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Slovakia Journal Online

The full run of the academic journal Slovakia, 1951-2021, is now online (all 8,000 pages) — both at a dedicated journal website (https://slovakia.omeka.net/) and a forever copy at Internet Archive. Full-text searchable in both locations with a complete index of authors here: https://slovakia.omeka.net/authors. For more information, contact Slovak Studies Association webmaster Paul Soderdahl, Associate University…
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2023 Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture (online)
“Free and Fair Elections in the New Democracy Age” Friday, November 17 , noon – 1 pm EST Keynote speaker: Rasto Kuzel, Executive Director of Memo98 The awardee will discuss the importance of free and fair elections for democracy in the aftermath of the recent elections in Slovakia and Poland and ahead of the US…
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SSA Signs the American Historical Association’s Statement Opposing Florida House Bill 999 (March 2023)

The Slovak Studies Association agreed to sign the document, as stated on the AHA website: “The AHA has released a statement on Florida House Bill 999, ‘express[ing] horror . . . at the assumptions that lie at the heart of this bill and its blatant and frontal attack on principles of academic freedom and shared…
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“30 Years of Slovak Civil Society” Lecture by Zuzana Wienk, Director of Bystriny

12:00 noon ET, April 13, 2023 ONLINE In partnership with the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, D.C., and Friends of Slovakia, we invite you to attend the fourth event in the Slovakia@30 series After the fall of communism, a real civil society was suddenly possible in Slovakia. From the early days of independence, nothing…
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2023 Thomas Kukučka Memorial Lecture: “The rise of populism in Central and Eastern Europe”
Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 2:00pm Room 332 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260 and on Zoom The University of Pittsburgh’s Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures invites you to join us in-person (also with an online hybrid option) to the 2023 Thomas Kukucka Memorial Lecture! It will be held on April…
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Botstiber Institute Announces Research Grant Proposals

2023 Research and Project Grant Proposal Portal Now Open Offering a much simpler application process, with an earlier deadline, the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies is currently accepting grant proposals for research or projects that promote an understanding of the historic relationships between the United States and Austria (including the larger Habsburg realm). Proposals may include…
