“The Weight of the Past: The Making of a Distinctive Civic Space in Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria”

27th November, 2025
A seminar organized by
Institute of Philosophy
and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN)
Staszic Palace, Nowy Świat 72, Warsaw, room 236, second floor

PROGRAMME
13:00–13:05 Rafał Smoczyński (IFIS PAN) Introductory Remarks
13:05–13:25 László Gergely Szücs (The Budapest City Archives) The Rejection of Emigration and the Emergence of a New Type of Critical Intellectual: Mihály Vajda’s Example
13:25–13:45 Mester Béla (ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy) Philosopher Generations and Their Languages in the Age of the Real Socialism
13:45–14:05 Shaban Darakchi (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) “She is the female Victor Orban”: Female leadership in the anti-gender campaigns in Bulgaria
14:05–14:25 Rafał Smoczyński (IFiS PAN) Reconsidering the category of volatility in an anti-Polish migrant moral panic
14:25–14:55 Discussion

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