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Eszter Pócs

Born in Kecskemét; she has been working in the Kecskemét Animation Film Studio founded by her mother – an animated film Director – for ten years. She has always been interested in animated films and film making and claims that “animation is visual poetry, where creators can express their thoughts and feelings about the world in a free and individual way”. At present, she deals mainly with film making. She has taken part in the making of many foreign and domestic films but Hungarian Folk Tales is her favourite work. She is currently working on some further episodes of this series.  

Szabolcs Pogonyi

Szabolcs Pogonyi

Assistant Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University. He received his PhD in 2008 in Philosophy from ELTE, University of Budapest, where he specialized in political theory. His current research in political theory focuses on normative and institutional questions of nationalism studies, citizenship theory, debates about multiculturalism, standards of minority rights protection and distributive justice. He is member of the EUDO Citizenship research consortium. He is the author of several articles in political theory and editor of books in the history of political thought. His papers in citizenship studies were published in Nationalities Papers, Ethnopolitics, the ECMI Yearbook and the EUDO Citizenship paper series. Szabolcs Pogonyi is also the editor of Phronesis, a Hungarian political philosophy quarterly and BudaPost, a daily review of Hungarian news.

Pavol Popjak

Pavol Popjak

First Secretary at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Warsaw dealing with EU affairs. Previous diplomatic post in Paris and Brussels. Former Country Representative for the Slovak part of Carpathian Euroregion seated in Bardejov. Graduated from the Comenius University in social and economic geography, post-graduate studies on public administration at Academia Istropolitana in Bratislava.

Czesław Porębski

Czesław Porębski

 

Philosopher and ethicist; professor at the Cracow University of Economics, Jagiellonian University, Tischner European University in Krakow and International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein. He has spent some time at the Grand Valley State University and at the University of Vienna. He has lectured in Geneva, Freiburg, Tilburg, Vienna, Graz, Uppsala and Stockholm.

Grzegorz Pożarlik

Grzegorz Pożarlik

MA in Sociology at the Jagiellonian University. PhD in Humanities at the Jagiellonian University. Assistant professor at the Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University. Coordinator of the MA in European Studies programme. Authors of numerous articles about European citizenship, enlargement, the entrance of Poland into the UE. Participated in international conferences relating European issues. Teaches in the Centre for European Studies at Jagiellonian University, in Department of Politics at the University of Bristol, in the Institute of European Integration at the National University of Lviv and in the Centre for European Studies at the University of Vienna.

Aleksandra Przegalińska

ALK professor and habilitated doctor in the field of management sciences. PhD in the philosophy of artificial intelligence at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. Currently, she is the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and ESR at the Kozminski University. From 2016, she conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. A graduate of The New School for Social Research in New York, where she participated in research on identity in virtual reality, with particular emphasis on Second Life. Currently, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. In 2022, she began working with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard.
She is interested in the development of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, social robots and wearable technologies.

Aleksandra Przegalińska

Aleksandra Przegalińska

PhD in philosophy of artificial intelligence, assistant Professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw, recently visiting scholar at The New School for Social Research/ Brown University in New York City (2014). In 2011, she worked as the Chairman of Audiovisual Working Party at the Council of European Union in Brussels and as an international representative of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. As a William J. Fulbright Scholar, she also majored in Sociology at The New School for Social Research in New York (2012), where she participated in research on identity in virtual reality, with particular emphasis on Second Life. Her primary research interest includes consequences of introducing artificial intelligence systems to people’s social and professional sphere.

Wojciech Przybylski

Wojciech Przybylski is the editor-in-chief of Visegrad Insight - a magazine on Central Europe and chairman of Res Publica Foundation in Warsaw. Previously editor-in-chief of Eurozine - magazine representing a network of European cultural journals with the office in Vienna. Founder of New Europe 100 project bringing forward a community of successful innovators from CEE across the fields of business, research media, NGO and publicADMINISTRATION- run jointly by Res Publica, Financial Times and Google. Wojciech is a political commentator, lecturer and social entrepreneur. His expertise includes European and transatlantic affairs as well as policies related to innovation and culture. Upcoming book: Understading Central Europe ed. Marcin Moskalewicz and Wojciech Przybylski, Routledge 2017. Twitter: @wprzybylski

Katarzyna Przybysławska

Katarzyna  Przybysławska

PhD in law (Jagiellonian University), with a specialty in human rights and refugee law. Co-founder and president of the Halina Nieć Legal Aid Center, a non-governmental organization devoted to the protection of human rights through free legal aid and UNHCR’s implementing partner. Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Fellow, member of the Commission of Experts on Migrants to the Ombudsman’s Office.

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