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Nikolay Mihaylov has worked as a practicing psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry and psychology. He was one of the founding members and a member of the national leadership of the right-wing political party, Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB). In 2005, he was elected as a member of parliament for the DSB and, during his time in parliament, he served…

Paul Mason is Channel 4‘s economics editor. He spent the first ten years of his working life as a professional musicologist. Then he switched to journalism, starting in local free-sheets before moving to Reed Business Information, in Surrey. As deputy editor of Computer Weekly he was part of a team that uncovered a series of IT disasters and controversies, including…

Maria Margaronis writes from The Nation’s London bureau. A former associate literary editor of the magazine, her work has appeared in many other publications, including The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. She writes and presents radio documentaries for the BBC. Information valid as of autumn 2015.

Live footage of The Red House‘s debate The limits of EU solidarity: has Europe forgotten Ukraine and Greece?. This event has now finished, but English-language highlights will soon be made available – on the event page – and in the meantime the rough recording of the Bulgarian-language live stream will remain available. For more information about the evening, click here.

Georgios Mavrakis is a Greek political activist, who engages himself for SYRIZA. In his younger years, he was a member of KHE [Greek Communist Youth], before joining Συνασπισμός της Αριστεράς και της Προόδου [The Coalition of the Left and Progress (abbreviated to SYN)]. In 2004, SYN then became the largest party of newly formed Coalition of the Radical Left, better…

Ivaylo Ditchev is a professor of cultural anthropology at the St. Kliment Ohridsky University in Sofia, where he currently researches cities and citizenship practices. His latest book was Desire of Spaces, Spaces of Desire: Studies in Urban Anthropology (Sofia: LIK 2005). Ivaylo Ditchev is also regularly published in journals and contributes to both the German edition of Lettre International and…

Tatiana Zhurzhenko is a political scientist at the University of Vienna and a research director at the Institute for Human Sciences [IWM], Vienna. Tatiana is also one of the editors of the Eurozine focal point Russia in Global Dialogue and directs the IWM’s Ukraine in European Dialogue research programme. In 2015, she co-curated the School of Abducted Europe as part…

Salon of the independents On autonomous thinking, critique of capitalism and the Kremlin’s arguments. Introduction: Jurko Prochasko Speakers: Tony Curzon Price and Sławomir Sierakowski  Moderator: Thierry Chervel   Welcome to Europe! In the countries that used to constitute the Eastern bloc, politicians right across the political spectrum oppose migration. They base their arguments on concerns about the influx of different…

Good Putin How much of Europe and how much of Asia have the countries of the former Soviet Union inherited? And, which of these legacies is most dominant in the countries of Central Europe? Speakers: Artemy Troitsky,  Viktor Yerofeyev and Oksana Zabuzhko Moderator: Chris Keulemans   The New Enlightenment Is there something hypocritical about the values of pluralism and tolerance Europe has…

The opening ceremony Speakers: Egon Gál, Pavel Tychtl and Robin Gosejohann   The problem with memory Memory helps shape our lives and two totalitarian regimes have left an indelible mark on Europe’s present, especially in terms of our attitude to refugees, to Russia and to our common European home. What does historical memory mean and what can we understand as…