Central European Forum Agenda

Opening (17.11., 10.00am)

Rudolf Chmel, Central European Forum Board member

Andrej Ďurkovský, the Mayor of Bratislava

Panel I

Where does the West begin  (17.11., 10.20 am – 1.00 pm )

Central Europe as a border zone - where are the boundaries of Europe and Europeanness? What is the future of this region between the East and the West?

Martin Bútora (Bratislava), Aleš Debeljak (Ljubljana), Viktor Erofeyev (Moscow), Wendy Luers (New York), Andrzej Stasiuk (Wołowiec), Karel Schwarzenberg (Prague)

Exhibition Opening  (17.11., 1.00 pm)

Exhibition of photographs by Peter Župník

Refreshments for Central European Forum participants and wider public

Panel II

Open Society in Crisis (17.11., 2.00 pm – 4.45 pm)

Twenty years ago much of Central Europe rediscovered the free market. What are the chances of sustaining freedom and democracy at a time of a faltering global capitalism?

Mary Kaldor (London), Paul Lendvai (Vienna), Tomáš Sedláček (Prague), Brigita Schmögnerová (Bratislava – London), Vladimir Gligorov (Vienna)

Panel III

Totalitarian structures – A New Lease of Life (18.11., 10.00 am – 1.00 pm)

Has Central Europe shed the shackles of the past?  Is it possible, twenty years on, to get a grip on the past without getting entangled in its web again? What are the risks of drawing a firm line under the past? What are the risks of searching for historical truth?

Adam Michnik (Warsaw), Timothy Snyder (Yale University), Martin M. Šimečka (Bratislava), Gyorge Konrád (Budapest), Marci Shore (Yale University, Maciej Zaremba (Stockholm), Thierry Chervel (Berlin), Slavenka Drakulić (Zagreb – Vienna)

Panel IV

Democracy Fatigue (18.11., 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm)

How solid are democratic institutions such as independent media, human rights and minority rights, and civic society twenty years after November 1989?  What are the greatest threats to these institutions? Is it the resurgence of old and the emergence of new corruption and capitalism?

Václav Havel (Prague), Ágnes Heller (Budapest – New York), Ivan Krastev (Sofia), Ingo Schulze (Berlin), Miroslav Kusý (Bratislava), Jacques Rupnik (Paris)

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