Saturday, 04. September 2010
Whatever happened to democracy?
Eastern and Central Europe twenty years after. As preparations for Central European Forum 2010 get under way, the papers from CEEF 2009 in English are available online. The print edition, complete with an introduction from Slavenka Drakulić and photographs by Peter Župník is due out soon.more »
Love and Truth
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.more »
Democracy Fatigue
(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.
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Totalitarian structures – A New Lease of Life
(18.11., am) Has Central Europe managed to liberate itself from its own past? Thierry Chervel talked to Adam Michnik, Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, Maciej Zaremba and Slavenka Drakulić.
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Open Society in Crisis
(17.11. pm) What are the chances of sustaining freedom and democracy at a time of a faltering global capitalism, twenty years after much of Central Europe rediscovered the free market? Martin M. Šimečka chaired the discussion in which Mary Kaldor, Karel Schwarzenberg, Brigita Schmögnerovej and Wilfried Martens tried to get to the bottom of this question.
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Where does the West begin
(17.11. am ) Martin Bútora, Wendy Luers, Aleš Debeljak, Viktor Erofeyev, Slavenka Drakulić and Thierry Chervel discussed Central Europe as a border zone.
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The Phenomenon of Central Europe
What does the term Central Europe actually mean? Václav Havel replies.
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Central European Forum Agenda
Luckily, you don’t have to hang portraits of a Havel, or a Klaus or a Kaczyński in the shop windows anymore and of course we no longer live under totalitarian pressure - but that doesn’t mean we’ve won, Václav Havel recently told Adam Michnik in an interview on the anniversary of the Central European annus mirabilis. The twentieth anniversary of November 1989 ought not to be just an opportunity for empty rituals and empty talk. After all, it was an uprising against empty rituals and empty talk. What we want to discuss is what we “haven’t won”.
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What has happened to democracy?
Projekt Fórum and the Václav Havel Library invite you to the Central European Forum, held in Bratislava, in the P.O. Hviezdoslav Theatre in Laurinska Street on 17 and 18 November 2009 from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm. We look forward to seeing you there.
What is Central European Forum?
Central European Forum is an international conference open to the public.
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