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Jane Goodall, DBE, PhD – founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, is a world-renowned ethologist and activist inspiring greater understanding and action on behalf of the natural world. Through her tireless advocacy to create a better future for people, other animals, and the planet we share, Dr. Goodall inspires millions of people with her message of hope through action. She is best known for groundbreaking studies of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, transformative research continued by the Jane Goodall Institute which is now the longest running wild chimpanzee study in the world.
Jane Goodall was born on April 3, 1934, in London, England. From earliest childhood, she was fascinated by animals and the wildlife of Africa she discovered in the storybooks of Tarzan and Doctor Doolittle. In 1957, she followed her dream and traveled to the Kenyan farm of a friend's parents where she met the famed paleoanthropologist Doctor Louis Leakey. In 1960, at his invitation, she began her landmark study of chimpanzee behavior in what is now Tanzania. Her field research at what was then called Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve led to her astounding observations that chimpanzees make and use tools, which revolutionized the world of primatology and redefined the relationship between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.
In 1977, Jane Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) to advance her vision around the world and for generations to come. JGI continues essential research at Gombe Stream Research Center and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats through community-led conservation. The organization also advances best practices in animal welfare, innovative applications of science and technology, and youth empowerment through its Roots & Shoots program, created in 1991. Roots & Shoots supports young people in all 50 United States and over 50 countries worldwide to be the change in their communities and change the world for the better, together.
Prior to the Pandemic, Jane traveled on average 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope. Today, Jane continues to connect with worldwide audiences, despite present challenges, through ‘Virtual Jane’ including remote lectures, recordings, and her podcast, the Jane Goodall Hopecast.
In 2021, Jane Goodall was the recipient of the Templeton Prize, and her newest book, “The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times,” was published.
Together with Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce, Jane is an international spokesperson for the World Economic Forum Trillion Tree Campaign launched in February 2020. She is also a leading voice on the dangers of zoonotic disease transfer and COVID-19 as a terrible manifestation of humanity’s unsustainable global systems and imbalance with the natural world. Jane Goodall’s eloquent ability to raise public awareness and understanding has become instrumental in her work to save chimpanzees and other species from extinction, as well as to influence and advance climate action and ecosystem protection.
Jane Goodall is the author of numerous books that have engaged an international readership. Jane Goodall is the subject of numerous television documentaries, as well as the 2002 film Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees, the 2010 documentary Jane's Journey and the 2017 National Geographic documentary JANE, and following title Jane Goodall: The Hope. Discovery Channel's Animal Planet has also produced several features on Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall is a global icon and the recipient of many honors, including the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal, Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the UNESCO 60th Anniversary Medal, and the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence. In April 2002, Secretary General Kofi Annan named Jane Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In a 2004 ceremony at Buckingham Palace, she became a Dame Commander of the British Empire. In 2006, she received France's highest recognition, the Legion of Honor. In 2021, Jane was the recipient of the esteemed Templeton Prize, and her newest book, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, was published.
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Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. His six bestselling story collections have been translated into 49 languages. His writing has been published in 'The New York Times', 'Le Monde', 'The Guardian', 'The New Yorker', 'The Paris Review', and 'Esquire'. He has also written a number of screenplays, and Jellyfish, his first film as a director alongside his wife Shira Geffen, won the Caméra d’Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 he was awarded the Chevalier medallion of France’s l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in 2016 he won the Bronfman Prize, and in 2018 his most recent book, FLY ALREADY, won the Sapir Prize.
Photo: Lielle Sand
Jolanta Kwaśniewska – First Lady of the Republic of Poland in the years 1995-2005, founder and chairwoman of the “Communication Without Barriers” Foundation, lawyer by profession. Member of international organisations and honorary patron of global and European initiatives. Organiser of pro-health campaigns. Co-founder of the Women's Congress. Social activist. Advocate for women's participation in political and social life. Honorary President of the Polish branch of the international organisation Vital Voices. For years, involved in the prevention of violence against women. Honoured with numerous awards and distinctions for her charitable and humanitarian aid activities. Since 2013, she has been implementing her own programme "Oswajanie starości" directed to the elderly. Since the Russian invasion on Ukraine in 2022 the Foundation has commenced cooperation with the Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) in order to provide humanitarian aid to war refugees and undertake action against the effects of hostilities in Ukraine.
Szymon Hołownia – journalist, writer, publicist, TV presenter, social activist and politician. A candidate for the office of the President of the Republic of Poland in the first and second elections in 2020. President of the Polska 2050 association established in 2020 and founder of the party with that name. Founder of the charity foundations "Kasisi" (2013) and Dobra Fabryka (2014). He collaborated with "Gazeta Wyborcza", "Newsweek Polska", "Rzeczpospolita", "Wprost". He also published in Catholic magazines, including in "Tygodnik Powszechny".
Szymon Hołownia was the program director and presenter of Religia.tv as well as the co-host of the "Got Talent" program in 2008-2019. In 2014, he founded the Dobra Fabryka foundation, which organizes help for the residents of, among others, Bangladesh, Mauritania, Rwanda, Burkina Faso and Senegal. At the end of 2019, he organized a civic fundraiser on Facebook, during which PLN 2 million was collected for the continued operation of the helpline for children and adolescents of the Empowering Children Foundation.
In 2016, he was awarded the Badge of Honor for Merit for the Protection of Children's Rights, awarded by the Ombudsman for Children. He was also an ambassador for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. He has received prestigious literary and journalistic awards, such as Wiktor audience (2010), Ostre Pióro (2004) and Grand Press (twice: in 2006 and 2007).
Martyna Wojciechowska – journalist, traveler, author of books. An economist with an MBA diploma, a journalist by passion. Author of a series of podcasts and videos on YouTube DALEJ. Founder of the UNAWEZA Foundation, which helps women spread their wings by providing them with equal economic, social and legal opportunities.
For 10 years she was an editor-in-chief of the Polish edition of 'National Geographic' and 'NG Traveler' magazines. She has produced more than 100 episodes of her original travel series Woman at the End of the World, which is broadcast in more than 60 countries around the world. She was the second Polish woman to conquer the Crown of the Earth, and was the first woman from Central and Eastern Europe to complete the Dakar Rally. A member of The Explorers Club and the author of many best-selling books.
Photo: Mario Janiszewski
Robert Makłowicz – journalist, traveller, author of books and television programmes on culinary, cultural and historical subjects.
Between 1993 and 2004, he was a columnist for ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’.
He also cooperated with the weekly magazines ‘Wprost’ (2002-2005), ‘Newsweek Polska’ (since 2005) and ‘Przekrój’.
Between 1998 and 2008 on TVP, he was the host of the popular Sunday series of reportages "Robert Makłowicz's culinary journeys". From March 2008 to March 2017, he hosted the TV programme "Makłowicz w podróży" on TVP2.
Barbara Kurdej-Szatan – theatre, television and film actress, presenter and singer. Television viewers' favourite, several times awarded with Telekamera for the best actress and Golden Telekamera. She is associated with the 6th Floor Theatre and the Variete Theatre in Krakow. She became known to a wide audience as Basia Mazurek in Dzień dobry, kocham cię! (she also created a song for the film in a duet with Libera), Joanna Chodakowska in M jak miłość or the hostess of the programmes Kocham cię, Polsko!, The Voice of Poland, Dance Dance and Project Cupid. A dubbing actress – her voice is used, among others, by characters from the films The Witch 2, Space Jam: A New Era or My Little Pony: The Movie.
The heroine of the book How did it happen? by Magdalena Bober.
Rafał Trzaskowski, PhD is the Mayor of Warsaw since 2018. He is a member of the European Committee of Regions and the Board of Eurocities. In 2020 Rafał Trzaskowski was the Civic Platform’s candidate for the Presidency of Poland.
Former MP, MEP and Vice-Chair of the European People’s Party, in 2014 served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and in 2013 as a Minister for Administration and Digitalization in the Cabinet of PM Donald Tusk.
During his mayoral term, he introduced, among others, a free nursery program for Warsaw kids, increased funding under the Warsaw in vitro program and carried out record purchases of clean public transport vehicles.
Along with the mayors of the capitals of the other Visegrád Group countries, signed the Pact of Free Cities in December 2019 to promote common values of freedom, human dignity, democracy, equality, rule of law.
Rafał Trzaskowski was born in Warsaw, where he studied and graduated in international relations and English philology at the University of Warsaw. He is also a graduate of the College of Europe. In 2004 he obtained his PhD degree in political science. He speaks fluent English, French, Spanish, Russian and Italian.
Sylwia Chutnik, PhD – a graduate of Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the Warsaw University. A writer, publicist, social activist and promoter of reading. A member of the Union of Polish Writers and the Union of Writers Association. Curator of festivals and literary initiatives (Apostrophe -International Literary Festival, OFF Literary Café, discussions and meetings with authors). She was a lecturer at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw and at the Writing Machine – the school of Writing. Columnist of 'Polityka', 'Pani', 'Wysokie Obcasy' , 'Gazeta Stołeczna' and many web sites. She co-hosted the literary programs Cappuccino z książką (Cappuccino with a book) and Zapomniani–odzyskani (Forget- recovered) in TVP Kultura. She is currently co-organizing the Barłóg literacki on You Tube channel. Her texts appeared in collective books and in many catalogs for exhibitions of contemporary art and theater programs (including the Grand Theater - National Opera, Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Nobel Museum in Stockholm). She publishes guest appearances in the Polish and foreign press. Her scientific texts have been included in more than 20 studies and collective books. Scholarship holder Homines Urbani 2008, Institute Books from Lithuania 2009, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage 2010, City of Warsaw 2010, Goethe Institute 2010.
Winner of literary and social awards. She is part of Olgas Rok Award Committee, 'Polityka' Science Awards Civic Committee and Feminist Fund Committee.
Lead singer in punk band Zimny Maj. She has podcast Radio Sylwia and Elgiebete TV.
Professor Adam Bodnar – professor and dean of the Law Faculty of the SWPS University in Warsaw, visiting professor at the University of Cologne; member of advisory boards of International IDEA, Liberties, World Organization Against Torture and World Justice Project; advisor of domestic organizations, including Tour de Konstytucja; former Ombudsman of the Republic of Poland (September 2015 - July 2021); columnist for Polish daily 'Gazeta Wyborcza' and internet edition of 'Polityka'.
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Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich – a lawyer by education. From her passion and profession a journalist. In 1990 she went to Russia with her husband Jerzy Redlich, a TVP correspondent. She became so fascinated with this country that she spent over a dozen years there, cooperating - as a "freelancer" - with the Polish press and Polsat television. She has been constantly dealing with Russia, and since 1997 also with Chechen issues. Author of many press reportages, documentary films about Chechnya and books about Russia: Pandrioszka (Pandryoshka, three editions), Głową o mur Kremla (Head against Kremlin Wall, three editions) and the biography of Vladimir Putin Wowa, Wołodia, Władimir. Tajemnice Rosji Putina (Vova, Volodya, Vladimir. Secrets of Putin's Russia).
Winner of many journalistic awards, including the Kazimierz Dziewanowski Award (for a foreign correspondent), the Melchior Wańkowicz Award, the Amnesty International Award, the "Autumn Book 2007" award, the Ks. Professor Józef Tischner Award. In 2005 at the request of the Chechen organization "Echo Wojny", Amnesty International and the Helsinki Foundation she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Łona (Adam Zieliński) is a Szczecin-based rapper who has been active on the music market in a duo with Webber for twenty years, and has released six albums during that time. Łona and Webber's latest full-length albums: "Cztery i pół" and "Nawiasem mówiąc" achieved the status of Golden Records. The duo's latest release 'Śpiewnik domowy EP' was released in April 2020. In 2017, the Council for the Polish Language honoured him with the title "Young Ambassador of the Polish language". In 2020, he and Webber were awarded the title of honorary ambassadors of Szczecin by the Mayor of Szczecin. Łona is also a lawyer practising in one of Szczecin's law firms.
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Justyna Kopińska – journalist, sociologist. She deals with criminal issues related to criminal law, courts and prisons. She gained professional experience in the United States and East Africa. She is a laureate of the Amnesty International Journalism Award – Pen of Hope.
She received the Ryszard Kapuściński PAP Adward for them, Grand Press, Teresa Torańska Newsweek Award and a distinction from Andrzej Woyciechowski Radio ZET Adward. Author of the books Czy Bóg wybaczy siostrze Bernadetcie? (Will God forgive Sister Bernadette?), Z nienawiści do kobiet (Out of hatred for women), Obłęd (Madness), Lekarstwo dla duszy (A cure for the soul), Polska odwraca oczy (Poland turns its eyes away.).
Two-time winner of Mediators. She was the first journalist from Poland to receive the European Press Prize in the Distinguished Writing Award category.
Mariusz Szczygieł – reporter, columnist, non-fiction writer, Czechophile. His books have been published in 21 countries.
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Anna Dziewit-Meller – writer and journalist, formerly also leader of the female rock band Andy. She has so far published novels: Disco (Disco, 2012) and Góra Tajget (Mount Tajget, 2016) and Od jednego Lucypera (From One Luciper, 2020). In 2017, she published the book Damy, dziewuchy, dziewczyny. Historia w spódnicy (Ladies, Girls, Girls. History in a skirt) Together with Agnieszka Drotkiewicz, she published two volumes of interviews Głośniej! Rozmowy z pisarki (Louder! Conversations with Women Writers) and Teoria trutnia i inne. Rozmowy z mężczyznami (Drones theory and more. Conversations with men) and with Marcin Meller a collection of reportages Gaumardżos, opowieści z Gruzji (Gaumardjos, stories from Georgia) . In addition to her own work, she devotes a lot of time to other people's books - previously on TV programmes, since 2016 on her author's online channel bukbuk.pl. In 2016, she was nominated for the Grand Press Award for her interview. Originally from Silesia, she lives in Warsaw. From January 2017 to October 2020, she is a columnist for 'Tygodnik Powszechny' and collaborates with 'Polityka' weekly. Editor-in-Chief of the Wab Publishing House, she lives and works in Warsaw.
Photo: Weronika Ławniczak
Professor Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of ten books of contemporary history and political writing which have explored many facets of the history of Europe over the last half-century. They include The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, The File: A Personal History, In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent, Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name and Free Speech: Ten Principles For a Connected World. He also writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated, and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, amongst other journals. From 2001 to 2006, he was Director of the European Studies Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he now directs the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague was recently reissued with a new chapter exploring the 30 years since 1989 in post-communist Europe. His latest book, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, will be published in spring 2023. Prizes he has received for his writing include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Prix Européen de l'Essai and the George Orwell Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen, for services to European unity.
Janina Ochojska – polish humanitarian worker, President of the Polish Humanitarian Organization, member of the European Parliament.
A graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Employee of the astronomical laboratory of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Co-founder of "Solidarity" in Torun.
In the early years, she had a polio infection. During the treatment in France in the 1980s, she joined the humanitarian foundation EquiLibre, a branch of which she later co-founded in Poland. Organizer of the first Polish convoy with humanitarian aid to besieged Sarajevo. Founder of the Polish Humanitarian Action.
She received numerous awards and distinctions for her public and humanitarian service. Among others, the "Woman of Europe" prize awarded by the European Commission (1994), the Legion of Honor awarded by the President of the French Republic (2003), the Father Jozef Tischner Award (2006). She also received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
She is a member of the European Parliament in the EPP group.
Zbigniew Rokita – reporter, editor, specialises in Eastern Europe and Upper Silesia. Author of the reporter books Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku (double winner of the Nike Literary Award and nominated for the Angelus Central European Literature Award, the Ambassador of New Europe Award and the Witold Pilecki International Prize) and Królowie strzelców. Piłka w cieniu imperium (the book was translated into Ukrainian and a play based on it was staged at New Theatre in Zabrze). Author of the plays Nikaj (Zagłębie Theatre, dir. Robert Talarczyk) and Weltmajstry (Korez Theatre, dir. Robert Talarczyk). He comes from Gliwice and lives in Katowice.
Photo: Dorota Duda
Karolina Korwin Piotrowska – journalist, columnist and writer, graduate of Art History at the University of Warsaw. She writes about film and pop culture; she started her career in Radio Kolor led by Wojciech Mann. She worked, among others, in TVP, Radio Zet, TVN. She founded the portal Plejada and tvn.pl. She wrote columns for wp.pl, 'Wysokie Obcasy' (High Heels).
Since January 8, 2018, she has been hosting the morning Antyradio program with Michał Figurski - Najgorsze państwo świata (The worst country in the world). Also, since January 2019, she has been the host of the author's film program Kino na podsłuchu (Cinema on the wire). In Canal Plus, she has been hosting the program Film News since 2019.
Author of several books, for instance in 2022 she published Wszyscy wiedzieli (Everyone knew) – the first book in Poland dedicated to the systemic violence of lecturers against students in acting schools.
Adam Michnik – editor-in-chief of 'Gazeta Wyborcza', the biggest daily in Poland. Historian, essayist, political publicist, civil rights activist, dissident. Former member of the authorities of International Press Institute. Detained many times during 1965-1980. In March 1968 in the beginning of anti-Semitic campaign organized by communist party he was expelled from the university what caused students’ protests and riots. In 1976 during his trip to Western Europe he gained political support for Polish opposition. In 1977 created a concept of an anti-totalitarian alliance consisting of members of the non-communist left and the church. A prominent "Solidarity” activist during the ‘80s, spent a total of six years in Polish prisons for activities opposing the communist regime. In 1988 member of Lech Wałęsa’s Coordination Committee. One of key members of the Round Table Talks 1989. Created a concept of forming a government lead by "Solidarity” prime minister. Member of the first non-communist parliament 1989-1991.
Editor-in-chief of the first independent Polish newspaper – 'Gazeta Wyborcza' which become one of the most influential media in Europe and the most important newspaper in Poland fighting for Polish democracy to this day. In 2007-2008 a mediator of the Georgia Struggle for the Freedom of the Press. In 2008 nominated by the European Union for an ambassador of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
Laureate of many prizes and titles. Author of many books and endless number of articles printed all around the world, e.g. in: 'Der Spiegel', 'Le Monde', 'Liberation', 'El Pais', 'Lettre International', 'New York Review of Books', 'The Washington Post' and many others.
Photo: Dawid Żuchowicza / Agencja Gazeta
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Freedom Games 2019 are now over. One of the final speeches in the Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland, belonged to Lech Walesa, a former president of Poland. When he entered the stage wearing a t-shirt with Constitution written on it, the audience stood up. People were applauding.
Freedom Games are a meeting of people open to dialogue, new ideas, and fun!
(…) the sixth edition of Freedom Games is about to start.startuje szósta edycja Igrzysk Wolności. WThis unique event gathers intellectuals, scientists, and artists – people of ideas who by engaging in a constructive conversation help better understand the reality.
– The PiS party wishes to hide away Freedom Games by organizing its own party convention. One of their members called Freedom Games “games of hate”. It is nothing of the sort. We intend to flood them with love and freedom – stated Leszek Jazdzewski on Twitter.
What hovers over the entire conference (…) is a spirit of optimistic and creative freedom, of searching for solutions, as if no authoritarian government existed in Poland.
Radio program by Karolina Lewicka pt. “Jak umierają demokracje?” – which is the leading theme of Freedom Games 2019
A grassroots forum created by an NGO, which brings together people who share such values as liberal democracy, open society, and the rule of law.
A meeting of representatives of the sectors of culture, business, and social lifespotkanie ludzi kultury, biznesu i życia społecznego z publicznością, who believe in the ideas of liberal democracy and open society has just began. Freedom Games are held in Lodz for the sixth time.
– For the sixth time, the city of Lodz decided to co-organize a leading intellectual and cultural forum of ideas in Poland – a meeting of renowned scholars, representatives of culture, science, and activists, as well as entrepreneurs and politicians – stated Hanna Zdanowska, the Mayor of the City. – We intend to create the best forum of ideas in the country.
Freedom Games are an extraordinary agora where thoughts and ideas can clash without an artificial divide between that which is political, social, or artistic.
Can we feel good in a country where the winners of the election refuse to respect the rights of the losing side? It is a crucial matter also for the supporters of the current government – because at one point the winners might become the losers. An interview with Leszek Jazdzewski and Blazej Lenkowski, the organizers of Freedom Games.
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Tania Malarczuk is a Ukrainian author and journalist, who was born and raised in Ivano-Frankivsk and has been residing in Vienna since 2011.She is the author of five collections of novellas and short stories, two novels, a middle grade novel and a poetry collection. She has also been writing nonfiction routinely in German since 2014 and won the 2018 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her first ever short story authored in German. Tanja is also the winner of the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize (Poland and Ukraine) and the BBC Book of the Year Award (Ukraine) for her novel Forgottenness (pol. Zapomnienie, Wydawnictwo Warstwy, 2019). Her first book to be written in German, a collection of essays in response to political events in Ukraine, was recently published in Germany. Tanja’s work has been translated into over ten languages.
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
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Discussion panel
Moderation: Piotr Buras – political scientist, journalist, columnist
Partner: European Council on Foreign Relations
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Johan Norberg is an author, lecturer and documentary filmmaker, born in Sweden. He has written books on a broad range of topics, including
global economics and popular science, including Progress: Ten Reasons to
Look Forward to the Future and the most recent Open: The Story of Human
Progress. He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C.
and the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels.
He received his M. A. in the History of Ideas from the University of
Stockholm.
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
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Professor Mark Lilla – American philosopher, historian of ideas and publicist, professor at Columbia University in New York and other prestigious universities in the US.
He was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1956, and was educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. After holding professorships at New York University and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, he joined Columbia University in 2007 as Professor of the Humanities. He has been awarded fellowships by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Institut d’études avancées (Paris), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the American Academy in Rome. In 1995 he was inducted into the French Order of Academic Palms.
Mark Lilla is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and publications worldwide. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lectures widely and has delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture in Israel and the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University. In 2015 Overseas Press Club of America awarded him its prize for Best Commentary on International News in Any Medium.
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
Author's meeting
Moderation: Jakub Szczęsny – architect, author of the installation
Partner: Wydawnictwo Literackie
Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. His six bestselling story collections have been translated into 49 languages. His writing has been published in ‘The New York Times’, ‘Le Monde’, ‘The Guardian’, ‘The New Yorker’, ‘The Paris Review’, and ‘Esquire’. He has also written a number of screenplays, and Jellyfish, his first film as a director alongside his wife Shira Geffen, won the Caméra d’Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 he was awarded the Chevalier medallion of France’s l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in 2016 he won the Bronfman Prize, and in 2018 his most recent book, FLY ALREADY, won the Sapir Prize.
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Jane Goodall, DBE, PhD – founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, is a world-renowned ethologist and activist inspiring greater understanding and action on behalf of the natural world. Through her tireless advocacy to create a better future for people, other animals, and the planet we share, Dr. Goodall inspires millions of people with her message of hope through action. She is best known for groundbreaking studies of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, transformative research continued by the Jane Goodall Institute which is now the longest running wild chimpanzee study in the world.
Jane Goodall was born on April 3, 1934, in London, England. From earliest childhood, she was fascinated by animals and the wildlife of Africa she discovered in the storybooks of Tarzan and Doctor Doolittle. In 1957, she followed her dream and traveled to the Kenyan farm of a friend’s parents where she met the famed paleoanthropologist Doctor Louis Leakey. In 1960, at his invitation, she began her landmark study of chimpanzee behavior in what is now Tanzania. Her field research at what was then called Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve led to her astounding observations that chimpanzees make and use tools, which revolutionized the world of primatology and redefined the relationship between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.
In 1977, Jane Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) to advance her vision around the world and for generations to come. JGI continues essential research at Gombe Stream Research Center and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats through community-led conservation. The organization also advances best practices in animal welfare, innovative applications of science and technology, and youth empowerment through its Roots & Shoots program, created in 1991. Roots & Shoots supports young people in all 50 United States and over 50 countries worldwide to be the change in their communities and change the world for the better, together.
Prior to the Pandemic, Jane traveled on average 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope. Today, Jane continues to connect with worldwide audiences, despite present challenges, through ‘Virtual Jane’ including remote lectures, recordings, and her podcast, the Jane Goodall Hopecast.
In 2021, Jane Goodall was the recipient of the Templeton Prize, and her newest book, “The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times,” was published.
Together with Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce, Jane is an international spokesperson for the World Economic Forum Trillion Tree Campaign launched in February 2020. She is also a leading voice on the dangers of zoonotic disease transfer and COVID-19 as a terrible manifestation of humanity’s unsustainable global systems and imbalance with the natural world. Jane Goodall’s eloquent ability to raise public awareness and understanding has become instrumental in her work to save chimpanzees and other species from extinction, as well as to influence and advance climate action and ecosystem protection.
Jane Goodall is the author of numerous books that have engaged an international readership. Jane Goodall is the subject of numerous television documentaries, as well as the 2002 film Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees, the 2010 documentary Jane’s Journey and the 2017 National Geographic documentary JANE, and following title Jane Goodall: The Hope. Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet has also produced several features on Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall is a global icon and the recipient of many honors, including the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal, Japan’s prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the UNESCO 60th Anniversary Medal, and the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence. In April 2002, Secretary General Kofi Annan named Jane Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In a 2004 ceremony at Buckingham Palace, she became a Dame Commander of the British Empire. In 2006, she received France’s highest recognition, the Legion of Honor. In 2021, Jane was the recipient of the esteemed Templeton Prize, and her newest book, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, was published.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Katarzyna Skrzydłowska–Kalukin – social journalist, reporter
Partner: Geremek Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Katarzyna Bałucka-Dębska – European Commission, Directorate General for Climate
Partner: European Committee of the Regions
Author's meeting
Moderation: Tomasz Walczak – journalist, editor, political commentator
Witold Szabłowski – Polish journalist and reporter, winner of the European Parliament Journalism Award. Since 2006 he has worked for “Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Duzy Format”.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Katarzyna Dębek – deputy head of Forbes Polska
Partner: Inspiring Girls Polska
Discussion panel
Moderation: Renata Grochal – journalist of “Newsweek”
Discussion based on the book Barriers for Liberalism. An anthology of texts by Piotr Beniuszys.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Jarosław Makowski – philosopher, columnist, head of the Civic Institute, PO’s think tank
Partner: Civic Institute
Discussion panel
Moderation: Paula Berman – specialist of plural social technologies
Despite all its financial speculation and accumulation, web3 still attracts many civic-minded people. This panel will discuss their journeys into web3 and what they have learned about its pitfalls and possibilities.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Maria Alesina – Policy and Research Specialist at the European Liberal Forum
Path: ELF’s Hub
Discussion panel
Moderation: Natalia Szcześniak – architect, urban planner and Youtuber
Partner: UN Global Compact
Discussion panel
Moderation: Jakub Kapiszewski – journalist of Onet.pl
Partner: UNICEF Poland
Round table
Moderation: Marek Konopczyński – rehabilitation educator, professor of social sciences, head of the Department of Special Education, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Białystok
Lecture
12:15 – 12:45 Citizens’ Assemblies and DemocracyNext
Claudia Chwalisz – author, activist and entrepreneur working on the transfer of political and legislative power to ordinary people
In recent years, Europe has increasingly embraced citizens’ assemblies. As a democratic and deliberative model, these bodies have proven adaptable, legitimate, and effective. Could they go further, exercising more vital political authority, and even unseating elections as the heart of power?
12:45 – 13:15 Technology for Democracy in Ukraine
Alona Shevchenko – co-founder and operational manager of Ukraine DAO
Hear from Alona Shevchenko, the co-founder of UkraineDAO, which has raised and distributed millions of dollars to aid Ukraine, and organizer of the Kyiv Tech Summit, which convenes local technologists to solve on-the-ground problems in the Ukrainian people’s fight for freedom. Both initiatives are supported by the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Paweł Rutkiewicz – journalist specializing in political and intervention topics
Discussion panel
Introduction: Christal Morehouse – Senior Project Manager at Bertelsmann Stiftung in the field of migration and integration
Moderation: Jacek Żakowski – publicist, commentator of “Polityka” and “Gazeta Wyborcza”
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Moderation: Wiktoria Bieliaszyn – journalist of “Gazeta Wyborcza” dealing with Eastern Europe
Partner: IKEA
Moderation: Edwin Bendyk – president of the Batory’s Foundation
Partner: Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego
Discussion panel
Moderation: Marek Tatała – economist, manager, vice-president of the Management Board of the Economic Freedom Foundation
Partner: Economic Freedom Foundation
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Moderation: Matt Prewitt – president of the RadicalxChange Foundation, writer and advisor in the blockchain industry
We often accept money as a fact of life. In fact, it is an institution whose design empowers some actors and shapes society. Cryptocurrencies have reminded us of the possibility that money could work differently; yet it is not clear that the most well-known cryptocurrencies set money on a more democratic path. This panel explores unexpected possible futures for money.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderator: Francesco Cappelletti – member of the Cyber Security Center in Florence
Path: ELF Hub
Discussion panel
Moderation: Marcin Frenkel – Americanist and media expert
Discussion panel
Moderation: Beata Bilska – feminist and vegan, owner of Majne Szwajne Vegan Deli
Lecture
Moderation: Tomasz Kamiński – professor at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the University of Lodz, permanent associate of “Liberté!”
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
Discussion panel
Moderation: Shrey Jain – Web3 Researcher at Microsoft
Social thinkers like John Dewey have long imagined the proliferation of “new publics” that could serve the roles nation-states are no longer able to fulfill in a globalized world. New technologies have led to unprecedented public problems, but they also yield new opportunities. Imagine the cascading benefits of digital public spaces that algorithmically highlight points of consensus and encourage conversation across lines of difference. This panel will discuss the relationship between technology and new publics.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Maciej Kuziemski – director of Philanthropy for Impact
Partner: European Council on Foreign Relations
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magdalena Skłodowska – journalist of Ecoreporters.pl
Partner: Amazon
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magdalena M. Baran – philosopher, journalist, editor-in-chief of the monthly “Liberté!”
Discussion panel
Moderation: Olga Brzezińska – Program Director of Leadership Academy for Poland, president of the City of Literature Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Claudia Chwalisz – author, activist, founder and president of DemocracyNext
When people think of democracy narrowly as voting — on candidates, referenda, etc. — we end up with superficial citizenship, dubious decision-making. Citizens think democracy is broken. But democracy is so much more than voting. It embraces citizen deliberation and action: rich, exploratory spaces where we share our views, listen and learn from each other, and creatively bridge our differences to co-create visions, solutions, and activities that promote broad benefit. This panel will discuss new spaces, institutions, and technologies for engaged deliberative democracy.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Weronika Michalak – director of HEAL Polska
Partner: Strategies 2050, Heal Polska
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Moderation: Jarosław Sroka – expert in corporate communication and media market, member of the management board of Kulczyk Investments
Partner: Kulczyk Investments
Discussion panel
Moderation: Marta Szymczyk – teacher, Nieszablonowa Pedagożka
Discussion on the basis of the Liberté! Report: Social contract for education.
Partner: Protest z Wykrzyknikiem
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Moderator: Edwin Bendyk – journalist, columnist, president of the board of Batory’s Foundation
Partner: Batory’s Foundation
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Moderation: Matt Prewitt – president of the RadicalxChange Foundation, writer and advisor in the blockchain industry
In a sense, the promise of network technology, and the hope of democracy, is to distribute authority. And perhaps no institution is in more obvious tension with this ambition than courts: a centralized and technocratic institution that plays a vital role in every democratic society.
In Europe, a system of plural constitutional orders underpins the most successful political project of the last half century; yet is now encountering serious difficulty. On digital networks, efforts to democratize the judicial function have been similarly halting, from Facebook’s oversight board to web3. What is the future of jurisprudence?
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Małgorzata Bonikowska – president of the Center for International Relations and the THINKTANK center, Europeanist
Partner: 4liberty.eu
Discussion panel
Moderation: Agata Kasprolewicz – journalist, publisher, reporter and podcast
Partner: Orange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magda Melnyk – writer, political scientist
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Moderation: Alek Tarkowski – digital activist, strategist, technology sociologist
A person’s data contains deep, predictive insights about other people with whom they associate, so whenever one person discloses or withholds it, countless others are affected in important ways. Indeed if anyone has absolute control over “their own” data, no one does. Democratically and mutually accountable consortia for data governance are the most promising direction for our institutions to evolve in to grapple with this fundamental issue. This panel will discuss the emerging legal, regulatory, and technological landscape that could enable these new institutions to thrive.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Maia Mazurkiewicz – expert in the fight against disinfromination and behavioral changes
Partner: Google
Discussion panel
Moderation: Piotr Kozanecki – Head of Onet News
Path: ELF Hub
Discussion panel
Moderation: Hanna Cichy – senior economic analyst at Polityka Insight
Discussion on the basis of the Liberté reports!
Author's meeting
Moderation: Roman Imielski – journalist, deputy editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza
Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich – a lawyer by education. From her passion and profession a journalist. In 1990 she went to Russia with her husband Jerzy Redlich, a TVP correspondent. She became so fascinated with this country that she spent over a dozen years there, cooperating – as a “freelancer” – with the Polish press and Polsat television. She has been constantly dealing with Russia, and since 1997 also with Chechen issues. Author of many press reportages, documentary films about Chechnya and books about Russia: Pandrioszka (Pandryoshka, three editions), Głową o mur Kremla (Head against Kremlin Wall, three editions) and the biography of Vladimir Putin Wowa, Wołodia, Władimir. Tajemnice Rosji Putina (Vova, Volodya, Vladimir. Secrets of Putin’s Russia).
Winner of many journalistic awards, including the Kazimierz Dziewanowski Award (for a foreign correspondent), the Melchior Wańkowicz Award, the Amnesty International Award, the “Autumn Book 2007” award, the Ks. Professor Józef Tischner Award. In 2005 at the request of the Chechen organization “Echo Wojny”, Amnesty International and the Helsinki Foundation she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Roman Imielski – deputy editor-in-chief and head of “Gazeta Wyborcza’s” political department. Former editorial secretary, head of the foreign department of “Gazeta Wyborcza”, editor-in-chief of the Wyborcza.pl website, author of many articles on Polish politics, Russia, Ukraine, the European Union and transatlantic relations. Commentator on international and Polish affairs in electronic media.
In “Gazeta Wyborcza” since 1995, initially in the local editorial office in Katowice, since 2001 in the headquarters in Warsaw as deputy head of the sports department.
A historian by training, graduate of the University of Silesia, co-author of the book Najważniejszy mecz Kremla (The Kremlin’s most important match) about the football World Cup in Russia.
Round table
Moderation: Wojtek Marczewski – student at University College London
Discussion panel
Moderation: Matt Prewitt [ONLINE] – president of the RadicalxChange Foundation, writer and advisor in the blockchain industry
In this wide-ranging conversation, Audrey and Cory discuss aspects of their work that are not well understood; their concerns with escapist ideologies and the promise of connecting across difference; the importance of increasing the bandwidth of democracy; what plurality means to them and how it can be a guide for steering the future of technology; how Taiwan sits at the triangular intersection of American capitalism, European values-based democracy, and Chinese centralized or AI-driven governance; the elements of pluralism inherent to the European project; the media ecosystem; the role of science fiction; and much more. Cory has just released a new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, and Audrey is currently writing her first book, Plurality, with Glen Weyl.
Path: RadicalxChange
meeting: Meeting
Moderation: Anna Pamuła – reporter, writer
Martyna Wojciechowska – journalist, traveler, author of books. An economist with an MBA diploma, a journalist by passion. Author of a series of podcasts and videos on YouTube DALEJ. Founder of the UNAWEZA Foundation, which helps women spread their wings by providing them with equal economic, social and legal opportunities.
For 10 years she was an editor-in-chief of the Polish edition of ‘National Geographic’ and ‘NG Traveler’ magazines. She has produced more than 100 episodes of her original travel series Woman at the End of the World, which is broadcast in more than 60 countries around the world. She was the second Polish woman to conquer the Crown of the Earth, and was the first woman from Central and Eastern Europe to complete the Dakar Rally. A member of The Explorers Club and the author of many best-selling books.
Anna Pamuła – reporter working with Gazeta Wyborcza and Chidusz, columnist for Wysokie Obcasy and the French magazine Parents, author of the reportage “Polacos. Chajka sails to Costa Rica” (Czarne, 2017) and the book nominated for many literary awards “Turmoil. France on the Edge” (Agora 2020), as well as “Mamans du Monde” published in France (the polish version will be published in 2022 under the title “Mothers of the World” (Agora). She also cooperates as a writer and editor with Martyna Wojciechowska, Sonia Kronlund and James Oeslend. She lives in France, speaks seven languages but loves Yiddish the most (which she is still learning). She also works full-time at home, together with her husband taking care of her 8-year-old son Józio.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Michał Sutowski – political scientist, columnist, member of the Krytyka Polityczna team
The Anthropocene, the age in which Human Being became a geological factor, is not an illusion or presumption – it is a fact confirmed by the science. Since human beings are shaping our Planet and the experts on the nature of people are representatives of the social sciences, it is impossible to ignore their reactions to the new era. Moreover, in many disciplines – from economics through sociology to political science – proposals for new academic teaching subjects, ideas for the creation of new political institutions, legal reflection on giving rights to the elements of nature, are growing exponentially. And as lakes, forests, rivers acquire the status of legal entities (physical person), our imagination should refer to the need to create new professions of public trust, authorized and legitimized to represent Nature and its elements in public forums, parliaments, etc.
Discussion on the basis of the book Anthropocene for Beginners. Climate, Environment, Pandemics in the Age of Man by David Juraszek.
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Moderation: Katarzyna Kubisiowska – journalist, member of the editorial board of Tygodnik Powszechny
Partner: Tygodnik Powszechny
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meeting: Meeting
Tomasz Sekielski – journalist, screenwriter, director of documentaries
Moderation: Joanna Łopat – reporter cooperating with “Duży Format” and OKO.PRESS.
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Tomasz Sekielski is a Polish radio and television journalist, author of documentaries, television reports, prose writer. Screenwriter and director of the documentaries Tylko nie mów nikomu (Just Don’t Tell Anyone) (2019) and Zabawa w chowanego (Hide-and-seek) (2020).
He was associated with the editorial offices of TVN, TVN24, TVP1, TVP Info, Wprost, Nowa TV, Wirtualna Polska and Onet. Together with Andrzej Morozowski, he was co-host of the program Teraz my! on TVN.
In 2018, he launched his own channel on YouTube. He has received a number of awards for his work, including the Andrzej Woyciechowski Award (2006, 2019), Grand Press (2006, 2019), Wiktor (2006, 2019), Telekamery (2007, 2008), MediaTory (2010, 2019) and the Polish Film Award Eagle for best documentary (2020).
He has been editor-in-chief of ‘Newsweek Polska’ since July 2022.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Katarzyna Bieńkiewicz – PR expert, copywriter
Discussion based on the book of the 100 most famous psychological experiments in the world and their significance for understanding politics by Marek Migalski and Maciej Bożek.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magdalena M. Baran – philosopher, journalist, editor-in-chief of the monthly “Liberté!”
Partner: Defensor Iuris
Author's meeting
Moderation: Agata Stremecka – President of the Board of the Civic Development Forum
Witold Jurasz – journalist at Onet.pl where he publishes articles and runs a podcast covering foreign and security policy, chairman of a private think-tank: Strategic Analysis Center. Graduate of the University of Warsaw (International Relations). Former employee of the Polish MoD’s NATO Security Investment Programme Bureau, 1st secretary at the Political Section of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Moscow, later chargé d’affaires of the Republic of Poland in Belarus. He has also worked as a Business Development Director in a private arms trading company and was the host of a TV talk-show at Polsat News 2, where he conducted over 700 interviews.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Paweł Rabiej – an expert in the field of innovation, change management and social policy
Discussion on the basis of the Liberté! Report: SAFE ORDER – a new social policy for growth.
Lecture
11:00 – 11:30 The Future of the European Union After Crises
Luuk van Middelaar – political theorist, historian, author of the book The European Pandemonium
11:30 – 12:00 Cities and Democracy
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For a long time, European politics has been a top-down affair. But in recent crises, it was the European public at large which asked for joint action — bottom-up. During the Covid-19 pandemic, calls for solidarity and help by Italian and Spanish citizens triggered far-reaching decisions, such as the joint purchase of vaccines and the massive EU recovery fund. The brutal war in Ukraine likewise strengthens a sentiment of continental belonging. Drawing on the work of John Dewey and Hannah Arendt, Luuk van Middelaar will speak about the new and unexpected interplay between the European public and its political leaders.
Stav Shaffir helped lead the Israeli social movement that brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis into the streets in 2011. At age 27, she became the youngest woman ever elected as a Member of Parliament in Israel. Now Shaffir is focused on global collaborations building the future of democracy. In her eyes, cities are at the heart of democracy and pluralism, and they are the most compelling level of society to foster democratic innovations. Hear why Shaffir sees the most likely paths to a flourishing future for democracy running through our cities.
Path: RadicalxChange
Discussion panel
Moderation: Dominik Goss – CEO Inwedo
Accompanying event: Alt: work
Discussion panel
Moderation: Agata Stremecka – President of the Board of the Civic Development Forum
Partner: FOR
Discussion panel
Moderation: Olga Brzezińska – Program Director of Leadership Academy for Poland, president of the City of Literature Foundation
Discussion on the basis of the Liberté! Report: Culture will determine our future.
meeting: Meeting
Moderation: Maciej Nowicki – journalist of “Newsweek”
Born in southern Australia, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin), and currently teaching at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He is renowned globally for his creative thinking about politics, history, media and democracy, and is the author of many distinguished books including the best-selling Tom Paine: A Political Life (1995), The Life and Death of Democracy (2009), Democracy and Media Decadence (2013), When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter (2017) and The New Despotism (2020). He has contributed to The New York Times, Al Jazeera, the Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, The Guardian, Die Zeit, Hindustan Times and the South China Morning Post. He was recently ranked by El País (Madrid) as ‘one of the greatest theorists of political systems’. During the years he lived in Britain, The Times of London described him as among the country’s leading political thinkers and writers whose work has ‘world-wide importance’. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) speaks of him as ‘one of Australia’s great intellectual exports’. He was nominated for the 2021 Balzan Prize (Italy) and the Holberg Prize (Norway) for outstanding global contributions to the human sciences. His latest book is The Shortest History of Democracy(2022).
Path: ELF’s Thinking Aloud
Discussion panel
Moderation: Małgorzata Bonikowska – president of the Center for International Relations and the THINKTANK center, Europeanist
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Partner: Atlas Network
Discussion panel
Moderation: Rafał Jaśkowski – historian, political scientist
Partner: European Climate Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Maciej Gałecki – founder and CEO of Bluerank
Accompanying event: Alt: work
Discussion panel
Moderation: Aleksandra Majda – member of the board of the Obywatele Natury foundation
Round table
Moderation: Halina Brdulak – chairwoman of the rector’s committee for social responsibility at the Warsaw School of Economics. Chairwoman of the Climate Council at UNGC Network Poland.
Partner: Responsible Business Forum
Discussion panel
Introduction: Karen Melchior [ONLINE] – Danish MEP
Moderation: Laurenz van Ginneken – Project Officer at the European Liberal Forum
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Partner: Campaign Against Homophobia
Path: ELF Hub
Author's meeting
Moderation: Barbara Piegdoń – Polish journalist, culture expert, publisher of “Książek. Magazine for reading”
Magda Melnyk is a political commentator, analyst and reporter. The editor of liberte.pl. Specializes in the area of Hispanic countries, political transformations, social movements and women’s rights. She published her works in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Plus Minus”, “Wysokie Obcasy”, “Polityka” and “Newsweek” portals. Published by the LIBERTÉ! publishing house, her book on nationalism in Spain titled Dlaczego Hiszpania trzeszczy? (Why Spain is Crackling?) was published in 2019. Since 2021, she has been interviewing writers as part of the Books with a Punch podcast. In June 2022, her second book “Meksyk, moja miłość. Historia Eleny Poniatowskiej” (“Mexico, My Love. The Story of Elena Poniatowska”).
Moderation: Sebastian Ogórek – journalist of Wyborcza.biz
Partner: Google
Discussion panel
Moderation: Artur Urbański – expert in digital transformation and customer experience and vice president of consulting at Hycom
Accompanying event: Alt: work
Discussion panel
Moderation: Agata Kobylińska – plenipotentiary of the Mayor of Łódź for Children and Youth
Partners: Gazeta Kongresy, EduKABE Creative Solutions Foundation
Discussion panel
Moderation: Zuzanna Nowicka – lawyer of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
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Discussion panel
Moderation: Agnieszka Urazińska – journalist of „Gazeta Wyborcza”
Discussion panel
Moderation: Karol Tokarczyk – digital economy analyst in the Polityka Insight team
Partner: Meta
Discussion panel
Moderation: Renata Kim – journalist of “Newsweek”
Discussion panel
Moderation: Iga Kazimierczyk – pedagogue, teacher, co-creator of the Free School campaign
Partner: Lithuanian Free Market Institute
The session carried out under the Erasmus + program
Round table
Moderation: Marcin Adamcewicz – Marshal of the Polish Young Parliament
Partner: Polish Young Parliament
Partner of the idea: Gazeta Kongresy
Discussion panel
Moderation: Anna J. Dudek – journalist of Wysokie Obcasy
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Partner: Wysokie Obcasy
Discussion panel
Moderation: Jarosław Makowski – philosopher, theologian, columnist, head of the Civic Institute
Discussion panel
Moderation: Anna Wójcik – journalist OKO.press
Path: ELF Hub
Author's meeting
Moderation: Izabela Adamczewska-Baranowska – cultural journalist of the Lodz “Gazeta Wyborcza”, assistant professor at the University of Lodz
Discussion panel
Moderation: Magdalena M. Baran – philosopher, journalist, editor-in-chief of the monthly “Liberté!”
Discussion panel
Moderation: Mirek Michalska – chairman of the Łódź region of the Committee for the Defense of Democracy
Discussion panel
Moderation: Weronika Michalak – director of HEAL Polska
Partner: Greenpeace
Discussion panel
Moderation: Barbora Krempaská – Project Manager in Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Path: ELF Hub
Discussion panel
Moderation: Zuzanna Radzik – journalist, theologian, social activist, vice-president of Forum for Dialogue
Partner: Forum of Dialogue
Discussion panel
Moderation: Marta Zdanowska – editor, theater reviewer, literary scholar
Partner: Lodz Women’s Trail
Author's meeting
Moderation: Beata Nowicka – journalist, author
Barbara Kurdej-Szatan – theatre, television and film actress, presenter and singer. Television viewers’ favourite, several times awarded with Telekamera for the best actress and Golden Telekamera. She is associated with the 6th Floor Theatre and the Variete Theatre in Krakow. She became known to a wide audience as Basia Mazurek in Dzień dobry, kocham cię!(she also created a song for the film in a duet with Libera), Joanna Chodakowska in M jak miłość or the hostess of the programmes Kocham cię, Polsko!, The Voice of Poland, Dance Dance and Project Cupid. A dubbing actress – her voice is used, among others, by characters from the films The Witch 2, Space Jam: A New Era or My Little Pony: The Movie.
The heroine of the book How did it happen? by Magdalena Bober.
Discussion panel
Moderation: Mateusz Luft – member of the Free Belarus Initiative, editor of the magazine “Kontakt”
Partner: magazine Kontakt
Discussion panel
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Moderation: Anna J. Dudek – journalist, editor of “Wysokie Obcasy”
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