Vaclav Havel Library Foundation
Project Title
For support for "Havel Conversations: Demonstrating the Power of Words"
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
Vaclav Havel is internationally recognized for his contributions to the arts, democracy, and human rights. As an influential political dissident and playwright during the 1950s and 1960s and President of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic from 1989 to 2003, Havel influenced and oversaw the country’s successful transition to democracy. The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF), founded in 2012, will use Havel’s life as the inspiration for the Havel Conversations project, which aims to demonstrate how words, thoughts, and ideas shape foreign policy and ultimately may change the course of history. With Corporation support, the VHLF will conduct, record, and transcribe ten interviews with U.S. politicians, diplomats, writers, artists, and other prominent political and cultural figures to discuss Havel’s diplomatic strategies, as well as the ideas and values of today’s international politics and humanitarian objectives. These interviews will be the first of thirty that will be digitally published and preserved by the Florida International University Library. In a future phase of the project, Havel Conversations Linked will produce interactive tools based on the interviews to disseminate Havel’s work throughout the world.
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Project Title
For the Havel Archival Project Focus Meeting
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
6 months