Conference Programme

Keynote speakers

Decolonizing museums: Perspectives, attitudes and their implications for cultural policies in Poland

Participatory innovations from around the world and their potential for a democratic culture renewal

What happens to culture in war and how can we better protect it? The case of cultural genocide in Ukraine

Iwona Kurz (University of Warsaw)
Historian of contemporary Polish culture

Máté Gáspár (Artistic Director at Budapest Brand Nonprofit)
Hungarian theater director and lecturer

Tomáš Rafa (Academy of Fine Arts)
Slovak audiovisual artist and lecturer

chair: Daniel Przastek (University of Warsaw)

Mary Ann DeVlieg
Co-founder and member of International Artists Rights Advisors

Judith Depaule & Aura Burzynska
Agency of Artists in Exile, Paris

Katsia Ramanchyk
Belarusian cultural project manager based in Warsaw

chair: Anna Galas-Kosil (Warsaw Observatory of Culture)

Olena Haleta
Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta
Director General of National Art and Culture Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal” (Art Arsenal)

Volodymyr Sheiko
Director General of the Ukrainian Institute

chair: Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk (University of Warsaw)

Anna Godlewska
Vice-Director of Department of Public and Cultural Diplomacy, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Maja Wawrzyk
Deputy Director of Visegrad Fund

Agata Wąsowska-Pawlik
Director of the International Cultural Center in Cracow

chair: Bożena Gierat-Bieroń (Jagiellonian University)