Jan Culik is a Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow and editor-in-chief of the Czech language cultural and political internet daily Britske listy blisty.cz.
An informative, twenty-minute video outlining the main historical landmarks in the history of the... more An informative, twenty-minute video outlining the main historical landmarks in the history of the Czech Lands, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. The video was recorded for Humbox, a UK database of academic teaching resources, in March 2010. It is available in full here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDE1xHpKNKU Also in Humbox, to be dowloaded, here: http://humbox.ac.uk/1924/
At the end of the 2019 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Jan Culik and Dominika Svecova t... more At the end of the 2019 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Jan Culik and Dominika Svecova talk about the most interesting films featured there. The interview starts with discussion a sponsorship controversy: It has transpired that the festival is being financially sponsored by two armament factories and by the tobacco firm Philip Morris. A group of well-know Czech film makers have protested to the management of the festival about this, but their protest has been rejected. - Nevertheless, many of the films featured at the festival highlight the importance of the plight of minorities, ostracised by the social majorities. Two remarkable recent Czech feature films, Miss Hanoi and On the Roof, feature sympathetically the members of the Vietnamese minority living in the Czech Republic. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz from 5th July 2019.
An analysis of Jiři Menzel's film adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's experimental text "... more An analysis of Jiři Menzel's film adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's experimental text "Smrt pana Baltisbergera".
At the end of 2016, Bohumil Kartous and Jan Culik, analysts and commentators publishing on the Br... more At the end of 2016, Bohumil Kartous and Jan Culik, analysts and commentators publishing on the Britske listy website, look back at the events which took place in 2016 and consider what the year 2017 might bring. Does the Czech government have any strategy how to deal with a possible disintegration of the European Union? The interview was broadcast on the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz from 30th December 2016.
Jan Culik interviews Czech poet Kateřina Bolechova about what it was like when she was suddenly d... more Jan Culik interviews Czech poet Kateřina Bolechova about what it was like when she was suddenly dismissed from her job after eighteen years of working for her firm.
Jan Culik interviews Prague journalist Stefan Svec about the mechanism of the politics of fear, u... more Jan Culik interviews Prague journalist Stefan Svec about the mechanism of the politics of fear, using hatred against the unknown "other", which is now being used by Central European politicians in order to bolster up their electoral support. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable television station Regionalni televize from 4th March, 2016.
Jan Culik talks to Eva Zahradnickova, a well-known Czech pro-refugee activist who regularly bring... more Jan Culik talks to Eva Zahradnickova, a well-known Czech pro-refugee activist who regularly brings humanitarian help to refugees stuck in dire conditions in the camps in the Balkans, about the reactions of the Czech public to her work. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz from 10th February 2017.
Jan Culik interviews Czech writer Helena Drasnarova about the life and work of her father, Jarosl... more Jan Culik interviews Czech writer Helena Drasnarova about the life and work of her father, Jaroslav Dietl, who was the author of innumerable, highly popular television soap operas and TV series, which were broadcast during the two decades of the post-1968 regime in Czechoslovakia as part of official propaganda. According to Drasnarova, her father was a communist by conviction, but he sincerely believed that his TV series were "critical" of the communist regime. This was not the case amongst other things because his work was subject to extremely strict Communist Party censorship. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station from 9th June 2017.
The citizens of the Czech Republic are perhaps the most sceptical towards the EU, from all the EU... more The citizens of the Czech Republic are perhaps the most sceptical towards the EU, from all the EU member countries. Jan Culik speaks to Martin Buchtik, the Chief Executive of the Czech polling agency STEM to find out what this is so. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz from Friday 29th November 2019.
Jan Culik interviews Andrew Stroehlein the European Media Director of Human Rights Watch about th... more Jan Culik interviews Andrew Stroehlein the European Media Director of Human Rights Watch about the rising wave of islamophobia and xenophobia in the Czech Republic in connection with the refugee crisis. Andrew Stroehlein came to the Czech Parliament on 23rd June to make representations on behalf of HRW on the day when Czech anti-islamic organisation IVCRN presented its anti-immigration petition containing 140 000 signatures of Czech citizens. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalni televize from 26th June 2015
Could the developments in the Czech Republic over the past thirty years since the fall of communi... more Could the developments in the Czech Republic over the past thirty years since the fall of communism have been different, since people did not have any experience about how a modern democratic society works? Bohumil Kartous discusses this theme and the state of contemporary Czech society thirty years after the fall of communism with Jan Culik, who has personally witnessed all these developments. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV Regionalnitelevize.cz from Friday 15th November, 2019.
Jan Culik interviews the well-known human rights activist and communist era dissident Petr Uhl ab... more Jan Culik interviews the well-known human rights activist and communist era dissident Petr Uhl about the internationalist roots of his beliefs, on the basis of his recent autobiography "Dělal jsem, co jsem považoval za spravne (I did what I considered to be appropriate")
In May, 1990, the reknowned Czech author Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) visited the Department of Sla... more In May, 1990, the reknowned Czech author Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) visited the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures at the University of Glasgow. Jan Culik was present and later took Hrabal for a trip by car to Loch Katrine. On his return to Czechoslovakia, Bohumil Hrabal wrote an experimental text about this which was published in his volume Dopisy Dubence (Letters to April). In this contribution, Jan Culik compares the image of Hrabal's visit to Glasgow and to Scotland as it is featured in his literary text to what happened in reality.
Jan Culik interviews Milan Kohout, a well-known artist and performer, about the current wave of i... more Jan Culik interviews Milan Kohout, a well-known artist and performer, about the current wave of islamophobia and xenophobia in the Czech Republic. This Britske listy Interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalni televize from 3rd July, 2015.
A paper presented at the 10th Salon of Critical Thinking, which took place in the Czech city of L... more A paper presented at the 10th Salon of Critical Thinking, which took place in the Czech city of Litoměřice in 2004. Criticism of British orientalism towards Central European culture in general and Czech culture in particular. A polemic against Jonathan Jones of the Guardian who seemed to be stuck in the pre-1989 era without being able to take into consideration post-communist cultural developments in Central Europe.
Jan Culik interviews Czech documentary film maker Dominika Svecova and Czech psychiatrist Kateřin... more Jan Culik interviews Czech documentary film maker Dominika Svecova and Czech psychiatrist Kateřina Duchoňova about their experiences from their trip to India. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable television station Regionalnitelevize.cz from 6th October 2017.
An investigative, longitudinal radio programme (30'), highlighting the lack of accountability... more An investigative, longitudinal radio programme (30'), highlighting the lack of accountability of post-communist politicians in democratic Czech Republic in the 1990s. The programme is made up of repeated telephone requests, made from December 1994 until March 1995, by Jan Culik for an interview with the Czech Business and Industry Secretary Vladimir Dlouhy, about the controversial aspects of the privatisation of the Skoda car factory, which the Czech government gave to the German manufacturer Volkswagen. Dlouhy's Press Officer Kamil Cermak and a number of ministry officials keep promising the interview, the interview never takes place. The radio programme was broadcast by Radio Alfa, Prague, on 9th April, 1995 and was repeated in May 1995 by popular request.
An informative, twenty-minute video outlining the main historical landmarks in the history of the... more An informative, twenty-minute video outlining the main historical landmarks in the history of the Czech Lands, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. The video was recorded for Humbox, a UK database of academic teaching resources, in March 2010. It is available in full here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDE1xHpKNKU Also in Humbox, to be dowloaded, here: http://humbox.ac.uk/1924/
At the end of the 2019 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Jan Culik and Dominika Svecova t... more At the end of the 2019 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Jan Culik and Dominika Svecova talk about the most interesting films featured there. The interview starts with discussion a sponsorship controversy: It has transpired that the festival is being financially sponsored by two armament factories and by the tobacco firm Philip Morris. A group of well-know Czech film makers have protested to the management of the festival about this, but their protest has been rejected. - Nevertheless, many of the films featured at the festival highlight the importance of the plight of minorities, ostracised by the social majorities. Two remarkable recent Czech feature films, Miss Hanoi and On the Roof, feature sympathetically the members of the Vietnamese minority living in the Czech Republic. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz from 5th July 2019.
An analysis of Jiři Menzel's film adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's experimental text "... more An analysis of Jiři Menzel's film adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's experimental text "Smrt pana Baltisbergera".
At the end of 2016, Bohumil Kartous and Jan Culik, analysts and commentators publishing on the Br... more At the end of 2016, Bohumil Kartous and Jan Culik, analysts and commentators publishing on the Britske listy website, look back at the events which took place in 2016 and consider what the year 2017 might bring. Does the Czech government have any strategy how to deal with a possible disintegration of the European Union? The interview was broadcast on the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz from 30th December 2016.
Jan Culik interviews Czech poet Kateřina Bolechova about what it was like when she was suddenly d... more Jan Culik interviews Czech poet Kateřina Bolechova about what it was like when she was suddenly dismissed from her job after eighteen years of working for her firm.
Jan Culik interviews Prague journalist Stefan Svec about the mechanism of the politics of fear, u... more Jan Culik interviews Prague journalist Stefan Svec about the mechanism of the politics of fear, using hatred against the unknown "other", which is now being used by Central European politicians in order to bolster up their electoral support. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable television station Regionalni televize from 4th March, 2016.
Jan Culik talks to Eva Zahradnickova, a well-known Czech pro-refugee activist who regularly bring... more Jan Culik talks to Eva Zahradnickova, a well-known Czech pro-refugee activist who regularly brings humanitarian help to refugees stuck in dire conditions in the camps in the Balkans, about the reactions of the Czech public to her work. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz from 10th February 2017.
Jan Culik interviews Czech writer Helena Drasnarova about the life and work of her father, Jarosl... more Jan Culik interviews Czech writer Helena Drasnarova about the life and work of her father, Jaroslav Dietl, who was the author of innumerable, highly popular television soap operas and TV series, which were broadcast during the two decades of the post-1968 regime in Czechoslovakia as part of official propaganda. According to Drasnarova, her father was a communist by conviction, but he sincerely believed that his TV series were "critical" of the communist regime. This was not the case amongst other things because his work was subject to extremely strict Communist Party censorship. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station from 9th June 2017.
The citizens of the Czech Republic are perhaps the most sceptical towards the EU, from all the EU... more The citizens of the Czech Republic are perhaps the most sceptical towards the EU, from all the EU member countries. Jan Culik speaks to Martin Buchtik, the Chief Executive of the Czech polling agency STEM to find out what this is so. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalnitelevize.cz from Friday 29th November 2019.
Jan Culik interviews Andrew Stroehlein the European Media Director of Human Rights Watch about th... more Jan Culik interviews Andrew Stroehlein the European Media Director of Human Rights Watch about the rising wave of islamophobia and xenophobia in the Czech Republic in connection with the refugee crisis. Andrew Stroehlein came to the Czech Parliament on 23rd June to make representations on behalf of HRW on the day when Czech anti-islamic organisation IVCRN presented its anti-immigration petition containing 140 000 signatures of Czech citizens. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalni televize from 26th June 2015
Could the developments in the Czech Republic over the past thirty years since the fall of communi... more Could the developments in the Czech Republic over the past thirty years since the fall of communism have been different, since people did not have any experience about how a modern democratic society works? Bohumil Kartous discusses this theme and the state of contemporary Czech society thirty years after the fall of communism with Jan Culik, who has personally witnessed all these developments. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV Regionalnitelevize.cz from Friday 15th November, 2019.
Jan Culik interviews the well-known human rights activist and communist era dissident Petr Uhl ab... more Jan Culik interviews the well-known human rights activist and communist era dissident Petr Uhl about the internationalist roots of his beliefs, on the basis of his recent autobiography "Dělal jsem, co jsem považoval za spravne (I did what I considered to be appropriate")
In May, 1990, the reknowned Czech author Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) visited the Department of Sla... more In May, 1990, the reknowned Czech author Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) visited the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures at the University of Glasgow. Jan Culik was present and later took Hrabal for a trip by car to Loch Katrine. On his return to Czechoslovakia, Bohumil Hrabal wrote an experimental text about this which was published in his volume Dopisy Dubence (Letters to April). In this contribution, Jan Culik compares the image of Hrabal's visit to Glasgow and to Scotland as it is featured in his literary text to what happened in reality.
Jan Culik interviews Milan Kohout, a well-known artist and performer, about the current wave of i... more Jan Culik interviews Milan Kohout, a well-known artist and performer, about the current wave of islamophobia and xenophobia in the Czech Republic. This Britske listy Interview was broadcast by the Czech cable TV station Regionalni televize from 3rd July, 2015.
A paper presented at the 10th Salon of Critical Thinking, which took place in the Czech city of L... more A paper presented at the 10th Salon of Critical Thinking, which took place in the Czech city of Litoměřice in 2004. Criticism of British orientalism towards Central European culture in general and Czech culture in particular. A polemic against Jonathan Jones of the Guardian who seemed to be stuck in the pre-1989 era without being able to take into consideration post-communist cultural developments in Central Europe.
Jan Culik interviews Czech documentary film maker Dominika Svecova and Czech psychiatrist Kateřin... more Jan Culik interviews Czech documentary film maker Dominika Svecova and Czech psychiatrist Kateřina Duchoňova about their experiences from their trip to India. The interview was broadcast by the Czech cable television station Regionalnitelevize.cz from 6th October 2017.
An investigative, longitudinal radio programme (30'), highlighting the lack of accountability... more An investigative, longitudinal radio programme (30'), highlighting the lack of accountability of post-communist politicians in democratic Czech Republic in the 1990s. The programme is made up of repeated telephone requests, made from December 1994 until March 1995, by Jan Culik for an interview with the Czech Business and Industry Secretary Vladimir Dlouhy, about the controversial aspects of the privatisation of the Skoda car factory, which the Czech government gave to the German manufacturer Volkswagen. Dlouhy's Press Officer Kamil Cermak and a number of ministry officials keep promising the interview, the interview never takes place. The radio programme was broadcast by Radio Alfa, Prague, on 9th April, 1995 and was repeated in May 1995 by popular request.
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