of HRT Channel 3 Dean Šoša. From different points of view they will try to answer the complex questions asked by this debate, moderated by the Croatian Radio Channel III editor Biljana Romić.
LAMPEDUSA
SATURDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2015, 12:00, CROATIAN DEFENDERS HOME, RED SALON
This year’s Book Fair(y) inevitably returns to the shores of the most sorrowful Italian island and its magnificent landscape, whose name means both rock and torch. In contemporary migration itineraries Lampedusa is the rock many will be shipwrecked on, but also the light that point to the path to vita nova. The roundtable is moderated by Iva Grgić, with the participation of: Valeria Brigida, Italian journalist and political commentator who approaches the refugee issue with particular subtlety and humanity, Jurica Pavičić, one of the leading Croatian social commentators, and Biljana Kašić, whose work among other things focuses on post-colonial theory.
CULTURE AT THE GATES
The role of a European Culture Capital in present-day Europe
SATURDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2015, 13:00, CROATIAN DEFENDERS HOME, MOZART CAFÉ
In several months’ time one Croatian and one Irish city will be crowned the prestigious European Culture Capital 2020. The question is what Europe will look like by then. Culture at the Gates roundtable will discuss the future of the European Culture Capital project as a transnational platform for a more open, solidary and politically active society. The discussion will gather representatives of candidate teams from four Croatian cities, shortlisted for the European Culture Capital 2020: Dubrovnik, Osijek, Rijeka and Pula, and the representatives of the Croatian Ministry of Culture, moderated by Vlatka Kolarović.
WALTER BENJAMIN, DEATH OF A REFUGEE
TUESDAY, 8 DECEMBER 2015, 20:00, CROATIAN DEFENDERS HOME, RED SALON
At this roundtable, historian and writer Dragan Markovina will talk to art historian and translator Snješka Knežević, philosopher and sociologist Žarko Puhovski, and writer Miljenko Jergović about one of the most compelling 20th century writers and philosophers, who died as a refugee never crossing the border between France and Spain in 1940.
MIGRATIONS AS CHALLENGES TO NATION-STATE
(Croatian Radio Channel III debate)
SATURDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2015, 12:00, CROATIAN DEFENDERS HOME, RESALON
Croatian Radio’s Channel III has for several years been organising roundtables together with the Book Fair(y)’s programme committee, in live broadcast. This year’s debate’s starting point is the book Transnacionalni socijalni prostori. Migrantske veze preko granica Hrvatske, based on the research of migrant activities and transnational relations, and it will hopefully shed light on the lifestyle of many Croatian citizens of foreign migration origin, of which the public so far, apart from the media stories, has not received enough relevant and accurate information. The debate will be attended by the authors of the book, Simona Kuti and Saša Božić, book reviewer and academic advisor Silva Mežnar, and writer Milan Rakovac, moderated by journalist Bojan Munjin.
ISLAND – GHETTO – ASYLUM
SUNDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2015, 12:00, CROATIAN DEFENDERS HOME, RED SALON
A roundtable that unites this year’s Book Fair(y) theme of Island – Ghetto – Asylum will introduce architects, artists, writers and journalists into the discussion on migration.
On Lampedusa as an island waiting room to the Fortress Europe, on Europe without a clear and coherent policy regarding asylum seekers, on the issues of contemporary spaces – from geopolitics to migrations to the process of ghettoization of artists in today’s world will be discussed by architect Ana Dana Beroš, editor of the issue From Territory to Specific Place of Život umjetnosti journal Nikola Bojić, famous Slovenian multimedia artist, Noordung project manager Dragan Živadinov, writer Bora Ćosić, editor of philosophical matters on Croatian Radio Channel III Leonardo Kovačević and editor-in-chief of Channel III Rajka Rusan The roundtable is moderated by journalist Vlatka Kolarović.
This programme will also host a special presentation of the new issue of the magazine Croatian Radio Channel III and journal Život umjetnosti, whose themes focus on the 21st Book Fair(y) theme and served as a starting point for this roundtable.
