Events
My public appearances in the past and future (as far as I can see): lectures, conference speeches, workshops, concerts, performances, petanque tournaments... sociology, music and other stuff, all in one.
theatrical performance
Studs' Lot: Wild improv with Jaroslav Dušek Pjér la Šéze and Zdeòek Konopásek. Improvisational lighting by Viktor Zborník - JD (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), PL (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), ZK (drums, percussion, trumpet), VZ (lights).
theatrical performance
Summer's End: Wild improv with Jaroslav Dušek Pjér la Šéze and Zdeòek Konopásek. Improvisational lighting by Viktor Zborník - JD (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), PL (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), ZK (drums, percussion, trumpet), VZ (lights).
21. 9. 2006
:::: Vizita: čechovka club, Havlíčkův Brod
theatrical performance
Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
20. 9. 2006
:::: Vizita: Theatre of Music, Olomouc
theatrical performance
Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
19. 9. 2006
:::: Vizita: Cultural hall, Vsetín
theatrical performance
Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
18. 9. 2006
:::: Vizita: Cultural hall, Frenštát pod Radhoštěm
theatrical performance
dJaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
18. 9. 2006
:::: Vizita: Nora club, Kopřivnice
theatrical performance
dJaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
16. 9. 2006
:::: Vizita: Hviezda, Trenčín (Slovakia)
theatrical performance
dJaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
5. 9. 2006
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Why experts are seen as neutral arbiters in the Czech Republic? Understanding the post-communist politics of de-politicization
Presentation at the international conference Science and democracy: A new frontier between Eastern and Western Europe?, The Nobel Museum & Södertörn University College, Stockholm, September 4-6, 2006
The situation in contemporary Czech Republic provides numerous examples showing that experts and scientists keep enjoying an unchallenged and privileged status of neutral arbiters, situated out of the political arena. Although comparisons between the post-communist East and (capitalist) West are always at risk of being schematic and inadequate, it seems that such de-politicized perception of science is much stronger in the Eastern Europe than in most Western European countries. Underdevelopment of STS (Science and technology studies) in the post-communist East is part of this diagnosis. Different political cultures of expertise in the “new” and “old” EU member states might even turn into sources of tension and misunderstanding on the level of particular problems and controversies. In my paper I would like to make the difference and its roots more understandable. I will discuss the political status of science under the communist regime and its implications for the development after 1989. That time, in the Czech Republic, science and expertise were to be “finally liberated” from the burden of the political, with the hope that this de-politicization would bring us closer to Western democracies. This was a huge misapprehension, however, since Western democracies were at the very same time shifting towards a kind of “re-politicization” of the realm of science and technology. Propensity toward de-politicization was further increased, again quite paradoxically, by the process of accession of the Czech Republic to the EU. This process, simply put, had the form of purely technical implementation of unquestionable measures and principles. Although my presentation will take empirical evidence and case examples mostly from the Czech Republic, it may open a more general discussion about science and expertise in other post-communist countries as well.
theatrical performance
Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
theatrical performance
Jaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
theatrical performance
dJaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
29. 5. 2006
:::: Vizita: Hořovice
theatrical performance
dJaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
27. 5. 2006
:::: Vizita: Písek
theatrical performance
dJaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).
4. 5. 2006
:::: Vizita: Náchod
theatrical performance
dJaroslav Dušek (speaking, acting, dancing, singing), Pjér Lašéz (bass, guitar, singing, speaking), Zdeněk Konopásek (drums, percussion, trumpet), Viktor Zborník (lights).