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Deputy director of the Centre for Thought of John Paul II (Warsaw), assistant professor (Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw), visiting scholar at the Centre for Social Studies (Warsaw), Columbia University (NY, Fulbright) and the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna), an editor-in-chief of a scholarly, antidisciplinary journal “Stan Rzeczy/State of Things” and an editor of “44/Forty and four. An Apocalyptic Magazine”. He is co-/author of the following books: „Culture of remembrance in Poland and Germany” (2011), “Landscape value” (2011) and award-winning “Eternal Nation. Pole and Catholic in the village of Żmiąca” (2012). He specializes in historical sociology, sociology of nation and nationalism, sociotheology, social memory, Polish-German relations, and methodology of social sciences.

Professor in sociology and anthropology at the Jagiellonian University. Founder and head of the Institute for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, and one of the main authors of the European Studies curriculum in Poland. He has broad international teaching experience from Europe and America. Previous teaching and research appointments include Université Montpellier IIII Paul Valéry, University of Exeter, University College Dublin, University of Chicago, Oxford University, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies, University of Edinburgh and St. John's College, Oxford. His research interests cover identity issues such as nationalism, minorities and ethnicity, the development of European citizenship, migration and the reconstruction of identity, the ethnic origin of a nation and construction of identities as well as the development of the idea of Europe.

Hanna Machińska, Ph. D., is a lawyer and social activist with significant professional experience and accomplishments in implementing European legal standards, including those regarding human rights protection and anti-discrimination law, into the Polish legislative system. She has always been involved in the fight against discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance.

She is the author of a number of publications on human rights protection, including: Axiology in the European Union in the light of the European Convention on Human Rights, Protection of fundamental rights in the European Union, The idea of Europe (ed.), Poland and the Council of Europe, and Disabled persons in the labour market.

She received numerous awards, including those conferred by the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Education, the President of the Polish Bar Council, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and the President of Austria.

Is a Libian poet, writer, and political critic. He started his career as the founder of the monthly Fadaat (spaces) for culture and criticism (2002-2010). After that, he became the adviser of Sh'uun Dawliya (International Affairs) magazine until 2012, and then editor in chief of al-Mostaqil (The Independent) weekly magazine, in the years 2015-2016. In 2010 he received the State Prize, and in 2012 the Accolade of the Country by the Constitutional Though Association for "his activity to spread the culture of democracy, peaceful political action, renouncing violence, respecting the cultures of the Libyan social components and strong defense on the pan-Arab affiliation".