A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Vladimir Tasić i Igor Štiks na književnom festivalu „Glasovi sveta“ u Njujorku

Vladimir Tasić i Igor Štiks, autori Arhipelaga, učestvuju na ovogodišnjem književnom festivalu Glasovi sveta koji se održava od 28. aprila do 4. maja u Njujorku u organizaciji Američkog PEN centra.

Tasić i Štiks učestvuju i u posebnom festivalskom programu koji je posvećen književnosti Balkana. Zajedno sa njima, književnost Balkana na čitanju u Bruklinu 3. maja predstaviće Aleksandar Hemon, Ognjen Spahić i Miljenka Mika Buljević.

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Festival Glasovi sveta za svega nekoliko godina postao je jedan od najprestižnijih svetskih književnih događaja. Festival je 2005. godine osnovao Salman Rušdi zamišljajući ga kao „platformu za podsticanje dijaloga o individualnim pravima i slobodama među piscima i intelektualcima iz različitih kultura“. Rušdi je i dalje na čelu ovog festivala čiji su učesnici bili najpoznatiji savremeni svetski pisci. Festival Glasovi sveta posvećen je „širokom spektru aktuelnih društvenih i političkih pitanja važnih za pisce i umetnike širom sveta“.

Tokom gotovo nedelju dana programa koji se održavaju na različitim tačkama Njujorka festival Glasovi sveta okupiće više od 150 pisaca, teoretičara, kritičara i drugih intelektualaca iz tridesetak zemalja. Među učesnicima festivala nalaze se i Salman Rušdi, Đerđ Konrad, Noam Čomski, Adam Mihnjik, Adonis, Lin Ulman, Adonis, Timoti Garton Eš, Kolm Tojbin, Džudit Batler, Ivan Klima, Martin Amis, Pol Maldun, Sjon i mnogi drugi.

U središtu ovogodišnjeg, desetog po redu festivala jeste tema Na ivici koja je, prema rečima organizatora, „inspirisana dugogodišnjim praksama pozvanih autora koji su preuzimali umetničke i političke rizike, imajući hrabrosti da javno istupe, stavljajući na kocku društvene uloge, vlastite karijere, a ponekad i živote da bi progovorili protiv statusa quo“.

Govoreći o ovogodišnjoj temi, direktor festivala Glasovi sveta Laslo Jakab Orsos podsetio je da je Kurt Vonegat svojevremeno rekao da je želeo da se približi ivici koliko je to moguće a da se ne padne s nje, jer je samo iz te perspektive mogao da vidi stvari koje nije mogao da sagleda iz centra.

Nastojeći da predstave program u rasponu od književnosti do politike, od poezije do filozofije, festival Glasovi sveta, pored čitanja i razgovora o savremenoj književnosti, obuhvatiće i čitav niz aktuelnih pitanja kao što su sloboda izražavanja, globalni nadzor u 21. veku, upotreba hrane kao političkog oružja, uloga intelektualne javnosti danas, nelegalno špijuniranje ili obeležavanje 25 godina od pada Berlinskog zida.

Posle održavanja festivala Glasovi sveta biće objavljena antologija tekstova učesnika ovogodišnjeg festivala. Vladimir Tasić biće predstavljen odlomkom iz romana Oproštajni dar, čije je novo izdanje nedavno objavljeno u Arhipelagu, dok će Igor Štiks biti predstavljen odlomkom iz romana Elijahova stolica po kome je nastala i istoimena predstava u JDP.

Izvor: Arhipelag


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Milan Panic

The story of Milan Panic is a very American story – emblematic of the people who made America what it is today. America is a nation of immigrants and Panic possesses the very qualities of first generation immigrants who turned America into an economic powerhouse: boundless optimism, a burning desire to succeed, and an enormous appetite for work.

Milan Panic is the founder and owner of MP Global Enterprises and Associates LLC, headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. The company focuses on both business and humanitarian issues around the world.

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Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan

by Bishop Athanasius (Yevtich)

In 2013 Christian world celebrates 1700 years since the day when the Providence of God spoke through the holy Emperor Constantine and freedom was given to the Christian faith. Commemorating the 1700 years since the Edict of Milan of 313, Sebastian Press of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church published a book by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan. The book has 72 pages and was translated by Popadija Aleksandra Petrovich. This excellent overview of the historical circumstances that lead to the conversion of the first Christian emperor and to the publication of a document that was called "Edict of Milan", was originally published in Serbian by the Brotherhood of St. Simeon the Myrrh-gusher, Vrnjci 2013. “The Edict of Milan” is calling on civil authorities everywhere to respect the right of believers to worship freely and to express their faith publicly.

The publication of this beautiful pocket-size, full-color, English-language book, has been compiled and designed by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, a disciple of the great twentieth-century theologian Archimandrite Justin Popovich. Bishop Athanasius' thought combines adherence to the teachings of the Church Fathers with a vibrant faith, knowledge of history, and a profound experience of Christ in the Church.

In the conclusion of the book, the author states:"The era of St. Constantine and his mother St. Helena, marks the beginning of what history refers to as Roman, Christian Empire, which was named Byzantium only in recent times in the West. In fact, this was the conception of a Christian Europe. Christian Byzantine culture had a critical effect on Europe; Europe was its heir, and then consciously forgot it. Europe inherited many Byzantine treasures, but unfortunately, also robbed and plundered many others for its own treasuries and museums – not only during the Crusades, but during colonial rule in the Byzantine lands as well. We, the Orthodox Slavs, received a great heritage of the Orthodox Christian East from Byzantium. Primarily, Christ’s Gospel, His faith and His Church, and then, among other things, the Cyrillic alphabet, too."