by Jim Augerot
“With this issue we welcome new and returning students, faculty and friends back for the start of an academic year that is flavored by reflections on the historic events that occurred in our region 20 years ago.”
Fall / Winter 2009
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by Zbigniew Bochniarz
“The spirit of change [...] was there already, clearly articulated by representatives of CEE countries in their desire for profound institutional change that would lead to democratic political systems providing social justice and sustainable economies.”
by Jarrett Basedow
“I interviewed buyers, wholesalers, retailers and producers to see how the market for each product works. It was fascinating, and although I found myself in the middle of a few swarms of bees, I managed not to get stung.”
by Amy Paul
“In or out of class, any interaction, experience, and observation we might make was fair game for analysis. We needed only sit back and train ourselves to recognize what we were seeing and hearing in the marshrutka during the ride home, during an exchange with the clerk at the grocery while trying to make change, or with the women we tried to pass on the narrow sidewalks.”
by Cheryl Stephenson
“In writing novels and short stories through such a tumultuous period in Prague, Klíma has successfully turned historical statistics into characters -- seemingly real people with whom his readers can relate and come to a more genuine, intimate understanding of history.”
by Steve Pfaff
“Quite simply, the GDR was not the sort of state that scholars of revolution had deemed prone to popular rebellion, much less outright collapse.”
by Natalia M. Wobst
“In front of the podium was Nicholas Poppe's 1983 Studies on East Asia: Reminiscences opened to the title page, so that Poppe's black and white photograph peered out into the filled, sunlit room.”
