1:30 – 3:00pm
Panel 1: Winners and Losers – 2023 Elections in Poland
Marta Kotwas, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Radosław Markowski, Professor of Political Science, Polish Academy of Sciences; Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Karolina Wigura, Assistant Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw; Member of the Board, Kultura Liberalna Foundation; Senior Fellow, Center for Liberal Modernity
Chair - George Soroka, Executive Officer, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Lecturer on Government, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Coffee break
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Panel 2: Democracy in Deeply Polarized Societies
Maciej Kisilowski, Associate Professor, Central European University; and Faculty Director, CEU Executive of Master of Business Administration in Global Executive Management
Anna Wojciuk, Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw
Marek Naczyk, Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy, University of Oxford; Visiting Scholar 2023-2024, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair - Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ, German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2023-2024, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Coffee break
5:30pm - 6:15pm
Keynote Address
Radosław Sikorski, Member of the European Parliament, Republic of Poland; Speaker of Parliament (2014-2015) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2014), Republic of Poland; Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair – Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Polish politician Radosław Sikorski, a member of the European Parliament, discussed polarization in Polish politics at a symposium hosted by Harvard’s Center for European Studies on Wednesday.
