Then and Now – Velvet Revolution 1989

Roundtable Discussion

November 19, 2019 4:00 PM
November 19, 2019 6:00 PM
The participants of the discussion, organised to mark the 30th anniversary of the Czechoslovak regime change, will look back on the events of 1989 and share their personal experiences of the Velvet Revolution, its antecedents and consequences.
Events
roundtable discussion

Közép-európai Egyetem / Central European University
Cseh Centrum / Czech Centrum, Budapest

The participants of the discussion, organised to mark the 30th anniversary of the Czechoslovak regime change, will look back on the events of 1989 and share their personal experiences of the Velvet Revolution, its antecedents and consequences.

The participants of the discussion, organized to mark the 30th anniversary of the Czechoslovak regime change, will look back on the events of 1989 and share their personal experiences of the Velvet Revolution, its antecedents and consequences.

Participants:
Rudolf Chmel, literary scholar, university lecturer, politician, former ambassador of Czechoslovakia to Hungary
László Szigeti, publisher, former member of the VPN board and vice-president of the Independent Hungarian Initiative
György Varga, literary translator, former Ambassador of Hungary to Prague

András Mink, historian, will be in conversation with the participants.

Venue:
Central European University, Auditorium A, 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.