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Adam Michnik

Adam Michnik

Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza. Historian, "Solidarity" activist during the '80ties member of the Round Table Talks 1989. Doctorate honoris causa (The New School for Social Research in New York, the University of Minnesota, University of Michigan and Connecticut College). International awards e.g.: the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award 1986, OSCE Price on Journalism and Democracy awarded by the OSCE Assembly, 1996 and Carl Bertelsmann Prize, as a tribute for his outstanding merits during the transformation process which leads Poland into democracy and free market economy. Author of numerous books e.g. Chances of Polish Democracy, London 1984 or La Deuxième Révolution, Paris 1990. His articles were published in Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Libération, El Pais, The Washington Post and many other journals and magazins.

  

Milan Nič

Milan Nič

Politologist, historian. Former program manager at the Institute for Civic Diplomacy (ICD) of Pontis Foundation, an independent NGO based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Reporter of Radio Free Europe and SME (Slovakian daily). Organiser of humanitarian aid for Cuba and for Belarus. Since October 2007 work in the time of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.  

Jerzy Marek Nowakowski

Jerzy Marek Nowakowski

Historian, publicist and politician. Untill February 2007 subeditor of Wprost weekly. Polish commentator in national as well as commercial Polish TV stations. Former Undersecretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. Director of the East Center of Polish Open University and deputy of the board of foundation „ Aid for Poles in the East”. Author of many publications about Polish eastern politics.

Tamás Pál

Tamás Pál

 Professor of Sociology, Director of the Institute of Sociology of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Former president of Hungarian Sociological Association, Vice-President of the National UNESCO Commission. Visiting professorships in US, Canadian, UK, German, Austrian, Russian, Ukrainian and other universities. Main interests: political sociology, science policy, sociology of intellectuals, comparative studies on East- and Central Europe.

Lajos Pálfalvi

Hungarian historian and literary critic, teacher and translator. Translated prose of Czesław Miłosz, Witold Gombrowicz, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Antoni Libera, Krzysztof Varga and many works of contemporary Polish literature. Awarded by the Polish Cultural Foundation for the promotion of Polish books in the world (2013).

Patricia Pászt

Patricia Pászt

Born in Budapest. Studied Polish and Hungarian Philology, Philosophy and Tourism. Translator, journalist, founder and Director of the Polish-Hungarian Foundation Cracovia Expres. In 1995-1996 worked at the Polish Institute in Hungary as a translator and project coordinator. Currently, she is terminating her PhD thesis on Polish literature at the University of Debrecen, Hungary.  

Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz

Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz

Professor of Philology and Management & Administration. Main interests: theory of literature, science of theatrical matters, cultural management. 1994-2000 Director of Cricoteka Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow. Visiting Professor at Cleveland State University (1992) and at the University of Rochester (2000). Author of numerous books, e.g. The Dead Memory Machine(1994). Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre of Death (2000).  

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.

Lászlό Rajk

Architect and designer, a former Hungarian dissident. A Doctor of Liberal Arts from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture. In 1998, he was one of the founders of the Network of Free Initiatives and the Liberal Party, the Alliance of Free Democrats. Between 1990–1996 he has a Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Culture and Member of the Parliament. Since 1992 he has worked as a Professor of Film Architecture at the Hungarian Film Academy in Budapest. From 1995–98 he was an advisor to the Hungarian National UNESCO Committee (World Heritage). In 2003, he became Legal Cultural Advisor to the European Union. A winner of numerous awards, including the Imre Prize (for the design of the reburying of the Martyrs of 1956), and in 2005, Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit and the Solidarity Award (Poland). Since 2014 giving lectures and master classes at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, at the Library of Congress in Washington and the Film Factory Sarajevo University. Art director of “Son of Saul” which wonOscar andGrand Prix at Cannes Festival in 2015.

Anatol Roitman

Anatol Roitman

Studied at the University in Novosibirsk. Holds PhD degree in physics. Poet and Russian translator of the Polish poetry. Author of numerous publications in Nowaja Polsza. A special five-language version of Czesław Miłosz’s poem Orpheus and Eurydice (Cracow, 2002) contains his Russian translation. Lives in Akademgorodok.  

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