Open Lectures

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

10.00 – 12.00 Church – Between Tradition and Change – panel discussion

Partner: Polish Chamber of Commerce

• Jarosław Makowski – Polish philosopher, theologian and commentator, former director of The Civic Institute, Co-author of the Cultural Reform 2020 – 2030 – 2040 report,
• 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

Moderator: Katarzyna Lubnauer – academic lecturer, politician (.Nowoczesna), cooperates with Liberté!

Engine Hall, working language: Polish, no interpretation

12:00 – 14.00 Holistic Education – panel discussion

Partner: Polish Chamber of Commerce

• Robert Kwaśnica – Polish educator, lecturer, Co-founder and Rector of the Postsecondary School of Lower Silesia, Co-author of the Cultural Reform 2020 – 2030 – 2040 report,
• Katarzyna Bieńkiewicz – COMPETITA s.c.
• Katarzyna Lubnauer – .Nowoczesna, cooperates with Liberté!
• Elżbieta Królikowska-Kińska – Polish politician and municipal activist, Civic Platform,

Moderator: Maciej Kowalczyk, PhenoHorizon, cooperates with Liberté!

Engine Hall, working language: Polish, no interpretation

14:00 – 15:30 Cultural Reform 2020 – 2030 – 2040 – panel discussion

Partner: Polish Chamber of Commerce

• Krzysztof Dudek – Polish lawyer, Director of the Polish National Centre for Culture,
• Edwin Bendyk – Polish publicist, writer, journalist at Polityka weekly,

Moderator: Jacek Żakowski – Polityka weekly

Conference Room, working language: Polish, no interpretation

14:00 – 15:30 Soft-power and digital in today’s diplomacy – presentation and panel discussion

Partner: Facebook

• Jonathan McClory, Partner, Portland
• Elizabeth Linder, Head of government and politics outreach EMEA, Facebook
• Sylvie Kauffmann, editorial director, Le Monde
• Krzysztof Blusz – President and co-founder of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy

Moderator: Jakub Turowski, Head of Public Policy for Poland, Facebook Engine Hall, interpretation provided

16:15 – 17.15 Will Changes in Ukraine Last? – meet the journalist session

• Vitaly Portnikov– Ukrainian editor and journalist, Editor-in-Chief of TVi

Moderator: Łukasz Jasina – Polish historian and publicist, former member of the Institute of East-Central Europe, Kultura Liberalna magazine

Engine Hall, interpretation provided

16.15 – 17.15 Combatting Euroskepticism and Radicalisms – presentation and debate

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

• Reka Csaba – Republikon Institute,
• Dániel Mikecz – Research fellow at Republikon Foundation, Eötvös Loránd University,

Moderator: Olga Łabendowicz – 4liberty.eu, Liberté!

Conference Room, working language: English, no interpretation

17.15 – 19.15 The Emergance of the Urban Identity – panel discussion

• Maciej Kowalczyk – PhenoHorizon,
• Jarosław Makowski – Polish philosopher, theologian and commentator, former director of The Civic Institute, Co-author of the Cultural Reform 2020 – 2030 – 2040 report,
• Maciej Prus – Polish journalist, writer, poet, Co-founder of the Piękny Pies club in Cracow,
• Jarosław Suchan – Polish art historian, critic and curator, director of the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz,

Moderator: Tomasz Janowski

Conference Room, working language: Polish, no interpretation

17.15 – 19:15 Consequences of the Financial Crisis and Democracy in the EU – presentations and panel discussion

Host: European Liberal Forum, co-funded by the European Parliament

• Ivan Krastew – Bulgarian political scientist, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Co-founder of European Council on Foreign Relations,
• Phillipe Legrain – British political economist, former adviser to European Commission president José Manuel Barroso,
• Jan Werner Mueller – German political scientist, Professor of Politics at Princeton University,

Moderator: Leszek Jażdżewski – Editor-in-Chief of Liberté!

Engine Hall, interpretation provided

19.15 – 20.30 Perspectives of the Civil Rights and Liberties in the Third Republic of Poland – meet the civic rights activist session

• Adam Bodnar – Polish Human Rights Defender

Moderator: Marcin Celiński – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Liberté!

Engine Hall, interpretation provided

19:15 – 20:30 The Image of Polish Cities in Literature – panel discussion

• Gaja Grzegorzecka – Polish writer based in Cracow,
• Jakub Żulczyk – Polish prose writer, screenwriter and journalist

Moderator: Rafał Gawin – Arterie, Dom Literatury in Lodz

Conference Room, working language: Polish, no interpretation

20.30: Refreshments (Lake of Memory)

Registration mandatory