This panel offers a retrospective examination of the 1968 Czechoslovak "Prague Spring", or what the LBJ administration labeled the "Czechoslovak crisis." Panelists Dr. Mary Neuburger and Dr. Jeremi Suri will offer insights into the 1968 reform movement and popular response in the context of internal Bloc transformation and the "global 1960s." They will also discuss the implications of the Soviet (or Warsaw Pact) Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the US decision not to intervene for East-West Cold War engagement. 50 years after the event, both panelists will tap into the past due decades of scholarship to re-examine the regional and global importance of these events and their aftermath. Dr. Neuburger will also introduce  a new open-access digital archive of LBJ documents related to the Prague Spring, which offers the potential for increased scholarly engagement with these questions.

Featuring:

MARY NEUBURGER

Professor of History, and Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

The University of Texas at Austin

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/maryneu

JEREMI SURI

Professor of History, and Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs

The University of Texas at Austin

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/js33338

Free and open to the public. RSVP to reserve your seat, please email:  cmeador@austin.utexas.edu.

Take Out
(2004, United States, dirs.: Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou)

From directors Sean Baker ("Tangerine," "The Florida Project") and Shih-Ching Tsou, "Take Out" is a day-in-the-life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. Ming is behind with his payments on his huge debt to the smugglers who brought him to the US. The collectors have given him until the end of the day to deliver the money that is due. After borrowing most from friends and relatives, Ming realizes that the remainder must come from the day's delivery tips. In order to do so, he must make more than double his average daily income. In a social-realist style, the camera follows Ming on his deliveries throughout the upper Manhattan neighborhood where social and economic extremes exist side by side. Intercutting between Ming's deliveries and the daily routine of the restaurant, "Take Out" presents a harsh and realistic look at the daily lives of illegal Chinese immigrants in present day New York City.

Introduced by  Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor of History, and faculty affiliate of Asian American Studies, Asian Studies, and Mexican American and Latina_o Studies, at UT Austin, with a discussion afterward.  Watch the trailer.

Migration is a deeply human experience across all parts of the world, even as specific conditions of need, gender, geography, culture, and coercion frame particular journeys. The feature films in this series capture the emotions and stories of migrants in a multitude of settings. Each film will be introduced by a faculty member and followed by discussion of the film and the questions it raises about migration as a common experience that can both divide and unite us.

Films will be screened alternate Tuesdays in  CLA, Glickman Conference Center. 7 pm. Parking:  Brazos Garage, 210 E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.. Open to the UT Austin community and the public.

Presented by  Not Even Past,  The Department of History, and  Institute of Historical Studies, with generous co-sponsorship of  Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies,  Center for Mexican American Studies,  Center for European Studies,  Center for East Asian Studies,  Center for Asian American Studies,  Department of American Studies,  Department of Radio-Television-Film, and  Center for Middle Eastern Studies.