/updated June, 22/
DAY 1 – Thursday – June 28
11:00 a.m. OPENING CEREMONY
Welcome by:
John S. Micgiel – Conference Director (Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw
Jan Malicki (director, Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw)
Maciej Duszczyk (Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations, University of Warsaw)
Opening Speech – Min. Jacek Czaputowicz (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland)
Keynote Speech – Amb. Boguslaw Winid
(advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland, f. Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations in New York) entitled: The role and activities of the Eastern European Group within the United Nations system
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 PM – PANEL SESSION I
Special lecture by: Gordon N Bardos, Southeast European Research & Consulting – Militant Islamism in Southeastern Europe: Infrastructure, Actions, and the Potential Threat Horizon
4:00 p.m. ROUND TABLE I – Building a modern and robust banking system: Poland’s experience after 1989
6:00 p.m. Exhibition – „100 Years of Georgia’s First Democratic Republic”
Opening Speech by Ilia Darchiashvili (Ambassador of Georgia to Poland)
DAY 2 – Friday – June 29
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – PANEL SESSION I (Special lecture by: Zbigniew Kruszewski, University of Texas, El Paso – Open borders, closed borders)
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.- PANEL SESSION II
4:00 p.m. ROUND TABLE II – NATO’s Brussels Summit: U.S., German, and Russian Perspectives (co-organized with George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies)
6:30 p.m. WEEC SPECIAL MEETING and Marshall Center Poland Alumni Outreach Networking Event
DAY 3 – Saturday– June 30
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – PANEL SESSION I (Special lecture by: Andrius Kubilius, f. Prime Minister of Lithuania – Challenges Facing Lithuania Today)
12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ROUND TABLE III – What’s Going on in Central Asia, Ukraine and the Caucasus? (co-organized with the Harriman Institute, Columbia University)
4:00 p.m. CLOSING CEREMONY
Closing Lecture – prof. dr hab. Amb. Alfonsas Eidintas (Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania)
5:00 p.m. Ceremony of Presenting the “Przegląd Wschodni” Award to: