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The project will consist in creating a series of podcasts concerned with the reflection of the current world and individual problems in literature. The purpose of the project is to inform about literature in an enticing way and attract a new audience (from Generations Z and Alpha) to reading literary works. For experienced readers, the podcasts will present another opportunity of staying up to date with today’s literary scene. The form of a podcast has a great advantage, compared with written text – to follow podcasts one does not have to focus on reading, and it enables putting a better emphasis on the core of the message.
Topics: The podcasts will bring information about literature and about how closely it is connected with our perception and understanding of general problems. We will not deal with bestsellers but with books that do not shy away from problems and lead us to reflection, let their authors come from Czechia, Taiwan, Belarus and Israel. We will therefore call attention to works concerned with the issues of minorities, climate change, social inequalities, new forms of human and family relationships, and human rights.
People involved: Experienced editors of the iLiteratura journal will act as hosts. The guests will be also sociologists, natural scientists, doctors and political scientists, including guests from abroad. They will provide another context and broader framework for literary works.
The advantage of a podcast is that it can reach beyond large cultural centres, to communities where literature does not belong to common topics of everyday life or where it is not so accessible. The renown of the iLiteratura journal guarantees the podcasts will find their audience. They will be attractive because of their broad scope, erudition and interdisciplinary approach.
The iLiteratura journal has not yet created podcasts, therefore the project includes an internal training course in the form of two workshops.