Issue 1/2019: Public Intellectuals. What is their place, role and responsibility today?

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