IDoes Europe Need New Spaces for Solidarity?

When? Monday, 16 November, 5:00 PM
Where? BWA Warszawa Gallery, Marszałkowska 34/50, 00-554 Warsaw

FREE ADMISSION

As the war in Ukraine continues, geopolitical tensions rise, and democracies face growing challenges, European solidarity cannot remain just a slogan. Is Europe’s future one of far-right governments? What can be done to prevent this? And what role can the Weimar Triangle play in building a strong, united, and democratic Europe?

Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller, Sylvain Kahn, Mariya Zolkina, Jarosław Kuisz
Moderator: Agnieszka Lichnerowicz

Speakers:

Jan-Werner Müller - Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where he has taught since 2005. His commentaries and essays on public affairs have appeared in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and Project Syndicate. His latest book, The Street, the Palace, the Square: The Architecture of Democratic Spaces, was published by Penguin in 2026 and has recently been released in Polish by Kultura Liberalna.

Sylvain Kahn - Lecturer in European integration and geopolitics at Sciences Po since 2001. Between 1998 and 2005, he worked on European affairs in the office of the French Minister of Education, at the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes, and at Sciences Po. He has also taught in Stanford University’s Paris Program and at the French National School of Administration (ENA), where he lectured on international relations as part of a program for high-ranking civil servants working in French diplomatic missions abroad.

Mariya Zolkina - Head of the Regional Security and Conflict Studies Programme at DIF, Research Fellow at LSE IDEAS (London School of Economics and Political Science), and a Ukrainian political analyst and consultant. She is the author and host of the television programme Soyuznyky on SlavaTV. Between 2022 and 2024, she was a research fellow in the DINAM programme at LSE.

Jarosław Kuisz - Editor-in-Chief of Kultura Liberalna and President of the Kultura Liberalna Foundation. Assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and chercheur associé étranger at the Institut d’histoire du temps présent in Paris. Between 2016 and 2018, he co-directed the Poland-Britain-Europe Programme at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and a Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Zentrum Liberale Moderne in Berlin. He is the author of, among others, The End of Dependency Generations, The New Politics of Poland, and, together with Karolina Wigura, Posttraumatische Souveränität.

Moderator:

Agnieszka Lichnerowicz - Journalist and long-time contributor to Radio TOK FM. As a reporter, she covered events in Belarus, the war and its aftermath in Georgia, several elections in Russia, Ukraine during both the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan, as well as Crimea during its annexation by Russia and the war in Donbas. She is a recipient of, among others, the Ryszard Kapuściński PAP Award.

Please note: The debate will be conducted in English and no interpretation will be provided.

The event is organized in cooperation with the with the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw and the French Institute in Warsaw.