11th Pula Essay Days

Istarski ogranak DHK Pula Pula Essay Days 11th Pula Essay Days - Optimism

Pula Essay Days

Hrvatski

11th Pula Essay Days - Optimism

Istrian Branch of the

CROATIAN WRITERS' ASSOCIATION
and NOVA ISTRA Journal

18th & 19th October 2013

Topic:
O P T I M I S M

Croatian Writers' Club
Sv. Ivana 1
Pula, Croatia

Programme Author and Presenter
BORIS DOMAGOJ BILETIĆ

Participants

Josip Cvenić
Branko Čegec
Vesna Krmpotić
Dragutin Lučić Luce
Irena Lukšić
Julijana Matanović
Ivan Molek
Jovan Nikolaidis
Sibila Petlevski
Janko Rožič
Helena Sablić Tomić
Marko Sosič
Goran Starčević
Josip Ivančić Pino
Valter Smoković Garofulo
Tina Širec Džodan
Sanja Širec Rovis

Programme - FRIDAY, 18. X. 2013.

Five to Twelve: OP-TI-MISM: Introductory Happening… Josip Pino Ivančić

2 a.m.
Proclamation of the Zvane Črnja Prize Winner – The Best Croatian Essay Book in 2013

1 p.m.
Session Beginning: OPTIMISM
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Irena Lukšić
OPTIMISM?! / Considerations on the Life in Art

Josip Cvenić
Optimism as the Philosophy of Sustainability

Branko Čegec
Possibilities of Optimism in the Shadow of New Totalitarianism
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Book Presentation 'Wolf in the Supermarket' by Goran Starčević (Author, J. Rožič, B.D. Biletić)
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Dragutin Lučić Luce
Optimism as a Modus of the European Nihilism

Helena Sablić Tomić
Woman and Optimism

Marko Sosič
Towards Conscious Utopia

7 p.m.
Exhibition Opening 'Inkacani marinaji / Screwed-up Sailors by Valter Smoković Garofulo
(Introduction by: T. Širec Džodan)

Programme - SATURDAY, 19. X. 2013.

10 a.m.
Session Continuation: OPTIMISM
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Janko Rožić
Optimum of Optimism

Vesna Krmpotić
You, the Wave, Remember That You Are the Sea!

Ivan Molek
Challenge of De-Creation. Moment of Optimism in the Poetics of 'Wild Soul'

Julijana Matanović
Writing – the Key Word of Definition of Optimism
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Book Presentation 'Ballerina, Ballerina' by Marko Sosič
(Author, S. Širec Rovis, B.D. Biletić)
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Goran Starčević
Optimism and Pessimism in the Function of Backwater Town

Sibila Petlevski
On the Stylistics of Optimism and Panglossian Rhetoric

Jovan Nikolaidis
Life Is in Front of Us: Variations on Optimism
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