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Jana Kopelentova: Czech Political Prisoners

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: October 18, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Evening with Jana Kopelentova Rehak, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Maryland who has long been focused on social and urban ecology and social inequality as well as the cultural history of Eastern Europe. In the 1990s she worked in the Czech Republic with refugees from the Chernobyl disaster and with the community of former political prisoners. She is now presenting her book Czech Political Prisoners: Recovering Face (2012), which focuses on the fates of political prisoners in the 1950s.

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