Datum konání:
14. 12. 2020, 15:00
Online conference: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81765753328
Ever since Radio Free Europe (RFE) started broadcasting to Czechoslovakia in 1950 topics such as the First Czechoslovak Republic and its protagonists – above all Tomáš G. Masaryk and Edvard Beneš – played a significant role in the programming of this US-American sponsored radio station. This presentation will shed light on the use of these topics in Cold War communication as well as on the underlying broadcast policy of RFE and its function in the US-American Cold War strategy. Finally, the talk will point out how RFE got into trouble by disseminating certain narratives of Czechoslovakia’s recent history.
