Assistant Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow. Expert in the documentary film of Central Europe and Czech and Slovak cinema. Graduated from Jagiellonian University with degrees in history of art, filmology and journalism. Her PhD thesis (1995) analysed the Polish documentary in the 1980’s in its political, historical, literary and sociological context. Has published in a.o. Kino, Kwartalnik Filmowy, Studia Filmoznawcze, Universitas, Tygodnik Powszechny, Kultura Popularna, Kinowedczeskije zapiski. Has published (under the name Jadwiga Głowa) books: “Zooming in on History’s Turning Points. Documentaries in the 1990s in central and Eastern Europe. Papers from an international seminar held on May 29, 1999. Jagiellonian University Cracow”, „Dokument filmowy epoki Havla” (“Film Documentary in Times of Havel”), which examines Czech documentaries made after 1989 during the time of intensive political and economical changes. Member of the Programme Council and the Selection Committee of Krakow Film Festival (former International Short Film Festival). Member of the juries at the international film festivals in Denmark, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Iran, Israel, Italy. Has organized the international film festival “Human dignity, Tolerance and the Holocaust as seen through the medium of the documentary film” (Swedish International Culture Forum, Stockholm 1999). Head of Program and the coordinator of the festivals about human dignity and tolerance in Stockholm (2001, 2003). Has take a part in the international project Visegrad Documentary Film Library - Prague 2002/2003. An expert at the Polish Film Institute.
Experts
Jadwiga Hučková
Zuzana Husárová
A postdoc scholar and author in the field of electronic literature, teaching at Comenius University (SR) and Masaryk University (CZ), an ex-Fulbright scholar at MIT, USA (2011). She co-edited with Bogumiła Suwara a publication „V sieti strednej Európy”. She is the author of experimental literature across various media and with Ľubomír Panák has created interactive literary pieces (“Enter: in' Wodies”, “:I: *ttter”, “BA-Tale”, “Pulse”). She is the author with Amalia Roxana Filip of a transmedia project “liminal” (visual poetry book and multimedia at www.liminal.name). She collaborates with four artists on a multimedia performance “Phenomena Research”.
Aleksander Kaczorowski
Editor-in-chief of Aspen Review Central Europe, a quarterly journal published by Aspen Institute Prague. Previously, he was deputy editor-in-chief of Newsweek Polska and FORUM and chief editor of the Op-ed section of Gazeta Wyborcza. He was also responsible for the Polish edition of Gazeta Środkowoeuropejska, a monthly supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza, published in conjunction with daily newspapers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. He is an author of “Praski elementarz” (“A Prague Primer” in 2001, new edition 2012), a biography of Bohumil Hrabal “Gra w życie” (“The Game of Life”, 2004), “Europa z płaskostopiem” (“Flatfooted Europe”, 2006), “Praskie łowy” (“A Hunt in Prague”, 2007) and “Ballada o kapciach” (“A Ballad of Slippers”, 2012). He also translated works by Bohumil Hrabal, Josef Škvorecký, Egon Bondy and Helga Weiss.
Michal Kořan
Deputy Director in Institute of International Relations, Prague, former Head of Research. Received his PhD in 2008 at the Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic). In 2012 a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He mainly focuses on foreign policy analysis of the Central European countries, Central European sub-regional cooperation and Central Europe in European and World Affairs. He is the lead-author of an annual book analyzing Czech foreign policy and a main coordinator of the Strategic Grant of the International Visegrad Fund “The Visegrad Group in the Post-Lisbon EU: Getting Closer to Move Further”. Program chair of annual “International Symposium on Czech Foreign Policy”. His texts has been published, among others, in journals European Security, Osteuropa, Perspectives, Journal of International Relations and Development and by publishing houses Palgrave and Routledge.
Peter Kormúth
Deputy Head of the Mission of the Slovak Republic to Poland. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute of International Relations of the Comenius University (Law Faculty) in Bratislava. Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic in 1993, held different posts in Ministry (Director of the Department of OSCE, Council of Europe and Disarmament, Deputy Director of the Department of Human Rights) and abroad (Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Slovakia to Belgium and Luxembourg, Deputy to the Permanent Representative, Mission to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg.)
Zbigniew Krużyński
Graduated from the University of Economic Sciences in Budapest, he studied for a doctorate at the Institute of World Economy in Budapest and obtained his Ph.D. in the field of international integration processes from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1979 has held various posts at Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including diplomatic posts in Berlin and Budapest. Has been the Polish National Coordinator for Visegrad Cooperation since 2010. He specializes in regional and transfrontier cooperation.
Jakub Kulhánek
A chief adviser to the Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of the Czech Republic. A Research Fellow at Association for International Affairs Research Center. Previously, he has worked for the Center for European Policy Analysis and Eurasian Strategy Project. He holds an MA in Eurasian Studies from the E. A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and a BA in International Studies from Charles University in Prague. His regional focus is on the post-Soviet space and Russia. His primary area of interest is Russia’s policy towards NATO and the EU. He has published extensively on post-Soviet affairs, among others, in the Harvard International Review, Problems of Post-Communism, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) journal, The Moscow Times and on the Atlantic Council and Foreign Policy Magazine websites.
Anna Lengyel
After eight years at the Kaposvár Theatre and four with the legendary independent company, Krétakör, and working with Tamás Ascher, Árpád Schilling, Pina Bausch, Declan Donnellan and Robert Wilson, from Sydney through Berlin to New York, she founded her independent company, PanoDrama to focus on socio-political documentary work. Recent projects include the first production of Nobel-laurate Elfriede Jelinek in Hungary, “Stecken, Stab und Stangl” and the first verbatim project in her homeland, “Word for Word” on the recent racist Roma murders, which she also directed and which began touring internationally in 2012. Two verbatim projects followed since, one education and one on hate crimes with a live jury. A translator (Martin McDonagh’s “Pillowman”, Sarah Ruhl’s “The Clean House”, Tom Stoppard’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll”, among others), a Fulbright alumna and a lecturer at the Budapest University of Theatre and Film and the Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius. She continues to work with Tamás Ascher and Robert Wilson internationally.
Olga Maksymenko
She is public relations professional and career and life coach, author of LIFE STYLIST project. Holds MA in Sociology from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, MA in Political Science from Central European University (Hungary) and Advanced Certificate in PR from Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR, UK). She has extensive experience in public relations, worked for business, NGO sectors and diplomatic representations, including EU Delegation to Ukraine and British Embassy to Ukraine. As a certified life and career coach, she helps recent graduates and young professionals who are already part of the working world to identify the career they desire and deserve and to navigate the transition towards it.
Piotr Marecki
Expert in cultural studies, publisher (Ha!art publishing house), editor, and lecturer at the Chair of Contemporary Culture of the Faculty of Culture at the Jagiellonian University, the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School (PWSFTviT) in Łódź and the Kraków School of Screenplay. His interests include Polish literature after 1989, independent culture, new media literature, film adaptations, and screenwriting. He recently edited the book “Hiperteksty literackie. Literatura nowych mediów” (“Literary Hypertexts. New Media Literature”, Kraków 2011), and published the monograph “Czycz i filmowcy, czyli przyliteracki status kina polskiego” (“Czycz and Filmmakers: the Relationship between Polish Cinema and Literature”, Kraków 2012).
