October 7th (Friday), 17.00 hrs – openning
ul. Koszykowa 26/28 - Biblioteka M. st. Warszawy
Welcome remarks / Hosts: Jarosław Dubiel, Andrzej Miszk;

Presentations:
Zbigniew Romaszewski (former dissident. active member of “Solidarity” Movement, Vice-
Speaker of the SENAT, Higher Chamber of the Polish Parliament)
- „Human Rights in the international relations – differences between the 80-ties and
present time”;
Jacek Czaputowicz (Co-founder of WiP, President of KSAP)
- „ Freedom and Peace Movement in the international relations – a view from a quarter
of a century perspective”.

17.30 – 20:30 hrs
Panel Debate I „Identity – Experience – Future” (Polish – Ukrainian context)
Participants from Ukraine: Alik Alisevych (one of informal leaders of the hippie movement
in Ukraine), Jaroslaw Hrytsak (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv) Markijan Iwaszczyszyn
(DZYGA Project, Lviv), Myrosław Marynowycz (Deputy President of the Catholic Ukrainian
University, Lviv); Mykoła Ryabczuk (Center of Ukrainian Culture Studies, Kiev),; Taras
Woźniak (Editor in Chief of the „Ji” quarterly, Lviv),
Debate moderated by Bogumiła Berdychowska and Jan Piekło

This part will focus on how dissidents and independent artists influence the basic threats of a
debate on identity and politics in Ukraine (context of Polish-Ukrainian relations; questions
on bridge-building in Europe). What are former dissidents up to these days, what is their
status within the society? Is their work publicly recognized? What is the condition of human
rights in nowadays Ukraine and how it is assessed by Ukrainian and Polish guests?

20.30- 22.30
Informal meeting and concert in the “777 Club”.

October 8th (Saturday), 9:30 – 10:00 hrs
Presentation of a Publishing Project by WiP (Piotr Odrzywołek)

10.00 – 12.30 hrs
Panel Debate Part II „Individual versus State – State versus ethical choices – historical
and present experience” (guests from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Austria and Germany)
Guests: Markus Meckel (former dissident and a last Minister of Foreign Affairs of DDR,
former MP) Wolfgang Templin (Head of H. Boell Found, Warsaw), Aleksander Podrabinek
(former dissident, human rights activist and an independent journalist from Moscow), Franak
Wiaczorka (opposition activist from Belarus), Florian Wenninger (University of Vienna);
Alik Alisevych (Lviv), Jerzy Kolarzowski (Warsaw University); Peter Schwarz (Wien,
Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichsichen Widerstandes)

Buffet lunch

13.00 – 15.00 hrs
Panel Debate Part III „Ethnic Minorities in the PRL and nowadays – is empathy
possible in the international relations?”
Guests: Taras Woźniak (Lviv), Aleksander Milinkiewicz (Leader of the Movement „For
Freedeom”, Belarus); Tadeusz Gawin (former leader of the ZPB, Belarus); Bogdan Cywiński
(publicist), Mariusz Maszkiewicz (UKSW), Kornel Morawiecki (the leader of a „Fighting
Solidarity”), Mikołaj Iwanow (Opole University); Lucjan Winnicki (Wrocław University);
Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin (Warsaw University), guest form Lithuania (tbc).
Debate moderated by Jerzy Żurko and Bogumiła Berdychowska (to be confirmed)

Polish experience of the 80ties – dialogue with Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and the
first questions on the Polish Eastern Policy after 1989.

Coffee Break

15.30 – 17.30 hrs
Panel Debate Part IV „State security and a well being of an Individual” (Ethics –
Economy – Raison d’Etat; How to foster international relations?)

Participants: (Zbigniew Karaczun SGGW, Warsaw, Maryana Bułgakowa (“Legal Analytics”-
EACLA, Lviv), Andrzej Kassenberg (The Institute for Sustainable Development, Warsaw)
(representative from Germany (tbc).

Debate moderated by Jarosław Dubiel and Radosław Gawlik
This part will focus on a relation State – Individual in present times. Ecological and ethical
conflicts in the international relations. Key issues and questions that concern Kyoto Protocol
and nuclear energy.

Closing remarks – (17.30 – 17.45)

Partners:
Polish-American Freedom Found (RITA Program, Education for Democracy)H. Bőll, Stiftung

(Warsaw), Austrian Culture Forum (Warsaw), Fund for Freedom (Wrocław), PAUCI Fundation,
NSZZ “Solidarność”, Found for Poles in the former Soviet States (Fundacja Pomocy Polakom na
Wschodzie); Ministry of the Foreign Affairs (Polish Embassies in Kiev and Moscow).

Media partners
Polish National Radio Program I ; Kultura Enter (monthly); TV BELSAT, Kultura liberalna
(monthly); www.tezeusz.pl ; “Nowa Europa Wschodnia” monthly( www.neww.org.pl) ;

For details: www.tezeusz.pl

e-mail konferencjawip@gmail.com