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Live footage of Krytyka Polityczna‘s Jesteśmy realistami, żądamy niemożliwego [We are realists, we demand the impossible] due to start at c.16:30 CET. For more information about this debate, click here.
Aitor Tinoco i Girona is a Spanish social activist, based in Barcelona. He has worked as a political adviser to international organisations, including the International Maritime Organisation [IMO] and the World Health Organisation [WHO]. He has also been active in student movements and is currently involved in ¡Democracia Real YA! (Real Democracy NOW!), a grassroots civic organisation that started in…
Corinna Milborn is an Austrian political scientist and journalist, who grew up and studied in various different countries throughout Europa and the Americas. She has worked for the WWF as in expert in globalisation, she writes for liga and Format, was previously active for Austrian television’s discussion programme Club 2 and now presents Puls 4’s programme Pro und Contra [For…
Deyan Deyanov is a member of the Institute of Critical Social Studies at the Paisiy Hilendarski University, Plovdiv. As a senior lecturer in the university’s Critical and Applied Sociology Department, he lectures on formal and philosophical logic, logic and the methodology of humanities, the sociology of everyday life and critical theory. From 1991 to 1999, Deyan was also the editor-in-chief…
Adam Michnik is a Polish journalist and writer based in Warsaw and a visiting professor at Princeton University. He is the founder and editor of the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. His publications in English include Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives; The Church and the Left; and Letters from Prison and Other Essays. Information valid as of winter 2012.
Robert Menasse is an Austrian writer, literary critic, political commentator and translator. After studying in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina he spent eight years in Brazil, teaching Austrian literature and literary theory at the University of São Paulo. Since 1988 he has lived in Vienna, mainly writing novels and essays, but also children’s books and opinion pieces on political and cultural…
Gissyová Lucie is a teacher of civic and social sciences at the Ústí nad Labem Business Academy in Northern Bohemia (in the Czech Republic). Information valid as of autumn 2012.
Karine Lisbonne-de Vergeron is a fellow of the Global Policy Institute (in the UK) and the author of Chinese and Indian views of Europe: new perspectives from the emerging Asian giants (2012). She specialises in international relations and European politics, specifically on the relationship between Europe and the emerging Asian giants. She helped set up a research programme on Chinese…
Philippe Legrain is a critically acclaimed thinker and communicator. He is the author of Open World: The Truth About Globalisation (2002); Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (2007), which was shortlisted for the 2007 Financial Times Business Book of the Year; and Aftershock: Reshaping the World Economy After the Crisis (2010), which the Sunday Times described as “a blueprint for a…
Iman Lechkar is a researcher at the KU Leuven and a member of the research centre for interculturalism, migration and minorities. Her research work has until now been mainly focussed on the process of conversion, the motivations for such and the relationship between the existing literature in this field and her findings from case studies of European conversions to Islam.…
Kostadinka Kuneva is a Bulgarian trade union organiser from Greece, who, because of her active position in defending workers’ rights, was attacked with acid, subsequently generating a massive solidarity movement in Greece in 2008. Information valid as of winter 2012.