Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Sciences
– NEW YORK Chapter
CANCELLED!
Due to unforeseen circumstances the event has to be postponed to a later date. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
The Board
Wednesday, October 7 at 6:30pm
Bohemian National Hall, 3rd Floor
New York City
Come and learn first-hand from H.E. Edita Hrdá about her work, challenges and accomplishments in the last 4 years during her demanding post as the Czech ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN.
Please RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
Wed, Sept 16, 2015 at 6:30pm
Bohemian National Hall in NY
ONDREJ KRAJŇÃK is a documentary filmmaker. He received his PhD in journalism from the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. Since 2004, he is the head of the History Department at Nation’s Memory Institute (Ústav Pamäti národa) in Bratislava where he has created an audio visual archive. During the communist era, Dr. Krajňák participated in the underground church movement. He is a member of the Slovak Confederation of Political Prisoners and of the Steering Committee of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.
The evening included a screening of a Slovak documentary film “Ako som mal zaÄiat tretiu svetovu vojnu” (Accused of Planning WW III) by Juraj Brocko. Based on  a true story of a political prisoner Karol Noskovic, one of thousands innocent victims of red terror in the 1950s, the film offers a dramatic testimony of paranoid communist system and portraits an example of brutal, neo-Stalinist persecution in Slovakia.
Dr. Krajňák also awarded a special merit medal to our board member Gabriel Levický for his participation in the political dissent movement during the Communism in Slovakia.
ÚPN udeľuje Gabrielovi Levickému Äakovný list a pamätnú medailu “Za osobnú úÄasÅ¥ v boji proti komunistickému režimu a svedectvo života pre zachovanie živej pamäte”.
… a dekrét o priznanà postavenia úÄastnÃka protikomunistického postoja.
Podľa §11 odst.3 zákona Ä. 219/2006 Z.z. o protikomunistickom odboji v znenà zákona Ä. 58/2009 Z.z
For Dr. Krajňák’s Power Point presentation in English please click here:
https://www.svu2000.org/newyork/wp-content/Forget-or-Forgive-Krajnak-Sept-2015.ppt
Photos at SVU NY Facebook Page
Dear Members and Friends,
Join us in congratulating FIVE of the “6 MINUTES” PRESENTERS on their academic achievements. We are very proud of them. Mnoho Å¡tÄ›stÃ!
Board of Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences NY
SAVE THE DATE: The next “6 MINUTES“ is scheduled for November 12th, 2015 at the Bohemian National Hall in NYC.
WED, JUNE 10 at 7pm
Bohemian National Hall , 3rd fl.
321 E 73 Str, Manhattan NYC
Moderated by Gabriel Levicky
Photo Miro SvolÃk
RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
Suggested donation $5.00
The Short Long Journey|Kratka dlouha cesta, (2009) is a powerful documentary capturing the journey of Fedor Gal, a respected Czech sociologist, as he follows his father’s fate after his transport from the Terezin ghetto. Born in March of 1945 in Terezin, Gal never met his father because by then, he was moved to the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen. His father was shot dead during a death march in the same year Gal was born, two months before the end of the WWII. Gal reflects on the horrific past, life, death and humanity bringing a parallel to societal malaise that still survives in the present.
82min. With English subtitles.
Directed by Martin Hanzlicek
Music by Marian Varga
www.kratkadlouhacesta.cz/main.php?lang=en
Czech and Slovak Academic Show&Tell
In Cooperation with CUCEE Club at Columbia University
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 St, New York City
The young and bright Czech and Slovak women and men, students, interns and Fulbright scholars studying or working at universities and institutions in the New York City area were challenged to present the subject of their studies, in any field, in a short presentation limited to six minutes each.
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The event was a great success! Thanks to all!
PROGRAM NOTES
6 MINUTES I program notes
PHOTOS from the event are on our Face Book Page.
A talk by Václav CvrÄek, PhD
Wed, March 11, 2015
at 6:30pmÂ
at Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73 St, New York City
Suggested donation: $5.00
In cooperation with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York
Can future societal developments be detected in changing word patterns in presidential speeches? How can computational linguistics and national corpus help?
In his talk, Dr. CvrÄek will explain the system and practical use of the national corpus, an extensive database of texts used for language analysis. He will present a case of the last Communist president of Czechoslovakia Gustav Husák and his speeches from 1975 until the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
Followed by a wine reception.
RSVP: newyork at svu2000.org
Václav CvrÄek, Ph.D., is director of the Czech National Corpus Institute at Charles University (ÄŒNK UK) in Prague, one of the most well-regarded centers for corpus-based language research in the world. His research focuses on corpus linguistics, grammar, quantitative linguistics and discourse analysis. His publications include the Grammar of Contemporary Czech (Mluvnice souÄasné ÄeÅ¡tiny, 2010), the first corpus-based description of written as well as spoken Czech. He is also a co-lexicographer of several frequency dictionaries: Dictionary of Karel ÄŒapek (2007), Dictionary of Bohumil Hrabal (2009) and the Totalitarian Dictionary of Czech (2010). Dr. CvrÄek has been a Fulbright fellow at Brown University and is actively involved in international collaboration with US and European universities.
A talk and presentation by VÃT HOŘEJÅ
Artistic Director, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater, New York
Saturday, Feb 28, 2015 at 5pm
Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73 St
RSVP:Â newyork@svu2000.org
Suggested donation: $5.00
VÃt HoÅ™ejÅ¡ will present the over 300-year old Czech tradition of marionette theater and the so far, little-known history of Czech puppetry in the United States.
He will demonstrate the antique marionettes that he discovered in 1984 in the attic of the Jan Hus Church on the Upper East Side, in the heart of the former 19th century Czech and Slovak tenement neighborhood.  As a crowning point of his presentation, he will perform a short excerpt from a traditional Czech marionette play using puppets and a set originally owned by the Hon. Madeleine Albright who recently donated her toy theater to the BBLA Association to be used by the Czech community in New York.
Do not miss the upcoming show of the Czechoslovak American Marionette Theater!
“The Magic Garden, or,The Princess who Grew Antlers”
March 5-22
Theater for the New City
155 First Ave. (at E. 10th Street)
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00 PM
www.theaterforthenewcity.net
A talk by Dr. Anna Matušková on political campaigning in the Czech Republic.
Wed, Jan 21 at 7PM
Tesime se na Vas v roce 2015!
We are looking forward to seeing you in 2015!
Board SVU New York
An Illustrated Talk and Book Presentation
by Edward Kasinec
Curator Emeritus, NYPL & Associate Harriman Institute, Columbia University
With Carpatho-Rusyn Society New York
In cooperation with the Consulates General of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
Monday, Nov 24 at 6:30pm
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 St. New York City
RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
Suggested donation 5.00
Refreshments
Edward Kasinec will introduce the Czech ministerial official, translator of Ukrainian literature and amateur photographer Rudolf Hulka (1887 – 1961) and his only recently uncovered color and hand-colorized photographic images that depict Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia in the early 1920s, capturing all the geographic regions, architecture, and peoples.
The entire collection, preserved in the vaults of the Slavonic Library in Prague, includes more than 4,400 unique visual materials depicting Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia and, to a lesser extent, other parts of Europe and North Africa Edward Kasinec has served as a library curator at Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, and for more than a quarter century at the Research Libraries, The New York Public Library. He is the author of many publications in the field of Russian and East European culture and has travelled, consulted and lectured throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
TEN TA TO PROJECT DESCRIPTION in ENGLISH click here
AN UPDATE!
We are happy to report that much progress has been achieved in both, creating the app and raising some of the needed funds.
Many thanks to everyone for your donation, be it $20 or $1,000, including the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Grant Program for Czechs Living Abroad, the Adjunct Professional Development Fund at New York University, the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter; and private donors including Josef Balaz and Ludmila Hess Schwarzenberg. We are also very grateful to Václav CvrÄek, director of the Czech National Corpus Institute (ÚČNK) for technical assistance.
HOWEVER, there is still a lot of work to be done and WE NEED TO RAISE AN ADDITIONAL $2,600!
We hope you will join other sponsors and contribute funds to help complete, test and launch the application by the end of 2014. Your donations are tax-deductible in the USA. All sponsors will be listed on the application and in all promotional texts.
WILL YOU HELP?
You can send your tax-deductible contribution
1. By a secure payment to the CSAS’ PayPal account with your credit or debit card:
A special screening of two Slovak documentary films depicting 1988-1989 events in Slovakia. US premiere.
Part Two of the ongoing Forget or Forgive? series of documentary films, recounting the dark periods in Czech and Slovak history under communism, and discussions about facing collective memory.
Moderated by Gabriel Levicky
Monday, October 27 at 6:30pm
Bohemian National Hall, 3rd Floor
321 E 73 St
New York City
RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
Suggested donation 5.00
Program
November +20, dir Tomas Vitek, 2009, 26 minutes
The film presents a documentary view of the pre-November, November, and post-November events in 1989, which impacted the development of Slovakia’s society. With Ján Budaj, Ján Čarnogurský, Michal Hvorecký, Milan Kňažko, František Mikloško, Ladislav Snopko, Peter Šťastný, Magda Vášáryová.
Candle Demonstration (SvieÄková Manifestacia ), dir Ondrej Krajnak, 2008, 26 minutes
A peaceful demonstration for religious freedom in 1988 at the Hviezdoslav Square in Bratislava brutally suppressed by the police and thesecret service. The film includes recordings by the State Security´s secret camera. Secret police agents are identified. Interviews with the protagonists of this historic demonstration recorded twenty years later include Peter Bohunický, Ján Čarnogurský and Ľudmila Heribanová.
Films are produced by the Nation’s Memory Institute in Slovakia. In Slovak with English subtitles.
Gabriel Ariel Levicky, writer, translator, poet and cartoonist, was born in Slovakia. In August 1968, he participated in the anti-Soviet invasion protests in Bratislava and left the country soon after for Israel. After returning to Czechoslovakia a year later, he was involved in the underground movement and became the subject of secret police harassment, especially after signing Charter 77. In 1979 he left Czechoslovakia again, first to San Francisco and then to New York City.
The Nation’s Memory Institute / Ústav pamäti národa (ÚPN) is a public organization founded in 2002 by the Slovak Parliament for the purpose of investigation, analysis and disclosure of documents from the dark period of Slovak fascism to Soviet style communism in Slovakia 1939-1989. ÚPN holds a vast reference archive open to public scrutiny.
Organized by the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in New York (SVU-NY).
In cooperation with the Nation’s Memory Institute (Ústav pamäti naroda) in Bratislava and the Consulate General of the Slovak Republic.
A screening of a documentary film
Karel Hasler: The immortal Balladeer of Prague
Fri, Sept 12 at 6:30 pm
Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73 Str, 3rd Fl.
New York City
The film will be introduced by its author, and the son of Karel Hasler, Thomas Hasler.
The screening will be followed by a sing-along of “haslerky”, popular songs composed by Karel Hasler (in Czech) led by Katarina Vizina, a singer of Cabaret Metropol, and a graduate of Janacek Academy of Music in Brno.
Texts will be available.
Refreshments.
Suggested donation 5.00.
RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
THE CASE OF CZECHS: Emigration in New York 1874-1966
and the iconic Newyorske listy, the longest-lived Czech newspaper in New York
A talk by David Chroust
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University,
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
Wed, June 25 at 6:30 pm
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 St.
New York City
RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
Tomáš Grulich
pÅ™edseda stálé komise Senátu PÄŒR pro ÄŒechy žijÃcà v zahraniÄÃ
Pondělà 5.5.v 18:30hod.
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 St., kino
New York City
Ve spolupáci s generálnÃm konzulátem ÄŒeské republiky v New Yorku
Tomáš Grulich je absolventem historie a etnologie na FF Univerzity Karlovy. Pracoval jako kastelán v zámku Klášterec nad OhÅ™Ã, etnograf v muzeu v TeplicÃch a působil také v NárodnÃm muzeu. VyuÄuje na FakultÄ› sociálnÃch vÄ›d UK. Od roku 2006 je senátorem. Zabývá se hlavnÄ› otázkami migrace, mezinárodnÃch vztahů a historie; na tato témata napsal i nÄ›kolik knih, napÅ™. Nová emigrace z České republiky po roce 1989 a návratová politika ( 2014); PotlaÄovánà dopadu zahraniÄnÃho odboje v ÄŒeskoslovensku prostÅ™ednictvÃm bezpeÄnostnÃch složek ( 2010); Porovnánà zákonů a pÅ™Ãstupů k národnÃm diasporám v různých zemÃch (2010); Krajané a ÄŒeská republika (2009); Domácà postoje k zahraniÄnÃm ÄŒechům v novodobých dÄ›jinách 1918 – 2008 (2009); DÄ›jiny zemà koruny Äeské. II., kapitoly po roce 1945 (1992) .
