Academics: Regional Studies
Czech Studies Event Archive
2006
Paul Wilson: The Tower of Song: How Music doomed Communism in Czechoslovakia (PDF)
November 9, 2006, 4-6pm
Room 1512, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street
Paul Wilson, freelance writer, editor and translator of, among others, Havel, Skvorecký, Hrabal, and Klima,
discusses his life and involvement with the underground music scene and the dissident movement in communist Czechoslovakia as a member of the
legendary Plastic People of the Universe.
A Symposium: The Examined Life: The Literature and Politics of Vaclav Havel (PDF)
November 11, 2006, 10am-6pm
Room 1501, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street
The Plastic People of the Universe Concert (PDF)
November 11, 2006, 8pm
The Cutting Room, 19 West 24th Street, New York City
RSVP required, please send to: ppu@harrimaninstitute.org
Barbara Masin and Jan Novak: Fighting the Totalitarian Juggernaut: The Causa Masin (PDF)
November 14, 6:30-8:30pm
Room 1219, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street
Jirí Dienstbier: Democracy Seventeen Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain (PDF)
December 7, 2006
Harison Room, 2nd Floor of the Faculty House
For directions, see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/fachouse/directions.html