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The 2005 Warsaw East European Conference is organized by the Studium Europy Wschodniej UW (Centre for East European Studies) at Warsaw University, Poland. The Conference will begin on Wednesday, July 20th, and be closed on Friday, July 22th, 2005.
In July, 2004 our Centre in cooperation with Association for Study of Nationalities organized the Warsaw Special Convention of ASN. The Centre for Eastern Studies (Oœrodek Studiów Wschodnich – OSW), the best Polish analytical institution, was also a hosting partner of the Conference. Fruitful academic results of this meeting encouraged us to organize Warsaw East European Conference, the Second Annual Session.
The main theme of the WEEC is the emergence of opposition, dissident movements and resistance against totalitarian system in East Central Europe and Soviet area. Oppositional movements’ activity and its relationship with the collapse of Soviet Empire and communist bloc will be important issue of the Conference. The notion of “opposition” includes also Polish “Solidarnoœæ” that boomed in August 1980, twenty five years ago. This anniversary was the main reason for us to undertake the anti-communist opposition issue. In common opinion, the emergence of “Solidarnoœæ” was the first step toward the deconstruction of Yaltan system. However the WEEC issues are not limited to the anti-communist opposition of 1980’s. They comprise also results of the collapse of the communist system: processes of political and economic transition in 1990’s, the question of democratization, as well as the prospects for political system changes in the post-communist world today. Therefore Ukrainian “Orange Revolution” from November and December 2004 as well as Georgian “Rose Revolution” from December 2005, as pro-democratic political movements, also remain within the scope of Conference subjects.
The Warsaw East European Conference will bring together scholars from East and West. Apart from large group of Polish academics, we expect scholars from the United States, Western Europe, East Central Europe, post-Soviet countries, and other countries going through the process of transition. Due to Poland's centrality and ties with both East and West, the Conference will be an occasion for exchange of thought between scholars from the states of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and Western academics focused on problems of communism and post-communist countries.
The 2005 Warsaw East European Conference will also focus on process of political transition, which includes such phenomena as decentralization of power, construction of civil society and local democracy. For that reason activists and workers of non-governmental organizations supporting democratic changes in East and Central Europe will also participate and are kindly welcomed to the WEEC.
Eminent members of the former anti-communist opposition from Poland and other countries will be special guests of the Conference.
During the WEEC, we are going to present following exhibitions:
§ Polish clandestine publications from the Martial Law period and subsequent years of oppositional struggle in 1980’s,
§ Jan Nowak-Jeziorañski and Radio Free Europe
§ Jerzy Giedroyc and Kultura.
Moreover, the presentation of Polish non-governmental organizations, active in the post-Soviet area, will also be a part of the Conference program.
The fair of Polish and East Central European publishing houses from the field of regional studies will take place during the Conference. During the last year conference, such exposition gathered several publishers. Definitely, this event was a great success as it attracted serious attention of the conference participants.
In addition, the reviews of Polish films related to the subject of the Conference are also included to the program.
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