The conference will focus on violent acts occurring at the end of World War II in the context of nationalism as reshaped by previous war experiences.

Three of well-known thinkers and movers of the late 1960s – Ágnes Heller, Pavel Litvinov and Mustafa Dzhemilev – will take part in a discussion at the Václav Havel Library on 21 August 2018, starting at 7 p.m. The debate will focus on a comparison of societal changes in 1968 and 2018, particularly in Hungary, the US and Ukraine. Interpretation into English and Russian provided.

Organized by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Prague, the Czech-German Lawyers’ Association, the Václav Havel Library and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the conference is held on 18 May 2018 at the Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Praha 1. It is necessary to register in advance at tschechien@hss.de. Simultaneous interpretation into Czech and German provided.

The exhibit was comprised from a collection of over 20 interviews with citizens of the Warsaw Pact countries who participated in protests against the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Their testimonies, together with documents collected from Soviet, Polish, Hungarian, German, Bulgarian, and Czech secret service and personal archives are the basis of the exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the invasion. You can visit the exhibition at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States, Washington, D.C. between 4 April and 31 May 2018.