Elon Series on Central and Eastern Europe

The Elon Series on Central and Eastern Europe will offer a review of the region’s important events, including the fall of communism, in two separate sessions scheduled for Sept. 20 and Sept. 24 in McCrary Theatre, located in the Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts on the Elon campus. Both seminars are free and open to the public.

Elon faculty will present a review of their research on the region at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20. Participants will include David Crowe, professor of history; Tom Tiemann, professor of economics; Victoria Fischer, associate professor of music, and others. The seminar is sponsored by Phi Sigma Alpha and the Elon University Center for Public Affairs.

Three experts will join in a lively discussion of the crucial events in Central and Eastern European history at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 24. Krzysztof Jasiewicz, professor of sociology at Washington and Lee University; Jan Kulick, political scientist at Rutgers University; and William Crowther, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, will pay particular attention to the end of the twentieth century, which saw the fall of communism in many Eastern and Central European countries. The seminar is sponsored by the Center for Public Affairs.

The series will offer members of the community insight on issues important to the region prior to former Polish president Lech Walesa’s visit to Elon on Oct. 2.

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