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24th Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop
The 24th Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop, which will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 25-26, 2025, welcomes papers on Czech and Slovak topics. The deadline for submitting proposals is Dec. 18, 2024.
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ASEEES 2024 Panel/Roundtable Submission Deadline Approaching!
The Slovak Studies Association (SSA) sponsors a panel or roundtable at the annual ASEEES Convention, either focused entirely on Slovak studies in any discipline, or something comparative including Slovakia, historically or in the present. It can be a roundtable as in 2023 or a standard panel. If you have a paper or other proposal to…
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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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“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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Celebrating 30 Years of Slovak Independence
R.S.V.P. now for this virtual lecture series featuring distinguished experts on Slovakia The first event in the series features: H.E. Radovan Javorčík, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the United Statesat 4:30pm EST, on January 18, 2023 Slovakia@30 is a collaborative project of the Slovak American Society of Washington, D.C. (SASW), Friends of Slovakia (FOS),…
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“Argonauts of the Eastern Bloc: Environmentalism in Slovakia after the Velvet Revolution”
A Talk by Edward Snajdr, John Jay College, CUNY Saturday, November 5, 2:00 pm ETThis talk will take place in person and online. IN PERSON: To reserve one of the limited number of seats atThe Embassy of the Slovak Republic3523 International Court, NW, Washington, DCplease RSVP, by 6:00PM, Thursday, November 3, to rsvp@dcslovaks.org . ONLINE: To register for this…
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SSA Statement on Invasion of Ukraine
The Slovak Studies Association, which unites scholars specializing in Slovak affairs in North America and throughout the world, unequivocally condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite the spurious claims of the Kremlin about the Ukraine, the country’s government and members of its parliament are responsible elected representatives of the Ukrainian, Russian, Rusyn, Romanian, and other…
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Video Lecture: “The New Party Challenge in Slovakia: Understanding and Dealing with Constant Political Change”
Political scientists Kevin Deegan-Krause and Timothy Haughton delivered a zoom talk in summer 2021 with insights from their new book, The New Party Challenge: Changing Cycles of Party Birth and Death in Central Europe and Beyond The talk covers the tumultuous history of changes in Slovak parties over the decades since 1989. Abstract: Why is…
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