More than any other Soviet-Polish investment project of the 1970s, the giant steel mill Huta Katowice was an attempt to transform international socialist economic development and bind the 'fraternal nations' together. At the forested outskirts of Dąbrowa Górnicza, a city … Read more
This presentation will explore the American networks of Eastern European dissidents by highlighting interactions (and competition) with other important activist causes in the 1970s and 80s, such as human rights activism in general and more specifically the anti-apartheid movement and … Read more
As the Cold War winds down, former concert cellist Louka (Zdenek Sverák) barely makes ends meet providing accompaniment at funerals after being blacklisted from his much cushier job with the Prague Philharmonic. For a fee, he marries a Russian woman … Read more
The roundtable will explore how European politics and the EU are being transformed by Russia’s war against Ukraine. Panelists will discuss the rise in support for ethnopopulist parties in Europe over the last decade, how they govern, and whether Ukraine’s … Read more
