The Great Power and : 1919–2019

100th Anniversary of Polish-American Diplomatic Relations

October 4, 2019

Jan Baszkiewicz Hall Collegium Politicum University of ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 00-927 Warsaw Poland

8:30 – 9.00 AM Registration

9.00 – 9.30 AM Welcome

Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, President of Fundacja Edukacyjna Jana Karskiego (Poland) Andrzej Rojek, Chairman of the Board of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation (U.S.A.) Marcin Pałys, Rector of the University of Warsaw Stanisław Sulowski, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw , U.S. to the Republic of Poland (TBC)

9:30 – 10:15 AM Presentation of the Spirit of Jan Karski Award

Laudation: , former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Poland Acceptance Remarks: Peter F. Krogh, Dean Emeritus of International Affairs at Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Hosts: Michał Mrożek, Andrzej Rojek, and Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka

10:15 AM – 12:15 PM Panel One: Transatlantic Relations: Common Values and Interests

. policy towards Poland . Significance of the United States in Poland’s foreign and domestic policy . Atlanticism in Poland’s foreign policy . Human rights, , and solidarity in Polish-American relations

Introduction: Piotr Cywiński, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

Presenters:

Barbara K. Bodine, Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University Robert Kupiecki, Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Warsaw Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Director of the Open Europe Program at the Stefan Batory Foundation Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala, Assistant Professor and Vice-Director for Academic Research and International Cooperation at the Institute of International Relations at the University of Warsaw James P. Seevers, Director of Studies and the Georgetown Leadership Seminar at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Moderator: Jacek Stawiski, journalist, commentator at TVN 24

12:15 – 1:00 PM Lunch (complimentary for all participants)

1:00 – 2:45 PM Panel Two: Atlanticism and Power Politics

. The demise of liberal order . Tackling new global challenges by the United States, Europe, and Poland . NATO and the facing power politics . Limits of negotiations in international policy . Future of transatlantic relations

Introduction: Daniel Fried, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Poland

Presenters:

Roman Kuźniar, Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Section of Strategic Studies at the Institute of International Relations of Warsaw University Stephen Mull, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Poland Paweł Kowal, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Peter Krogh, Dean Emeritus of International Affairs at Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Moderator: Eugeniusz Smolar, journalist

7:00 – 10:00 PM Dinner in Honor of Professor Peter F. Krogh (by invitation only)

Conference program and attendees are subject to change.