IFiS PAN: International interdisciplinary conference The Orwell Redemption: „Escape from Totalitarian Trap and Challenges for the New Europe (Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Baltic States)”

International interdisciplinary conference

THE ORWELL REDEMPTION:

ESCAPE FROM TOTALITARIAN TRAP AND CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW EUROPE

(BELARUS, UKRAINE, POLAND, BALTIC STATES)

Warsaw, 15 November 2024

Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/97814097770?pwd=06m0wV60OgMbbEzaVurZ2JDE2Gkp74.1

Organisers: Pavel Barkouski; Andrzej Gniazdowski (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

The conference focuses on the issue of the heritage of totalitarian past of the countries of “New Europe” – newly added to the EU in 2004 countries of the Central Europe and Baltic region, as well as countries of the Eastern Partnership such as Belarus and Ukraine – and their efforts for democratic transit and challenges on that way. The Shadow of Orwell’s Totalitarian State is the common past and somewhere nowadays of the countries of this region. Why after 33 years of the Soviet Union’s decline the totalitarian and authoritarian policy is actually here and the total region preserves to be a powder keg of Europe? Which social, mental and political transformations should provide the transit to a sustainable democratic future? Could we use earlier solutions of democratic transit of the 90s to expand them in a new configuration of power?

 Conference venue: Pałac Staszica, ul. Nowy Świat 72, Room 232 (III Floor)

Więcej informacji: https://ifispan.pl/the-orwell-redemption/