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The event will take place on 27 April 2021 at
6:00PM CET / 12:00PM ET.
The discussion will be dedicated to the CEE media and civil society response to the democratic backsliding threats. In particular, it will touch upon the potential of media projects restarting in the digital age, a new generation of civil society actors, as well as reflect on the role of memory in shaping the future of civil society.
You can register and participate in the discussion through this link.
Guest speakers:
Thomas J. Kent, Adjunct Associate Professor, The Harriman Institute at Columbia University, former RFE/RL President and CEO
Photo: haak78 / Shutterstock
In 2020 a research project dedicated
to understanding the meaning of 1989 conducted a series of talks with
intellectuals and scholars in Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and
Romania. It collected witness testimony of these events as well as interviewing
the post-1989 generation in order to understand their relationship to the history
of the transformation. This essay is based on the outcomes of these
discussions, focusing primarily on the role and meaning of citizen actions.[1]
Go West!
“The was an idealisation of the West, as a land of prosperity and stability, rather than a direct longing for an alternative, democratic regime”
Eastern Europe took post-Soviet victories for granted – interview
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Protests in Poland / E. Blaževič/LRT
The victory of democracy in Eastern and Central Europe is by no means secure, argues Vladimir Tismăneanu, author and professor at the University of Maryland where he teaches courses on utopian radicalisms, ideologies, revolutions, totalitarianism, and democratic transition.
This interview conducted by Simona Merkinaitė is part of the project titled #Rethink1989 implemented by the Open Lithuania Fund (OLF) in partnership with Res Publica Foundation and Jan Nowak-Jezioranski College of Eastern Europe with the financial support through the European Union’s Europe for Citizens Programme. The publication originally appeared on the New Eastern Europe, partners of LRT English.