Lessons from the Revolutions of 1989 in East Central Europe

This event is free and open to the public.

What lessons might be drawn—for us in the here and now—from studying the cultural space of pre-1989 (post-)totalitarian East Central Europe? How might dissidentism as practiced in that time and place help us better understand dissent as a general modern phenomenon? Please join us for a one-day symposium that explores these questions. The event features presentations by ten scholars of the East Central European culture of dissent.

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Symposium participants

Aspen Brinton, Virginia Commonwealth University

David S. Danaher, UW-Madison

Barbara J. Falk, Canadian Defence College

Amy Hughes, Corning Museum of Glass

Padraic Kenney, University of Kentucky

James Krapfl, McGill University

Mark Kramer, Harvard University

Delia Popescu, Le Moyne College

Kieran Williams, Drake University

Łukasz Wodzyński, UW-Madison

This event is hosted by Slavic Studies in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+. Institutional co-sponsors are CREECA, History, and Political Science. Funding has been provided by the Anonymous Fund, CREECA, GNS+, the Lapinski Fund (Polish Studies), and the Mortenson-Petrovich Chair (History).