The Masaryk Lecture 2013

[R A Chitnis]

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The Forum for British, Czech and Slovak Historians is pleased to announce
that its annual Masaryk Lecture will take place on Thursday May 23rd 2013
at 7.30pm at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic, 25 Kensington Palace
Gardens, London.

Kieran Williams will speak on:

'THE PAST OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA: NOT THE FUTURE OF BRITAIN?'

The relatively smooth, amicable division of Czechoslovakia twenty years ago
is being cited as an example that the UK could follow should Scotland vote
in 2014 for independence. Kieran Williams will argue that the matters that
had to be resolved in separating the Czech and Slovak Republics were very
different from the ones that would have to be negotiated between Edinburgh,
London and Brussels, and reflected different ideas of what it means to be
an independent state.

Kieran Williams teaches in the politics department at Drake University
(USA), and before that was a Senior Lecturer at the UCL School of Slavonic
and East European Studies. His books include *The Prague Spring and its
Aftermath *(Cambridge, 1997).

For further information or to be included on the invitation list, please
contact Rajendra Chitnis at R.A.Chitnis at bris.ac.uk

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