is a French historian and political scientist, specialising in Eastern and Central Europe. He is based in Paris. After studying at the Sorbonne and Harvard...
is an American historian, associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly...
is a German writer based in Berlin. He studied classics and German in Jena. In 1998-1990 worked as theatre dramaturg in Altenburg, and went on to co-found...
is a Bulgarian political scientist, based in Sofia where he chairs the Centre for Liberal Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian edition of...
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 an American historian. He is a Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, a Committee on Conscience member at the US Holocaust Memorial...
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 philosopher, political scientist and university teacher, one of the first to sign Charter 77. After graduating from Prague’s Charles University, he...
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 Russian writer based in Moscow. He was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers as an organizer of the samizdat literary magazine Metropol and banned...
is an Austrian writer and philosopher based in Vienna. He studied German, philosophy and political science in Vienna and Salzburg. An acclaimed author...
is a distinguished Hungarian novelist and essayist based in Budapest. He was a dissident under the communist regime and one of the earliest to be published...
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 Slovene cultural critic, poet, editor, translator and essayist, based in Ljubljana. He is a professor at the Cultural Studies Department of the...
is a Czech playwright and writer living in Prague. During the so-called normalization he was one of the leaders of the Czech dissent and of Charter ’77,...
is an Austrian politician based in Vienna. In the early 1980s he was the Secretary for Education and Science, later becoming Vice Chancellor and his...
is a Polish practitioner of ideas, poet, essayist and publisher. He graduated in Polish language and literature from the University of Poznań. Under martial...
is a Hungarian philosopher based in Budapest and New York. The author of numerous scholarly books in various philosophical fields, she is one of the most...
is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and a Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. An expert on...
is a U.S. philanthropist based in New York. She is the founder and president of the New York Foundation for a Civil Society. She has worked as correspondent...
is currently Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She is based in Bratislava and London. From 1998 to 2002 she was...
is a Swedish journalist writing on political and cultural affairs for the daily Dagens Nyheter based in Stockholm. Having left Poland following the 1968...
On his way from the CEE Forum, Timothy Snyder’s
blog in the New York
Review of Books describes the warm welcome Vaclav Havel got in
Bratislava from a generation that was not even alive when he was
President of their country, and the advice he had for the students.
(Slovensky) Aj Thierry Chervel bol hosťom prvého Stredoeurópskeho fóra v Bratislave.
(18.11. pm) What is the greatest threat to democracy? Jacques Rupnik, Václav Havel, Ágnes Heller, Ivan Krastev, Ingo Schulze, Robert Menasse, Krzysztof Czyżewski and Miroslav Kusý tried to find the answer.
