Friday, February 22, 2002

    6:00 p.m. - Czech Beseda Dancers          Foyer (2nd Floor),
                                                                       Bill Daniel Student Center

    6:30 p.m. - Dinner                                    White-Beckham Room, BDSC

    7:15 p.m. - Keynote Address                   His Excellency
                                                                       Ambassador Martin Palouš
                                                                       of the Czech Republic

Saturday, February 23, 2002

    8:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast          Foyer (Basement),
                                                                      Armstrong Browning Library

    8:45 a.m. - Welcome & Introductions   Lecture Hall (Basement),
                                                                      Armstrong Browning Library

    9:00 a.m. - Session One                           Lecture Hall,
                                                                      Armstrong Browning Library

        Eduard Manouelian - The Essay and the Forms of National Identity: Brzozowski's
                                        Legend of Young Poland

        Olga Cook (Texas A&M) - Early Gulag Literature of Solovki

        Jelena Milojkovic-Djuric (Texas A&M) - Voice from the Darkness: Boris Pekic's
                                                                     The Years the Locusts Devoured

    10:15 a.m. - Break

    10:30 a.m. - Session Two                        Lecture Hall,
                                                                     Armstrong Browning Library

        Jean Garner & Ivana Dolezalova - Changing Impact of the Media in Central and Eastern
                                                               Europe

        Linda Meniku (University of Kansas) - Media Discourse in Albania

    12:00 p.m. - Lunch

    2:00 p.m. - Session Three                      Lecture Hall,
                                                                    Armstrong Browning Library

        Anthony Potoczniak - The Traditional Wedding in the Villages of Voroniaky

        Marina Korsakova-Kreyn - Time-Space of Music: Post-Florenskian Research in Arts

    2:40 p.m. - Break

    3:00 p.m. - Session Three (cont.)

        Julie deGraffenried (University of Texas, Baylor University) - "With All My Heart, I Hate
                                              the Fascists...": Pioneer Activities During the Great Patriotic War

        Natasha Smith (University of Texas) - Arkadii L'vov's Russian Homeland and the
                                                                   Problem of Jewish Assimilation

    3:50 p.m. - Concluding Remarks