A pleasant feature of the debate was the interaction between the invited panel and the audience, which was excellently promoted by host Michael Rozsypal. While the guest speakers polemicized more on the question of how to understand the rational and emotional sides of patriotism, the students in the audience had various metaphors readily available. There …
Thank you to all who were not put off by the cold weather and the construction going on around this place of memory and came to join us in drumming against the silent majority. The event was held under the auspices of the Embassy of the State of Israel.
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “memorial ceremony”? Radka Denemarková, author and historianI could here play the song by Karel Kryl… it’s a kind of formal political act when certain moments from difficult times are simplified in that, once a year, we squeeze out a tear and lay a wreath. We often …
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The Memorial of Silence’s organizing team offers partner organizations and schools a venue for open discussion about how to commemorate important dates and grand stories of the twentieth century and how to work with them so that we may have a better understanding of the events we are witnessing today.
The event was made possible thanks to financing from the City of Prague and from project no. 213000052 financed by the National Renewal Plan for 2023.
The discussion was streamed online via the Czech News Agency: stream
This was the question discussed by historian and Prague 7 councilor for urban development Lenka Burgerová, public art theorist and dean of Liberec Technical University’s Faculty of Architecture Jan Stolín, and director of the Memorial of Silence Pavel Štingl. The discussion was moderated by architect and architecture theorist Pavla Melková. The discussion was streamed online …
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The original founding organization
Památník Šoa Praha, o. p. s. / Shoah Memorial Prague.
