Programme

14 October (Thursday): 9.00 to 21.00

Welcoming and Introductory Remarks

Vilém Prečan (Czechoslovak Documentation Centre)

Panel 1

International Preconditions and Context

9:45─12:30

Introductory remarks, chair and moderation: Oldřich Tůma (Director, ICH Prague)

Panelists: Andrzej Paczkowski (Warsaw), Zoltán Ripp (Budapest), Armin Mitter (Berlin), Georgij Shakhnazarov (Moscow), Karel Durman (Uppsala)

Lunch at the conference site

Panel 2

Czech and Slovak Societies on the Eve of the Changes and Revolution

14:30─17:50

Introdactory remarks, chair and moderation: Ivo Možný (Masaryk University, Brno)

Panelists: Lubomír Lipták (Institute of History, Bratislava),  Milan Otáhal (ICH Prague), Petr Pithart (the Senate Prague), Oldřich Tůma (ICH Prague), Dr. Otakar Turek (Prague), Rudolf Vévoda (State Central Archive, Prague), Emil Voráček (Institute of History, Prague)

18:00

departure by bus for the Senate of the Czech Republic site

19:00─21:00 Reception in the Senate House

15 October (Friday), 9:00 to 19:30 p.m.

Oral History, reports from actors in the events

Panel 3

The Civic Forum (the first three weeks)

9:00─12:00

Introduction: Jiří Suk (ICH Prague)

Moderation: Milan Schulz (1989 in Munich)

Panelists: Vladimír Hanzel, Eda Kriseová, Stanislav Milota, Radim Palouš, Petr Pithart

Lunch at the conference site

cont. 15 October

14:00─15:00

President Václav Havel answers questions

Panel 4

The Public Against Violence (the first three weeks)

15:00─17:00

Introduction: Soňa Szomolányiová

Moderation: Jan Urban (Prague)

Panelists: Ján Budaj, Fedor Gál, Miro Kusý, František Mikloško, Ladislav Snopko, Peter Zajac

17:00─17:30

coffee break

Panel 5

Émigrés at Home 

17:30─19:30

Moderation: Vilém Prečan (Prague)

Panelists: Jiří Gruša (Prague─Vienna), Milan Horáček (Prague-Berlin), Ivan Medek (Prague), Pavel Pecháček (Prague), Karel Schwarzenberg (Prague─Vienna), Pavel Tigrid (Prague─Héricy)

Dinner at the conference site

16 October (Saturday) 9.00 to 12.30

Panel VI

Revolution? Political Takeover? Problems of the Transition Period Prior to the Elections of June 1990

Panelists: Jaroslav Krejčí (Lancaster) Bedřich Loewenstein (Berlin- Německo), Soňa Somolanyiová (Bratislava), Jan Měchýř (Charkles University, Prague), Jan Čulík (University Glasgow)

12:00

Concluding remarks: Oldřich Tůma (ICH, Prague)

Conclusion of the plenary sessions of the conference: Tom Blanton

National Security Archive)

Lunch at the site of the conference

afternoon 14:30─18:30

Round-Table Discussion organized by the Czech-Russian Commission of Historians and Archivists on "The Consequences of the Gorbachev Reforms in the Soviet Bloc" (member of the Commission and other interested participants of the conference)