Dialogues of Agents of Change

Venue: EC1 – conference rooms, 1/3 Targowa St., Lodz

Session I 8.30 – 10.00: On the Subjective Policy – panel discussion Partner: The Jagiellonian Club

• Jan Maciejewski – Editor-in-Chief of Pressje,
• Krzysztof Mazur – President of the Council of the Jagiellonian Club,
• Piotr Trudnowski – Jagielloński Club,

Plato Room, working language: Polish, no interpretation

8.30 – 10.00 What Innovations Do We Need the Most? – workshop Partner: Ashoka

• Agata Stafiej-Bartosik – Director for Ashoka Poland

Aristotle Room, working language: Polish, no interpretation

8.30 – 10.00: Idea of European Federalism – panel discussion

Host: European Liberal Forum, co-funded by the European Parliament; Partner: Republikon Institute

• Reka Csaba – Republikon Institute,
• Jan Machacek – Chairman of the Board  of the Institute for Politics and Society, Commentator and Analyst in Lidové noviny
• Giulio Ercolessi – Italian essayist, Member of the boards of Directors of ELF and European Humanist Federation, Co-Founder of LibMov,

Moderator: Krzysztof Iszkowski – Liberté!, United Left Socrates Room, working language: English, no interpretation

8.30 – 11.00: Liberté! Roundtable “Future of the Democracy in Ukraine”

• Vitaly Portnikov – Ukrainian editor and journalist, Editor-in-Chief of TVi,
• Marcin Święcicki – Member of the Polish parliament, former President of Warsaw
• Kazimierz Wóycicki – Polish publicist, journalist, democratic opposition activist (tbc),

Icarus Room, working language: English, no interpretation

Session II 10.00 – 11.30: Future and the Democratisation of Russia– panel discussion Partner: Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz

• Yuri Dzhibladze – President of the Centre for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights based in Moscow,
• Bartłomiej Nowak – international relations expert, Vistula University,
• Katarzyna Pisarska – Polish political scientist, Founder and Director of the European Academy of Diplomacy,
• Peter Pomerancev – British film director, producer, journalist: Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy,

Moderator Tomasz Kamiński – Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz, Liberté! Socrates Room, working language: English, no interpretation

10.00 – 11.30: Democracy-Digitization-Economy – panel discussion Partner: thinktankcyfrowy.pl

• Jakub Turowski, Head of Public Policy for Poland, Facebook
• Patrycja Gołos, Public Policy and corporate affairs director, UPC
• Piotr Marczuk, Government Affairs Director, Microsoft Poland
• Kasia Szymielewicz, Fundacja Panoptykon
• Krzysztof Blusz – President and co-founder of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy

Aristotle Room, working language: English, no interpretation

10.00 – 11.30: Private versus Public – How the Idea of Social Business Can Influence the Public Sphere? – panel discussion Partner: Think Tank

• Małgorzata Bonikowska – Co-Editor of “THINKTANK Magazine”,
• Mirosław Grewiński – Vice-President of the Higher School of Pedagogy of the Society of Public Knowledge in Warsaw, expert at THINKTANK magazine,
• Anna Zasada-Chorab – Deputy Mayor of Siemianowice Śląskie,

Plato Room, working language: Polish, no interpretation

Session III 11.30 – 14.00: Liberté! Roundtable “How to Save Democracy?”

• Krzysztof Iszkowski – Liberté!, United Left,
• Ivan Krastev – Bulgarian political scientist, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Co-founder of European Council on Foreign Relations,
• Radosław Markowski – Polish political scientist, Chair of the Center for the Study of Democracy at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Head of the Comparative Politics Department at Polish Academy of Sciences,

Icarus Room, working language: English, no interpretation

12.00 – 13.30: Totalitarian Systems and Their Legacy in Eastern European Countries – panel discussion Partner: Republikon Institute

• Reka Csaba – Republikon Institute,
• Łukasz Jurczyszyn – Polish sociologist, political scientist, assistant professor at the Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities, Co-founder of the ZARS Foundation, cooperates with Liberté!,
• Dániel Mikecz – Research fellow at Republikon Foundation, Eötvös Loránd University

Socrates Room, working language: English, no interpretation

12.00 – 13.30: Three Faces of Asian Democracies – India, Japan and Taiwan – panel discussion Partner: Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz

• Agnieszka Kuszewska – Warsaw School of Social Psychology (SWPS), Centre for Poland-Asia Studies (CSPA), 
• Karol Żakowski – University of Lodz,
• Tomasz Jurczyk – University of Lodz,

Moderator: Tomasz Kamiński – Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz, Liberté! Aristotle Room, working language: Polish, no interpretation

12.00 – 13.30: The Third Republic of Poland – Evil Stepmother or Caring Mother? How “the Youth” of Poland Identify with their Homeland? – panel discussion

• Magdalena Błędowska – Krytyka Polityczna magazine,
• Paweł Ciacek – President of the board of Projekt: Polska Foundation,
• Jan Śpiewak – Miasto jest Nasze Association,
• Dawid Wildstein – Polish philosopher, journalist at Gazeta Polska Codziennie, Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Fronda,

Moderator: Mikołaj Mirowski – Museum of the Independence Traditions in Lodz

Plato Room, working language: Polish, no interpretation 15:30 Lunch (Lake of Memory)

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