“An unfettered and wild bazaar of ideas organized by Liberté!”

• Błażej Lenkowski – chairman of the Liberté! Foundation

• Hanna Zdanowska – mayor of the City of Łódź since 2010

• Detmar Doering – representative of the Foundation Friedrich Naumann for Freedom (FNF) for Central Europe and the Baltic States in Prague

• Magdalena Majkowska-Tomkin – Deputy Director (acting), Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE)

• Marta Poślad – Google’s director of public policy in Europe

• Miłosz Hodun – vice president of European Liberal Forum

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Helena Dalli is the first EU Commissioner for Equality since December 2019. Her role is to ensure that the Equality Union operates in line with President von der Leyen’s guidelines and to strengthen Europe’s commitment to equality in all areas.

Before taking up the role of Commissioner, Dalli held various political roles in Malta, she was an MEP (1996-2019), Minister for European Affairs and Equality (2017-2019) and Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumers and Civil Liberties (2013-2017). She was also a minister in the Opposition Shadow Cabinet for Public Administration, Equality, Broadcasting and National Investments (1998–2013) and a junior minister for Women’s Rights in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister (1996–1998). Dalli holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the University of Nottingham and has taught economic and political sociology, public policy and the sociology of law at the University of Malta.

Moderation: Olga Brzezińska – president of Miasto Literatury Foundation

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Marshal of the Senate of the 10th term, senator of the 9th term, professor of medical sciences, thoracic surgeon and transplantologist, specializing in lung transplantation.

A graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin. In 1984, he started working at the Specialist Hospital of prof. Alfred Sokołowski in Szczecin-Zdunów with whom he is associated to this day. He was, among others, the director of the hospital and the head of the Thoracic Surgery Department.

In 2003-2004 he headed the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He was the first Pole to be admitted to the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

From 2006 to 2015, he was a councilor of the Szczecin City Council.

Moderation: Magdalena M. Baran – PhD in philosophy, Polish historian of philosophy and ethics, journalist

Partner: European Liberal Forum – ścieżka Thinking Aloud at Freedom Games 2020

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He is the author of ten books on contemporary history and political journalism, in which he analyzed many aspects of European history in the last century. His publications so far translated into Polish include: “Free world”, “Hot history”, “Citizens’ Spring”, “Free Word. Ten Rules for a Connected World ”and“ Briefcase ”.

He is also the author of the popular international affairs column in The Guardian and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and other periodicals.

From 2001 to 2006, he was director of the Center for European Studies at St Anoty’s College, Oxford, where he currently directs the Dahrendorf Program for Freedom Research. The Free Speech Debate research project, which is available in 13 languages on the freespeechdebate.com platform, was a contribution to the book. Free word. Ten Principles for a Connected World ”contributed to the writing of his book Free Speech: Ten Principles For a Connected World.

Recently, a reissue of his book “The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague” was published in English, extended with a chapter covering the last 30 years in post-communist Europe.

He has won numerous awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, Prix Européen de l’Essai, and the George Orwell Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen for his activities for European unity.

• Klementyna Suchanow – editor, translator, political activist active in the Polish Women’s Strike

Moderation: Marta Zdanowska – editor, theater reviewer, literary scholar

Partners: Łódzki Szlak Kobiet, Łódzkie Dziewuchy Dziewuchom

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Moderation: Tomasz Kamiński (UŁ) – assistant professor at the Department of East Asia

Partner: ELF’s Hub Way

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Moderation: Olga Brzezińska – president of Miasto Literatury Foundation

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For ten years of acting, she played for the most important theater
directors and filmmakers, creating a series of award-winning roles. She cooperated with Jerzy Grzegorzewski, Piotr Łazarkiewicz, Agnieszka Holland, Jerzy Stuhr, Kazimierz Kutz, Krystian Lupa.

Since 2005, she has focused mainly on the music that has turned out to be hers real passion. She has released four solo albums: Miasto Mania (2005) / Maria Awaria (2008) / Jesus Maria Peszek (2012) / The Rifle (2016). Each of them caused a storm and at the same time turned out to be artistic and commercial successful, becoming platinum and double platinum, collectively selling in circulation of over 250,000 copies, making Maria Peszek one of the most important figures of the Polish music scene. Referred to as the “concert animal” Maria Peszek she played over 400 enthusiastically received concerts in Poland and abroad, on club stages and at the most important Polish and European festivals. Winner of prestigious awards, including: Polityka’s Passport, Fryderyk, Wdech Gazeta Wyborcza and the Przekrój Phenomenon. For five years she ran her own on Radio Roxy original program – Radio Maria.

The author of moving and uncompromising texts on religious issues,
Polishness, traditional social roles, often shocking public opinion in Poland, Maria Peszek evokes extreme emotions, she expresses her clearly and openly views and is one of the most expressive figures in public space.

In January 2020, after the concert break, she returned with the band in a new line-up and with new, surprising arrangements as part of the enthusiastically received SORRY POLSKO SUPER TOUR.

Moderation: Błażej Lenkowski – chairman of the Liberté! Foundation

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In 2005-2009 he participated in international seminars on labor law and social security in Bordeaux. He is a lecturer at many European universities, including in Portugal, Spain, France, Romania and Belgium. In 2011, on the basis of the dissertation “Professional qualifications in employment relationship”, he obtained the title of doctor of economic sciences. He is the author of numerous publications in the field of labor law, company law and civil law.

Parallel to his professional work and scientific development, he undertook social and local government activities. For nine years he was a councilor of the city council in Zabrze, he served as its deputy chairman and then chairman.

In 2011, he was elected to the Sejm of the 7th term from the Gliwice constituency. He was the vice-chairman of the Legislative Committee, member of the Justice and Human Rights Committee, the Special Committee for the consideration of bills in the field of cooperative law, and the Special Committee for codification changes. He was a representative of the Sejm in several dozen proceedings before the Constitutional Tribunal. In May 2015, he became the Minister of Justice.

In the Sejm of the 8th term, he became a member of the Justice and Human Rights Committee and the Legislative Committee, and also became the deputy chairman of the Special Committee for Codification Amendments. He was also appointed by the Sejm to the National Council of the Judiciary. On February 26, 2016, he was elected deputy chairman of the Civic Platform.

In the 2019 elections, he successfully ran for parliamentary re-election. On November 12, 2019, he became the new chairman of the parliamentary club of the Civic Coalition. In the election for the chairman of the Civic Platform, he obtained the support of 78.49% of the voting PO members and was elected the new chairman for a 4-year term on January 29, 2020.

Moderacja: Marek Tatała – economist, Forum Obywatelskiego Rozwoju (FOR) vice-president

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Ayn Rand escaped from the Soviet Union and chose the United States as her new homeland. The country was for her like the capital of personal and economic freedoms. From the 1950s, however, Rand saw a process of systematic restriction of human freedoms. She warned against state intervention and an excessively large government. She also warned against the morality of cannibals, whose representatives were to be representatives of the new left. In an interview with Dr. Sławomir Drelichem, author of Rand’s newest book on political thought, will take a look at the recipes and conclusions of this controversial American philosopher.

Moderacja: Joanna Ellmann – chairman of Aureus Link Foundation dealing with supporting entrepreneurship

Moderation: Joanna Żarnoch-Chudzińska – Editor-in-chief of the Gazeta Wyborcza of Łódź

Mira Marcinów is the author of four books, incl. “The History of Polish Madness”, for which she was nominated for the Poznań Literary Award (2019) and the prose ” Motherlessness” (Czarne Publishing House).

She works at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Co-founder and director of the Psychoanalytical Thought Center and president of the IFiS PAN Foundation. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for her doctoral dissertation and research scholarship for outstanding young scientists. Finalist of the Polityka Science Awards (2019). Creator of “Radio Głosy” and psychiatric performances. She writes essays on melancholy and the theory of madness as well as the ekphrasis of contemporary art.

„Motherlessenss” is a brutal story about the desire to live and escape from dying, and the story of a great, crazy and greedy love that can only happen between a mother and a daughter (described on the website of Czarne Publishing House).

Partner: European Liberal Forum – ELF’s Hub Way

Moderation: Maciej Gablankowski – historian and Americanist, publisher and editor

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As a historical author, Norman Davies made his debut with the “White Eagle, The Red Star” (1972), which was written during a research fellowship at St. Antony’s College. Then he found his way to the radio, and later to the BBC television, for which he reported on current events from the Soviet bloc. He is also the author of the cult book on the history of Poland, “God’s Games. History of Poland” (1981).

• Olga Łabendowicz – PhD in linguistics, translator, editor-in-chief of “4liberty.eu Review”
• Justyna Suchecka – TVN24.pl journalist
• Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk – pedagogue, philosopher, social researcher, doctor of humanities, social and political activist, member of the Sejm of the 9th term
• Krystyna Szumilas – vice-chairman of the Education, Science and Youth Committee
• Marta Florkiewicz-Borkowska – teacher, educator, Teacher of the Year 2017
• Małgorzata Moskwa-Wodnicka – vice-president of Łódź city
• Aneta Vainė – vice-president of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
  

Moderacja: Sławomir Drelich – political scientist and ethicist

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NaukaObywatela.pl is a project aimed at teachers of knowledge about society, entrepreneurship and ethics in secondary schools. Through it, the teacher gains access to a free base of teaching materials, covering topics key to understanding the ways of functioning of the modern world, such as: poverty, consumption, work, environmental pollution, inequalities, migration, health, social networks, elections, media and propaganda.

During the panel, we will present the assumptions of the platform and consider the situation and directions of changes required by the national education system.

Is Polish school today able to educate responsible and committed citizens? Is the coronavirus pandemic shedding new light on education? How does distance learning affect the possibility of shaping civic attitudes? Is an interdisciplinary approach using online tools likely to gain importance? Or maybe the Polish school is still struggling with the same problems that the epidemic gives only a different dimension?

Discussion carried out as part of the Erasmus + Naukaobywatela.pl project carried out in cooperation with the Lithuanian Free Market Institute

• Bogusław Chrabota – journalist, publicist and writer, editor-in-chief of “Rzeczpospolita”
• Henryka Bochniarz – founder and president of the Lewiatan Confederation
• Jan Krzysztof Bielecki – politician and economist

Moderation: Hanna Cichy – PhD student at the Department of Economic Analysis of the Warsaw School of Economics

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The coronavirus pandemic has challenged what we have become used to in the last three decades: the freedom of movement of people, goods and services. The first lockdown broke global supply chains, making it difficult or impossible to produce many goods, even in those countries where administrative restrictions did not stop factories from operating (vide: automotive industry in Poland). Borders and airports have been closed. Some countries have decided to ban the export of medicines and medical equipment.

Many people have announced the end of globalization. It is worth remembering, however, that the coronavirus was not the cause, but the catalyst for the processes that had been taking place before: increasing isolationism, smoldering trade conflicts, changes in the area of work organization.

Will the industry come back to Europe? And if it does, who will gain and who will lose? Will the popularization of work and remote communication accelerate globalization in services, education and culture? Will mercantilism return to world politics?

• Jacek Łęgiewicz – director of public affairs of Samsung Polska
• Kamila Sidor – entrepreneur and creator of the Geek Girls Carrots community
• Marcin Zmaczyński – senior marketing executive, Aruba SA
• Mirosław Sopek – vice-president of Makolab

Moderation: Sylwia Czubkowska – managing editor of Spider’s Web magazine

• Mirosława Makuchowska – director of advocacy, vice-president of KPH
• Michał Bilewicz – head of the Center for Research on Prejudice at the University of Warsaw
• Paulina Górska – assistant professor at the Center Research on Prejudice at the University of Warsaw

• Antoni Dudek – political scientist, member of the Council of the Institute of National Remembrance

Moderaction: Jarosław Gugała – journalist and TV presenter

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The customs in Polish politics make it impossible to openly take up many difficult and important topics. Avoiding them results in mythologizing and distorting history, the inability to rationally describe the present and abdication to the challenges of the future. The reasons for this peculiar political conspiracy of silence stem from the historical trauma and fear of the pain of the open wounds; for fear of losing political support and making a compromising, nasty, unforgivable mug; because of the reluctance to take a position on difficult issues that cause deep divisions and, finally, for the lack of immediate political benefits, and at the same time because of the high risk of an image disaster. There is a whole lot of topics that are left unsaid or swept under the carpet. And – despite this collusion – one cannot pass by indifferently. So… what are we not talking about?

Moderacja: Paulina Lenkowska – a graduate of Polish philology, professionally related to IT

We will talk with Andrzej Milewski, known as “Andrzej Rysuje”, about the current political situation in the country, his work and his path to success; about inspirations, sense of humor of Poles and what amuses him personally every day.

Andrzej Milewski, born in ’85. Satirical cartoonist, everyday political and social commentator. He permanently cooperates with Gazeta Wyborcza.

Almost 700,000 fans follow his drawings on social media. A graduate of the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Warsaw. He gained editorial skills during several years of cooperation with TVN24. She uses her experience from working in the VMLY & R advertising agency in cooperation with the biggest brands’ campaigns. He created advertising drawings, among others for Canal +, HBO, National Geographic, Mastercard, Orange, Playstation, Greenpeace and WWF.

• Justyna Kopińska – press journalist, sociologist, reporter
• Jarosław Makowski – deputy director of the Civic Institute
• Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak – vice-rector for Science, Director of the Institute of Statistics and Demography of the Warsaw School of Economics

Moderation: Lauren Mason – member of the Young European Federalists (JEF)

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• Sylwia Gregorczyk – Abram – Polish lawyer and social activist
• Kasia Stręk – photographer dealing with the topic of abortion
• Karolina Domagalska – reporter

Moderacja: Anna Dziewit-Meller – writer, journalist

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In response to the ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal on the tightening of abortion law in Poland, hundreds of thousands of people took to the Polish streets to express their objection. The protests seem groundbreaking in the subject of abortion because they break the taboo that existed around this issue in both conservative and liberal circles. Women openly talk about the need to reject the consensus imposed on them in 1993, they demand free access to abortion, which in Western democracies is one of modern human rights.

Is this the beginning of a liberal revolution in which women will play a leadership role?

• Mikołaj Małaczyński – Legimi SA chairman
• Agata Frankiewicz – managing director and founder of Dekoeko.com
• Inna Uwarowa – In-Space Services chairman
• Anna Wójcicka – Warsaw Genomics chairman, innovation manager

Moderation: Przemek Staciwa – TOYA TV journalist

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• Zosia Zborowska-Wrona – actress, animal rights activist
• prof. Tadeusz M. Zielonka – dr hab. n. med., specialist in lung diseases and internal diseases
• Agata Czachórska – director for Sustainable Development of IKEA Retail Poland
• Kamil Wyszkowski – representative and President of the Council, UN Global Compact Network Poland
• Szymon Kacprzak – organizer of the Youth Climate Strike

Moderation: Weronika Michalak – director of the Polish branch of Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)

Partner: IKEA

Moderation: Marek Tatała – economist, vice president of the Forum Obywatelskiego Rozwoju (FOR)

Partner: European Liberal Forum – ścieżka ELF’s Hub

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With Johan Norberg, the author of the book entitled Progress. 10 reasons to be optimistic about the future ”, we will talk about the importance of openness of people and societies for development. The pretext for the conversation is the author’s latest book: “Open: The Story of Human Progress”.

Why is openness the foundation of the history of human progress? Are people afraid of openness and why? What is the risk of society closing itself off to the influx of other people, goods and ideas? Is the COVID-19 pandemic a threat to openness and progress?

• Jerzy Buzek – member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of RP

• Kamil Wyszkowski – representative and president of the UN Global Compact Network Poland Council

• Karin Sköld – CEO IKEA Retail Poland, member of the Program Council of the UN Global Compact Poland

• Marcus Bernhard Heinz – resident representative in Poland and the Baltics

• Niels Westerbye Juhl – general director, L’Oréal Polska and the Baltic States, member of the UN Global Compact Program Council Network Poland

Moderation: Michał Niewiadomski – „Rzeczpospolita” journalist

Partner: European Liberal Forum – ELF’s Hub Way, Global Compact

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• Michał Jaworski – Microsoft representative
• Aleksandra Przegalińska – Center for Collective Intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Krzysztof Głomb – plenipotentiary of the minister of digitization for cooperation with the local government administration of the Republic of Poland, Association „Miasta w Internecie”
• Zbigniew Gajewski – partner at the THINKTANK Dialogue and Analysis Center
• Marta Dziewguć – Territory Manager (Google)

Moderation: Tomasz Kasprowicz –vice-president of the Res Publica Foundation

Partner: Microsoft

• Jan Schnellenbach – professor for microeconomics at the Brandenburg University of Technology
• Agnieszka Pomaska – member of Polish Parliament, Civic Coalition
• Casey Pifer – director of Institute Relations at Atlas Network
• Małgorzata Tracz – co-president of the Polish Green Party, urban activist
• Radovan Durana – director of The Institute of Economic and Social Studies (INESS) 

Moderation: Detmar Doering – head of Prague Office Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

Partner: European Liberal Forum – ELF’s Hub Way

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Moderation: Magda Melnyk – journalist, analyst and reporter, member of the editorial board of Liberté!

Liberal democracy runs counter to human nature as we have seen it through the revolution in biological sciences of the last few decades. The achievements of cognitive science, neurobiology and primatology have shown our species as preferring values and behaviors largely hostile to what was required by the system in which the citizens of Western Europe lived after 1945, and Poles after 1989. Hence the crisis of liberal democracy currently visible all over the world. This is the main thesis of Marek Migalski’s book.

However, the author does not limit himself only to proving it – he also shows how it happened that this system appeared in the world and was doing well for some time. In an accessible and reader-friendly way, it explains the mechanisms of the successes of liberal democracy, but also the causes of its current crisis. Perhaps most importantly, it suggests ways to defend it. This is a must-read for anyone interested in politics. Especially for the supporters of the “inhuman system”.

• dr hab. Tomasz Kamiński (UŁ) – professor at the Department of Asian Studies
• dr Joanna Klikowska-Ciesielska (UŁ) – assistant professor at the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Lodz, political scientist
• dr Agnieszka Legucka (PISM) – analyst for Russia in the Eastern Europe program
• dr Krzysztof Zalewski – chairman of the Boym Institute Foundation
• Adam Jelonek – director of the Institute of the Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University

Moderacja: Patrycja Pendrakowska – chairman of the Boym Institute Foundation

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Asia is home to sixty percent of the world’s population and is a continent of three great religions; it is about a third of world GDP and more than half of global greenhouse gas emissions. Asia is China: one of the main political powers and – according to purchasing power parity – the first economy in the world; is India undergoing historical changes, the development of which is driven by the largest digital concerns. In the Global Firepower 2020 ranking, showing the military potential of countries, China, India, Japan and South Korea were placed third to sixth, respectively. Among the countries and regions where it is easiest to do business (Doing Business 2020), Singapore ranks second, followed by Hong Kong.

The development of Asian countries and the increase in China’s assertiveness are the cause of a growing imbalance in the continental and world order. These changes will have a growing impact on the development opportunities of Europe and Poland. Meanwhile, the related challenges facing our country hardly exist in the Polish socio-political debate.

How to build a Polish policy community that will revise the policy towards Asia and monitor existing strategies? How can our country influence the European and American policy towards Asia? How can we build a multi-level policy towards Asia based on EU cities, regions and resources?

• Danuta Huebner – professor of economics, member of the European Parliament
• Paweł Kowal – professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, journalist
• Tomasz Lis – editor-in-chief of the Newsweek Polska

Moderation: Katarzyna Pisarska – founder and director of the European Academy of Diplomacy in Warsaw

Moderation: Tomasz Kamiński – professor at the Department of Asian Studies

Partner: European Liberal Forum – ELF’s Hub Way

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Since 1986 he has been writing for the magazine “The New Yorker”. In over thirty years of work in this magazine, he has written hundreds of essays, from personal memories to reviews and profiles, as well as many reportages from abroad, as well as fiction, humorous and art criticism texts.

His books, ranging from essays on Paris and eating to children’s novels, include “Paris to the Moon”, “The King in the Window”, “Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York”, “Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life “,” The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food “, and” Winter: Five Windows on the Season “,” At The Strangers’ Gate “, and recently “A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism”.

He has won the National Magazine Award three times for his essays and critical texts, as well as the George Polk Award for articles published in magazines. In March 2013, he was decorated by the French Republic with the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. Two months later he was awarded an honorary degree from McGill University and an honorary doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design shortly thereafter.

• Tadeusz Gadacz – religious scholar, philosopher
• Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek – philosopher, ethicist and lecturer
• Michał Wawrykiewicz – advocate, co-founder of the # WolneSądy initiative

Moderation: Magdalena M. Baran – PhD in philosophy, historian of philosophy and ethics, editor

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Poland is divided… we hear it almost everywhere. The media, politicians, and various kinds of organizations convince us again and again that the community has almost split in two. That the gap between “two Poland” is deepening and may soon prove insurmountable. The question, however, is what is this gap. Is it a product / result of politics and all kinds of disputes from the last 10 years? Or maybe the problem goes deeper, and entering into a sharp dispute only deepened the previously existing divisions / differences? Do our political, social, “cultural”, “ideological” Poland really exist, and if so, where to look for sources of division? What diagnosis are we making in Poland today? What prescription do we find for her diseases?

• Maria Andrzejewska – director of the UNEP / GRID-Warsaw Center
• Paweł Szypulski – program director of Greenpeace Polska
• Hanna Gill-Piątek – member of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland associated with the Poland 2050 movement by Szymon Hołownia, member of the Program Council of the Congress of Women
• Ignacy Morawski – economist, founder of SpotData

Moderation: Weronika Michalak – director of the Polish branch of Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)

Partner: Greenpeace Polska

• Andrzej Poczobut – Belarusian journalist, columnist for Gazeta Wyborcza, dissident
• Sciapan Pucila – NEXTA bloger
• Paweł Latuszka – Belarusian politician and diplomat, ambassador to France and UNESCO, former minister of culture
• Volha Kovalkova – member of the Presidium of the Belarusian Coordination Council

Moderacja: Hanna Liubakova – independent journalist
Partners: Belarusian House in Warsaw, Symbal.by, NEXTA

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Belarus is facing mass protests caused by presidential elections which are believed to have been rigged in favor of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko. The scale of the protests is unprecedented. On September 13, the “March of Heroes” was held in the capital and other cities. Over 150 thousand people protested in Minsk itself. More than 100,000 people protested in Minsk on 25^th October despite a massive police and military presence. The opposition is facing police brutality and detention.  More than 12,000 Belarusians have been detained and hundreds tortured during protests. The fight for freedom continues while Lukashenka responds with repressions and resistance. What happens now?

• Martin Kulldorff – professor of medicine at Harvard University, biostatistician and epidemiologist
  

Moderation: Ignacy Morawski – economist, founder of SpotData

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• Zygmunt Miłoszewski – writer, social activist
• Barbara Białowąs – director, since 2014 president of the Women’s Filmmakers Association
• Andrzej Saramonowicz – screenwriter, director, producer, journalist and playwright
• Joanna Kos-Krauze – director and screenwriter, president of the Guild of Polish Directors

Moderation: Alicja Myśliwiec – TVN and Meloradio journalist

Moderation: Paweł Cywiński – doctor of social sciences, lecturer at Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies UW

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• Urszula Nowakowska – founder of the Women’s Rights Center
• Aleksandra Dulas – sex educator, SPUNK foundation
• Kaja Zapędowska-Kling – doctor of social sciences, researcher of social policy, member of the Polish Society of Gerontology and the Polish Society of Social Policy

Moderation: Ewa Kamińska-Bużałek – chairman of Łódzki Szlak Kobiet

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Forced by the Covid-19: lockdown pandemic and the popularization of remote work and education, women have had a significant impact on their personal and professional lives. First, they contribute to the reduction of employment in feminized sectors. Secondly, they forced the women to perform non-standard and vocation-motivated work (work orders for nurses in the nursing home, overtime for teachers as part of distance learning), and made them responsible for the performance of compulsory schooling for children at home. Will the pandemic take away some of the equality gains from us? Or is it just the coronavirus that revealed how weakly entrenched women’s rights were?

We will talk about what has been happening in maternity hospitals since March, where problems with respecting women’s rights are concentrated in the lens, and the situation of people experiencing gender-based violence. We will also look at what the authorities, including local governments, are saving on today. What can we do to prevent the erosion of women’s rights as a side effect of fighting the pandemic and its effects?

Moderation: Jarosław Gugała – journalist and TV presenter

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Adam Zagajewski studied psychology and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University.

In the 1970s, he participated in the work of the democratic opposition. For many years he lived in the West, France and the United States, where he taught at the universities of Houston and Chicago.

Recently, he published a volume of sketches “Substance disordered” (Znak) and a volume of poems “Prawdziwe życie” (a5). In October 2017, he received the Princess of Asturias Award in Spain.

• Karolina Rogaska – Onet journalist, author of a book about sex work
• Aleksandra Kluczyk – autfor of the “Save us from Saviours” zine
• Lady Dark Fairytale – co-founder and owner of Fetish Chateau

Moderacja: Anna Wójcik – runs the Osiatyński Archives and the Rule of Law in Poland

• Wojciech Sadurski – professor of philosophy of Law at the University of Sydney
• Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz – politician, lawyer, member of the parliament
• Anna Rakowska-Trela – prof. UŁ, constitutionalist, advocate
• Adam Bodnar – ombudsman

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Since 2015, we have been observing profound changes in the judiciary and other institutions of key importance for democracy in Poland.

This process is discussed in the latest book by Wojciech Sadurski –
“Polish Constitutional Crisis”, the Polish edition of which was published in the Liberté Library!

Professor Sadurski’s book will become the starting point for a wider debate in which the invited guests will discuss together what the Republic of Poland is today from the point of view of constitutionalism? Illiberal democracy, competitive authoritarianism, another hybrid? What is the position of the Constitutional Tribunal in the new system model? What do the protests after the Constitutional Tribunal’s abortion judgment say about the state of democracy in Poland – and about democrats and authoritarians? How can the European courts, the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights help restore the high standards of the rule of law in Poland? How can judges and prosecutors be helped today in their struggle to maintain their independence? Let us assume that the democratic opposition wins. How can institutions be repaired?

• Christoph Bartmann – director of the Goethe Institute
• Monica Sassatelli – cultural sociologist, associate professor at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Quality of Life
• Agnieszka Holland – movie and TV director
• Salima Belhaj – member of the Dutch Parliament, associated with the Democrats 66
• Guillermo Escribano – deputy Ambassador of Spain

Moderacja: Csaba Toth – political scientist, chief of staff Katalin Cseh

Partner: European Liberal Forum – ELF’s Hub Way

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• Bartłomiej Radziejewski – political scientist, editor-in-chief of the Nowa Konfederacja magazine
• Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz – a sociologist, political scientist, director of the Strategies2050 Institute
• Dominik Batorski – sociologist and data scientist combining scientific work with consulting and business activity

Moderation: Karol Tokarczyk – digital economy analyst, Polityka Insight

Partner: Orange

Moderation: Krystyna Pietrych – Univeristy of Lodz associate professor

Debut novel of Dominiki Słowik “Atlas: Doppelganger” (2015) was nominated for the Gdynia Literary Award. Second novel, “Zimowla” (2019, Wydawnictwo Znak) was awarded the Passport of “Polityka”, “Odkrycie Empiku” award and was included among the 10 most important books of 2019 in the bimonthly “Książki”.

Moderacja: Agata Kobylińska – plenipotentiary of the Mayor of the City of Łódź for children and youth

For years we have been observing the crisis of child and adolescent psychiatry. Meanwhile, Poland is second in Europe in terms of the number of suicides by young people; Last year, 860 people under the age of 29 died as a result of suicide, and 3,360 attempted suicide.

This year, we are faced with the COVID-19 pandemic. The period of forced isolation contributed to increased anxiety and a sense of loneliness, and put children and adolescents too in the face of hitherto unknown challenges.

Where to look for the causes of depression and anxiety disorders? How to identify their symptoms? How to support young people in a mental crisis? Prevention, early diagnosis and prompt intervention can save lives.

• Beata Biel – Prermium News Digital Development Unit Director at TVN Discovery Polska
• Jerzy Pomianowski – executive director of the European Endowment for Democracy
• Peter Pomerantsev – visiting senior fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics

Moderation: Daniel Kaddik – executive director of the European Liberal Forum (ELF)

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Moderation: Marcin Piasecki (Rzeczpospolita)

Partner: Incredible Inspirations

Moderation: Małgorzata Wochowska – co-founder Łódzkie Dziewuchy Dziewuchom Association

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They are of Polish origin, but have lived abroad for many years: in Berlin, Brussels, London, Strasbourg and Paris. Why are they still involved in activities for women’s rights in Poland? How do they tell Germans, French, English, Belgian and other members of their communities about threats to women’s rights? How is their concern for the country expressed and why do they still care about Poland? Where do they get their motivation to act and how are their expressions changing in connection with the COVID19 pandemic? How do the social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic translate into human rights and democracy in Poland and other European countries?

We will ask Terry Reintke why, as a German, she persistently comments on the rights of women and LGBTQI + people and the state of the rule of law in Poland, and what changes she proposes in connection with her observations in the EU budget for Poland for 2021-2027.

• Franek Sterczewski – member of Parliament of the RP
• Cezary Grabaczyk – member of Parliament of the RP
• Ewa Łabno-Fałęcka – director of Communication and External Relations, Mercedes-Benz Polska
• Urszula Stefanowicz – Koalicja Klimatyczna expert

Moderation: Tomasz Haładyj – editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza in Częstochowa

• Marta Miłoszewska – director, academic lecturer, social activist

• Aleksandra Szymańska –director of Instytut Kultury Miejskiej

• Grzegorz Kasdepke – writer for children and adolescents, scriptwriter, journalist

• Piotr Sieklucki – theater director and actor, co-founder and director of the New Theater in Krakow

Moderacja: Olga Brzezińska – manager and promoter of culture, president of the City of Literature Foundation

• Aleksandra Wiśniewska – humanitarian worker, head of the Yemen Mission
• Dr hab. Robert Kozielski – Prorektor ds. rozwoju (UŁ)

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A humanitarian worker responsible for armed conflicts in the Middle East. She began by securing sinking refugee boats in the Mediterranean Sea and running a shelter for families at the Moria camp in Greece. Then she conducted research for the British parliament in camps in France. As part of the UN, she worked for UNDP in Turkey and for the UNDP-UNHCR Joint Secretariat on the war in Syria. During the Battle of Mosul in Iraq, she supported the running of the camp for 70,000. people displaced as a result of the fighting. Currently, the Head of the Mission of the Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) in Yemen, leading a team responding to the largest humanitarian crisis in the world caused by the war, so far providing medical and water-sanitary assistance 230,000. people in need.

Winner of the Forbes Polska ranking “25 before 25” in the Social Activity category. Member of the Council of the Happy Kids Foundation for Help for Children, which runs 14 family orphanages in Poland. A political scientist by education, a graduate of LSE and the University of Oxford.

• Roman Imielski – deputy editor-in-chief of “Gazeta Wyborcza”
• Kamila Ceran – editor-in-chief and program editor of Radio TOK FM
• Janusz Schwertner – Onet journalist, winner of Grand Press 2018 in the “News” category

Moderation: Malwina Dziedzic – editor and journalist of “Polityka”

• Marietje Schaake – director of international politics at the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University
• Małgorzata Bonikowska – President of the Center for International Relations and the THINKTANK center
• Marta Poślad – Google’s director of public policy in Europe
• Krzysztof Kwiatkowski – RP senator
• Lorelien Hoet – Government Affairs Director EU Microsoft

Moderacja: Michał Boni – SWPS University

Partner: Google

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„Strategic autonomy” and “digital sovereignty” are one of the most discussed topics in the time of digital acceleration. Many governments and institutions present the view that sovereignty is at risk. There are some reasons for it related to the international tensions (digital Cold War announced by US government – previous?), growing digital transformation of the economies and societies and enormously increased cybersecurity incidents.

It leads to the question: if and how we have to adapt the legislative and governance framework of the digital area in the time of visible threats and tensions –  to respond to the rising  emphasis of sovereignty.

What does really “digital sovereignty” mean? How can we interpret this phenomenon – from the national or European institutions perspective, also from the business perspective, and at last – from the everyday user perspective?

What does it mean in the modern debate the expression: “digital geostrategy” (in the context of China, US and EU digital competition)? What kind of changes in the regulatory framework are needed (if needed) to ensure the conditions for “digital sovereignty”? What kind of changes in technologies this new paradigm ( digital sovereignty model) can require ?

How to build the capabilities and capacities for the most adequate risk management as one of the key factors for increasing the resilience of digital solutions (networks, devices etc.)? How to establish the strategic partnerships, which mean collaboration between likeminded partners (shared control of solutions) focused, for instance on key technological schemes (based on common standards and certifications)? How to create the global common goods (solutions  for globally shared interests than keeping digital sovereignty at the national level)?

Moderation: Sławomir Drelich – political scientist and ethicist, co-founder of the scienceobywatela.pl platform

How do young people rate the Polish education system? Does the school meet their expectations? Did it prepare them for life, public activity, interpretation of the social and political reality that surrounds us, or maybe just for the school-leaving exams?

We give the speace to speak to young people who have decided to go public and have been involved in the life of social organizations and political parties. The point of view of young people will allow us to reflect on the direction of future changes in Polish schools.

• Karolina Kuszlewicz – animal rights advocate at PTE
• Marcin Urbaniak – dr hab. philosophy; cognitive scientist, ethicist, social activist, vegan. assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Pedagogical University in Krakow
• Paulina Kramarz – Polish ecologist, dr hab. biological sciences, associate professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University
• Zenon Kruczyński – publicist and ecological activist, former hunter, initiator of the Niech żyją! coalition

Moderacja: Przemysław Staciwa – political scientist, TOYA TV journalist

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The attitude to hunting is one of those topics on which it is difficult to dialogue without emotions and strong positions. For some, tradition, contact with nature, cultivating certain patterns of behavior or simply access to meat that is healthier and, after all, obtained more ethically than that from animals from industrial breeding; for others, taking pleasure in taking the life of animals, unjustified violence and an archaic approach to the issue of masculinity.

During the panel discussion, we will try to deepen the topic, confront different opinions and consider how to more effectively protect nature and animals towards to the specter of a climate disaster.

• Dawid Juraszek – writer, poet, publicist, author of the book “Anthropocene for Beginners”
• Edwin Bendyk – journalist, journalist dealing with civilization issues and the influence of technology on social life
• Marcin Popkiewicz – nuclear physicist, entrepreneur, journalist, author of the book “Science about the climate”
• Sylwia Spurek – PhD in law, MEP, vice-president of the FEMM Committee, former deputy of the Commissioner for Human Rights
• Jakub Bilski – activist of the Strike for Earth (Łódź), organizer of climate actions

Moderation: Katarzyna Wężyk – reporter, publicist, political scientist and Americanist

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Anders Tegnell ma bogate doświadczenie w kierowaniu różnymi szwedzkimi agencjami rządowymi na wielu szczeblach w dziedzinie zdrowia publicznego i kontroli chorób. Ma także doświadczenie w pracy międzynarodowej – działał w Laosie w latach 1990-1993 (razem z WHO) oraz w Demokratycznej Republice Konga podczas epidemii eboli w 1995 r.

• Bart Staszewski – movie director, LGBTI+ activist
• Monika Rosa – member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland on behalf of Nowoczesna, chairman of the party in Silesia
• Patryk Chilewicz – co-creator Vogule Poland

Moderacja: Zuzanna Nowicka – dziswybory.pl project coordinator

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During a pandemic, we more often than ever return to the age-old philosophical questions about the meaning of life, the inevitability of death, justice and human solidarity.

What mechanisms of psychosocial manipulation are we subjected to? Where is the source of the apocalyptic fears that haunt us? Is the pandemic an opportunity for a positive breakthrough in our lives? We will seek the answer from the philosophers: Piotr Augustyniak and Tomasz Stawiszyński.

Moderation: Grzegorz Markowski – radio and television journalist

• Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram – co-creator #Wolne Sądy initiative
• Paulina Kieszkowska-Knapik – member of #Wolne Sądy initiative
• Michał Wawrykiewicz – co-founder of the # WolneSąd initiative, initiator of the Justice Defense Committee
  
  “Polish public media has become a phenomenon on a European scale and, more broadly, on Western democracies. With the possible exception of perhaps Hungary, no government has subordinated public information services to such an extent to the interests of the ruling party ” – wrote the French “Le Monde” this summer.
  
  What objective, public television should look like? What criteria does it have to meet and which European stations are examples of it? What forms of legal communication are attractive to viewers? How to talk about law and the rule of law in the media?
  

Moderation: Joanna Podolska-Płocka – director of the Dialogue Center Marek Edelman

Sabina Baral studied electronics and mathematics, lectured on the history of architecture and design. For 10 years she worked in the Silicon Valley as an electronics engineer. Its internal code programs have contributed to Intel’s success. From there, she moved to Olivetti’s headquarters to manage the company’s technical development in North America between New York and Turin. She was not yet 30 at the time.

On one of her next visits to Tuscany, she fell in love with quarries. Soon she built her own company around this new passion. Sabina Marble & Granite has become synonymous with quality, ethics and good taste. The company’s customers were the giants of the Silicon Valley and stores such as Armani and Ralph Lauren.

 A tireless traveler, she has been to over 100 countries on all continents; her photos from multiple visits to Africa have been published in the USA and Canada. About herself, she says: “I am a polyglot because I want to understand; a traveler, because nothing can replace pickup with my own eyes, a cook because I love the buzz around my table. I love cities located by the water, the light just before sunset and people who live their lives with a full heart. I’m American, I live in San Francisco”.

She is the author of the famous “Notes form Exile”, the first and shocking testimony in which she describes her experiences as a 20-year-old Polish student of Jewish origin, expelled from Poland with her parents as a result of the so-called Moor purges in 1968. “An important, very emotional record of a journey prepared by a handful of Holocaust survivors and the generation of their children” (Łukasz Saturczak, Newsweek Polska). “The recall of these dramatic events becomes a warning for future generations against all kinds of hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism” (Ewa Lipska).

“Notes from Exile” book is also a show adapted and directed by Magda Umer and Krystyna Janda, played by Krystyna Janda at the Polonia Theater and in many cities in Poland. The performance won many top prizes at prestigious theater competitions.

• Rafał Szymczak – social communication expert
• Tomasz Kasprowicz – vice-president of the Res Publica Foundation
• Weronika Michalak – Health and Environment Alliance Poland’s director
• Tomasz Kamiński – professor at the Department of Asian Studies Šárka Prát – director of the Institute for Politics and Society
• Andrea Virág – director of Strategy at Republikon Institue
• Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska – assistant professor at faculty of Educational Studies Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
• Olga Brzezińska – manager and promoter of culture, president of the Miasto Literatury Foundation

Partner: European Liberal Forum – Thinking Aloud at Freedom Games 2020 Way

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Moderation: Łukasz Dąbroś – PhD student SGH, Big Data For Leaders partner

Partner: Big Data For Leaders

What are the latest trends in the use of data (polls, social research, online voter data) and online tools in political campaigns?

During the panel discussion, we will go beyond the current policy and comment on the actions of leaders. We will talk about ideas for the future, technological solutions and trends from foreign campaigns that may be of value to political parties and social movements in preparation for the election marathon in three years’ time.

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