Olomouc Russian Language Conference

[Ludmila Dutkova]

Perhaps also to 'Moravianists' - remember, Olomouc is in Moravia :-)
This is an interesting problem anyway - how we should refer to theorists
who are working on language and literature coming from both regions of the
Czech Republic (I know you are using an established term, yet I wonder,
being from Moravian myself)

Lida

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Andrew Jameson wrote:

> Dear Andy,
> Thank you for pointing out my carelessness in rendering the name of the
> Palacky University as "Palach University". Apologies to all Bohemianists
> amongst you.
> Andrew Jameson
> Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
> Languages and Professional Development
> 1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
> Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)
>
> ----------
> > From: Andy Hicks <ah69 at columbia.edu>
> > To: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com
> > Subject: Re: Olomouc Russian Language Conference
> > Date: 27 February 1999 17:59
> >
> > Just a brief note to let you know that the university in Olomouc is
> > named after Frantisek Palacky, who was a nineteenth century historian
> > and central figure of the Czech Awakening.  Jan Palach was the student
> > who burned himself to death in January 1969 to protest the Soviet
> > invasion.  The fact that the original message was in Russian probably
> > made it easy to confuse the two.
> >
>