The Birth and Death of Czechoslovakia
Televised 2-hour panel discussion held in the Czech Senate (Parliament) in April 2013. Participants: Mary Heimann, historian; Petr Pithart, former Czech Prime Minister; Jan Rychlík, historian. Moderator: Tomáš Klvaňa. Hosted by the Prague Writers Festival. Watch it here: The Birth and Death of Czechoslovakia
Media surrounding 2020 Czech edition
http://maryheimann-ceskoslovensko.cz/media/
4th Central European Symposium 2019
Roundtable speaker and participant: 1989 Catalyst of Change
Generation ’89: Witness testimony 30 years after 1989 revolution
Temple of Peace, Cardiff, 22 November 2019
Czechoslovakia 100
Marked 100 years since the creation of Czechoslovakia
TEDx Cardiff 2017
TEDx speaker, the Tramshed, Cardiff, 22 April 2017 http://www.tedxcardiff.co.uk/http
Prague Writers Festival 2013
One of 7 writers featured at the Prague Writers Festival 2013 on ‘The Birth of Nations’. Included Nobel prize-winner Orhan Pamuk and Yasmina Khadra. See PWF 2013
Prague Writers Festival in Pittsburgh
One of 6 writers featured at the commemorative Prague Writers Festival in Pittsburgh. Included the novelists E.L. Doctorow and Anita Desai. See PWF in Pittsburgh
Prague Business Club
http://www.businessclub.cz/cs/udalosti/
Partnership for Peace (NATO) in Ukraine
Took part in NATO Partnership for Peace workshop held in Kyiv, Ukraine (26-28 March 2015) to aid regional stability in the South Caucasus. Historical comparisons and simulated negotiations were used to examine regional conflicts and formulate policy recommendations. Policy recommendations were distributed to NATO and other decision-makers. See press release Marshall Center and policy recommendations NATO Partnership for Peace
New Books in History
Interview by Marshall Poe with Mary Heimann about Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed (recorded March 2013). Listen here: New Books in History
Rough Seas around Bohemia
Sponsored lecture given at the Slovak Embassy, London, April 2012, on the impact of Czechoslovakia: The State that Failed. Money raised was donated to the Friends of Czech Historic Buildings charity. See: Czech Centre in London
The Page 99 Test
‘Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.’ (Ford Madox Ford). You can try this here: Page 99 test
The Prague Trial
BBC Radio 4 radio play and documentary about the 1979 trial of Václav Havel and other Czech dissidents. You can listen to it here: BBC Radio 4
Czechoslovakia between the Wars
Read about Czechoslovakia’s pivotal role in the Munich Crisis here: History Today
About Me, Without Me
Czech radio discussion about Czechoslovakia: The State that Failed. Česky rozhlas
On the Silencing of Inconvenient History
Keynote lecture to Czech Journalism Summer School (2015) about voluntary censorship. You can hear the talk here: LŠŽ
Democratizing History
Collaborative workshop at the Scottish Oral History Center on ‘Democratizing History in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings’. You can find out more about it here: Democratizing History 2015
Sample Reviews
TLS (Times Literary Supplement)
Sample Interviews
BBC Radio 4 ‘Last Word’ obituary of Miloš Jakeš
http://newbooksnetwork.com/mary-heimann-czechoslovakia-the-state-that-failed-yale-up-2009/
http://page99test.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/mary-heimanns-czechoslovakia.html