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Katarzyna Piotrowska specializes in the protection and shaping of cultural landscapes, the protection of industrial heritage and the history of gardens. She has more than 20 years of experience in the protection and management of cultural heritage. She is a member of the International Council for the Protection of Monuments ICOMOS and the International Committee for the Protection of Industrial Heritage TICCIH. She has worked for many years with ICCROM, and advisory organization to the World Heritage Committee, participating in training and other work on the implementation of the Convention. She has participated in the work of national and international expert teams. She has a number of studies and publications in the filed of heritage conservation and management.

Born in Bucharest, he studied Art History at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where he taught from 1980 to 1982. Between 1991 and 1997 he was Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. After the fall of the communist regime he was appointed Minister of Culture (1989-1991) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997-1999). He held several other important public positions, such as: Member of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, Presidential Adviser on International Affairs, or Director of the Institute of History of Religion of the Romanian Academy. In 1994 he founded the New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, and was its first Rector until 2014. He is currently the President of the New Europe Foundation. He founded the cultural magazine Dilema Veche and is very active in contributing to this and other journals. The topics of his books range from art history, philosophy, and history of religion to theology and ethics, and include: Minima moralia, On Angels: Exposition for a Post-Modern World, Parabolele lui Iisus. Adevărul ca poveste / Jesus’ Parables. Truth as Story.

Assistant Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University. He received his PhD in 2008 in Philosophy from ELTE, University of Budapest, where he specialized in political theory. His current research in political theory focuses on normative and institutional questions of nationalism studies, citizenship theory, debates about multiculturalism, standards of minority rights protection and distributive justice. He is member of the EUDO Citizenship research consortium. He is the author of several articles in political theory and editor of books in the history of political thought. His papers in citizenship studies were published in Nationalities Papers, Ethnopolitics, the ECMI Yearbook and the EUDO Citizenship paper series. Szabolcs Pogonyi is also the editor of Phronesis, a Hungarian political philosophy quarterly and BudaPost, a daily review of Hungarian news.

Philosopher and ethicist; professor at the Cracow University of Economics, Jagiellonian University, Tischner European University in Krakow and International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein. He has spent some time at the Grand Valley State University and at the University of Vienna. He has lectured in Geneva, Freiburg, Tilburg, Vienna, Graz, Uppsala and Stockholm.