February 2019 at BISLA
Matej Bílik, Michal Micovčin, Ivona Mičeková / March 1, 2019
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What’s happened at Bisla in February 2019
Dear friends of BISLA, we would like to introduce you our new newsletter in which you will find everything about life on Bisla and find some interesting articles, books, discussions and other activities that take place in our school.
We would like to also inform about activites that already have taken place in our community. We managed to do quite lot since New Years...
Winter school
BISLA hosted in February students from Ritsumeikan Asia PacificUniversity in Japan for Winter school about culture in Central Europe. They visited Slovak radio and television, Holocaust Museum, and experienced Brno and Vienna.
Winter School: BISLA students with students from Ritsumeikan Asia PacificUniversity in Japan in Brno.
Should AI concern me?
BIH & BISLA organized a discussion about the impacts of digital solutions on the society. The guests were cyber expert Mária Virčíková, economist Miroslav Pikus, sociologist Michal Vašečka and moderator was Juraj Čorba.
Video: https://www.facebook.com/bislask/videos/380932906006325/
The Maidan Five Years Afterwards
Marci Shore with students of BISLA and students from Ritsumeikan Asia PacificUniversity in Japan.
Yale University professor, Marci Shore discussed with us the current situation in Ukraine and what has preceded it.
Tomáš Janovic + 3 (Kamenec, Gál, Zajac)
Writer Tomáš Janovic and his three friends shared with us in a pleasant atmosphere with coffee their views on life and their texts published in Kritika & Kontext.
Read: Identities in Flux
Book is a special publication of Kritika & Kontext journal. It examines changing identities within the context of transitions to democracy on philosophical, political and international level. The publication is interdisciplinary, but also intergenerational, bringing together established scholars and talented students.
