Issue 1/2019: Public Intellectuals. What is their place, role and responsibility today?
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This issue takes a special look at the role and responsibility of the public intellectual in Central and Eastern Europe today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Public Intellectuals. What is their place, role and responsibility today?
Where there is word, there is responsibility for mankind
A conversation with Basil Kerski
The intellectual in Central Europe: Havel, Orbán and Walter
Samuel Abrahám
The long shadow of the dissenter. Challenges to public intellectual practices after 1989 in Hungary
Gergely Romsics
Ukrainian intellectuals after Maidan
Vakhtang Kebuladze
Intellectuals need to compete in quality, not quantity
Interview with Marci Shore
Where Eastern European intellectuals sit today
Zofia Bluszcz
OPINION & ANALYSIS
Tsars and boyars on the Muscovite court
Tomasz Grzywaczewski
Can Israel accept Russia in its backyard?
Agnieszka Bryc
Russia’s role in the Middle East – a grand plan or opportunism?
Wojciech Michnik
Overcoming the damage of disinformation
Przemysław Roguski
How to profit from education in Russia
Dagmara Moskwa
The dramatic turn of political discourse in Romania
Paul Gabriel Sandu
The state of decentralisation in Ukraine
Kateryna Pryshchepa
Georgia in the move to a multi-polar world
Maximilian Hess
INTERVIEWS
Human rights as a weapon
An interview with Ivan Lishchyna
Like in the good, old American movies…
A conversation with Nijolė Oželytė-Vaitiekūnienė
The business case for climate action
An interview with Adam Koniuszewski
ART, CULTURE & SOCIETY
The house that Mykola built
Kinga Anna Gajda
A day in an Istrian olive grove
Andriy Lyubka
STORIES AND IDEAS
On food and power
Irina Sokhan
The land of the warm breeze
Katerina Novikova and Wiktor Trybus
HISTORY & MEMORY
Women’s rights in imperial Russia. Outcasts of history
Irina Yukina
EASTERN CAFÉ
Film as a counternarrative
Jakub Bornio
A reflection of the modern populist
Adam Reichardt
The liberating holiday of Sânziene
Kinga Anna Gajda
A tribute to Nemtsov
Agnieszka Legucka
We had a dream
Jan Brodowski
The essence of Central Asia
Zbigniew Rokita