{"id":3991,"date":"2013-09-19T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=3991"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:13","slug":"history-colloquium-alexander-dubcek-and-czecho-slovakia-in-1968-reforms-federation-and-the-un","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/event\/history-colloquium-alexander-dubcek-and-czecho-slovakia-in-1968-reforms-federation-and-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"History Colloquium &#8211; &#8220;Alexander Dub\u010dek and Czecho-Slovakia in 1968: Reforms, Federation and the UN&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p><b>Departmental Colloquium<br>\n<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>\u201cAlexander Dub\u010dek and Czecho-Slovakia in 1968: Reforms, Federation and the UN\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/09-27-HIST-Carleton-Colloquium-Dubcek-Poster.pdf\">Dubcek Colloquium Poster<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Info<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January 1968, the election of Alexander Dub\u010dek &#8211; \u201ca Slovak, as well as a pragmatist with relatively progressive views,\u201d according to Canadian diplomats &#8211; to the leadership of the Communist Party, started reforms for \u201cSocialism with a Human Face\u201d in Czecho-Slovakia. The reforms were interrupted by the intervention from outside in August 1968. The only lasting legacy of the Dub\u010dek\u2019s reforms was the federalization of Czecho-Slovakia. The presentation explores the legacy of the Czecho-Slovak Spring of 1968 in Canadian, U. S., Czecho-Slovak, Russian and the United Nations diplomatic documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Speaker:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/b>Dr. Marcel Jesensk\u00fd, Part-time Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is hosted by the Department of History of Carleton University and co-sponsored by the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Canada, the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-3991","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2013-09-27T12:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2013-09-27T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"PA","cu_event_meeting_room":"History Lounge, 433","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}