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Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He has written extensively on Central and Eastern Europe and is well known for his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. He studied at Brown and Oxford Universities and has won a number of awards for his…

Agnieszka Graff is a Polish writer, translator, commentator, feminist and women’s and human rights activist. She is a graduate of Oxford University, Amherst College (Massachusetts, the U.S.A) and the Polish Academy of Sciences‘ School of Social Sciences. She completed her PhD in English literature in 1999 and in 2001 she published Świat bez kobiet. Płeć w polskim życiu publicznym [A…

This page features a recording of the deBuren / Poliargus TTT debate, Social Europe: a progressive utopia or a bitter necessity?. This debate, looked at arguments for a more comprehensive common European social system and the benefits and/or necessity of such and featured  Siman Abdi (International Secretary of The Young Socialists in the – Dutch – PvdA), Anton Hemerijck (Professor of Institutional Policy Analysis at Amsterdam’s Vrije Universität), Frank…

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Maciej Gdula is a doctor of sociology, journalist and member of the board of the Stanisław Brzozowski Association, Maciej Gdula works at the University of Warsaw’s Institute of Sociology. He specialises in social and political theory, combining these interests with regular involvement in public debates. In press columns he has repeatedly criticised the power of opinion polls, pointing to the…

Anton Shekhovtsov is a visiting fellow at Vienna’s Institute for Human Sciences and the general editor of the Explorations of the Far Right book series by the ibidem publishing house. His main area of expertise is the European far right, relations between Russia and radical right-wing parties in the West and illiberal tendencies in Central and Eastern Europe. Anton is…

Péter Krekó is a social psychologist and political scientist, who works as the executive director of the Hungarian think tank, the Political Capital Institute, and as an associate professor at Budapest’s ELTE University. Peter focuses on Russian soft power policies and political populism and extremism in Europe. He is a member of the presidential board of the Hungarian Political Science…

In this Memorial discussion, Wendy Goldman looks at Soviet revolutionary approaches to gender relations and their fate going into the Stalinist era and beyond. Did Soviet reforms succeed in changing longstanding gender views and how much of the substance of the visions of revolutionary theorists and activists remains in Russian society today? To find out more about the background to…

Adam Zagajewski is an award-winning poet, novelist, translator and essayist, who currently works as the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and as a co-editor of Zeszyty Literackie (Literary Review). Born in Lviv in 1945, he grew up and studied in southern Poland, becoming well-known as one of the leading poets…

Elif Shafak was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1971. She is an award-winning novelist whose books have been published in more than 40 countries and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Critics have called her “one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Turkish and world literature” and the French Ministry of Culture recently recognised her achievements by…

Agnes Heller was born in 1929 and is one of the leading thinkers to come out of the tradition of critical theory. Her broad intellectual range is exemplified in the topics of her publications, which include ethics, philosophical anthropology, political philosophy and a theory of modernity and its culture. Hungarian by birth, she was one of the best-known dissident Marxists…