Jana I. Tuzar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

   "Karel Capek- "Entertainment, Popularity, and Morality as Textual

    Strategies and Poetic Norms in the ‘Capekian Text'"

Norma Comrada, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

   "Karel Capek: The Man Who Gave Us Robots, Karburators, and the White Plague"

Clarice Cloutier, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

   "Mother ...Seifert's Perspective"

Charles Sabatos, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

   "Artistic Representations of Jan Palach"

Veronika Tucker-Lopatkova, Brooklyn, NY

   "Czech TV Drama Before and After 1989"

Vladimira Williams, Morton College, Cicero IL

   "Authors of the Czech Republic After the Velvet Revolution"

Jan Simko, Washington, DC

   "Shakespeare's ‘As You Like It' in Slovakia"