upcoming conference: Czechs in the New and Old Europe: New Approaches

[David L. Cooper]

The 8th Annual Czech Workshop will be held March 30–April 1, 2007, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The workshop theme is “Czechs in the New and Old Europe: New Approaches.” The keynote address, “The Czechs Without the Slovaks: Where the Past is Another Country and Nation,” will be given by Martin Votruba, Director of the Slovak Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. His address will be preceded by remarks by Marek Skolil, Consul General of the Czech Republic. Full program information can be found at:

https://secure.las.uiuc.edu/ATLASRegistration/full/?event=CzechSP07

The workshop is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the European Union Center at the University of Illinois; the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center; the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics; the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the Center for Advanced Study; the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; the International Association of Teachers of Czech; the Czechoslovak Studies Association; the Department of Political Science; the Office of Continuing Education; the Department of Anthropology; the School of Architecture; the School of Music; the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; and the Department of History.

For more information please contact David Cooper (dlcoop at uiuc.edu).