Peter Skilling will fly to Prague for the Conference dedicated to his father's life and work: H. Gordon Skilling: Life and WorkAn international academic conference in Prague has been organized to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of H. Gordon Skilling, an outstanding scholar of Central and Eastern European studies, Professor of Political Science, and the first Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto. The conference, initiated by the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre, Prague, will take place in the Klementinum (the opening session) and the Czernin Palais, Prague, on 27–29 May 2012, under the auspices of Karel Schwarzenberg, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.http://www.csds.cz/en/conferences/2863-DS.html

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