Brian Hodson, PhD student in History, Purdue University

   "Expressions of National Identity in the Slovak-American Press, 1890-1914"

James Krapfl, Instructor, City University, Trencin, Slovakia

   "The Sacred and the Velvet Revolution"

Dr. Irina Popova Nowak, PhD from CEU, History

   "Magyars, Slovaks and Pan-Slavism

    in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century"

Milan Svolik, PhD student in Political Science,

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

   "The Politics of History and the Nation-State:

   The Case of Czech and Slovak National Identities"