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Books Auer, S. (2008) 'Aussichten auf die Revolution: Politisches Denken in West und Ost im 20. Jahrhundert,' Osteuropa, BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Vol. 58, No. 2, 2008, pp. 81-90. Auer, S. (2006) 'The lost treasure of the revolution Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism, and the revolutions in central Europe: 1956, 1968, 1989' Auer, S. (2006) ‘After 1989, Who Are the Czechs?’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp.411-430. Auer, S. (2006) ‘Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the 1956 Uprising in Hungary’, Osteuropa, BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp.85-98. Auer, S. (2005) ‘Macht und Gewalt: 1989, die Ukraine und die Idee der gewaltfreien Revolution’, Osteuropa, BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp.3-19. Auer, S. (2004) ‘The Paradoxes of the Revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe’, Critical Horizons, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Vol. 4, No. 1-2, pp.361-90. Auer, S. (2004) ‘Das Erbe von 1989: Revolutionen für Europa’, Osteuropa, BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Vol. 54, No. 5-6, pp.31-46. Auer, S (2004) 'The revolutions of 1989 revisited' Auer, S. (2000) ‘Nationalism in Central Europe – A Chance or a Threat for the Emerging Liberal Democratic Order?’, East European Politics and Societies, University of California Press, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring, pp.213-245. Auer, S. (2008 forthcoming) 'From Marginalization to Political Participation: Ethnic Minorities in post-communist Slovakia,' in Bernd Rechel (ed.), Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe, London: Routledge, BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, forthcoming 2008. Auer, S. (2008 forthcoming) 'Public Intellectuals, East and West: Jan Patočka and Václav Havel in contention with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Slavoj Žižek', in Christian Fleck, Andreas Hess, E. Stina Lyon (eds.), Public Intellectuals in Europe - European Public Intellectuals: Sociological Perspectives, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, forthcoming 2008. Auer, S. (2007) 'Power, Weakness and Violence: Revolutions in the Twenty-first Century,' in Bernard Mees and Samuel P. Koehne (eds.), Terror, War and Tradition: Studies in European History, Unley: Australian Humanities Press, pp. 183-206. Auer, S. (2005) ‘Revolutions for Europe: The Legacy of 1989,’ in Manfred Sapper & Volker Weichsel (eds) Sketches of Europe: Old Lands, New Worlds, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, pp.87-109. Auer, S. (2004) ‘The Paradoxes of the Revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe’, in John Rundell et al. (eds) Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy, Leiden: Brill, pp.361-390. Auer, S. (2004) ‘Art, Politics and the Power of the Powerless’, in Noel Kelly (ed.) Art & Politics – The Imagination of Opposition in Europe, Dublin: R4 Publishing, pp.13-19. Auer, S. (2002) ‘Slovakia’, co-authored with John Dryzek, John Dryzek & Leslie Holmes (eds) Postcommunist Democratization: Societies Civil and Uncivil, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.173-189. Auer, S. (2000) ‘Reflections on Minority Rights and the Liberal State in Central Europe’, in Carolyn O'Brien & Linda Hancock (eds) Rewriting Rights in Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.69-90. Auer, S. (1999) ‘Church and State in Liberal Theory and Polish Political Practice’, in Justyna Miklaszewska (ed.) Democracy in Central Europe 1989 99: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Krakow: Meritum Publishing House, pp.131-149. (2008) 'Jan Patočka and the siginificance of 1968 in Czech history' at the int. conference Remembering 1948 and 1968: Reflections on Two Pivotal Years in Czech and Slovak History, The University of Glasgow, 3-4 April 2008. (2007) 'The Politics of Memory in Europe: East and West' at the workshop The Impacts of National Identities for European Integration, Tallinn, Estonia, September 8-11, 2007. (2007) 'Do we need a 'Leitkultur' for Europe?' at the international conference Rethinking Citizenship Education in European Societies, Lisbon, Portugal, April 26-28, 2007. (2007) 'Contestations of European Identity after the Collapse of Communism,' at the int. conference New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds? Monash University, Melbourne, April 12-14, 2007. (2007) 'Jan Patočka, Polemos and the Meaning of Europe,' bi-annual conference of the Australasian Association of Communist and Post-Communist Studies, University of Melbourne, January 29-30, 2007. (2006) ‘Hannah Arendt and the Revolutions in Central Europe from 1956 to 1989,’ at the international conference Budapest, ’56 and Beyond. History and Memory of the 1st Crisis of Communism, Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 28-29. (2006) ‘Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Revolutions in Central Europe: 1956, 1968, 1989,’ at the Annual Conference of IAREES (Irish Association for Russian and East European Studies), 1956: De-Stalinisation and Revolt in Popular Memory, UCD, May 11-13. (2006) ‘Solidarność, 1989 and the Philosophy of Czech History,’ at the international conference The Legacy of Solidarity, The University of Warwick, February 18. (2006) ‘European/Czech Identities: Changing Discourses,’ at the ITINEBA Conference, Social Transformations, Political Conflict and the Human Dimension: Comparative Perspectives on the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethno-National Identity in Ireland, Europe and Beyond, UCD, January 26-27. (2006) ‘Czech Political Culture and the Legacy of Dissent,’ at the Connex Network Workshop Comparing Democratic Traditions, Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany, January 20-21. (2005) ‘Political Folly & Political Prudence: How East European Intellectuals Contributed to “The End of Idiocy on a Planetary Scale,”’ Colloquium at the Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, The University of Bremen, December 6. (2005) ‘Public Intellectuals, East & West: Jan Patočka and Václav Havel in contention with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Slavoj Žižek,’ at the international conference Intellectuals and The Nation-State, UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies, Dublin, November 29 – December 1. (2005) ‘Political Folly & Political Prudence: How East European Intellectuals Contributed to “The End of Idiocy on a Planetary Scale,”’ at the Public Intellectual in Europe – Sociological Perspectives, International Symposium at the Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, October 7-9. (2005) ‘Exporting the Velvet Revolution: The Orange Revolution in Ukraine as a New Model of European Revolutions,’ at the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Conference, Corvinus University of Budapest, September 8-10. (2005) ‘Power, Weakness and Violence in the Revolutions for the 21 Century,’ at the XVth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for European History, The University of Melbourne, July 11-15. (2005) ‘Old Europe, New Europe: Is There a Division in Political Cultures?,’ at the Connex Network Workshop Comparing Democratic Traditions, University of Athens, March 11-12. (2004) ‘Whose Europe is it Anyway? Derrida, Habermas, Havel, Patočka and Rumsfeld debate the meaning of European Identity,’ at the Second Edmund Mokrzycki Symposium, the Centre for Social Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, November 19-20. (2004) ‘Das Erbe der Demokratiebewegungen für die politische Kultur der EU,’ (The legacy of opposition movements in the political culture of the European Union), at the international conference Zeit der Freiheit (The Time of Freedom) at the European Academy in Berlin, September 15-16. (2004) ‘Art, Politics and the Power of the Powerless,’ at the international conference, Art and Politics: The Imagination of Opposition in Europe, UCD, April 29 – 30. (2003) ‘The Conservative Revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe,’ public seminar at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, June 24. (2002) ‘The politics of recognition and social justice for Romanies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: compatible or conflictual?’ at a special ASN convention Nationalism, Identities and Regional Co-operation: Compatibilities and Incompatibilities, Forli, Italy, June 4-9. (2001) ‘The Re-Discovery of Central Europe,’ Dublin European Institute lecture series Ireland and the New Europe, University College Dublin, November 21. (2001) ‘Autonomy and Disintegration in Eastern Europe: The Case of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia’, presented at the 2001 Biennial Melbourne Indonesian Consortium Conference: Autonomy and Disintegration in Indonesia, La Trobe University (Melbourne), July 7-8. (2000) ‘Questions of Governance: Democratic Norms,’ at National Europe Centre Conference on European Union Enlargement: Challenges and Opportunities, Australian National University, Canberra December 8. (1999) ‘Reflections on Minority Rights in Central Europe,’ at Nationalism, Identity and Minority Rights Conference, The University of Bristol, September 16-19. (1999) ‘Church and State in Liberal Theory and Polish Political Practice,’ at the International Conference on Democracy in Central Europe, 1989-99: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, September 3-4. (1998) ‘Nationalism in Central Europe – A Chance or a Threat for the Emerging Liberal Democratic Order?’ at the AASCPCS/ANZSA 1998 International Conference on Communist and Post-Communist Societies, The University of Melbourne, July 7-10. Media Appearances and Newspaper Articles (2008) Slovak Spectator, Studying Central Europe from Down Under, March 10. http://www.spectator.sk/articles/view/31006/12/studying_central_europe_from_down_under.html. (2006) Today FM (Irish Radio) commenting on the visit of the Australian PM, John Howard, May 23. (2005) Radio Prague, ‘Can nationalism in Central Europe be a force for good?’, October 23. http://www.radio.cz/en/article/71970 . (2005) RTE Prime Time TV, evaluating the defeat of the European Constitution in France, June 6. (2005) The Village Magazine, ‘The Constitution is dead – long live the European Union’, June 2, p.7. (2005) The Irish Times, ‘With liberators like Stalin who needed enemies?’ May 11, p.16. (2004) SKY News, with Adam Bolton, discussing the controversies surrounding the EU enlargement, May 2. (2004) BBC World News (TV) live commentary on the EU enlargement ceremony in Dublin, May 1. (2004) BBC Channel 4 (Radio) ‘What Does it Mean to be European?’ together with Norman Davies and Joseph O’Connor, May 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today3_EU5_20040501.ram (2004) bTV (Bulgarian TV) about the future EU enlargements, May. (2003) ABC Radio National, ‘On Wenceslas Square’, discussing Czech political philosophy with a focus on Masaryk, Patočka and Havel, together with Margaret Coffey for ‘The Encounter’, July 20. (2002) Radio Prague (Czech Foreign Services Radio Broadcasting), ‘Irish referendum could jeopardize the EU enlargement’, October 16. Occasional appearances on RTE Radio, 106 News Radio (Irish), ABC Radio National (‘The Europeans’), STV (Slovak Television). Go to:
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Stefan Auer is a Senior Lecturer in history and politics at La Trobe University. Prior to this, he was Lecturer (2001-6) and Academic Director (2004-5) of the Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin. His book, Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004, pbk 2006) won the prize for Best Book in European Studies (2005) with the University Association for contemporary European Studies (UACES). He has published articles in Critical Horizons, East European Politics and Societies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Osteuropa and elsewhere. His current research interests include: the self-limiting revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe and their more recent reincarnations (e.g. Ukraine 2004); political thought of dissident intellectuals, such as the Czech philosopher Jan Patocka; nationalism in Central Europe; enlargement of the European Union.
