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Associate professor Owen V. Johnson will talk on “The Media and the National in 20th Century Slovakia” at 2 p.m April 25 at the Slovak Embassy in Washington, D.C. His talk is sponsored by the Slovak American Society of Washington, D.C.

According to the abstract, the lecture will address how Slovak mass media fostered a sense of nation among the people of Slovakia. “In return, public opinion and the Slovak people’s responses influenced the forms that the media took and the way that it operated throughout the 20th-century: under Hungary, during the interwar republic, in the wartime Slovak state, during postwar democracy, in the communist period through the ‘Prague’ Spring, under post-1968 communism, and in the 1989-92 coda.”