Political Science
George Klein Lectures
The annual George Klein lecture is named after Dr. George Klein, a longtime member of the WMU Department of Political Science and an internationally known expert on Balkan politics and Eastern European political systems. After his death in 1981, his widow, Dr. Patricia V. Klein, WMU associate professor emerita of science studies, created an endowment in his honor. That endowment funds the annual lecture, symposia, conferences and scholarships.
2009 George Klein Lecture
"Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear: The Politics of Postcommunist Europe and Why We Should Care"
Dr. Kevin Deegan-Krause, Wayne State UniversityWednesday, March 25, 2009
7:00 pm Fetzer Center, Putney Auditorium
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in central Europe. While nearly all the countries in Europe have made a transition from communism to democracy and markets, their economic and political models are not quite like those of the west. Dr. Deegan-Krause will identify ways in which developments there echo - or even prefigure - political developments in the west, particularly in United States.
Past Speakers
| 2007-8 | Dr. Ray Taras | Tulane University |
| 2006-7 | Dr. Leah Seppanen Anderson | Wheaton College |
| 2005-6 | Dr. Robert Hayden | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2004-5 | Dr. Kathleen Hill Hawk | University of Alabama, Huntsville |
| 2003-4 | Dr. Igor Luksic | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2000-1 | Symposium: " Transitions in Process: Social,
Political and Cultural Dimensions of Change in Eastern Europe"
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| 1999-2000 | Dr Branko Horvat | University of Zagreb |
| 1998-9 | Dr Zarko Korac | University of Belgrade |
| 1997-8 | Dr. Robin Remington | University of Missouri, Columbia |