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Oksana Zabuzhko (b.1960) is the author of more than twenty books of different genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, criticism). She graduated from the department of philosophy of Kyiv Shevchenko University, obtained her PhD in philosophy, and has worked as a research associate for the Institute of Philosophy of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In the 1990s she lectured in the USA as a Fulbright Fellow. After the publication of her novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex (1996), which in 2006 was named “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence”, she has been living as a free-lance author. She has also established herself as one of Ukraine’s leading public intellectuals. Since 2013 she, along with her partner, artist Rostyslav Luzhetsky, have operated a small publishing house promoting quality non-commercial literature.
Zabuzhko’s books have been translated into nineteen languages, and brought her numerous national and international awards, including the Ukrainian National Award the Order of Princess Olha (2009), Angelus Central European Literary Prize for the best novel of Eastern and Central Europe (2013), Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2019), Krakow City Council Award Stanislaw Vincenz (2022), and so on. The war launched by Russia in Ukraine caught Zabuzhko in Poland, where she was on a book tour. Her recent work, a book-long essay on her war experience The Longest Journey (2022), has won the Book of the Year in Ukraine and has been translated into eight languages.
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REBECCA MAKKAI’s last novel, THE GREAT BELIEVERS, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize; and it was one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2018. Her other books are the novels THE BORROWER and THE HUNDRED-YEAR HOUSE, and the collection MUSIC FOR WARTIME—four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada University and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. Her new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, is forthcoming in February 2023.
Anne Applebaum is a journalist, a prize-winning historian, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-leads a project on 21st century disinformation and co-teaches a course on democracy. Her books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956; and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Her most recent book is the New York Times bestseller, Twilight of Democracy, an essay on democracy and authoritarianism. She was a Washington Post columnist for fifteen years and a member of the editorial board; she has also been the deputy editor of the Spectator and a columnist for several British newspapers. Her writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, among many other publications.
Photographer and writer, with a background in psychology. His photographs have been exhibited almost all over the world. Throughout his work, he adopts a particular perspective of dialogue, focusing on meeting others and being open to their personal experiences and stories.
Author of the albums "A lot of women" (2009), "Auschwitz - what am I doing here?" (2010) and "Survivors of the 20th Century" (2012). He published a collection of conversations "I Accuse Auschwitz. Family Stories" (2014) and a volume of short stories "Rejwach" (2016), which in 2018 was nominated for the Nike Literary Award and the Angelus Central European Literary Award. In 2018 the book "The Book of Exodus" was published, and in 2020 the book "Confidential" (published by Czarne).
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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard in the 1960s as an economist, she has written twenty booksand some four hundred academic articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, statistical theory, feminism, ethics, and law.
She taught for twelve years at the University of Chicago in the Economics Department in its glory days, but now describes herself as a “literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian, ex-Marxist, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not ‘conservative’! I’m a Christian classical liberal.”
Her most recent popular books, for example, are Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All (Yale University Press, 2019) and with Art Carden Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: The Bourgeois Deal(University of Chicago Press, 2020). Also in 2019 the Chicago Press published a third edition of her classic manual on style, Economical Writing, and a 20th-anniversary re-issue of Crossing: A Transgender Memoir, with a new Afterword. But she’s technical and quantitative, too. For example, with Stephen Ziliak in 2008 she wrote The Cult of Statistical Significance, widely praised, which shows that null hypothesis tests of “significance” are, in the absence of a substantive loss function, meaningless. The point, made long before McCloskey by a few statisticians, is becoming widely accepted, for example in the American Statistical Association, though not yet in economics and medicine.
Her latest scholarly book again from the University of Chicago Press, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (2016), was the final volume of the Bourgeois Era trilogy. It argues for an “ideational” explanation of the Great Enrichment of 3,000 percent per person 1800 to the present in places like Britain and Japan and Finland. The accidents of Reformation and Revolt in northwestern Europe 1517–1789 led to a new liberty and dignity for commoners—ideas called “liberalism” in the proper sense—which led in turn to an explosion of commercially tested betterment, “having a go.” The second book in the trilogy, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World (2010), had shown that materialist explanations such as saving or exploitation, don’t have enough economic oomph or historical relevance to explain the Enrichment. The alleged explanations that do not focus on the new ideology of “innovism”—her name for the ill-named “capitalism”—are mistaken. And the Enrichment did not corrupt our immortal souls. The inaugural book in the trilogy, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (2006), had established that, contrary to the clamor since 1848 of the clerisy left and right, the bourgeoisie is pretty good, and that commercially tested betterment is not the worst of ethical schools. In short, the trilogy looks forward, if populism does not spoil the prospect, to a world of universal dignity and prosperity created by liberal innovism.
Jan-Werner Müller is Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His books include What is Populism? (2017) and Democracy Rules (2021). He is also a columnist for the US Guardian.
Professor Adam Bodnar – professor and dean of the Law Faculty of the SWPS University in Warsaw, visiting professor at the University of Cologne; member of advisory boards of International IDEA, Liberties, World Organization Against Torture and World Justice Project; advisor of domestic organizations, including Tour de Konstytucja; former Ombudsman of the Republic of Poland (September 2015 - July 2021); columnist for Polish daily 'Gazeta Wyborcza' and internet edition of 'Polityka'.
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Professor at UW. Magdalena Środa, Ph.D., works at the Department of Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, and is involved in the history of ethical ideas, applied ethics, political philosophy and gender issues. She is the author of many publications in the field of political and moral philosophy and books including: "The Idea of Dignity in History and Ethics" (1993), "Individualism and Its Critics. Contemporary Disputes among Liberals, Communitarians and Feminists on Subject, Community and Gender" (2003), "Women and Power" (2009), "Ethics for Thinkers" (2010), "A Little Book on Tolerance" (2010). In 2020, her book "Alien, Other, Excluded" was published. Professor Środa is the founder and head of the Postgraduate Studies in Ethics and Philosophy (UW); member of the Ethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences; member of the Council of the Institute of Public Affairs, member of the Council of Societas/Communitas. In the government of M. Belka, she served as Minister of Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Status of Women and Men. She is a co-organizer of the Congress of Women. She is involved in journalistic activities and is a regular columnist for "Gazeta Wyborcza."
Renata Lis - writer and translator. She has published four books of essays and biographies: "Flaubert's Hand" (2011), "In the Ice of Provence. Bunin in Exile" (2015; Russian edition 2022), "Lesbos" (2017), "My Beloved and I" (2023). She has translated from French, Russian, English. She has been nominated for awards, most recently for the Tuwim Prize.
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Singer, composer, songwriter, visual artist, performer.
She studied at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She received a scholarship at the Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule fur Kunst und Design Halle. She teaches movement composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Hailed as one of the most important debuts of 2016. The number of views on ytb exceeds a total of 47 million and is constantly growing.
Sandrine Dixson-Decleve is the Co-President of the Club of Rome and Project Lead and co-author of Earth4All. She is an international and European climate, energy, sustainable development, sustainable finance, complex systems thought leader and divides her time between lecturing, facilitating difficult conversations and advisory work. She also chairs the European Commission Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation (ESIR) and sits on several Boards & Advisory Boards including Climate KIC, Laudes Foundation, Imperial College Leonardo Centre and is a Senior Associate and faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
Writer, columnist, critic, architect by education, winner of the Passport of Polityka 2022 for the book "Gdynia Promised. The city, modernism, modernization 1920-1939". Author of books: "Indestructible. Bohdan Pniewski - Architect of Salon and Power" (2021, finalist for the Upper Silesian Juliusz Literary Award), "The Best City in the World. Warsaw in reconstruction 1944-1949" (2020, final of the Nike Literary Award; Literary Award of the City of Warsaw, Architectural Award of the President of the City of Warsaw, Kazimierz Moczarski Historical Award), "Sanator. Career of Stefan Starzyński" (2016; Literary Award of the City of Warsaw). Pragmatic idealist.
Photo: Fot. Laura Bielak / WAB
Born 25 February 1992 in Wrocław, he graduated from the Faculty of Drama Direction at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, Polish Philology at Wrocław University and the Documentary Film Directing at the Wajda Master School in Warsaw.
Since his debut with the play "Zinc Boys" at the Dramatic Theatre in Wałbrzych, which was awarded the Grand Prix at the First Contact Festival in Toruń and the M-Teatr in Koszalin.
His work addresses political and social issues. His most famous performance was 'Mein Kampf', based on Adolf Hitler's book, in which he looked at contemporary fascist tendencies. Articles about the performance were written by major international media including the New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Daily Mail, Guardian, La Espresso, Economist etc. It was also well received at international festivals including Prague, Narva and the legendary Bergmann Festival in Stockholm.
In his other works he touches topics of human rights, violence against women or LGBTQ+ rights. His most important recent performances have been 'The Death of John Paul II' from the Polish Theatre in Poznań, in which he took a critical look at the last hours of Karol Wojtyła's dying and how this death was presented in the media and public space. For this performance, he received the Director's Award at the International Divine Comedy Festival in Krakow, and the "Konrad Laurel" the most important Polish director's award, awarded unanimously for only the second time in the history of Polish theater. His most recent performance is „Spartacus. Love in times of plague”, in which he touched on the exclusion of LGBTQ+ people in Poland and the crisis of child psychiatry in Poland. In the final scene he organize performative weddings of same-sex couples, which are banned in Poland.
Since January this year, he was elected to be artistic director of Contemporary Theater in Szczecin, being also the youngest artistic director in Poland. In the 2023-25 seasons, he will curate the international programme for the Vaba Lava Theater in Tallinn.
Polish novelist, literary critic, essayist, literary historian.
Born in 1949 in Gdansk; son of a Vilnius resident, an economist, and a Warsaw resident, Aleksandra (née Celińska), a nurse, a nurse of the Home Army in the Warsaw Uprising. He graduated from the High School of Fine Arts in Gdynia-Orlovo. In December 1970, he witnessed the pacification of Gdansk by the militia and armored units of the LWP. In May 1971, he got married. In 1973 he defended his master's thesis (Gombrowicz and the Polish Form, written under the supervision of Prof. Maria Janion) at the University of Gdansk with honors. In 1973 he was hired at the UG Institute of Polish Philology as a trainee assistant. In the 1980s, he was a member of the team editing the publishing series Transgressions. In 1994, on the basis of his dissertation entitled Literature and Betrayal. From Konrad Wallenrod to the Little Apocalypse, awarded an individual prize by the Minister for outstanding scientific achievements, he received a doctoral degree.
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Composer, vocalist and bassist, winner of the Polityka's Passport with très.b in the popular music category for 2012, the Fryderyk in the debut of the year category and the Grzegorz Ciechowski Award of the City of Toruń.
Photo: Jędrzej Nowicki
Mark Galeotti is one of the world’s leading experts on Russian security affairs, which may explain why Moscow banned him last year. He read history at Cambridge and took his doctorate in government at the LSE, and after a stint with the Foreign Office has been a scholar and thinktanker in London, New York, Moscow, Prague and Florence. He heads the UK-based risk consultancy Mayak Intelligence and is an Honorary Professor at UCL and a senior associate fellow with RUSI, the Council on Geostrategy and the Institute of International Relations Prague. He has been consulted by individuals from prime ministers to CEOs and bodies from the British Foreign Affairs Select Committee to the US National Intelligence Council. A prolific author, his most recent books include Putin’s Wars (Bloomsbury, 2022), The Weaponisation of Everything (Yale, 2022), We Need To Talk About Putin (Ebury, 2019) and The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale, 2018).
Deputy editor-in-chief of "Gazeta Wyborcza". Gdansk citizen. He graduated from law school. Belonged to the opposition Young Poland Movement. Arrested under martial law. Member of the editorial board of "Solidarity," an underground magazine of the Gdansk region, the first issue of which was published in the Gdansk Shipyard in August 1980. He worked for the Spanish news agency EFE and the Gdansk Weekly. He was a spokesman for Lech Walesa. In opposition to the "war at the top," he resigned from his job. He published Wodza, a political portrait of the chairman of the "S" against the background of the events of the time. He has been a columnist for "Wyborcza" since January 1991, and its deputy editor since 2006. He hosted political talks on Polsat, TVP and TOK FM. Author of essays on Raymond Aron Peace with a View of History and the biography Jan Nowak-Jezioranski. Courier of Freedom. Officer of the Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and Knight of the Order of the French Legion of Honor.
Tomasz Sekielski is a Polish radio and television journalist, author of documentaries, television reports, prose writer. Screenwriter and director of the documentaries Tylko nie mów nikomu (Just Don't Tell Anyone) (2019) and Zabawa w chowanego (Hide-and-seek) (2020).
He was associated with the editorial offices of TVN, TVN24, TVP1, TVP Info, Wprost, Nowa TV, Wirtualna Polska and Onet. Together with Andrzej Morozowski, he was co-host of the program Teraz my! on TVN.
In 2018, he launched his own channel on YouTube. He has received a number of awards for his work, including the Andrzej Woyciechowski Award (2006, 2019), Grand Press (2006, 2019), Wiktor (2006, 2019), Telekamery (2007, 2008), MediaTory (2010, 2019) and the Polish Film Award Eagle for best documentary (2020).
He has been editor-in-chief of 'Newsweek Polska' since July 2022.
Press journalist and political activist. From 2020 to 2022 chairman, and from 2022 1st vice-chairman of Szymon Holownia's Poland 2050.
Born in Canada, educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard, Michael Ignatieff is a university professor, writer and former politician.
Between 2006 and 2011, Michael Ignatieff served as an MP in the Parliament of Canada and then as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition. He is a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and holds thirteen honorary degrees.
Between 2012 and 2015 he served as Centennial Chair at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York.
Between 2014 and 2016 he was Edward R. Murrow Chair of the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Michael Ignatieff was until recently the Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest. He stepped down at the end of July 2021, to stay as a Professor in the History Department.
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Freedom Games 2019 are now over. One of the final speeches in the Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland, belonged to Lech Walesa, a former president of Poland. When he entered the stage wearing a t-shirt with Constitution written on it, the audience stood up. People were applauding.
Freedom Games are a meeting of people open to dialogue, new ideas, and fun!
(…) the sixth edition of Freedom Games is about to start.startuje szósta edycja Igrzysk Wolności. WThis unique event gathers intellectuals, scientists, and artists – people of ideas who by engaging in a constructive conversation help better understand the reality.
– The PiS party wishes to hide away Freedom Games by organizing its own party convention. One of their members called Freedom Games “games of hate”. It is nothing of the sort. We intend to flood them with love and freedom – stated Leszek Jazdzewski on Twitter.
What hovers over the entire conference (…) is a spirit of optimistic and creative freedom, of searching for solutions, as if no authoritarian government existed in Poland.
Radio program by Karolina Lewicka pt. “Jak umierają demokracje?” – which is the leading theme of Freedom Games 2019
A grassroots forum created by an NGO, which brings together people who share such values as liberal democracy, open society, and the rule of law.
A meeting of representatives of the sectors of culture, business, and social lifespotkanie ludzi kultury, biznesu i życia społecznego z publicznością, who believe in the ideas of liberal democracy and open society has just began. Freedom Games are held in Lodz for the sixth time.
– For the sixth time, the city of Lodz decided to co-organize a leading intellectual and cultural forum of ideas in Poland – a meeting of renowned scholars, representatives of culture, science, and activists, as well as entrepreneurs and politicians – stated Hanna Zdanowska, the Mayor of the City. – We intend to create the best forum of ideas in the country.
Freedom Games are an extraordinary agora where thoughts and ideas can clash without an artificial divide between that which is political, social, or artistic.
Can we feel good in a country where the winners of the election refuse to respect the rights of the losing side? It is a crucial matter also for the supporters of the current government – because at one point the winners might become the losers. An interview with Leszek Jazdzewski and Blazej Lenkowski, the organizers of Freedom Games.
Lecture
Tania Malarczuk is a Ukrainian author and journalist, who was born and raised in Ivano-Frankivsk and has been residing in Vienna since 2011.She is the author of five collections of novellas and short stories, two novels, a middle grade novel and a poetry collection. She has also been writing nonfiction routinely in German since 2014 and won the 2018 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her first ever short story authored in German. Tanja is also the winner of the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize (Poland and Ukraine) and the BBC Book of the Year Award (Ukraine) for her novel Forgottenness (pol. Zapomnienie, Wydawnictwo Warstwy, 2019). Her first book to be written in German, a collection of essays in response to political events in Ukraine, was recently published in Germany. Tanja’s work has been translated into over ten languages.
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
Lecture
Discussion panel
Moderation: Piotr Buras – political scientist, journalist, columnist
Partner: European Council on Foreign Relations
Lecture
Johan Norberg is an author, lecturer and documentary filmmaker, born in Sweden. He has written books on a broad range of topics, including
global economics and popular science, including Progress: Ten Reasons to
Look Forward to the Future and the most recent Open: The Story of Human
Progress. He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C.
and the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels.
He received his M. A. in the History of Ideas from the University of
Stockholm.
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
Lecture
Professor Mark Lilla – American philosopher, historian of ideas and publicist, professor at Columbia University in New York and other prestigious universities in the US.
He was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1956, and was educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. After holding professorships at New York University and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, he joined Columbia University in 2007 as Professor of the Humanities. He has been awarded fellowships by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Institut d’études avancées (Paris), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the American Academy in Rome. In 1995 he was inducted into the French Order of Academic Palms.
Mark Lilla is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and publications worldwide. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lectures widely and has delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture in Israel and the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University. In 2015 Overseas Press Club of America awarded him its prize for Best Commentary on International News in Any Medium.
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
Author's meeting
Moderation: Jakub Szczęsny – architect, author of the installation
Partner: Wydawnictwo Literackie
Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. His six bestselling story collections have been translated into 49 languages. His writing has been published in ‘The New York Times’, ‘Le Monde’, ‘The Guardian’, ‘The New Yorker’, ‘The Paris Review’, and ‘Esquire’. He has also written a number of screenplays, and Jellyfish, his first film as a director alongside his wife Shira Geffen, won the Caméra d’Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 he was awarded the Chevalier medallion of France’s l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in 2016 he won the Bronfman Prize, and in 2018 his most recent book, FLY ALREADY, won the Sapir Prize.
Lecture
Jane Goodall, DBE, PhD – founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, is a world-renowned ethologist and activist inspiring greater understanding and action on behalf of the natural world. Through her tireless advocacy to create a better future for people, other animals, and the planet we share, Dr. Goodall inspires millions of people with her message of hope through action. She is best known for groundbreaking studies of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, transformative research continued by the Jane Goodall Institute which is now the longest running wild chimpanzee study in the world.
Jane Goodall was born on April 3, 1934, in London, England. From earliest childhood, she was fascinated by animals and the wildlife of Africa she discovered in the storybooks of Tarzan and Doctor Doolittle. In 1957, she followed her dream and traveled to the Kenyan farm of a friend’s parents where she met the famed paleoanthropologist Doctor Louis Leakey. In 1960, at his invitation, she began her landmark study of chimpanzee behavior in what is now Tanzania. Her field research at what was then called Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve led to her astounding observations that chimpanzees make and use tools, which revolutionized the world of primatology and redefined the relationship between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.
In 1977, Jane Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) to advance her vision around the world and for generations to come. JGI continues essential research at Gombe Stream Research Center and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats through community-led conservation. The organization also advances best practices in animal welfare, innovative applications of science and technology, and youth empowerment through its Roots & Shoots program, created in 1991. Roots & Shoots supports young people in all 50 United States and over 50 countries worldwide to be the change in their communities and change the world for the better, together.
Prior to the Pandemic, Jane traveled on average 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope. Today, Jane continues to connect with worldwide audiences, despite present challenges, through ‘Virtual Jane’ including remote lectures, recordings, and her podcast, the Jane Goodall Hopecast.
In 2021, Jane Goodall was the recipient of the Templeton Prize, and her newest book, “The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times,” was published.
Together with Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce, Jane is an international spokesperson for the World Economic Forum Trillion Tree Campaign launched in February 2020. She is also a leading voice on the dangers of zoonotic disease transfer and COVID-19 as a terrible manifestation of humanity’s unsustainable global systems and imbalance with the natural world. Jane Goodall’s eloquent ability to raise public awareness and understanding has become instrumental in her work to save chimpanzees and other species from extinction, as well as to influence and advance climate action and ecosystem protection.
Jane Goodall is the author of numerous books that have engaged an international readership. Jane Goodall is the subject of numerous television documentaries, as well as the 2002 film Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees, the 2010 documentary Jane’s Journey and the 2017 National Geographic documentary JANE, and following title Jane Goodall: The Hope. Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet has also produced several features on Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall is a global icon and the recipient of many honors, including the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal, Japan’s prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the UNESCO 60th Anniversary Medal, and the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence. In April 2002, Secretary General Kofi Annan named Jane Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In a 2004 ceremony at Buckingham Palace, she became a Dame Commander of the British Empire. In 2006, she received France’s highest recognition, the Legion of Honor. In 2021, Jane was the recipient of the esteemed Templeton Prize, and her newest book, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, was published.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Katarzyna Skrzydłowska–Kalukin – social journalist, reporter
Partner: Geremek Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Katarzyna Bałucka-Dębska – European Commission, Directorate General for Climate
Partner: European Committee of the Regions
Author's meeting
Moderation: Tomasz Walczak – journalist, editor, political commentator
Witold Szabłowski – Polish journalist and reporter, winner of the European Parliament Journalism Award. Since 2006 he has worked for “Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Duzy Format”.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Katarzyna Dębek – deputy head of Forbes Polska
Partner: Inspiring Girls Polska
Discussion panel
Moderation: Renata Grochal – journalist of “Newsweek”
Discussion based on the book Barriers for Liberalism. An anthology of texts by Piotr Beniuszys.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Jarosław Makowski – philosopher, columnist, head of the Civic Institute, PO’s think tank
Partner: Civic Institute
Discussion panel
Moderation: Paula Berman – specialist of plural social technologies
Despite all its financial speculation and accumulation, web3 still attracts many civic-minded people. This panel will discuss their journeys into web3 and what they have learned about its pitfalls and possibilities.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Maria Alesina – Policy and Research Specialist at the European Liberal Forum
Path: ELF’s Hub
Discussion panel
Moderation: Natalia Szcześniak – architect, urban planner and Youtuber
Partner: UN Global Compact
Discussion panel
Moderation: Jakub Kapiszewski – journalist of Onet.pl
Partner: UNICEF Poland
Round table
Moderation: Marek Konopczyński – rehabilitation educator, professor of social sciences, head of the Department of Special Education, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Białystok
Lecture
12:15 – 12:45 Citizens’ Assemblies and DemocracyNext
Claudia Chwalisz – author, activist and entrepreneur working on the transfer of political and legislative power to ordinary people
In recent years, Europe has increasingly embraced citizens’ assemblies. As a democratic and deliberative model, these bodies have proven adaptable, legitimate, and effective. Could they go further, exercising more vital political authority, and even unseating elections as the heart of power?
12:45 – 13:15 Technology for Democracy in Ukraine
Alona Shevchenko – co-founder and operational manager of Ukraine DAO
Hear from Alona Shevchenko, the co-founder of UkraineDAO, which has raised and distributed millions of dollars to aid Ukraine, and organizer of the Kyiv Tech Summit, which convenes local technologists to solve on-the-ground problems in the Ukrainian people’s fight for freedom. Both initiatives are supported by the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Paweł Rutkiewicz – journalist specializing in political and intervention topics
Discussion panel
Introduction: Christal Morehouse – Senior Project Manager at Bertelsmann Stiftung in the field of migration and integration
Moderation: Jacek Żakowski – publicist, commentator of “Polityka” and “Gazeta Wyborcza”
Discussion panel
Moderation: Wiktoria Bieliaszyn – journalist of “Gazeta Wyborcza” dealing with Eastern Europe
Partner: IKEA
Moderation: Edwin Bendyk – president of the Batory’s Foundation
Partner: Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego
Discussion panel
Moderation: Marek Tatała – economist, manager, vice-president of the Management Board of the Economic Freedom Foundation
Partner: Economic Freedom Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Matt Prewitt – president of the RadicalxChange Foundation, writer and advisor in the blockchain industry
We often accept money as a fact of life. In fact, it is an institution whose design empowers some actors and shapes society. Cryptocurrencies have reminded us of the possibility that money could work differently; yet it is not clear that the most well-known cryptocurrencies set money on a more democratic path. This panel explores unexpected possible futures for money.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderator: Francesco Cappelletti – member of the Cyber Security Center in Florence
Path: ELF Hub
Discussion panel
Moderation: Marcin Frenkel – Americanist and media expert
Discussion panel
Moderation: Beata Bilska – feminist and vegan, owner of Majne Szwajne Vegan Deli
Lecture
Moderation: Tomasz Kamiński – professor at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the University of Lodz, permanent associate of “Liberté!”
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
Discussion panel
Moderation: Shrey Jain – Web3 Researcher at Microsoft
Social thinkers like John Dewey have long imagined the proliferation of “new publics” that could serve the roles nation-states are no longer able to fulfill in a globalized world. New technologies have led to unprecedented public problems, but they also yield new opportunities. Imagine the cascading benefits of digital public spaces that algorithmically highlight points of consensus and encourage conversation across lines of difference. This panel will discuss the relationship between technology and new publics.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Maciej Kuziemski – director of Philanthropy for Impact
Partner: European Council on Foreign Relations
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magdalena Skłodowska – journalist of Ecoreporters.pl
Partner: Amazon
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magdalena M. Baran – philosopher, journalist, editor-in-chief of the monthly “Liberté!”
Discussion panel
Moderation: Olga Brzezińska – Program Director of Leadership Academy for Poland, president of the City of Literature Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Claudia Chwalisz – author, activist, founder and president of DemocracyNext
When people think of democracy narrowly as voting — on candidates, referenda, etc. — we end up with superficial citizenship, dubious decision-making. Citizens think democracy is broken. But democracy is so much more than voting. It embraces citizen deliberation and action: rich, exploratory spaces where we share our views, listen and learn from each other, and creatively bridge our differences to co-create visions, solutions, and activities that promote broad benefit. This panel will discuss new spaces, institutions, and technologies for engaged deliberative democracy.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Weronika Michalak – director of HEAL Polska
Partner: Strategies 2050, Heal Polska
Discussion panel
Moderation: Jarosław Sroka – expert in corporate communication and media market, member of the management board of Kulczyk Investments
Partner: Kulczyk Investments
Discussion panel
Moderation: Marta Szymczyk – teacher, Nieszablonowa Pedagożka
Discussion on the basis of the Liberté! Report: Social contract for education.
Partner: Protest z Wykrzyknikiem
Discussion panel
Moderator: Edwin Bendyk – journalist, columnist, president of the board of Batory’s Foundation
Partner: Batory’s Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Matt Prewitt – president of the RadicalxChange Foundation, writer and advisor in the blockchain industry
In a sense, the promise of network technology, and the hope of democracy, is to distribute authority. And perhaps no institution is in more obvious tension with this ambition than courts: a centralized and technocratic institution that plays a vital role in every democratic society.
In Europe, a system of plural constitutional orders underpins the most successful political project of the last half century; yet is now encountering serious difficulty. On digital networks, efforts to democratize the judicial function have been similarly halting, from Facebook’s oversight board to web3. What is the future of jurisprudence?
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Małgorzata Bonikowska – president of the Center for International Relations and the THINKTANK center, Europeanist
Partner: 4liberty.eu
Discussion panel
Moderation: Agata Kasprolewicz – journalist, publisher, reporter and podcast
Partner: Orange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magda Melnyk – writer, political scientist
Discussion panel
Moderation: Alek Tarkowski – digital activist, strategist, technology sociologist
A person’s data contains deep, predictive insights about other people with whom they associate, so whenever one person discloses or withholds it, countless others are affected in important ways. Indeed if anyone has absolute control over “their own” data, no one does. Democratically and mutually accountable consortia for data governance are the most promising direction for our institutions to evolve in to grapple with this fundamental issue. This panel will discuss the emerging legal, regulatory, and technological landscape that could enable these new institutions to thrive.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Maia Mazurkiewicz – expert in the fight against disinfromination and behavioral changes
Partner: Google
Discussion panel
Moderation: Piotr Kozanecki – Head of Onet News
Path: ELF Hub
Discussion panel
Moderation: Hanna Cichy – senior economic analyst at Polityka Insight
Discussion on the basis of the Liberté reports!
Author's meeting
Moderation: Roman Imielski – journalist, deputy editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza
Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich – a lawyer by education. From her passion and profession a journalist. In 1990 she went to Russia with her husband Jerzy Redlich, a TVP correspondent. She became so fascinated with this country that she spent over a dozen years there, cooperating – as a “freelancer” – with the Polish press and Polsat television. She has been constantly dealing with Russia, and since 1997 also with Chechen issues. Author of many press reportages, documentary films about Chechnya and books about Russia: Pandrioszka (Pandryoshka, three editions), Głową o mur Kremla (Head against Kremlin Wall, three editions) and the biography of Vladimir Putin Wowa, Wołodia, Władimir. Tajemnice Rosji Putina (Vova, Volodya, Vladimir. Secrets of Putin’s Russia).
Winner of many journalistic awards, including the Kazimierz Dziewanowski Award (for a foreign correspondent), the Melchior Wańkowicz Award, the Amnesty International Award, the “Autumn Book 2007” award, the Ks. Professor Józef Tischner Award. In 2005 at the request of the Chechen organization “Echo Wojny”, Amnesty International and the Helsinki Foundation she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Roman Imielski – deputy editor-in-chief and head of “Gazeta Wyborcza’s” political department. Former editorial secretary, head of the foreign department of “Gazeta Wyborcza”, editor-in-chief of the Wyborcza.pl website, author of many articles on Polish politics, Russia, Ukraine, the European Union and transatlantic relations. Commentator on international and Polish affairs in electronic media.
In “Gazeta Wyborcza” since 1995, initially in the local editorial office in Katowice, since 2001 in the headquarters in Warsaw as deputy head of the sports department.
A historian by training, graduate of the University of Silesia, co-author of the book Najważniejszy mecz Kremla (The Kremlin’s most important match) about the football World Cup in Russia.
Round table
Moderation: Wojtek Marczewski – student at University College London
Discussion panel
Moderation: Matt Prewitt [ONLINE] – president of the RadicalxChange Foundation, writer and advisor in the blockchain industry
In this wide-ranging conversation, Audrey and Cory discuss aspects of their work that are not well understood; their concerns with escapist ideologies and the promise of connecting across difference; the importance of increasing the bandwidth of democracy; what plurality means to them and how it can be a guide for steering the future of technology; how Taiwan sits at the triangular intersection of American capitalism, European values-based democracy, and Chinese centralized or AI-driven governance; the elements of pluralism inherent to the European project; the media ecosystem; the role of science fiction; and much more. Cory has just released a new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, and Audrey is currently writing her first book, Plurality, with Glen Weyl.
Path: RadicalxChange
meeting: Meeting
Moderation: Anna Pamuła – reporter, writer
Martyna Wojciechowska – journalist, traveler, author of books. An economist with an MBA diploma, a journalist by passion. Author of a series of podcasts and videos on YouTube DALEJ. Founder of the UNAWEZA Foundation, which helps women spread their wings by providing them with equal economic, social and legal opportunities.
For 10 years she was an editor-in-chief of the Polish edition of ‘National Geographic’ and ‘NG Traveler’ magazines. She has produced more than 100 episodes of her original travel series Woman at the End of the World, which is broadcast in more than 60 countries around the world. She was the second Polish woman to conquer the Crown of the Earth, and was the first woman from Central and Eastern Europe to complete the Dakar Rally. A member of The Explorers Club and the author of many best-selling books.
Anna Pamuła – reporter working with Gazeta Wyborcza and Chidusz, columnist for Wysokie Obcasy and the French magazine Parents, author of the reportage “Polacos. Chajka sails to Costa Rica” (Czarne, 2017) and the book nominated for many literary awards “Turmoil. France on the Edge” (Agora 2020), as well as “Mamans du Monde” published in France (the polish version will be published in 2022 under the title “Mothers of the World” (Agora). She also cooperates as a writer and editor with Martyna Wojciechowska, Sonia Kronlund and James Oeslend. She lives in France, speaks seven languages but loves Yiddish the most (which she is still learning). She also works full-time at home, together with her husband taking care of her 8-year-old son Józio.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Michał Sutowski – political scientist, columnist, member of the Krytyka Polityczna team
The Anthropocene, the age in which Human Being became a geological factor, is not an illusion or presumption – it is a fact confirmed by the science. Since human beings are shaping our Planet and the experts on the nature of people are representatives of the social sciences, it is impossible to ignore their reactions to the new era. Moreover, in many disciplines – from economics through sociology to political science – proposals for new academic teaching subjects, ideas for the creation of new political institutions, legal reflection on giving rights to the elements of nature, are growing exponentially. And as lakes, forests, rivers acquire the status of legal entities (physical person), our imagination should refer to the need to create new professions of public trust, authorized and legitimized to represent Nature and its elements in public forums, parliaments, etc.
Discussion on the basis of the book Anthropocene for Beginners. Climate, Environment, Pandemics in the Age of Man by David Juraszek.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Katarzyna Kubisiowska – journalist, member of the editorial board of Tygodnik Powszechny
Partner: Tygodnik Powszechny
Discussion panel
meeting: Meeting
Tomasz Sekielski – journalist, screenwriter, director of documentaries
Moderation: Joanna Łopat – reporter cooperating with “Duży Format” and OKO.PRESS.
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Tomasz Sekielski is a Polish radio and television journalist, author of documentaries, television reports, prose writer. Screenwriter and director of the documentaries Tylko nie mów nikomu (Just Don’t Tell Anyone) (2019) and Zabawa w chowanego (Hide-and-seek) (2020).
He was associated with the editorial offices of TVN, TVN24, TVP1, TVP Info, Wprost, Nowa TV, Wirtualna Polska and Onet. Together with Andrzej Morozowski, he was co-host of the program Teraz my! on TVN.
In 2018, he launched his own channel on YouTube. He has received a number of awards for his work, including the Andrzej Woyciechowski Award (2006, 2019), Grand Press (2006, 2019), Wiktor (2006, 2019), Telekamery (2007, 2008), MediaTory (2010, 2019) and the Polish Film Award Eagle for best documentary (2020).
He has been editor-in-chief of ‘Newsweek Polska’ since July 2022.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Katarzyna Bieńkiewicz – PR expert, copywriter
Discussion based on the book of the 100 most famous psychological experiments in the world and their significance for understanding politics by Marek Migalski and Maciej Bożek.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magdalena M. Baran – philosopher, journalist, editor-in-chief of the monthly “Liberté!”
Partner: Defensor Iuris
Author's meeting
Moderation: Agata Stremecka – President of the Board of the Civic Development Forum
Witold Jurasz – journalist at Onet.pl where he publishes articles and runs a podcast covering foreign and security policy, chairman of a private think-tank: Strategic Analysis Center. Graduate of the University of Warsaw (International Relations). Former employee of the Polish MoD’s NATO Security Investment Programme Bureau, 1st secretary at the Political Section of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Moscow, later chargé d’affaires of the Republic of Poland in Belarus. He has also worked as a Business Development Director in a private arms trading company and was the host of a TV talk-show at Polsat News 2, where he conducted over 700 interviews.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Paweł Rabiej – an expert in the field of innovation, change management and social policy
Discussion on the basis of the Liberté! Report: SAFE ORDER – a new social policy for growth.
Lecture
11:00 – 11:30 The Future of the European Union After Crises
Luuk van Middelaar – political theorist, historian, author of the book The European Pandemonium
11:30 – 12:00 Cities and Democracy
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For a long time, European politics has been a top-down affair. But in recent crises, it was the European public at large which asked for joint action — bottom-up. During the Covid-19 pandemic, calls for solidarity and help by Italian and Spanish citizens triggered far-reaching decisions, such as the joint purchase of vaccines and the massive EU recovery fund. The brutal war in Ukraine likewise strengthens a sentiment of continental belonging. Drawing on the work of John Dewey and Hannah Arendt, Luuk van Middelaar will speak about the new and unexpected interplay between the European public and its political leaders.
Stav Shaffir helped lead the Israeli social movement that brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis into the streets in 2011. At age 27, she became the youngest woman ever elected as a Member of Parliament in Israel. Now Shaffir is focused on global collaborations building the future of democracy. In her eyes, cities are at the heart of democracy and pluralism, and they are the most compelling level of society to foster democratic innovations. Hear why Shaffir sees the most likely paths to a flourishing future for democracy running through our cities.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Dominik Goss – CEO Inwedo
Accompanying event: Alt: work
Discussion panel
Moderation: Agata Stremecka – President of the Board of the Civic Development Forum
Partner: FOR
Discussion panel
Moderation: Olga Brzezińska – Program Director of Leadership Academy for Poland, president of the City of Literature Foundation
Discussion on the basis of the Liberté! Report: Culture will determine our future.
meeting: Meeting
Moderation: Maciej Nowicki – journalist of “Newsweek”
Born in southern Australia, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin), and currently teaching at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He is renowned globally for his creative thinking about politics, history, media and democracy, and is the author of many distinguished books including the best-selling Tom Paine: A Political Life (1995), The Life and Death of Democracy (2009), Democracy and Media Decadence (2013), When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter (2017) and The New Despotism (2020). He has contributed to The New York Times, Al Jazeera, the Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, The Guardian, Die Zeit, Hindustan Times and the South China Morning Post. He was recently ranked by El País (Madrid) as ‘one of the greatest theorists of political systems’. During the years he lived in Britain, The Times of London described him as among the country’s leading political thinkers and writers whose work has ‘world-wide importance’. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) speaks of him as ‘one of Australia’s great intellectual exports’. He was nominated for the 2021 Balzan Prize (Italy) and the Holberg Prize (Norway) for outstanding global contributions to the human sciences. His latest book is The Shortest History of Democracy(2022).
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
Discussion panel
Moderation: Małgorzata Bonikowska – president of the Center for International Relations and the THINKTANK center, Europeanist
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Partner: Atlas Network
Discussion panel
Moderation: Rafał Jaśkowski – historian, political scientist
Partner: European Climate Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Maciej Gałecki – founder and CEO of Bluerank
Accompanying event: Alt: work
Discussion panel
Moderation: Aleksandra Majda – member of the board of the Obywatele Natury foundation
Round table
Moderation: Halina Brdulak – chairwoman of the rector’s committee for social responsibility at the Warsaw School of Economics. Chairwoman of the Climate Council at UNGC Network Poland.
Partner: Responsible Business Forum
Discussion panel
Introduction: Karen Melchior [ONLINE] – Danish MEP
Moderation: Laurenz van Ginneken – Project Officer at the European Liberal Forum
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Partner: Campaign Against Homophobia
Path: ELF Hub
Author's meeting
Moderation: Barbara Piegdoń – Polish journalist, culture expert, publisher of “Książek. Magazine for reading”
Magda Melnyk is a political commentator, analyst and reporter. The editor of liberte.pl. Specializes in the area of Hispanic countries, political transformations, social movements and women’s rights. She published her works in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Plus Minus”, “Wysokie Obcasy”, “Polityka” and “Newsweek” portals. Published by the LIBERTÉ! publishing house, her book on nationalism in Spain titled Dlaczego Hiszpania trzeszczy? (Why Spain is Crackling?) was published in 2019. Since 2021, she has been interviewing writers as part of the Books with a Punch podcast. In June 2022, her second book “Meksyk, moja miłość. Historia Eleny Poniatowskiej” (“Mexico, My Love. The Story of Elena Poniatowska”).
Moderation: Sebastian Ogórek – journalist of Wyborcza.biz
Partner: Google
Discussion panel
Moderation: Artur Urbański – expert in digital transformation and customer experience and vice president of consulting at Hycom
Accompanying event: Alt: work
Discussion panel
Moderation: Agata Kobylińska – plenipotentiary of the Mayor of Łódź for Children and Youth
Partners: Gazeta Kongresy, EduKABE Creative Solutions Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Zuzanna Nowicka – lawyer of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
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Discussion panel
Moderation: Agnieszka Urazińska – journalist of „Gazeta Wyborcza”
Discussion panel
Moderation: Karol Tokarczyk – digital economy analyst in the Polityka Insight team
Partner: Meta
Discussion panel
Moderation: Renata Kim – journalist of “Newsweek”
Discussion panel
Moderation: Iga Kazimierczyk – pedagogue, teacher, co-creator of the Free School campaign
Partner: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
The session carried out under the Erasmus + program
Round table
Moderation: Marcin Adamcewicz – Marshal of the Polish Young Parliament
Partner: Polish Young Parliament
Partner of the idea: Gazeta Kongresy
Discussion panel
Moderation: Anna J. Dudek – journalist of Wysokie Obcasy
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Partner: Wysokie Obcasy
Discussion panel
Moderation: Jarosław Makowski – philosopher, theologian, columnist, head of the Civic Institute
Discussion panel
Moderation: Anna Wójcik – journalist OKO.press
Path: ELF Hub
Author's meeting
Moderation: Izabela Adamczewska-Baranowska – cultural journalist of the Lodz “Gazeta Wyborcza”, assistant professor at the University of Lodz
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magdalena M. Baran – philosopher, journalist, editor-in-chief of the monthly “Liberté!”
Discussion panel
Moderation: Mirek Michalska – chairman of the Łódź region of the Committee for the Defense of Democracy
Discussion panel
Moderation: Weronika Michalak – director of HEAL Polska
Partner: Greenpeace
Discussion panel
Moderation: Barbora Krempaská – Project Manager in Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Path: ELF Hub
Discussion panel
Moderation: Zuzanna Radzik – journalist, theologian, social activist, vice-president of Forum for Dialogue
Partner: Forum of Dialogue
Discussion panel
Moderation: Marta Zdanowska – editor, theater reviewer, literary scholar
Partner: Lodz Women’s Trail
Author's meeting
Moderation: Beata Nowicka – journalist, author
Barbara Kurdej-Szatan – theatre, television and film actress, presenter and singer. Television viewers’ favourite, several times awarded with Telekamera for the best actress and Golden Telekamera. She is associated with the 6th Floor Theatre and the Variete Theatre in Krakow. She became known to a wide audience as Basia Mazurek in Dzień dobry, kocham cię!(she also created a song for the film in a duet with Libera), Joanna Chodakowska in M jak miłość or the hostess of the programmes Kocham cię, Polsko!, The Voice of Poland, Dance Dance and Project Cupid. A dubbing actress – her voice is used, among others, by characters from the films The Witch 2, Space Jam: A New Era or My Little Pony: The Movie.
The heroine of the book How did it happen? by Magdalena Bober.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Mateusz Luft – member of the Free Belarus Initiative, editor of the magazine “Kontakt”
Partner: magazine Kontakt
Discussion panel
Discussion panel
Moderation: Anna J. Dudek – journalist, editor of “Wysokie Obcasy”
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