Warsaw East European Conference 2016 – photo coverage

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Day one

Opening ceremony

Dir. Jan Malicki

Participants of the WEEC 2016 at the Main Hall of the UW Old Library.

Vice-Minister of Foreign Arrairs of Poland, Marek Ziółkowski – opening speech.

Aleksander Gieysztor „Przegląd Wschodni” Award Laureates.

Alvydas Nikžentaitis from Vilnus Pedagogical University, one of the Aleksander Gieysztor „Przegląd Wschodni” Award 2016.

Presentation of the new issue of „Obóz” journal – moderator Krzysztof Nieczypor and editor-in-chief Kazimierz Wóycicki.

Anton Saifullayeu, secretary of the „Obóz” editorial team.

Paweł Kowal, editor-in-chief of the „Warsaw East European Review” journal .

Dir. Jan Malicki opens the first Round Table discussions.

Round Table „The Collapse of the USSR. Sources-Causes-Periodization”. Sitting from the left: Włodzimierz Marciniak, Gennadij Burbulis, Leonid Krawczuk, Stanisław Szuszkiewicz, Jan Malicki.

Mikcheil Saakashvili, f. president pf Georgia with special lecture „Postsoviet area – 25 years later”.

Day two

Conference panels

Dir. Jan Malicki opens the second Round Table discussion.

Secon Round Table, „What About the Economy?”. Sitting from the left: Vladislav Inozemtsev, Wiktor Juszczenko, Leonid Zlotnikov and Tomasz Żylicz.

Documentary film „In Search of a Lost Paradise” (authors: Evgeniy Tsymbal and Alexander Smoljanski).

Day three

Conference panels

Third Round Table: „Towards the New Polish Eastern Policy”. From the left: Marcin Kacperek, Paweł Purski, Bartosz Rydliński, Łukasz Jasina, Paweł Kowal.

Day four

Prof. Zbigniew Kruszewski (University of Texas) and Weronika Czyżewska-Poncyljusz (UW).

Theodore Weeks and Stepan Grigoryan.

Prof. Leszek Zasztowt.

Dir. Jan Malicki presents The „Przegląd Wschodni” Award toTheodore’a Weeksa.

Theodore Weeks with the closing lecture: „Nations and State Power in Vilna – Wilno – Vilnius: A Quick Look over Two Centuries with Lessons for Today”.