{"id":8049,"date":"2014-11-05T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T14:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:03:15","slug":"an-uncanny-era-the-underpinning-of-democratic-transformation-in-eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2014\/11\/05\/an-uncanny-era-the-underpinning-of-democratic-transformation-in-eastern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"An Uncanny Era: The Underpinnings of Democratic Transformation in Eastern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Join the <span style=\"color: #e03a00\">Schemel Forum<\/span> on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #e03a00\">Wednesday, November 12th<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>for a collaborative\u00a0event with\u00a0the <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polishculture-nyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polish Cultural Institute of New York<\/a> &amp;<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/nssr\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New School for Social Research in NYC<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #e03a00\"><strong> An Uncanny Era: The Underpinnings of Democratic Transformation in Eastern Europe<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/Book.asp?isbn=9780300204032\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8053\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/11\/book-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"book\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/11\/book-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/11\/book.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Adam Michnik in conversation with Elzbieta Matynia, editor and translator of An Uncanny Era: Conversations between Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik, will address the essential question of post-revolutionary life: How does one preserve the revolution\u2019s ideals in the real world? The discussion will help us to understand how the struggles between democratic aspirations and pragmatic realities are at work even more widely in today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Adam Michnik is cofounder of the Solidarity Movement in Poland and editor-in-chief of Poland\u2019s largest newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Elzbieta Matynia is a professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York City.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #e00000\">Free Event<\/span><br \/>\n5:30 to 7pm \u00a0&#8211; Brennan Hall, Pearn Auditorium,\u00a0Room 228<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Book signing to follow<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRSVP Required to <a href=\"mailto:emily.brees@scranton.edu\" target=\"_blank\">emily.brees@scranton.edu<\/a>\u00a0or click <a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.scranton.edu\/index.php?com=rsvp&amp;eID=8581\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Schemel Forum on\u00a0Wednesday, November 12th for a collaborative\u00a0event with\u00a0the Polish Cultural Institute of New York &amp; New School for Social Research in NYC &nbsp; An Uncanny Era: The Underpinnings of Democratic Transformation in Eastern Europe Adam Michnik in conversation with Elzbieta Matynia, editor and translator of An Uncanny Era: Conversations between Vaclav Havel [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-schemel-forum-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8055,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}