Week of October 5, 2025 in UCIS

Monday, October 6

4:00 pm Lecture
Before and after 1989: The Short History of Liberal Democracy in Hungary
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs
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Victoria Harms, Associate Teaching Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and author of the book The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and Its Western Friends, 1973-1998 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) in conversation with Gregor Thum, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Introduction by Kati R. Csoman, Director of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs.

Co-sponsors to list are: Hungarian Room Committee of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs, the History Department, World History Center, European Studies Center, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.

Where: 4130 Posvar Hall

When: 4pm - 5pm October 6th

What: Interview followed by a Q&A segment