16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL Platform for advanced studies 2-15 July 2017 Villa Decius, Krakow www.visegradsummerschool.org 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL Sunday, 2 July Arrival 7.00–17.30 Reception at the hotel 18.00 Organisational meeting at Villa Decius Monday, 3 July Inauguration 10.00 Press conference Dominika Kasprowicz 10.30 Opening of the 16. edition of the Visegrad Summer Ryszard Tadeusiewicz School Andrzej Kulig Jacek Krupa 11.00 In Memoriam. Some remarks on the origins Zdzisław Mach and values of Villa Decius 12.00 Visegrad Four in new political contexts – V4 consular corps: V4 Diplomats’ panel debate H.E. Jakub Karfík Adrienne Körmendy Adrián Kromka Jacek Czaputowicz Moderator: Krzysztof Bobiński 15.00–18.00 Integration workshop Joanna Pająk 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL Tuesday, 4 July Creation, innovation, synergy 10.00–10.30 What is Villa Decius? Dominika Kasprowicz 10.30–12.00 Introduction to Central Europe Michal Vašečka 12.30–13.30 Creation, innovation, synergy – introduction for all Dominika Kasprowicz and Tutors: From an idea to knowledge dissemination. How to Marta Warat, Agnieszka Król make your research meaningful Disruptive innovation in the era of sharing economy Aleksandra Przegalińska The Museum Pudding or how Europe exhibits itself Łucja Piekarska-Duraj 15.00–18.00 Labs, day1 Training and coaching in working groups Academia (Creating and communicating Marta Warat, Agnieszka Król knowledge/ research) Business (Startups in the era of sharing economy) Aleksandra Przegalińska Culture (Management of cultural cooperation Łucja Piekarska-Duraj projects) Wednesday, 5 July Creation, innovation, synergy 10.00–11.30 Post-communism and the road to liberalism Viera Žúborová 12.00–13.30 Labs, day 2: Academia, Business and Culture Tutors 15.00–16.30 Labs, day 2: Academia, Business and Culture Tutors 19.30 Exhibition: Images of the unseen Omar Marques Thursday, 6 July Design thinking... of the region 12.00-13.30 Introduction Danuta Glondys World Heritage at Risk Mohamed Ewangaye Didane 15.00-16.30 Scholars at Risk Sinead O’Gorman 18.00-21.00 multiCOOLtural garden party VSS Students 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL Friday, 7 July PL_CZ_Forum 10.00–11.30 Message of Charter ’77 – 40 years later Jan Lityński, Martin Palouš, Michael Žantovský 12.00–13.30 Movie: Vaclav Havel - A life in Freedom 14.30–16.30 Communication and promotion of international Joanna Pająk projects - workshop 16.30 Vaclav Havel in a Nutshell Exhibition 17.00 Zarebski Piano Duo Piotr Różycki, Grzegorz Mania Saturday - Sunday, 8 - 9 July In search of common cultural heritage Study visits in Krakow and Malopolska Monday, 10 July Crisis of trust 10.00–11.30 Wind of change - V4 looking East Jan Piekło 12.00–13.30 Artes Liberales? Role of the University László Rajk in the (ill)liberal Democracies 15.00–18.00 ResPublica I: Has the Visegrad Group Killed Central Wojciech Przybylski Europe? Danuta Dobrzyńska-Schimmer ResPublica II: New Europe 100 Petra Dzurovčinová Adela Zábražná Jan Dobrovský 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL Tuesday, 11 July Approaching the past 10.00–11.30 The future of Holocaust memorialisation – lecture Andrea Petö 11.30–18.00 Study visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Andrea Petö Museum Wednesday, 12 July Facing the global challenges 10.00–11.30 Being Mediterranean A. Monem Mahjoub 12.00–13.30 Media in the post-truth era Karol Szyndzielorz, Michał Bukowski 15.00–18.00 Labs, day 3: Academia, Business and Culture Tutors 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL Thursday, 13 July Creation, innovation, synergy - continued 10.00–13.30 Labs day 4: Academia, Business and Culture Tutors 15.00–18.00 Labs day 4: Academia, Business and Culture Tutors Friday, 14 July Future of V4 10.00–11.30 Future of Visegrad cooperation - closing lecture Beata Jaczewska 11.45–14.00 Closing session: Labs – final presentations and discussion VSS students, Tutors Evaluation session Presenting of Visegrad Summer School Certificates Dominika Kasprowicz Evening Krakow by night Saturday, 15 July Departure 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL 7 July 2017 Message of Charter ’77 – 40 years later in Helsinki. It was active from 1977 on, “The Charter’s ambition is to act in winding its activities up two years after accordance with its own conscience and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1992. convictions and thereby indicate to others that this opportunity is also available to them: to “It was an authentic response by the remind them of their own dignity; to remind citizen to the situation of general them of the truth.” demoralisation. It stemmed from a yearning to Václav Havel: On the Meaning of reset the demoralising pressure of the times, to Charter 77, 1986 reject the enforced state of schizophrenia, to break out of the narrow confines of private With the written declaration of interest and personal fear, to leave the shelter Charter 77 the informal civic initiative of of one’s privacy and claim a role in public the same name came into existence in affairs, to stop praising the naked king’s communist Czechoslovakia on 1 January clothes and instead start speaking the truth out 1977. It demanded that the totalitarian loud – in a nutshell: to act in accordance with state authorities adhere to the human one’s own conscience, and quite simply, to rights and civil liberties that straighten up as a human being once more. Czechoslovakia itself had committed to After being humiliated, gagged, lied to and with the signature of the Final Act of the manipulated, it was an effort by people to raise Conference on Security and Cooperation their heads, speak out, reject the lies and act freely. It was an endeavour by those involved 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL to exercise their legitimate rights, to retrieve politicians, and many of them make political their human dignity and integrity and to statements. There are even some of them who regain their self-respect once more.” would be capable of participating in political power, in the unlikely event that a change in Václav Havel: On the Meaning of circumstances offered them the opportunity to Charter 77, 1986 do so. This does nothing to alter the fact, The signatories comprised “a loose, though, that the Charter – in terms, at least, of informal and open association of people… its inner motivation – does not constitute an united by the will to strive individually and attempt to offer political solutions to the collectively for respect for human and civil crisis.” rights in our country and throughout the Václav Havel: On the Meaning of world.” Charter 77 was not an Charter 77, 1986 organisation, it did not have any statutes The Charter was always represented by or permanent bodies and did not create “a three spokespeople, the first of which were basis for any oppositional political activity”. the philosopher Jan Patočka, the former This meant it did not contravene politician and diplomat Jiří Hájek and the Czechoslovak law, which banned writer Václav Havel. One of the initial organised opposition. three spokespeople, Professor Jan Patočka, “Charter 77’s aims do not envisage was also the first victim of the Communist bringing down the government or destroying regime’s crackdown on the Charter, when the existing social order. Nor, therefore, do on 13 March 1977 he died after an they constitute an attack on the existing legal interrogation of many hours. His funeral system. On the contrary, the Charter is became a significant event for the anti- striving for a renewal of citizenship by communist resistance. demanding that laws really be put into practice and respected, by drawing attention to the “The Charter was the first major regime’s arbitrary interpretation of legislation, assertion of citizenship in the Husák era. It and by demanding that rights should not united writers, and ex-politicians, merely remain on paper but should be Communists and non-Communists, Catholics respected and implemented in practise. In the and Protestants, intellectuals and manual case of those laws which it regards as bad, it workers, university professors and the non- takes legal means to demand their amendment. conformist youth. They did not come together This is turn determines the sort of relationship on political grounds, but out of deeper it has with the powers that be: it is its consideration. Their concern was more for unbroken practice to address and dispatch its people than politics. And their common documents to the state authorities, in spite of motivation was above all moral.” its being cold-shouldered by the regime and Václav Havel: On the Meaning of regardless of the fact its documents are not Charter 77, 1986 (officially) discussed. (…) Charter 77 was not The Communist regime reacted created out of a desire to set up a political or hysterically to the declaration of Charter ideological programme in opposition to the 77, which circulated in samizdat and was existing one. It had no intention of becoming a published unabridged in a number of political force in competition with the renowned international newspapers but government. It is not putting itself forward as never in Czechoslovakia. The official press a better alternative to those in power. It is true described the manifesto as an “anti-state, that its signatories also include former 16. VISEGRAD SUMMER SCHOOL anti-socialist and demagogic, abusive piece of amid difficult conditions for opposition, writing” and the individual signatories as issued during its existence close to 600 “losers and usurpers”, “loyal servants and documents on pressing social and political agents of imperialism”, “bankrupt politicians” issues that circulated among people in and “international adventurers”. They also duplicated form. Though the number of suffered widespread repression. Some signatories was small (the original figure were thrown out of their jobs, their of 242 had risen to 1,883 by January 1990), children were barred from studying, they Charter 77 is regarded as one of the most lost their driving licenses, were forced to important acts of resistance during emigrate or had their citizenship revoked.