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Below is an announcement for a call for participation in the conference, "Slavery: Past, Present and Future" to be held this May in Prague, Czech Republic. I attended the first global meeting last year at Oxford University, UK, and it…
The D&O Diary finished up its recent European sojourn with a weekend visit to Prague. After a four-hour train ride northeastward from Munich through forests, farm fields, and low mountains, and a final stretch through the Vltava River valley (the…
“Nicholas Winton in Prague” by cs:User:Li-sungOn the eve of WW2, Briton Nicholas Winton organized the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia. By his acts, the children, mostly Jewish, were saved from near-certain extermination in Nazi concentration camps.The NYT has…
Michel Kouakou From Cote d’Ivoire | DancerAfter studying dance in Africa and Europe, and teaching at the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague, Michel Kouakou formed his own dance company, Daara Dance. With this group he performs internationally, while…
Continuing reflections, as I teach a comparative immigration policy course in the Czech Republic.In making immigration policy comparisons from one country to the next, it’s not difficult to see similarities with issues that have emerged in the United States. In…
Dear Friends,I’m in Prague, Czech Republic, for the next three weeks teaching a course on Comparative Immigration Policy. The law students in the course are from the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and, of course, the United States. I hope to be…
Two weeks ago a conference was held in Prague on the restitution of property expropriated from Jews in Europe during the World War II era. The conference came three years after another remarkable conference in Prague produced a document known as the…
