Read, Listen, Create. Writing Classes with Johns Hopkins University

The USA-based Johns Hopkins University’s MA in Writing program brings together aspiring fiction and nonfiction writers with working authors to study the craft of writing in classes held online and around the world. Meeting this year in Kraków, a UNESCO City of Literature, the students and faculty study literature from Poland and Central Europe to explore how authors confront autocratic governments via novels, poems, plays, and memoir. Johns Hopkins University is known worldwide for academic rigor, innovation, and a culture that encourages risk-taking.

Events in English.

Sponsored by: Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Master of Arts in Writing, Master of Arts in Science Writing, KBF: Kraków Miasto Literatury UNESCO, Potocki Palace, Jagiellonian University: Institute of English Studies, Department of the History of American Literature and Culture

Saturday, June 28

14.00-16.00

Title: Independent media amid political polarisation and illiberalism

Speaker: Daniel Tilles, editor-in-chief, Notes from Poland – the leading English-language media outlet covering Polish affairs

Description: Over the last decade, Poland has been at the frontlines of several global trends that raise questions and challenges for the work of independent media. Deep polarisation has impacted not just politics itself but also the media landscape, whether private or public.  Meanwhile, successive governments have taken actions that threaten to undermine the rule of law, media freedom and human rights