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SVU Member Petr Sis Honored

Petr Sís

SVU member, Petr Sis, Czech author and illustrator of children’s books, received the Sibert Medal and the Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association (ALA) for his latest book The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. The Wall previously won the New York Times’s Best Illustrated Book award and other prizes after it was issued in the USA last September. …read more

US Presidential Candidates Have Czech Roots

As has been reported by Telegraph.co.uk and other sources, John McCain, the Republican presidential contender, and Barack Obama, his Democrat rival, are of royal blood, both having descended from the same Scottish king. …read more

Missing Members – Nezvestní clenové

Note to SVU Members:
Please check this list whether you recognize any of these names. We would appreciate any information about their whereabouts. In case any of them passed away, please send us the year when they died. Send your information to SVU1@comcast.net …read more

SVU Member Jan Svejnar for President of the Czech Republic

Jan Svejnar

Jan Svejnar (born in 1952) is a US-based, Czech-born economist. An adviser to former Czech president Vaclav Havel for almost a decade, Professor Svejnar is the Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

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National Czech & Slovak Museum (March 7 – 8, 2008)

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – On March 7 – 8, 2008, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library hosted scholars and attendees from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the United States in a two-day conference exploring 1968 – 1980: Prague Spring, Normalization, Charter 77.  …read more