10ივნ,2019
Heritage of the „Solidarity” and dissident’s movement in the f. USSR.
ადგილი:კ.ქუთათელაძის N3
What values does it bring to contemporary Europe?
Tbilisi 10-11.06.2019.
Information Center for NATO & UE (2/1 Shalva Dadiani St, T'bilisi)
10.06.2019
Opening session
10.00 Welcoming remarks and opening amb. Mariusz Maszkiewicz / prof. Levan Berdzenishvili – (presentation of guests and participants);
10.20 – Welcoming speech: Minister David Zalkaliani (TBC)
10.30 Mrs. Salome Zourabishvili – President of Georgia - What was “Solidarity” for Georgian’s living in the West, in 80-ties; (TBC)
10.45 – 11.15 Krzysztof Wyszkowski (Poland) – How we started with independent anticommunist movement in the 70-ties in Gdańsk;
11.15 – 11.45 Markus Meckel (Germany) – Polish Solidarity and dissidents of USSR – view from Eastern Germany;
11.45 – 12.15 Alexander Podrabinek (Russia) – Plague of Solidarity – view from Soviet Gulag.
Coffee break
12.30 – 12.45 John Micgiel – Colombia University//Warsaw University – US support for the democratic opposition in Martial-Law Poland;
12.45 – 13.30 Warsaw University SEW –Aleksandra Gryźlak Georgian samizdat in the 1970s illustrated by the example of the Georgian Herald Journal; Rigers Halili – Disidents and anti-communist activists in the communist Balkans; Jan Malicki - Polish independent/underground Sovietology’s newspapers/magazines
13.30 – 13.40 – Piotr Hlebowicz (Poland) – Cooperation:Georgia and Solidarity movement – in the 80s and 90s;
13.40 – 14.30 – Discussion
14.30 -15.30 Buffet lunch
Session dedicated to former Georgian dissidents
15.30 – 16.00 repr. of SOV LAB (David Jishkariani, Irakli Khvadagiani) - the organization preserving memory of the soviet occupation in Georgia – How does the state should protect the memory and rights of anti-Soviet dissidents
16.30 – 18.30 panel led by prof. Levan Berdzenishvili (presentations/discussion)
- presentations of the most known Georgian dissidents. Passed away: Giorgi Chanturia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Eduard Gudava, Tengiz Gudava, Fridon Jajanidze and Merab Kostava.
Living in Georgia and abroad: Tamar Baghdavadze, David Berdzenishvili, Levan Berdzenishvili, Tamar Chkheidze, Vakhtang Dzabiradze, Guram Gobgaidze, Tariel Gviniashvili, Avtandil Imnadze, Nana Kakabadze, Zakaria Lashkarashvili (living in Paris), Gela Nikoleishvili, Victor Rtskhiladze, Vakhtang Shonia (living in Israel), Irakli Tsereteli, Vazha Zhgenti
18.30 – Dinner and concert at the down hall;
11.06.2019
Session dedicated nonconfomism and “non-political” anti-soviet activity in communist States
10.00 -11.00 Orange Alternative – documentary and presentation Waldemar Frydrych/Wiesław Cupała/Oskar Kasperek; Art against communist.
11.00-12.00 Ecology and Peace – the case of the Freedom and Peace Movement (presentations and photo exhibition) – Jarema Dubiel/ Dariusz Zalewski/Jarosław Kapsa / Roland Kruk
13.00 – 14.00 Soft-resistance – Non-conformism in the USSR (case of Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, Georgia) Alexander Milinkevich, Viktor Shalkevich and others (tbc)
14.00- 16.00 Lunch and discussion