More than 1,200 students, faculty, staff and local media representatives crowded into Roone Arledge Auditorium on November 15 to hear President Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic and U.S. President Bill Clinton discuss the challenges facing today's emerging democracies, part of an event series being sponsored by the Kraft Family Fund for Interfaith and Intercultural Awareness.

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Challenges of New Democracies: A Conversation with President Havel and President Clinton

At the invitation of President Bollinger, Vaclav Havel arrived at Columbia University October 26th 2006 for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas.

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Havel at Columbia [staging site]: Events (Video)