Program of the Conference „Solidarity for the Future”
Gdansk ul. Bażyńskiego 6, Aula of Law Department, Gdansk University
Monday 29th of August 2005
10.00 -10.30 – Opening of the Conference
Paweł Adamowicz – President of Gdansk
Prof. Leon Kieres – President of the Institute of National Remembrance
10.30 - 12.30 - Debate Part 1 “Solidarity as National, Social and Revolutionary Movement”
Moderator – Dr. Pawel Machcewicz
• Solidarity as a Freedom Movement (prof. Bohdan Cywiński)
• Solidarity as a Explosion of Historical Memory (Prof. Paweł Śpiewak)
• Solidarity and Poland’s Little Fatherland (prof.Marek Latoszek)
• The Phenomenon of Solidarity and the Underground Self-organisation of Society
(Dr. Łukasz Kamiński)
12.30 – 13.30- dinner
13.30 – 15.30 Debate Part 2 - The place for Solidarity in the History of the World
Moderator: Dr. Antoni Dudek
• The Church of Jan Paweł II and the Civil Society (rev. Maciej Zięba )
• Soviet Countries and Societies and the Birth of Solidarity (Prof. Andrzej Paczkowski)
• The Role of Solidarity in Cold War (Prof. Richard Pipes)
• The Year 1989- the Polish Experience as a Model of Dealing with Political and Social Conflicts (Prof. Edmund Wnuk – Lipiński)
• The Western Countries and Solidarity (Prof. Andrzej Chwalba)
Thursday, 30th of August 2005
10.00 -12.30
Presentation of album “The Way to Independence. Solidarity 1980-2005”.
Presentation of multimedia version of archival numbers of “Weekly Solidarity”.
Presentation of films prepared by Foundation Film Archive “The Way to Independence”
13.00- 14.00 – Dinner
14.00- 16.30 Panel Discussion – “The Message of Solidarity”
Moderator: Prof. Andrzej Friszke
Speakers : Ján Čarnogurský (Slovakia), Mychajło Horyń (Ukraine), Géza Jeszenszky (Hungary), Petr Pospichal (Czech Republic), Wolfgang Templin (Germany), Prof. Bernhard Vogel (Germany), Lech Wałęsa (Poland)