{"id":38470,"date":"2019-07-11T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=38470"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:18:56","slug":"lukes-presents-at-conference-commemorating-velvet-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/07\/11\/lukes-presents-at-conference-commemorating-velvet-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukes Presents at Conference Commemorating Velvet Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/07\/Lukes1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/07\/Lukes1-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/07\/Lukes1-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/07\/Lukes1-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/07\/Lukes1-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/07\/Lukes1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/igor-lukes\/\">Igor Lukes<\/a><span>, Professor of International Relations and History\u00a0<\/span><strong><\/strong><span>at the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a><span>\u00a0spoke at a conference in Prague, Czech Republic on June 24, 2019 organized by the\u00a0Parliament of the Czech Republic to commemorate the Velvet Revolution of 1989.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lukes presented a paper entitled\u00a0\u201cThe Year 1989 as a Miracle in the History of the Cold War.\u201d Lukes argued that membership of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary in the European Union and NATO (the Visegrad Four, V4) doesn\u2019t represent a natural state of affairs, is fragile and should be treated as such by the four countries\u2019 political elites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/igor-lukes\/\">Igor Lukes<\/a><span>\u00a0writes primarily about Central Europe. His publications deal with the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia.\u00a0 His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. \u00a0In 1997 Lukes won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Igor Lukes presented a paper entitled\u00a0\u201cThe Year 1989 as a Miracle in the History of the Cold War.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414,8432],"tags":[11087,8535,1169,10384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38473,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38470\/revisions\/38473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}