Public against fear
15-19 November 2019, in: Bratislava, Žilina, Banská Bystrica, Banská Stiavnica, Kosice (Slovakia)
In its tenth edition, the discourse & discussion platform Central European Forum 2019 will bring together Slovakia's active citizens and outstanding US-American, Central and East European intellectuals, historians, social scientists and writers, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 revolution in Bratislava and four other cities in Slovakia. The forum will not just recall the anno mirabilis. It will discuss its legacy in the contemporary context and talk about democracies most burning challenges. The aim is to mobilize the Slovak society to enter into a conversation about democracy and its values in both local and international perspectives.
With: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Timothy Garton Ash, Zuzana Čaputová, Masha Gessen, David Graeber, László F. Földényi, Ivan Krastev and many more
See the full program here
