![]() ![]() ![]() To participate in the online workshop, please scroll to the bottom of this page. Lem was born in 1921 and, to mark the anniversary, 2021 has been declared ‘the year of Lem’ in Poland. Our workshop is a celebration of these two centenaries. Stanisław Lem was a Polish science fiction writer and philosopher, and the author of Solaris (1961) and The Futurological Congress (1971). ( Rossum’s Universal Robots), which premiered on 25 January 1921, exactly a century ago. ![]() Karel Čapek was a Czech playwright who coined the word “robot” – used for the first time in the play R.U.R. The second online event in a series of workshops on AI Narratives in Central and Eastern Europe will take place on 15 January 2021 and focus on the representations of intelligent machines in Eastern European SF, with a particular focus on the works of Karel Čapek and Stanisław Lem. “How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?” ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris, 1961 ![]() “Each factory will be making Robots of a different color, a different nationality, a different tongue they’ll no longer be able to conspire with one another…” – Karel Čapek, R.U.R., 1920. ![]()
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