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Summer University Budapest, from 19/07/2017 to 23/07/2017

Program

Wednesday, 19th July: Arrival and Opening

Morning Arrival, accommodation and registration 17:30-20:00 ● Opening session Speakers: - Cornelia Hildebrandt (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, transform! europe, Berlin, Germany) - Attila Vajnai (Chairman of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary)

Presentation of the program of the Summer University Presentation of the exposition “Colours of a Journey”

Performance of the Ságvári Choir 20:00 Dinner and welcome Party at Vitta Hotel Singing with Tapolczai Attila…

Thursday, 20th July: Alternatives for Europe

9:00 Opening of Bookshop 9:30-11:20 ● Plenary 1: Europe in the new globalisation era Speakers: - Representative of the Foro de São Paulo (Equator). TBC - Francis Wurtz (Former MEP, , France) - Dagmar Enkelmann (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) - Moderator from the European Left 11h20-11h30 Break 11:30-12:30 SEMINARS:

● - ecosocialism and ecofeminism Speakers: - Corinne Morel Darleux (Parti de Gauche, France) - Gitte Pedersen (Red Green Alliance, Denmark)

● Consequences of the Brexit vote Speakers: - Felicity Dowling (Left Unity, United Kingdom) - Moderator: Waltraud Fritz (Communist Party of Austria, KPOE, Austria) 12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:30 WORKSHOPS:

● Reflection before the visit of the Archive of Georg Lukács Speakers: - Péter Szigeti (Former President of Electoral Comity of Hungary) - Tamás Krausz (Historian, university Teacher) - Péter Agárdi (Member of foundation of Lukács)

● Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Center at Páva street (until 16h)

● European Integration: Impasses and alternatives Speakers: - Angelina Giannopoulou (transform! europe, Athens, Greece) - Cornelia Hildebrandt (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, transform! europe, Berlin, Germany) - Marga Ferré (Europe of Citizens Foundation, transform! europe, Madrid, Spain) - Moderator: Dagmar Svendova (transform! europe, Břeclav, Czech Republic)

● The past 20 years in local government, challenges and corruption Speaker: - Dr. Ferenc Gegesy (Former Mayor of IX. District of Budapest, Hungary)

16:00-17:30 ● Plenary 2: Different roads for the left in Europe Speakers : - Eftychia Achtsioglou (Minister of Labour, Social Security and Social Solidarity, Greece), TBC - Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal. TBC - Sinn Fein, TBC - Marga Ferré (Europe of Citizens Foundation, transform! europe, Madrid, Spain) - Moderator : Maurizio Acerbo (National Secretary of the Rifondazione Comunista, Italy) 17:30-18:30 Dinner 18:30-19:20 From Hotel to Metro and to the river port 19:30- 21:30 Cultural Political sightseeing on river boat

Friday 21st, July: Future for Central Europe and Eastern Europe

9:30-11:20 ● Plenary 3 : Social and democratic rights in Hungary. To be or not to be in EU? Speakers: - Gyula Molnár (President of Hungarian Socialist Party) - Maite Mola (Vice-President of the Party of the European Left) - Moderators: Gyula Hegyi (former MEP) and Attila Vajnai (Chairman of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary)

11h20-11h30 Break 11:30-12:30 SEMINARS:

● The European Campaign against human trafficking Speaker: - Cristina Bernabeu (, Spain)

● For an Europe of Public Services to fight for (first part) Speakers: - Szöllősi Istvánné (Teachers’ Trade Union, Former Secretary of PSZ, Hungary) - Toni Barbara (Ex-Coordinator of the Public Services Working Group of the EL and Social Activist)

WORKSHOPS:

● Election systems

● Authoritarianism and a two-speed Europe (Example of Poland, Serbia, Ukraine and Balkans). 12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:30 SEMINARS:

● Focus on Health and Education: Universal, Guaranteed, Public and Qualitative (second part) Speakers: - Toni Barbara (Medical activist and founder of the Marea Blanca of Catalonia and the Spanish coordination) - Sonja Crivelli (Responsible of the Education Working Group of the EL, Labour Party of Switzerland, Switzerland)

WORKSHOPS:

● Visiting the archive of Georg Lukács (until 16h)

● Social Media Knowledge: intelligence, strategy and setting-up of web communication - Alessandro Pacini - With Izquierda Unida Press team

● PowerPoint presentation on the past and the present of the former industrial area at the neighborhood of Vitta Hotel, and after the Participants visiting a nearby bankrupt factory at Váci Road.

15:30-17:30 ● Plenary 4: The rise of the right: authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, a laboratory for a European development? Speakers: - Gáspár Tamás Miklós (Marxist philosopher) - Olesya Orlenko (Friends of L’Humanité) - Dagmar Svendova (transform! europe, Břeclav, Czech Republic) - Moderator: Tamás Csiszár (Member of the foreign Affairs Committee of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary) 17:30-19:30 SEMINARS

● The situation of the Women in the Central and Eastern Europe Speakers: - Rita Antoni (President of Civil Organisation for Womens) - Ana Simona Zelenović (Member of Serbian Green Youth) - Moderator: Judit Morva (Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary)

● Is the Danger Over ? - The Radical and Populist Right in Europe Speakers: - Czesław Kulesza (Naprzod - Forward, Warsaw, Poland) - Barbara Steiner (transform! europe, Vienna, Austria) - Antoine de Cabanes (Espaces Marx, Paris, France) - Moderator: Marga Ferré (Europe of Citizens Foundation, transform! europe, Madrid, Spain)

WORKSHOPS:

● On the Visegrád group Speakers: - Jiri Hudecek (Party of Democratic Socialism Czech republic) - Attila Vajnai (Chairman of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary)

20:00 Dinner 21:00 Visiting the Statue of Liberty at the Citadel. (by public transport)

Saturday 22nd, July: Peace, Democracy and International Solidarity

9:30-11:20 ● Plenary 5: Migration, Refugees, anti-racism Speakers: - Aslı Aydın (Freedom and Solidarity Party, ÖDP, Turkey) - Attila Melegh (Professor of Corvinus University) - Angeliky Visviki (, Greece) - Marta Stojić Mitrović (The Institute of Ethnography SASA, Belgrade, Serbia), TBC - Moderator: AKEL, Cyprus, TBC

11h20-11h30 Break 11:30-12:30 SEMINARS:

● Marseille Forum Speakers: - Cornelia Hildebrandt (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, transform! europe, Berlin, Germany) - Anne Sabourin (French Communist Party, France)

12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:30 WORKSHOP ● Commemoration at the statue of soldier, guarding the short lived (129 days) Soviet Republic at 1919. 15:30-17:30 ● Plenary 6: What peace politics for a Europe on the verge of militarisation Speakers: - Maite Mola (Vice-President of the Party of the European Left) - Inger V. Johansen (Red Green Alliance, Denmark) - Jiri Hudecek (Party of Democratic Socialism Czech republic) - One more speaker, TBC - Moderator: Marga Ferré (Europe of Citizens Foundation, transform! europe, Madrid, Spain)

17:30-19:30 SEMINARS:

● Struggling to end the violence against women Speaker: - Rosario Luque Galvez (Izquierda Unida, Spain) - Nicoletta Pirotta (Feminists for another Europe, Italy) - Inna Supac (MP, Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, Moldova)

● The unity of the Left in Europe Speakers: - Natasa Theodorakopoulou (SYRIZA, Greece) - Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal. TBC

● The Rise of Xenophobia and Criminalization of Solidarity Speakers: - Jon S. Rodríguez (GUE/NGL, ) - Elengo Manousaki (Solidarity clinic and Pharmacy of Athens and member of SYRIZA, Greece) - Moderation Angelina Giannopoulou (transform! europe, Athens, Greece)

WORKSHOPS:

● Cultural workshop / performance: “Our Marija/Belgrade at Midnight“ – Political Theater between East & West With Ivan Pantelic and Eva Brenner Lecture Demonstration with video-projections

● Documentary : “Fire at sea” (winner of 2016 Berlin Gold Bear award) 108 minutes.

20:00 Dinner and closing by Margarita Mileva 21:00 Farewell party

Sunday 23th, July - Departure