CIAO DATE: 02/08
Intermarium
Volume 10, Number 2-3 (2007)
The East Central European Center, The Polish Studies Program, and The Institute for the Study of Europe At Columbia University Present:
An International Conference on "Polish-German Reconcilation—A Never Ending Story?"
May 3-4, 2007
Thursday, May 3
The Kosciuszko Foundation
15 East 65th St.
- 6 pm
: Welcome by Witold Sulimirski (Kosciuszko Foundation) [Windows Media Video, 417 MB]
- John S. Micgiel (Columbia University)
- Keynote speakers:
- Marcus Meckel (Bundestag, Berlin)
- Pawel Zalewski (Sejm, Warsaw)
Friday, May 4
The School of International And Public Affairs
Columbia University
420 West 118th St
Room 1501
- 9 am : Welcome by Volker R. Berghahn (Columbia University)
- 9 am: Panel 1: Dealing with the Communist Past [Windows Media Video, 275 MB]
- John S. Micgiel (Columbia University), Chair
- Lukasz Kaminski (IPN, Warsaw)
- Milowit Kuninski (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
- hubertus Knabe (Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hőhenschőnhausen)
- Marcus Meckel (Bundestag, Berlin)
- 11 am
: Panel 2: Russia and Europe, Ostpolitik [Windows Media Video, 311 MB]
- Andrzej Nowak (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
- Cornelius Ochmann (Bertelsmann Stiftung, Berlin)
- Jan Ross (Die Zeit, Berlin)
- 12:45 pm : Lunch
- 2:30 pm
: Panel 3: Memory, History and Politics [Windows Media Video, 455 MB]
- Philipp Ther (Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Slubice), Chair
- Ulricke Ackermann (Freelance Author, Frankfurt)
- Piotr Buras (Center for International Relations, Warsaw)
- Dariusz Gawin (Museum of the Uprising, Warsaw)
- Basil Kerski (Editor, Dialog, Berlin)
- 4:30 pm
: Panel 4: The Place in Europe and Vision of European Integration [Windows Media Video, 355 MB]
- Zdzislaw Krasnodebski (Bremen and Columbia Universities), Chair
- Marek A. Cichocki (Natolin European Center, Warsaw)
- Hans-Juergen Heimsoth, (German Consulate General, New York)
- Krzysztof W. Kasprzyk (Polish Consulate General, New York)
- Klaus Ziemer (German Historical Institute, Warsaw)
- 6:30 pm : Reception