14
November 2024
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The Future: On Energy, Change, Innovation, and Democracy | Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture 2024

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: msnow@hudson.org

The Future: On Energy, Change, Innovation, and Democracy | Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture 2024

Past Event
Hudson Institute
November 14, 2024
People gather on November 17, 2019, in Bratislava, Slovakia, as part of the commemorations of the peaceful Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in former Czechoslovakia 30 years ago. (Vladimir Simicek/AFP via Getty Images)
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People gather on November 17, 2019, in Bratislava, Slovakia, as part of the commemorations of the peaceful Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in former Czechoslovakia 30 years ago. (Vladimir Simicek/AFP via Getty Images)
14
November 2024
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: msnow@hudson.org

Speakers:
Senator, Czech Parliament and Professor of Egyptology, Charles University
Senator Miroslav Bárta

Senator, Czech Parliament and Professor of Egyptology, Charles University

Deputy Chief, Military Office of the President of the Czech Republic
Colonel Otakar Foltýn

Deputy Chief, Military Office of the President of the Czech Republic

Peter Rough Hudson Institute
Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Hudson Institute will cohost the twenty-fifth Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture in partnership with American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFOCR), the Embassy of the Czech Republic, Friends of Slovakia, and the Embassy of the Slovak Republic. Senator Miroslav Barta and Colonel Otakar Foltyn will discuss the future of energy, change, innovation, and democracy in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

The Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture was established in 2000 and is intended to commemorate the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Additional information about the previous 24 lectures can be accessed on AFOCR’s website.

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