Věda – výzkum – publikace

Collaborative Workshop
6–7 November 2025

Scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students were invited to join a two-day on-site workshop focused on the dynamic relationship between space and power in Anglophone writing. This event served as a collaborative platform for exploring how literary texts engage with spatial politics, boundaries, and narrative authority. Participants were particularly interested in how literary texts reflect, reinforce, or resist spatial hierarchies, and how place becomes a site of power negotiation in literary works.
This workshop explored a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
1.    places with rules: national parks, ritual sites, sites of traditions, and their transformation 
2.    free movement and trespassing: the right to roam vs. private ownership; public interest and spatial freedom
3.    control through boundaries: borders and access, identity, and belonging
4.    surveillance and the underworld as forms of control of space
5.    narrative authority and discourse: liberalization of the narrative subject
6.    spatial (in)justice: literary representations of social inequality, spatial exclusion and/or exclusivity, spatial (in)visibility
7.    conspiracy thinking and spatial metaphors: ideological tools that frame space, mobility, and connectivity in moral terms
8.    borderlands and liminal spaces: transnationalism, in-between-ness, and identity formation
9.    globalization and glocalization: global impact on local geographies and vice versa
The workshop served as a springboard for a collaborative book proposal to be submitted to a reputable academic publisher. Therefore, participants were not expected to present traditional conference presentations; instead, they had been encouraged to prepare a 10-minute presentation outlining their proposed contribution to the planned edited volume. These short talks focused on the core idea or argument of proposed chapters, intended primary text/s, any relevant theoretical or methodological framework, and the proposal’s connection to the workshop themes. Participants engaged in structured brainstorming sessions to shape the volume’s thematic framework, editorial direction, and potential contributions. The goal was to foster open discussion, feedback, and collaboration, rather than formal paper delivery.