Brenda Flanagan and Hana Waisserova, the co-authors of Women’s Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia, will discuss their book and pay tribute to creative Czech women dissidents.
Scholars, scientists, artists, and professionals of Czech or Slovak descent to introduce their talent, the subject of their work, project, research, or studies in a short presentation limited to six minutes.
Professor Thomas Ort will explore the uncanny relevance of the early 20th century Czech writer, Karel Capek, for our times' political and technological developments. Capek's fears about the displacement of human labor by machines and the threat of authoritarianism appear closer to their realization than ever since the 1930s.
Scholars, scientists, artists, and professionals of Czech or Slovak descent to introduce their talent, the subject of their work, project, research, or studies in a short presentation limited to six minutes.
An intimate evening with Anna and Jordan Rathkopf, an award-winning photography duo who will share their family’s deeply personal story captured in their upcoming book.
Follow the lives of three young Czech-Slovak Roma who are children of the first generation of immigrants to the UK in the 1990s due to racial and social discrimination.
Vit Horejs and his guests will share their memories of Majales, a medieval student tradition celebrating spring, mocking professors, elections and officialdom in 1965 Prague, during which the American poet Allen Ginsberg found himself unexpectedly crowned as the King of May.
Professor Hynek Wichterle will discuss his stem cell research at Columbia University Medical Center. He developed groundbreaking methods for producing spinal cord neurons from pluripotent embryonic stem cells in a culture dish.
Scholars, scientists, artists, and professionals of Czech or Slovak descent to introduce their talent, the subject of their work, project, research, or studies in a short presentation limited to 6 minutes.
Jaroslav Olsa Jr. will discuss the life and work of Miles J. Breuer (1889 –1945), a Czech-American writer who stood at the birth of science fiction literature in the USA.
Join a group of theater buffs for the matinee show of The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the First World War at the Theatre for the New City and an after-show meet up.
Designer Oldrich Voyta will discuss the relationship between art, beauty, craftsmanship, modern technology, aesthetics, and comfort in designing shoes.
Scholars, scientists, artists, and professionals of Czech or Slovak descent are challenged to introduce their talent, the subject of their work, project, research, or studies in a short presentation
This talk introduces two prominent figures of the Czech 1980s generation – brothers Jachym and Filip Topol. Although both brothers became dissidents and both signed Charter 77, they rejected the notion of a pre-political self and projected an almost nihilistic stance against everything.
Historian Ladislav Jackson will present the lesser-known facts about the design and construction of the Guggenheim Museum between 1946 and 1949 when a Czech structural engineer, Jaroslav Josef Polivka, invented the iconic spiral diverging ramp without inner supporting pillars.
Celebration of the 100th anniversary of a ceremony introduced in 1923 by Dr. Norbert Capek, founder of Czech Unitarian in Prague. The ceremony includes a flower exchange.
The award-winning Czech photographer Marian Benes will present his work, including the fascinating images of the Bohemian National Hall renovation and the portraits of Czech compatriots living in New York City. He will also offer historical insight into the beginnings of digital photography and its specifics in the Czech Republic.
Jindrich Toman, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, will discuss literary and journalistic texts that shed light on relations between Czechs and Jews in Bohemia in the 19th century, reviewing ways in which Jewish emancipation was “happening” in materials that now remain forgotten and appear seemingly inconsequential.
Curator and art history professor Helena Capkova will talk about a rich and diverse design work of architect, stage designer and painter Bedrich Feuerstein (1892-1936), with a focus on his American research trip and its outcomes.
Linguistics professor Lida Cope will talk about her efforts to document a dying dialect of Czech Moravians who started arriving in Texas in the second half of the 19th century.
Czech and Slovak scholars, scientists, artists, and professionals are challenged to introduce the subject of their project, research or studies in a short presentation limited to six minutes.
Michael Schouten will provide an overview of the fascinating life and times of his ancestor, Vojta Naprstek, a Czech philanthropist, patriot and politician, who is affectionally known as foremost Czech democrat.
Jana Kopelent-Rehak will discuss stories of men and women who survived Czechoslovak concentration camps under the Communist regime and how the post-totalitarian state and society are coming to reconciliation with crimes.
A tribute to Marie Provaznikova, a visionary innovator in international women's gymnastics, progressive Czechoslovak Sokol leader, and powerful proponent of women's rights. Artist Anna VA Polesny, Marie Provaznikova’s granddaughter, and playwright Petr Dudek will be in conversation with historians, colleagues, family members, and friends remembering and celebrating the life and work of this extraordinary woman.
Professor Igor Lukes will discuss the geopolitical centrality of Ukraine for the overall balance of power, placing the present war in a historical context that includes Swedish Vikings, Mongols, the Polish Commonwealth, Tsarist Russia, the Bolsheviks, the Third Reich, and the Soviet Union.
Harry Blutstein will discuss his book, Cold War Olympics, and the cold war climate of the post-war Olympics focusing on two Czechoslovak cases that made the international news. A special guest Olga Fikotova, 1956 Melbourne Olympics gold medalist.
Professor Paul Saman aims to expose and debunk a persistent myth surrounding the sudden death of the irreverent Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek, whose influential satirical novel The Good Soldier Svejk has been translated into more than fifty languages. Moderated by Christopher Harwood.
Meet Czech and Slovak artists, professionals, students, and scholars who have accepted our challenge to introduce the subject of their project, research, or studies in a presentation limited to six minutes.
Musicologist and author Michael Beckerman will present the remarkable Czech composer, phenomenal pianist, and elemental musician Jaroslav Jezek (1906-1942) and discuss Jezek’s last years in New York where he lived in exile after fleeing the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939.
Art historian Hana Buddeus will present the world-renowned Czech photographer Josef Sudek (1896–1976) and discuss his almost unknown photographs capturing his beloved sculptures.
A popular online mini-series presenting three-minute videos of Czech and Slovak artists and professionals based in New York and their reflections on how the challenging Covid reality affected their work and projects. This third, special Covid edition will feature three accomplished creative New Yorkers: Anna Rathkopf, Tom Kotik, and Maria Harsaniova.
