Monday, 20 May 2013

There is no such thing as a same memory/ Není stejné paměti.

Two weekends back, there was the trip to Vienna that was organised by the Phonetics and Phonology department (about which M. Maratová wrote her article in the last issue). As the short reports from the two-day event suggest, each person perceived the same trip differently; while some focus on the museum, others discuss the journey or wine cellar as the highlight of the event. 
The unifying theme of ambiguity of perception continues with reviews of the Oscar film Lincoln, written by our USA History professor or with event reviews of the Irish Week’s Joyce Extravaganza and also of the classical music rendition of Alice in Wonderland. The interviews with one of the faculty’s professors and a young MA student who is publishing his first novel serve as short relief from the big chunks of prose that together create this issue. Nevertheless, I believe they will all make for an enriching read and hopefully the Contents page (that includes the introductory paragraph of each contribution) will guide one better through the magazine.

It is also my pleasure to announce that the Musepaper has agreed to cooperate with the Faculty’s Ffakt magazine! Therefore you may all expect more links, photographs and articles written by both English-American Studies students and non from the higher years – and I aspire that this collaboration will be mutually beneficial and will help the Musepaper move forward in terms of quality and increase its readership.
But for now, I heartily hope you will enjoy the May’s issue - the last we created solely on our own.
           Anna Hupcejová (Editor in Chief)