[1st Floor] Renata Fucikova, a renowned illustrator and author of literature for children and young adults, presents a graphic journey through the history of Czechs in the United States, capturing the bonds between the two countries through their lived experience. Short texts and vivid illustrations detail the fates of the cartographer Martin Bohemus, the rebel Vojta Náprstek, the Freethinker Ladimír…
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[3rd Floor] In the talk “A Slow Revolution: Early Steps Towards Jewish Emancipation in Bohemia, 1780s-1860s,” Jindrich Toman, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will guide the audience through select points that mark legal and cultural emancipation of Bohemian Jewry in the decades between the so-called Josephinian Decrees of the 1780s and the…
“Deception, Myth, and Reality in Czech History (1918-1948): A Perspective from the Archives” presented by Igor Lukes, a Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University, who writes primarily about Central Europe. His books include On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (New York: Oxford, 2012), Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial…