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Aleksandra Przegalińska

ALK professor and habilitated doctor in the field of management sciences. PhD in the philosophy of artificial intelligence at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. Currently, she is the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and ESR at the Kozminski University. From 2016, she conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. A graduate of The New School for Social Research in New York, where she participated in research on identity in virtual reality, with particular emphasis on Second Life. Currently, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. In 2022, she began working with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard.
She is interested in the development of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, social robots and wearable technologies.

Wojciech Przybylski

Wojciech Przybylski is the editor-in-chief of Visegrad Insight - a magazine on Central Europe and chairman of Res Publica Foundation in Warsaw. Previously editor-in-chief of Eurozine - magazine representing a network of European cultural journals with the office in Vienna. Founder of New Europe 100 project bringing forward a community of successful innovators from CEE across the fields of business, research media, NGO and publicADMINISTRATION- run jointly by Res Publica, Financial Times and Google. Wojciech is a political commentator, lecturer and social entrepreneur. His expertise includes European and transatlantic affairs as well as policies related to innovation and culture. Upcoming book: Understading Central Europe ed. Marcin Moskalewicz and Wojciech Przybylski, Routledge 2017. Twitter: @wprzybylski

Katarzyna Przybysławska

Katarzyna  Przybysławska

PhD in law (Jagiellonian University), with a specialty in human rights and refugee law. Co-founder and president of the Halina Nieć Legal Aid Center, a non-governmental organization devoted to the protection of human rights through free legal aid and UNHCR’s implementing partner. Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Fellow, member of the Commission of Experts on Migrants to the Ombudsman’s Office.

Małgorzata Radkiewicz

Małgorzata Radkiewicz

An assistant professor at the Institute of Media and Audio Visual Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research interests and publications focus on gender in film and media as well as on much wider category of identity in terms of national, cultural and artistic dimensions of European cinema after 1989. Her academic activities combine studies on film theories and film analysis in terms of gender and identity. Additionally to film and media studies, she coordinates the programme of Postgraduate Gender Studies in Krakow.

Tomas Rafa

Tomas Rafa

Tomas Rafa is a Slovak artist whose works engage with social and political issues and explore the impact that art can have on reality. Through film footage and outputs in the form of reports Rafa defines the relativity of the boundaries between patriotism and nationalism (extremism). He approaches terms such as multiculturalism (Roma people), xenophobia, extremism and neofascism against the background of everyday life. The reports generated from Rafa's investigation contain content about new nationalism that is easy to understand by wide range of audiences.
 

Agnieszka Ragin

Representative of the Chancellery of the President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski.  

Simon Raiser

Simon Raiser

MA in Political Science (Freie Universität Berlin). Research fellow in the German Bundestag, mainly on development policy, and research fellow and coordinator of the research project “Global City Regions as Changing Sites of Governance” at Freie Universität Berlin.  

Judit Rajk

Judit Rajk

Contralto, obtained her diploma in singing and her doctorate at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, where she is now an associate professor at the Church Music Department. She is teaching voice training, methodology and voice training history. Since 2013 she has been teaching voice training at the International Kodaly Institute in Kecskemét. 

She is a concert singer and a singer of varieties of song. She has sung in the premieres of numerous contemporary works, some of which were especially dedicated to her. Her Hungaroton Classic CD, on which she sings the main role of the contemporary opera Roman Fever by Gyula Fekete, received an outstanding review in Opera News Magazine. Her latest CD – works by Liszt and Dvorak – was published by the Liszt Academy Budapest.

In 2005 and in 2011, she received the Artisjus Prize for performing new Hungarian contemporary music. Ms. Rajk has performed as a soloist with several orchestras in Hungary and abroad including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper and the Konzerthaus Orchestra in Berlin, the Simfonietta92 at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertante di Chicago and the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Turkey.

Lászlό Rajk

Architect and designer, a former Hungarian dissident. A Doctor of Liberal Arts from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture. In 1998, he was one of the founders of the Network of Free Initiatives and the Liberal Party, the Alliance of Free Democrats. Between 1990–1996 he has a Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Culture and Member of the Parliament. Since 1992 he has worked as a Professor of Film Architecture at the Hungarian Film Academy in Budapest. From 1995–98 he was an advisor to the Hungarian National UNESCO Committee (World Heritage). In 2003, he became Legal Cultural Advisor to the European Union. A winner of numerous awards, including the Imre Prize (for the design of the reburying of the Martyrs of 1956), and in 2005, Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit and the Solidarity Award (Poland). Since 2014 giving lectures and master classes at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, at the Library of Congress in Washington and the Film Factory Sarajevo University. Art director of “Son of Saul” which wonOscar andGrand Prix at Cannes Festival in 2015.

Josep Ramoneda

Philosopher, writer. Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Founder and head of the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (until 2011). Head of the Institut de la Recherche et de l’Innovation in Paris. Regular contributor to El País and Cadena SER radio. Author of “Apología del presente”, “Después de la pasión política”, “Del tiempo condensado”, and “Contra la indiferencia”.

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