Date/Time
Date(s) - October 2, 2023
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
BSB 131, Behavioral Sciences
Categories
This year for our Meyer Nathan Lecture, Dr. Martin Nekola will talk about international election observation missions, organized by the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), their importance in the modern world and various challenges the observers generally face, based on his personal experience from seven such missions.
About the Speaker:
Martin Nekola, Ph.D. received his doctorate in political science at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His research is focused on non-democratic regimes, the era of Communism, Czech communities abroad and the East-European anti-communist exiles in the USA during the Cold War. From time to time he participates in the election observation missions organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He is the member of Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), he is the author of more than three hundred articles and has published twenty four books. He is also coordinator of the Czechoslovak Talks project collecting inspiring life stories of the Czechs around the world.