The Czech/American Reading Circle
The Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln are proud to sponsor the Czech/American Reading Circle. Started in January, 2019, the Reading Circle shares significant books about, by, for, and important to, people of Czech Heritage.
Attendees are not required to have read the book being discussed, however, it helps to have some familiarity with it, and we encourage all participants to contribute any relevant information they may have.
Please join us! The circle meets the last Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6:15 pm central time
on ZOOM. Everyone is welcome.
Please contact the following or any Board Member for additional information and/or to get your Zoom Link.
Lois Shimerda Rood
on ZOOM. Everyone is welcome.
Please contact the following or any Board Member for additional information and/or to get your Zoom Link.
Lois Shimerda Rood
402-570-2333 lois@loisrood.com
Layne Pierce
402-770-5029 layne.pierce@yahoo.com
Mila Saskova-Pierce
402-770-4624 msaskova-pierce1@unl.edu
The Czech/American Reading Circle is continuing with its seventh year of reviewing great books.
Please join us the last Tuesday each month.
The Czech/American Reading Circle is continuing with its seventh year of reviewing great books.
Please join us the last Tuesday each month.
Click here for a high resolution copy of the 2025 Reading Circle Brochure.
Český čtenářský kroužek
MEETING INFORMATION:
Join Zoom: 6:15 p.m.Presentation: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
THE ZOOM LINK:
Our Zoom Link is the same for ALL of the Reading Circle Sessions.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87384971615?pwd=anI0UXQ4T0I3Qk44RE16emhISGI5QT09
Meeting ID: 873 8497 1615; Passcode: 123553
Please Join Us for our August
Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln Reading Circle!
Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln Reading Circle!
BOOK: Pelíšky (Cosy Dens) (1999)
AUTHOR: Petr Šabach, Patr Jarchovský
LEADER: Petr Just, Ph.D.
Past Reading Circle Brochures:
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BOOK SUMMARY:
Annotation: Bittersweet film comedy taking place in Prague in the years 1967-1968 characterized by short-lived attempt to reform the Communist system. The story revolves around two families living in one house and led by fathers with diametrically opposing political views. On the eve of Soviet intervention to Czechoslovakia in August 1968 the families are united by a marriage, but after the intervention the lives of both families dramatically change. The presentation will set the movie to the context of political and social development in late 1960s. (From Petr Just, Ph.D.)
Annotation: Bittersweet film comedy taking place in Prague in the years 1967-1968 characterized by short-lived attempt to reform the Communist system. The story revolves around two families living in one house and led by fathers with diametrically opposing political views. On the eve of Soviet intervention to Czechoslovakia in August 1968 the families are united by a marriage, but after the intervention the lives of both families dramatically change. The presentation will set the movie to the context of political and social development in late 1960s. (From Petr Just, Ph.D.)
Dr. Petr Just (b. 1978) obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he has served as part-time Assistant Professor of Political Science since 2005. In 2006 he joined the Metropolitan University Prague (MUP), Czech Republic, as full-time Assistant Professor. He also served as MUP’s Vice-Rector for Student Affairs in 2007-2013 and since 2013 he has been the Chair of MUP's Department of Political Science. His teaching engagements have included more than 20 short-term visiting teaching positions at universities in Iceland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Turkey.
His professional interests include mainly comparative politics (forms of government, coalitions, bicameralism, presidency) and political systems of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (and Czechoslovakia). He has authored or co-authored 9 monographs, 40 chapters in collective monographs and 40 scientific articles. He has actively participated at more than 80 scientific conferences, both international and domestic. Since 2015 Petr has served both as Vice-President of the Czech Political Science Association (CPSA) and member of Executive Commit-tee of the Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA). In 2018 he was elected CEPSA’s Secretary General. He is also member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and the American Political Science Association (APSA). Since 2006 he has provided almost 2000 political analysis, commentaries, and interviews for both Czech and foreign media.
His Nebraska connections date back to 1994 when he came as an exchange high school student to Lincoln, Nebraska. Since then he has visited Nebraska several times. During his 1999 stay he conducted research for the purpose of his Bachelor thesis on Nebraska unicameralism. During his 2018 and 2019 visits he gave guest lectures at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln within the UNL's Czech Program sponsored by the UNL's Department of Modern Languages and Literature, UNL's Komensky Club and Nebraska chapter of the Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Sciences.
