26. Nemzetközi Nyári Egyetem – Közép-Európai Tangó a globális tánciskolában

All events of the ISU 2021 will be held in Central  European Time (CET) 

June 28 (Monday)

9:30-10:00      Online registration and technicalities

10:00-10:10    Welcome Speeches: Ferenc Miszlivetz (Director, iASK),

10:10-10:30

Opening: Judit Varga (Hungarian Minister of Justice)

10:30-10:40     Greetings:  Béla Básthy (Mayor of Kőszeg), János Székely (Bishop of Szombathely)

10:40-11:00    Short Break

Morning Session

11:00-12:00 Panel Discussion: Paradoxes and Complexities of Central European Identity

Chair: Iván Bába (Diplomat; iASK)

Invited panelists: Judit Varga (Hungarian Minister of Justice), H.E. Katalin Bogyay (15th Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN; President of UNESCO 36th General Conference; iASK) H.E. Mladen Andrlic (Croatian Ambassador to Hungary), H.E. Tibor Bial (Czech Ambassador to Hungary), H.E. Andor Nagy (Hungarian Ambassador to Austria), H.E. Liubov Nepop (Ukrainian Ambassador to Hungary), Klaus Wölfer (Austrian Diplomat)

12:00-12:30    Q&A Session

12:30-14:00    Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

14:00-14:15 Miklós Réthelyi (Chair, Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO) – Welcome address

14:15-14:35    Presentation: Gertrúd Kendernay-Nagyidai (Accredited Parliamentary Assistant at European Parliament): “The Myth of Central Europe: What divides, What unites”.

14:35-14:45    Q&A Session

14:45-15:45 Panel Discussion: Can the V-4 help in Resolving Global Conflicts?

What can be the role of the V-4 countries in strengthening or weakening the cohesion of the European Union? Is the V-4 cooperation strong enough to represent the collective interests of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic in Europe, can it play any role in global political and economic conflicts? Researchers and diplomats will discuss these issues from their respective professional and national perspectives.

Chair: Attila Pók (Research fellow, iASK)

Invited panelists: Iván Bába (Diplomat, iASK), Petr Drulák (Institute of International Relations, Prague), Ljubov Shishelina (Russian Academy of Sciences, iASK Advisory Board Member), Catherine Horel (Director of Research at the CNRS -Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-, Paris) tbc, Erhard Busek (Member of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, Chairman of the Institute of Danube Region and Central Europe)

15:45-16:15    Q&A Session

June 29 (Tuesday)

9:30-10:00      Online registration and technicalities

Morning Session

10:00-11:00    Panel Discussion: Covid-19 and New Dimension of Governance: the Role of the State

Contact tracing apps, vaccine passports and other innovative systems and technologies that have been developed to control the pandemic are possibly imposing new standards of surveillance and new restrictions on human rights and freedoms. How is the current crisis transforming the world today by establishing new borders of private and public? Has Covid-19 accelerated processes of digitalization and introduced new surveillance practices that are here to stay?

Chair: Ivana Stepanovic (Research fellow of IASK, Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research in Belgrade, Serbia)

Invited Panelists: Christian Eichenmüller (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute of Geography, Germany), Ortwin Renn (International Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany), James M. Skelly (Research fellow of IASK), Attila Szigeti (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; iASK)

11:00-11:15 Short Break

11:15-12:00    Q&A Session

12:00-13:30    Lunch Break

Afternoon session

13:30-16:00    Panel Discussion: Human Security in Light of Pandemic: Are New Challenges increasing the New East-West Divide?

The current COVID-19 pandemic has revealed itself to be much more than a health crisis. If there is indeed aftermath to it, any sort of future needs to consider the contradictions between science and policy, including communication and misinformation, to ensure the protection of individuals as well as the sustainability of our biosphere. This challenge faces many threats from technology, the escalation of military confrontations and conflicts, and increasing distrust in democratic institutions. What scenarios for the future can be based on a new paradigm centered on global human security?

13:30-13:50    Keynote:

Pavel Palazhchenko (Gorbachev Foundation) “Towards a New Concept of Security”

13:50-14:50 Panel Discussion

Chair: Ferenc Miszlivetz (Director, iASK)

Invited Panelists: Dan Brooks (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; iASK), Sean Cleary (Founder, Future World Foundation; iASK International Board), Lydia Georgieva (University of Skopje), James M. Skelly (Research Fellow, iASK)

14:50-15:30    Q&A Session

Discussant: Ahmet Evin (Sabanci University; iASK International Board)

15:30-16:25    Cultural Event: Sounds of Pannonia

Bartók Universe – music improvisations, Improvisation and composition by the Binder- Borbély duet, Bartók and his homeland by the Mizsei quintet

June 30 (Wednesday)

9:30-10:00      Online registration and technicalities

Morning Session

Chair: Jody Jensen (senior researcher, iASK)

10:00-12:00    Panel Discussion: Challenges to and Opportunities for Democracy: is Western Civilization capable of Renewal?

While the social and political reactions to the root causes of global change have transformed the functioning of democracies globally, those appearing in the space of Central and Eastern Europe have experienced a particular type of development. Their specificity has been mostly explained in terms of the proliferation of “illiberal democracies” characterized by the politics of Euroscepticism. The panel aims to address three main questions: 1) What factors have contributed to the specific populist developments within the region? 2) What explains the particular importance of “Euroskepticism” in the formation of regional populisms? 3) How has regional populism addressed the COVID-19 pandemic and has populism itself “mutated” in the context of this novel socio-political situation?

10:00-10:20   Keynote: Philippe Schmitter (European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole)

10:20-12:30    Panel Discussion

Invited Panelists: Emil Brix (Director, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna), Manuela Caiani (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa/Firenze), Marko Lovec (University of Ljubljana), Pavel Palazhchenko (Gorbachev Foundation),

Rafal Smoczynski (Polish Academy of Sciences),

Igor Stipic (Research fellow, iASK),

Ravid Taghiyev (iASK fellow)

11:15-12:30    Q&A Session

12:30-14:30    Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

14:30-15:30    Panel Discussion: Understanding the Root Causes of Corruption, State Capture, Radicalization, Resilience, and Emigration in Central and Southeastern Europe

The panel will present research conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia by the Democratization Policy Council from Berlin and the Center for European Strategies Eurothink from Skopje. The starting point of the report is Sarah Chayes’ book „Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security” and seeks to answer whether systemic corruption and state capture fuel popular resentment that feeds into radicalization, including (but not limited to) violent extremism. The research strongly reflects the voices of ordinary people in localities that are often ignored in political discussions.  A set of 18 community snapshots provides a deeper look at lived impact on a generation of upheaval and stagnation, reflecting on issues of polarization, corruption, migration, opportunity, dignity, solidarity and vision.

Chair: Dimitar Nikolovski (Eurothink – Center for European Strategies, Skopje, Research Fellow iASK)

Invited Panelists: Valery Perry (Democratization Policy Council), Sasa Kulenovic (Democratization Policy Council), Kurt Bassuener (Democratization Policy Council – Sarajevo), Ljupcho Petkovski (Eurothink – Center for European Strategies – Skopje)

15:30-16:00    Q&A Session

July 1 (Thursday)

9:30-10:00      Online registration and technicalities

Morning Session

10:00-12:00    Panel Discussion: Global Communication Strategies and the Potential of Soft Power

There is life beyond the pandemic, and there is nothing harder than soft power diplomacy. Experts will discuss how to ethically communicate, through soft power strategies, on issues related to climate change, sustainable societies, social solidarity and cohesion, international and cultural exchange. As we face an increasingly complex future with the potential for growing conflicts, the discussion will address mitigation strategies and best practices in the field.

10:00-10:20

Keynote: Katalin Bogyay (15th Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN; President of UNESCO 36th General Conference; iASK) “Soft Power Diplomacy in Action”

10:20-10:30    Q&A Session

10:30-10:45    Short Break

10:45-11:30 Panel Discussion

Chair: Katalin Bogyay (15th Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN; President of UNESCO 36th General Conference; iASK)

Invited Panelists: H.E. Sheikha Alya bint Ahmed Al Thani (Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations), Mark C. Donfried (General Director, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin), Leida Ruvina (Research fellow, iASK, Ph.D. Candidate University of New York Tirana), Rubin Zemon (Institute for Social and Humanities Researches by the Euro-Balkan University in Skopje, Macedonia),

11:30-12:00    Q&A Sessiion

12:00-13:30    Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30    Panel Discussion: Institutional Resilience During Crises: Global, Regional and Local Perspectives: The Creative Cities Perspective

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted key dimensions of national institutional systems that will have a lasting effect. At the same time, institutions (related to healthcare, education, the economy, etc.) are critical to providing a resilient response to the crisis. Some countries and some institutions and civil society did better to innovate to mitigate institutional disruptions. What we learn about the resilience of national and international institutions will be crucial moving forward. So what have we learned?

Chair: Ferenc Miszlivetz (Director, iASK)

14:30-15:00    Q&A Session

15:00-16:00    Cultural Event

Zoltán Mizsei (iASK): The Soft Power of Music: Consolation and Strengthening Identity in Hard Times (oral and musical performance)

July 2 (Friday)

9:30-10:00      Online registration and technicalities

Morning Session

10:00-12:00    Panel Discussion: The Future University – The Future of Education: A New Chance for Central Europe?

What does it mean to be a university in the 21^st century? What weaknesses have been revealed during the pandemic in institutional structures? How can you change the educational and institutional paradigm to meet the needs and challenges of contemporary and future students in an uncertain world? What should the university become? And where are the roadblocks to and possibilities for transformation?

Chair: Jody Jensen (Director of the Polányi Centre, iASK)

Invited Panelists: János Bogárdi (University of Bonn; Research fellow of iASK),

Maria Pilar Lorenzo (PhD candidate, Ghent University): Reimagining Higher Education: The Covid-19 Context 

Szabolcs Márka (Columbia University), Matthias Middell (Research Fellow, Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig), Arjan Shahini (PhD Candidate, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Ivana Stepanovic (Research fellow of IASK, University of Belgrade), Igor Stipic (iASK), Sanja Tepavcevic (Research fellow of iASK)

11:30-12:00    Q&A Session

12:00-13:30    Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

13:30-15:00    Feedback session and wrap-up

1996 óta a Nemzetközi Nyári Egyetem nagyszerű lehetőséget nyújt a társadalomtudósoknak, politikai döntéshozóknak, kutatóknak és diákoknak, hogy találkozzanak és megvitassák a korszak aktuális kihívásait és a nemzetközi együttműködéssel kapcsolatos legfontosabb kérdéseket.

A Nyári Egyetem mindenkori célja, hogy az előadók és a hallgatók, illetve az érdeklődők között olyan párbeszéd alakuljon ki, ahol nemcsak az eltérő véleményeket ütköztetik, hanem érdemi megoldási javaslatokat is találnak a jelenünket érintő globális problémák lokális kezelésére.

2021: A XXVI. Nemzetközi Nyári Egyetem Közép-európai Tangó a Globális Tánciskolában címmel, tekintettel a járványhelyzetre, hibrid formában került megrendezésre, Kőszegen. Meghívott előadó volt Varga Judit magyar igazságügyi miniszter, aki első alkalommal vett részt a rendezvénysorozaton. Előadókként szerepelt még Bogyay Katalin volt magyar ENSZ nagykövet, Klaus Wölfer nyugalmazott osztrák diplomata, Mladen Andrlić budapesti horvát nagykövet, Tibor Bial Csehország magyarországi nagykövete és Nagy Andor, Magyarország ausztriai nagykövete is.

A nyári egyetem első napján Közép-Európa helyzete Európában és a Visegrádi 4-ek vonatkozásában került a parkettre, ahol a régió egyedi identitásról, illetve a közép-európai együttműködés jövőjéről vitáztak a meghívott vendégek.

Másnap a Covid-19 járvány és a kormányzás új dimenziói: az állam szerepe került terítékre, szerdán pedig a nyugati államok döntő szerepe a demokrácia fenntartásában és az ehhez kapcsolódó kihívások, mint a populizmus és a sokszor vele járó euroszkepticizmus volt a vita tárgya.

Csütörtökön a nemzetközi kommunikációs stratégiák és a puha hatalmi eszközök (soft power) használata a diplomáciában adott témát. A kurzus zárásaként a jövő egyeteme – az oktatás jövője: Közép-Európa új esélye? címmel hallhattak panelbeszélgetést a résztvevők.

Erről a témáról vélekedett korábban Miszlivetz Ferenc főigazgató úgy, hogy az egyetemek szerepének és a városok együttműködésének újragondolása forradalmi áttörést hozhat. Az FTI-iASK jó példa: nyitott, horizontálisan együttműködő intézettípus, amely az új egyetemi kutatási-stratégiai-fejlesztési célok megvalósulását segíti a régióban.

A 1996-2020 közötti Nemzetközi Nyári Egyetemek rövid összefoglalói. 

Az elmúlt 25 év Nemzetközi Nyári Egyetemeinek előadói listája ABC sorrendben.