Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the complex history and geography of the country of Georgia as we explore the burdens and joys that have shaped its identity over the centuries. From its strategic location at the crossroads of … Read more
Eliza Rose is an Associate Professor of Central European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She researches the visual cultures and literature of Poland and East Central Europe with a focus on science fiction. Her current … Read more
Kevin Hoeper is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He focuses on the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century military culture in Central Europe, with a particular focus on the late … Read more
Dr. Bryant will be delivering a lecture entitled, “Blogging and Belonging: Prague’s Czech-Vietnamese Community and What Social Media Might Have Been.” The event will take place in Pauli Murray Hall 569. There will be food and drinks, and we will … Read more
During the period of greatest repression of the Catholic Church in Stalinist Czechoslovakia, Communist leaders organized and promoted an official manifestation at Velehrad, which since the mid-nineteenth century had come to represent a Moravian Catholic vision of Czech nationhood that … Read more
Eren Tasar is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia (OUP, 2017). He will present a draft of the … Read more
