The Conference of the Polish Society of Political Thought in Vilnius and the Association of Polish Scientists in Lithuania.

On April 9-11th 2014 in the House of Polish Culture in Vilnius, an international conference was organised by the Polish Society of Political Thought (PTMP) – an association of scholars and PhD students dealing with political and legal doctrines and history of law – and the Association of Polish Scientists in Lithuania (SNPL) – the most important Polish scientific association in Lithuania. The conference was held under the title “Family Europe –European Political Thought and the Challenge of the 21st Century”. It was sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held under the honorary patronage of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland in Lithuania and the media patronage of the editors of New Eastern Europe.

New Eastern Europe, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Polish PEN Club and the Ukrainian PEN Club invite you to the lecture titled “How to Understand Eastern Ukraine?" 

The Department of Eastern Europe of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and New Eastern Europe cordially invite you to participate in the International Conference “Colour Revolutions in the Perspective of the Past Decade: Multidimensionality of the system transition in the post-Soviet area”, which will take place on June 27th 2014.

As part of the Year of Jan Karski the Jan Karski Educational Foundation cordially invites you to take part in a debate devoted to the challenges of Polish geopolitics. The debate The Curses of Polish Geopolitics and Today’s Alliances: 1919-1945-1989 at the Library of the University of Warsaw is connected to the reprint of Jan Karski’s work of political science titled The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta, which was published by Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

NEE invites you to the Seventh Vistula Festival of Polish Films in Russia, which will take place from May to October 2014. The festival will open in Moscow from May 15th-22nd at the 5 Zvezd ("Five Stars") Cinema.

The Visegrad Academy of Cultural Management (VACuM) is a new international educational initiative based on cooperation of Villa Decius Association with Marcel Hicter Association for Cultural Democracy from Brussels and supporting partners from Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine. The project is addressed to young culture managers working in public and private institutions and non-governmental organizations in the Visegrad Group countries and Eastern Partnership. VACuM is a 24-month training, encompassing two 10-day training sessions (September 1 – 10 in Kraków and March 9 – 18 in Prague) and a 3-day Diploma Seminar (September 12 – 14 in Tbilisi).

New Eastern Europe, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Polish PEN Club and the Ukrainian PEN Club invite you to the lecture titled “Ukrainian Intelligentsia from a Historical Perspective”. The lecture will be given by dr hab. Danuta Sosnowska, from the Institute of Eastern and Southern Slavic Studies at the University of Warsaw.

Call for Papers - VI International Student Conference

Politics & Society in Central and Eastern Europe: 25 Years of Democratic Changes in Central and Eastern Europe

The Institute of Political Science (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wroclaw) would like to invite you to VI International Student Conference “Politics & Society in Central and Eastern Europe”, which will take place in Wroclaw on May 12, 2014.

April 9-11th, 2014, Prague
Conference Venue: Czernin Palace, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prague

From April 9-11th 2014 the European Remembrance symposium will be held in Prague. This is the third time that representatives from over 150 European institutions and organizations dealing with 20^th-century history will discuss today’s attitude towards remembrance in the context of this year’s anniversaries of important historical events. The symposium is an initiative of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.

Erich Honecker (1912-1994) was a German communist activist. During the Second World War he was persecuted by the Nazis, and after the war he was among the most influential politicians of the German Democratic Republic, being supported and trusted by the USSR. As an activist and later First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and head of state in 1971-1989, he influenced the GDR for decades.

New Eastern Europe, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Polish PEN Club and the Ukrainian PEN Club invite you to the lecture "Christian Ukraine: Old schemes and new challenges" by Prof. Myroslav Marynovych, the head of the Ukrainian PEN Club and vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. The lecture will be held on Thursday March 27th at 5:00 PM at the Concert Hall of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.