A UNO CenterAustria Ten Year Anniversary Conference with the Eisenhower Center for American Studies in Cooperation with the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Research on War Consequences Graz, Austria.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
9 – 9:30 am Official Welcome
- Günter Bischof, Director CenterAustria, (MC)
- Timothy Ryan, Chancellor, University of New Orleans
- Kenneth Zezulka, Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic in Louisiana
- Petr Kolář, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States
- Peter Ruggenthaler, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Research on War Consequences, Graz
9:30 – 10:30 am Keynote Address
Chair: Günter Bischof, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans
- Mark Kramer, Harvard University The Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion in Historical Perspective
10:30 – 11 am Coffee Break
11 - 12:30 pm Session I
Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring
- Chair: Andreas Pribersky, University of New Orleans
- Oldrich Tuma, Institute of Contemporary History, Prague Reforms in the Communist Party: Prague Spring and Apprehension about a Soviet Invasion
- Manfred Wilke, Institute of Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin Ulbricht, East Germany and the Prague Spring
12:30 – 2 pm Lunch Break
2 – 4:30 pm Session II
The Soviet Union and the Prague Spring
- Chair: Jeffrey K. Wilson, University of New Orleans
- Vladislav Zubok, Temple University Soviet Society in the 1960s
- Mikhail Prozumenščikov, Russian State Archives for Contemporary History Politburo Decision-Making on the Czechoslovak Crisis in 1968
- Peter Ruggenthaler, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Research on War Consequences, Graz “Normalizing” Relations: The Moscow Negotiations between the Soviet Leadership and the Czechoslovak Delegation after the Invasion
8 pm Conference Dinner
Friday, April 4, 2008
9 – 12 pm Session III
The Great Powers and the Year of Crisis 1968
- Chair: Allan Millett, Eisenhower Center, University of New Orleans
- Mark Carson, Tulane University The Johnson Administration, the Vietnam War, and the South’s Response to the Vietnam War
- Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans The Johnson Administration’s Response to the Czech Crisis of 1968
- Saki Dockrill, Kings College, University of London Great Britain and the Prague Spring
- Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville France, Italy the Western Communists, and the Prague Spring
12:30 – 2:30 pm Lunch Break
13:30 Public Reading (in German)
- by Zdenka Becker from her novel Die Töchter der Róza Bukovská (Residenz Verlag 2006) writer in residence, Lafayette College
2:30 – 5:30 pm Session IV
European Neighbors during the Prague Spring
- Chair: Peter Ruggenthaler, Institute for Research on War Consequences, Graz
- Victor Ishchenko, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow The Prague Spring and Its Consequences on Soviet – West German Relations
- Csaba Bekes, Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest Hungary and the Prague Spring
- Tvrtko Jakovina, University of Zagreb, Croatia Tito, the Block Free Movement and the Prague Spring
- Stefan Karner, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Research on War Consequences Graz Austria and the Prague Spring
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