Speakers and Seminars

This is the list of speakers for each academic year. Following each speaker's name is a short identification along with the title of the presentation.


2000-2001

November 30th, 2000
Professor Shlomo Avineri,
Professor, Hebrew University
Director, Institute for European Studies

CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE BURDEN OF HISTORY




1998/1999

March 4, 1999
Professor Karen Dawisha,
Ph.D. students Stephen Deets and Jennifer Skulte
Government and Politics,
University of Maryland

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION?:
DECONSTRUCTION THE CUBAN SOCIALIST PARADISE


December 3, 1998
Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus,
at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem

DEMOCRACY, TRUST AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY


November 19, 1998
Prof. Maria Kovacs
Professor of history at University of Wisconsin-Madison
and Central European University (CEU)

INTRODUCING NATIONALISM STUDIES IN POST-COMMUNIST
EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE



1997/1998

May 12, 1998
Prof. Igor Zevelev
Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace

THE SEARCH FOR RUSSIA'S NATIONAL IDENTITY


May 7, 1998
New Europe Roundtable
Vincent Fruchard and Bart Kaminski
University of Maryland

EASTERN ENLARGEMENT: LESSONS FROM PREVIOUS ENLARGEMENTS


April 24, 1998
Slavenka Drakulic
Writer, Essayist

EASTERN EUROPE-DREAMS AND REALITY: A PERSONAL VIEW


March 12, 1998
Prof Jan Winiecki
Europe University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany

"HOW PROSPECTS OF EU ACCESSION HAS BEEN INFLUENCING TRANSITIONS IN CENTERAL EUROPE


February 26, 1998
Prof. Jan T. Gross
New Your University

"WAGES OF FEAR--CONFRONTING STEREOTYPES ABOUT POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST"


February 5, 1998
Beata Surmacz
Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

POLISH-UKRAINIAN RELATIONS A THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY


December 4, 1997
Mr. David Ensor
ABC Diplomatic Correspondent

BIRTH PAINS OF A NEW RUSSIA--FIRST HAND REFLECTIONS


October 10, 1997
Prof. Valerie Bunce
Cornell University

"VIOLENT vs. PEACEFUL STATE DISMEMBERMENT: A COMPARISON OF YUGOSLAVIA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AND THE SOVIET UNION"



1996/1997

February 5, 1997
Prof. Daniel Chirot
University of Washington

"WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM SO MANY FAILED REVOLUTIONS"


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