Lecture delivered to participants in the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh's 21st Annual Summer Institute for Teachers, "New Global Challenges: Perspectives in 2018."
Directed by Jan Hřebejk, 2017. This story takes place in the early 40s during German occupation when three young women and two children await the return of the imprisoned husbands and fathers from Nazi concentration camps. A family friend and doctor watches over the women forced into a family union by the war.
Directed by Julius Ševčík, 2016. Based on the true story of Czech diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, the son of Czechoslovakia’s founding father Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and set just before WWII. Jan desperately tries to save his homeland from Nazi occupation. This film was nominated for over 20 awards, including 12 prestigious Czech Lion Awards.
Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, a young boy opens up a world of trouble when he inadvertently reveals that his father has been listening to resistance broadcasts from London. Director Jan Svěrák received the 2018 Czech Lion Film Fan Award for this film.
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850 - 1937) was a Czech statesman, sociologist and philosopher. He succeeded in gaining Czechoslovak independence as a republic after World War I. He was the first President of Czechoslovakia and is called the "President Liberator."
Book launch and panel discussion. To register, visit https://shale_book_launch.eventbrite.com.
Panelists:
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, University of Pittsburgh, GSPIA
Reid Frazier
Allegheny Front, StateImpact Pennsylvania, Trump on Earth podcast
Amy Sisk
StateImpact Pennsylvania, 90.5 FM WESA
This session explores ways in which the Baltic region enabled the rise and consolidation of the French
colonial empire in the Americas. As a supplier of naval stores, the Baltic has long been viewed as central to
early modern European expansion overseas. Nevertheless, its particular association with French empire
building remains little studied. Drawing on data from the Danish Sound Toll Registers and French consular
records form Copenhagen, Elsinore, Stockholm, and St. Petersburg, the paper delineates how French
This webinar is the third in a professional development series co-sponsored by the American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the European Studies Center. This webinar will focus on career patterns in academia as well as in the field of infrastructure development in EU-countries. Participants will learn about the formats, chances and challenges for developing a strategy for one’s transnational career path.
