The 26th Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is April 23-25. Sessions will be held mostly in Burnett Hall and the Nebraska Union.
A panel discussion with Jacques Rupnik and Veronika Tuckerová will be at 6 p.m. April 23. The keynote speaker, Jindřich Toman, will follow at 7 p.m. Both will take place in the Union Auditorium and be livestreamed via Zoom, the link for which requires online registration. The panel and keynote are free and open to the public.
Rupnik is a research professor of political science at Sciences Po, in Paris, France; visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium; and a popular political commentator and publicist. His book, "The Fates of Central Europe Between Hitler and Stalin: Selected Writings of Josef Guttmann," will be published in 2026 by University of Chicago Press.
Tuckerová teaches Czech at Harvard University's Slavic Department. Her writing has appeared in "The New German Critique," "Journal of World Literature," "brücken," "Revolver Revue" and "Roš chodeš." Her book, "Reading Kafka in Prague: On Translation, Samizdat, Censorship, Export, and Dissent," the first book-length study of the reception of Franz Kafka in his homeland of Czechoslovakia, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2025.
Toman's keynote presentation is titled "Bohemia’s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century." Trained in Czechoslovakia, Germany and the United States, Toman follows an academic path defined by languages and cultures of Central Europe. His book on Jewish culture and literature, "Bohemia’s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century: Texts, Contexts, Reassessments" (University of Chicago Press, 2023), focuses on the scarcely written-about “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, exploring Jewish expression, Jewish-Czech relations and the changing attitudes toward Jews between the 1820s and 1880s.
The workshop was established in 2000 and is now sponsored by the Czechoslovak Studies Association the Slovak Studies Association. The Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop aims to bring together researchers, scientists, faculty members and advanced graduate students to exchange their experiences, research results and ideas.
See the full schedule and read more about featured speakers, events and activities on the workshop website.
