is a writer and journalist based in Bratislava. Before 1989 he could publish only in samizdat; later he co-founded the Archa Publishing House, and edited the...
is a Croatian writer and journalist. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University of Zagreb. From 1982 to 1992 she was a staff...
is a Polish writer and journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. He lives in Warsaw and has been visiting professor at...
is a Czech politician, honorary chairman of the political party TOP 09 and a member of the Czech Parliament. A descendant of the ancient aristocratic house...
is a writer and journalist. Born in Slovakia, she emigrated with her family to Switzerland in 1968 and now lives in Basle. She has worked as psychologist,...
is a German journalist with Franco-German roots based in Berlin. After studying music theory, he worked as staff writer for the German daily taz and later as...
is a Polish sociologist and philosopher, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds and at the University of Warsaw. Professor Bauman is one...
is an Hungarian architect and designer. He is the son of László Rajk, the former communist foreign minister and most prominent victim of the Rákosi show...
is a French philosopher based in Paris. He is the author of several bestselling novels, including Lunes de fiel (Evil Angels, made by Roman Polanski into a...
is a Czech literary historian. A graduate in Russian language and literature from Prague’s Charles University, he is now a professor at his alma mater....
is a sociologist, writer and translator based in Bratislava. He began his career in the 1960s as a journalist and after becoming a persona non grata...
is a Czech journalist, poet and novelist based in Prague. He was one of the founders of the samizdat literary journal Revolver revue, worked on the weekly...
is an Austrian writer based in Vienna. His most recent books include Liebesgeschichte (Love Story) Franzobels grosser Fussballtest (Franzobel’s Great...
is a French writer. He lives in Paris and teaches French at a Paris suburb. He is the recipient of the 2010 Prix Goncourt for his first novel HHhH...
is a Romanian writer, novelist and essayist. He lives in Bucharest and teaches Romanian literature at Bucharest University. His first novel, Nostalgia, has...
is an Austrian journalist. A member of the Coudenhove-Kalergi family, she is the daughter of Gerolf von Coudenhove-Kalergi and thus the niece of Count...
is a Bulgarian cultural anthropologist and writer based in Sofia. He teaches anthropology at the St. Climent of Ohrid University in Sofia and contributes to...
is a Hungarian writer and literary translator. He was born in Marosvásárhely (Târgu-Mures) in Transylvania and has lived in Budapest since 1988. His...
is a Belarussian writer and essayist. He is the Chairman of the Belarussian P.E.N., Editor-in-Chief of the independenty weekly Nasha Niva and Deputy Editor...
at the age of 16 he moved to Leningrad from his native Kharkov. After being expelled from the Military Artillery Academy he went on to study philology and...
is a Hungarian art critic, literary scholar and commentator based in Budapest. He teaches at the Institute for Comparative Studies at the Loránd Eötvös...
is a Russian poet, translator from Polish and civil rights activist. ON 25 August 1968, together with Konstantin Babitski, Tatiana Bayeva, Larisa Bogoraz,...
is a Czech politician and civil activist. From 2009 to 2010, as an independent MP nominated by the Green Party, he served in the Czech Government as...
is a manager and blogger. After graduating in social studies from Nitra University she worked as insurance counsellor, labourer, primary school teaching...
is a German sociologist, political scientist and philosopher based in Berlin. In the late 1960s he worked with Jürgen Habermas at the Institute for Social...
is an American literature scholar. She teaches at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and is a permanent Fellow of the New York...
is a sociologist and currently Slovakia’s Prime Minister. A teacher at the Comenius University in Bratislava, she was named full professor following...
How will Central Europe deal with its experience as a passive victim of history? And what role will it play in a multipolar world? Martin Bútora, Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, Adam Michnik, László Rajk, Laurent Binet and Andrei Dynko.
On 25 August 1968 eight Soviet citizens protested against the invasion of Czechoslovakia in Moscow’s Red Square. Their protest was dispersed within five minutes and the protesters spent years incarcerated in prisons, labour camps and psychiatric institutions. Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Viktor Faynberg, Irena Brežná and Michael Kocáb.
Is the era of classical politics coming to an end? What are the chances of ordinary citizens being able to influence public life and what can we do to safeguard our freedom? Martin M. Šimečka, Marcia Pally, Claus Offe, Zygmunt Bauman, László F. Földényi, Ivajlo Ditchev and Martin C. Putna.
