The conference took place on October 19th - 20th, 2023, and CPU in Nitra was represented by Assoc. Prof. Ján Gallik from the Faculty of Central European Studies and Assoc. Prof. Magda Kučerková from the Faculty of Arts. As a part of several lectures, the conference participants were also interested in the lecture by Assoc. Prof. Ján Gallik, who spoke about the literary work of two Central European authors - the Slovak Pavol Strauss and the Pole Jan Twardowski. The presentation of the proceedings The Figurativeness of the Language of Mystical Experience Particularities and Interpretations (Brno: Munipress, 2021) was part of the conference program.

 

It was presented as an output from the commonly organized conference of the same name by its editors Assoc. Prof. Magda Kučerková and prof. Antonio Barnés Vázquez (Complutense). Both of them underlined that this is the first tangible result of the scientific cooperation of their institutions and also an example of rare thematic intersections of individual research teams. The authors of the articles published in the anthology tried to bring closer the figurative nature of the language of mystical experience and to deepen the literary-theoretical thinking about the so-called poetics of the inexpressible, the participants of the Madrid congress investigated the presence of the inexpressible instance of God in contemporary literary work.

The visit to the Faculty of Philology, Complutense University in Madrid was also used by both aforementioned representatives from Constantine the Philosopher University for working meetings connected with the preparation of new common projects.

 

Text: Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Ján Gallik, PhD., FSŠ – Institute of Languages and Cultures of Central Europe, Assoc. Prof. Mgr. Magda Kučerková, PhD., FF – Department of Romance and German Studies
Photo: Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Ján Gallik, PhD.

 

Posted: October 27, 2023