Запрошуємо на лекцію американського вченого Девіда Купера "Mystifications and Ritual Practices in the Czech National Awakening", що выдбудеться в середу, 16 травня о 16.30. Місце проведення: Центр польських та європейських студій НаУКМА, вул. Волоська, 10, підвальне приміщення 6 корпусу Abstract: In this lecture I examine the roles played by the Czech romantic forged manuscripts (Rukopis kr?lov?dvorsk? and Rukopis zelenohorsk?) in Czech national society in the first half of the nineteenth century. Early considered to be sacred, mythic texts, the forged manuscripts played a visible role in important social rituals of the emerging Czech national society, many of which had religious overtones. These include rites of initiation into Czech national society, figured as religious conversion, the taking of a patriotic name as a version of baptism into Czech society, and defense of the authenticity of the manuscripts as a kind of confession of faith. I argue that the place of the manuscripts in these important national social rituals helps to account for the emotional reactions of patriots to later expressions of scholarly doubts regarding their authenticity. Prof. David Cooper is teaching at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, USA). http://www.niupress.niu.edu/niupress/scripts/Book/ bookresults.asp?ID=553