Czech and Slovak Cultural Center

You are invited to join us for a unique learning experience. Jake Slegers, Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce will speak (via SKYPE) on the Economic and Political Development in Slovakia over the past 15 years and the role of the American Chamber of Commerce in Business Affairs.

The Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development are pleased to continue our fall/spring lecture series on defining events that shaped the Czech and Slovak Republics.

You are invited to join us for a unique learning experience on “The 1944 Slovak National Uprising” by Dr. Gary Cohen, Department of History, University of Minnesota on Saturday, November 19, 2011 at from 9:00am – 12:00pm at the University of Minnesota.

Location:  Carlson School of Management, Room 2-224. Carlson is located on the West Bank Campus at 321 Nineteenth Avenue South.  A skyway connects the building to the 19th Avenue Parking Ramp.

The Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development are pleased to continue our fall/spring lecture series on defining events that shaped the Czech and Slovak Republics.

You are invited to join us for a unique learning experience on “Munich and its aftermath” by Dr. Winston Chrislock, University of St. Thomas on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at from 9:00am – 12:00pm at the University of Minnesota.

Defining Events that Shaped the Czech and Slovak Republics

Save these dates:

• Saturday, September 17, 2011 – The Curse of Yalta by Josef Mestenhauser
• Saturday, October 29, 2011 – Munich and its aftermath by Winston Chrislock
• Saturday, November 19, 2011- The 1944 Slovak National Uprising by Gary Cohen
• Saturday, January 21,2012 -  Economic and Political Development in Slovakia over the past 15 years and the role of the American Chamber of Commerce in Business Affairs by Jake Slegers, Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce (via SKYPE)
• Saturday, February 18, 2012
• Saturday, March 31, 2012
• Saturday, April 21, 2012
  Time: from 9:00 a.m. to noon
  Place: Carlson School of Management, Room 2-224
  Attendance free; available to graduate or undergraduate students for 1 – 3 cr., inEdPA 5080, instructor of record Dr. John Moravec.

Full program will be available at the CSCC booth during the Czech and Slovak Day, September 18th, 2011. Be surprised by the variety of topics we plan to offer.

WATCH FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. FLYER OF FULL YEARPROGRAM WILL BE AVAILABLE AT CSCC BOOTH AT THE CZECHAND SLOVAK DAY ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Reminder and up-date about our lecture series.

Save the remaining dates if you want to know what happened in the “fateful eight” years, 1948, 1968, 1989, 2098 and if you are interested in Central European countries that shared some of the same history but often with different manifestations: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovak Republic. They are all in the “heart of Europe”.

March 26, 2011 at 9:00 am

• “Czech and Slovak Republics in the Visegrad Four context”
  Panel of distinguished speakers from Hungary, Poland, and the Czech and Slovak Republics: 
  • Laszlo Fulop
  • Don Pafko “V-4 – Supporting one Another”
  • Andrzej Stankiewicz “Poland and the Visegrad Four after twenty years”
  • Robert Vanasek “Viewing post-Communist understanding of Czech nationhood in relation to its political, cultural and historical contexts.”
  • Video feature film “Ostre sledovane vlaky” “Closely Watched Trains” with English sub-titles. Based on novel by Bohuslav Hrabal, won several prizes. 89 minutes

Location: Room 1-149, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 321 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN. Parking is available at the 21st Avenue and 19th Avenue ramps.

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The Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota, in collaboration with the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development at the University of Minnesota, is pleased to announce the spring 2011 continuation of the lecture series, “Shifting Landscapes: Examining the past, present, and future of the Czech & Slovak Republics.”

The lecture series is free and open to the public, and all members of the community are invited to join. All lectures will take place at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

This lecture and discussion series provides historical, contemporary, and personal perspectives on critical issues in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The focus on these countries is intended not only for people of Czech and Slovak background, but for anybody interested in the role of small nations in world politics and economics, in social and cultural change of epic proportions, on development of democracy on the tail of two of the most notorious dictatorships, and on efforts in Europe to create new security arrangements, such as those of NATO and the European Union.

Each lecture will be followed by the presentation of a film.

Location: Room 1-149, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 321 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN. Parking is available at the 21st Avenue and 19th Avenue ramps.

Time: 9:00 a. m. – 12:00 noon

Dates, speakers and topics:

• January 29, 2011: Dr. Josef Mestenhauser, Distinguished International Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
  “Personal reflections on the events in the year 1948 and their consequences”
  
• February 26, 2011: Dr. Martin Bútora, fmr. Slovak Ambassador to the U.S. and Slovak presidential candiate, and Dr. Zora Bútorová, Institute for Public Affairs (Slovakia)
  “The Slovak Republic after twenty years”
• March 26, 2011: Invited panel of Honorary Consuls of Central European nations in Minnesota
  “Czech and Slovak republics within Central Europe”
• April 23, 2011: Dr. Eva Janebová, Charles University, and Tomáš Janeba, human rights expert
  “The Czech republic after twenty years”

Lecture Series Moderators:  Dr. Josef Mestenhauser, Dr. John Moravec, Allyn Johnson (Lecture Series Coordinator)

Shifting Landscapes:  Examining the past, present, and future of the Czech & Slovak Republics

The Czech & Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota, in co-sponsorship with the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota, is pleased to announce the fall 2010 lecture series, “Shifting Landscapes:  Examining the past, present, and future of the Czech & Slovak Republics.”

This lecture and discussion series provides historical, contemporary, and personal perspectives on critical issues in the Czech and Slovak Republics.  Moreover, the lecture series is intended to enhance knowledge about the Czech and Slovak Republics and their relationships to other European countries and the United States.  Each lecture will be followed by the presentation of a film.

Come join us for a truly outstanding learning opportunity.  Admission for the lecture series is free and open to the public, but contributions are invited to help support this lecture series and other CSCC programs.

Location:  Room 1-149, Carlson School of Management, 321 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN.  Parking is available at the 21st Avenue and 19th Avenue ramps.

Time: 9:00 a. m.  – 12:00 noon

Dates, speakers and topics:

September 25, 2010: Dr. Gary Cohen, Chair, Department of History, University of Minnesota
“The Unpredictable Birth of a Nation. Not the Story your Grandmother told you.”

October 23, 2010: Dr. Winston Chrislock, Professor of History, St. Thomas University
“One Country – Seven Regimes”

November 13, 2010: Kenneth Scoug, Retired High Ranking US Diplomat Assigned to US Embassy in Prague during the “Prague Spring events of 1968: The Human Face that Got Bloodied”

Lecture Series Moderators:  Dr. Josef Mestenhauser, Dr. John Moravec, Allyn Johnson (Lecture Series Coordinator)

For information contact moravec@umn.edu; j-mest@umn.edu; or john2023@umn.edu