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UC PROFESSOR JANOS TO GIVE TWO OSCAR JASZI MEMORIAL LECTURES AT OBERLIN COLLEGE
April 4, 2001-- Two Oscar Jaszi Memorial Lectures under the general title From Eastern Empire to Western Hegemony: East Central Europe, 1945-2000 will be given April 11 and 12 by Andrew Janos, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Free and open to the public, both events are in the Oberlin College’s Wilder Hall, 135 West Lorain St.
The first lecture, "The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Empire: East Central Europe under Soviet Rule," will be held Wednesday, April 11 at 7:30 P.M. in Wilder 101, followed by a reception in Wilder 211. The second lecture, "East and West in an Age of Democratic Revolution," will be held Thursday, April 12 at 4:30 P.M. in Wilder 101.
A leading specialist on comparative and East-European politics for more than 30 years, Janos is the author of several books, including The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary, Politics and Paradigms, and Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia: Ethnic Conflict and the Dissolution of National States.
His most recent work, East Central Europe in the Modern World: Political Change in the Borderlands from Pre- to Post-Communism "finds a persistence of challenges in the region’s economic backwardness compared with the west, the debilities of small nationhood, and the cultural divide between lands of eastern and western Christianity. He seeks a balance between cultural and economic explanations of conflict, between structural and institutional approaches to politics, and between forces inside and outside society as shapers of power and politics in the states" says Book News, Inc.
The Oscar Jaszi Memorial Lectureship Fund was established in honor of longtime Oberlin politics department faculty member and famous Hungarian intellectual, politician, historian, and sociologist, Oscar Jaszi.
Media Contact: Debbie Pillivant
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