Archive for July, 2013
The Srebrenica Massacre of 1995: still counting…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, commemoration, cultural memory, genocide, massacre, Srebrenica, war crimes on 11 July 2013 by delclem“Scandal in Bohemia”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bohemia, Café Slava, cultural analysis, Czech Republic, politics, Prague, scandal on 10 July 2013 by delclem
The Absinthe drinker’s “temptress seems a fitting muse for a city where the absurdities of the public realm have often encouraged a retreat into the alcoholic and the erotic.” Very good article by one of the leading Bohemists of our day (c) NYT, 2013
Voices of the Holocaust
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Chicago, David P. Boder, Europe, Holocaust, oral history, research project, testimony on 7 July 2013 by delclem
“In 1946, Dr. David P. Boder, a psychology professor from Chicago’s
Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record the
stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words.”
>project homepage
From Prague to Washington
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Czechoslovakia, gender, Madeline Albright, Marie jana Korbelová, Prague, USA, Washington on 5 July 2013 by delclem
Roma Stand Against Prejudice in Hungarian University
Posted in Uncategorized with tags civil rights, discrimination, gypsies, Hungary, prejudcie, Roma, Stereotyping on 3 July 2013 by delclem
“Two people of Roma origin and an activist who fought a two-year battle to ban course material they found racially offensive at one of Hungary’s most respected universities have finally won an apology and the promise of a scholarship for a Roma student.”>text (c) Emerging Europe / WSJ, 2013; image (c) WAZ, 2013
Croatia joins EU
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Croatia, EU on 1 July 2013 by delclem
“With the EU in financial turmoil and Croatia’s economy in recession for five years, initial excitement has dimmed.” >text & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN , 2103
delirium clemens 