9th International Symposium "Czech Foreign Policy"
The 9th International Symposium Czech Foreign Policy - "Responsibility in a Leaderless World"
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| Date: | 4.10. - 5.10. |
| Time: | 09:30 |
| Venue: | Czernin Palace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Loretánské nám. 5, Prague 1 |
| In cooperation: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic |
| Organized by: |
The Institute of International Relations Prague and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic would like to cordially invite you to the 9th International Symposium “Czech Foreign Policy”. This year's main topic will be "Responsibility in a Leaderless World". The event will take place on 4-5 October 2017 in the Czernin Palace.
Detailed programme available here.
First speaker announcement
Lubomír Zaorálek - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Mark Galeotti - Senior Researcher, Institute of International Relations
Sławomir Dębski - director of Polish Institute for International Affairs
Libor Rouček - politician
Jan Macháček - journalist
Alexandr Vondra - former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Aura Salla - adviser for Communication and Outreach, European Political Strategy Centre
Jeremy Druker - executive director of Transitions TOL, Ashoka Fellow
Jakub Macek - Professor of Media & Journalism Studies at Masarykova univerzita
Wednesday, October 4th
VENUE: THE GREAT HALL
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 Symposium opening:
Michal Kořan, Deputy Director, Aspen Institute Central Europe; External Researcher, Institute of International Relations Prague
9:00 – 9:45 Opening Address:
H. E. Lubomír Zaorálek, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
Petr Kratochvíl, Director of the Institute of International Relations, Prague
10:00 – 11:30 Germany after the elections/Czech Republic at the doorstep of the elections: Framework for future relationship: Working language – English
Speakers:
Jana Urbanovská, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Political Science, Masaryk University
David Král, Director of the Policy Planning Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Vladan Hodulák, Researcher at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, MU
Vladimír Handl, Associate Researcher, Institute of International Relations Prague and Charles University
Jakub Landovský, Deputy Minister of Defence, Czech Republic
Chair: Jakub Groszkowski, Analyst at the Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:15 Breakout Sessions (see below)
13:15 – 14:30 Buffet Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Plenary Session: Thinking Against the Present
It is a mantra of our time that the world is changing. But what alternatives to the ordering of global politics can be imagined without succumbing to availability bias and the limits imposed by our anchoring in time and space, and how possible are they? This panel will seek to provide a structured overview of some alternatives to the present that are based on scenarios of possible future transformations of the liberal order created as part of a scenario-building project carried out at the Institute of International Relations. In cooperation with the Deutsch Security Square, Charles University and the Global Arena Research Initiative
Speakers:
Vít Beneš, Senior Researcher, Institute of International Relations Prague
Michal Kořan, Deputy Director, Aspen Institute Central Europe; External Researcher, Institute of International Relations Prague
Michal Smetana, Researcher, Centre for Security Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
Nikola Schmidt, Lecturer and Researcher in space and cybersecurity, Charles University Prague
Discussant: Mark Galeotti, Senior Researcher, Institute of International Relations Prague
Chair: Ondřej Ditrych, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Deutsch Security Square (D.SQ Charles University)
15:30 – 15:45 Break
16:00 – 18:00 Joint Workshop: Creative Global Futures with "Blood, Love and Rhetoric"
1st workshop group
Can you imagine that the boundaries between comedy and fear, improvisation and scholarly rigour, creativity and diplomatic rules, future and the past, theatre and life suddenly collapse? Become part of such unique experience during a workshop "Creative Global Futures" which will be part of our 9th International Symposium "Czech Foreign Policy". The workshop will be run by leading Prague's improvisation group "Blood Loving Rhetoric" and we can promise you that you will never look at the future of the Global affairs through the same eyes.
VENUE: THE MIRROR HALL
11:45 – 13:15 Break out session: What's next for the Czech Strategy towards Russia?
(in cooperation with Association for International Affairs - AMO), Working language - Czech
Speakers:
Vít Dostál, AMO
Jakub Dürr, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic for European Issues
Barbora Chrzová, Prague Security Studies Institute
Rostislav Valvoda, Prague Civil Society Centre
Chair: Vlaďka Votavová, AMO
16:00 – 18:00 Joint Workshop: Creative Global Futures with "Blood, Love and Rhetoric"
2nd workshop group
VENUE: THE MUSIC HALL
11:45 – 13:15 Break out session: China in the Media: Mapping Chinese Influence in Central Europe
(in cooperation with Association for International Affairs - AMO), Working language - English
Speakers:
Jan Bejkovský, New Silk Road Institute Prague, Univesty of Economics Prague
Ivana Karásková, Association for International Affairs
Olga Lomová, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Tamás Matura, Central and Eastern European Center for Asian Studies; Corvinus University of Budapest
Richard Turcsányi, Strategic Policy Institute
Chair: Linda Flanderová, Deputy Director for External Services, Institute of International Relations
16:00 – 18:00 Joint Workshop: Creative Global Futures with "Blood, Love and Rhetoric"
3rd workshop group
VENUE: THE BLUE HALL
11:45 – 13:15 Break out session Post-factual leaders and the Media
(in cooperation with Go-Think Initiative), Working language - English
Speakers:
Aura Salla, Adviser for Communication and Outreach, European Commission's EPSC - European Political Strategy Centre
Jeremy Druker, executive director of Transitions TOL, Ashoka Fellow, board member of the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic and Novinářská cena, the Czech journalism prizes
Jakub Macek,Professor of Media & Journalism Studies at Masarykova univerzita, Post-Doctoral research project "New and old media in everyday life: media audiences at the time of transforming media uses" & "The transformation of public and political participation in the context of changing media technology and practice"
Bohumil Kartous, Head of Communications, EDUin
Chair: Odessa Primus, Founder & Chairman, Go Think Initiative
VENUE: THE LARGE DINING HALL
11:45 – 13:15 Break out session: Conflicting Borders in the Post-Soviet Space
(in cooperation with the journal Mezinárodní vztahy), Working language - Czech
Speakers:
Tomáš Hoch, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava
Jaroslav Kurfürst, Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU
Vincenc Kopeček, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava
Libor Jelen, Faculty of Science, Charles University
Vladimír Naxer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia
15:45 – 16:45 Closed session: work meeting of the Czech Polish Analytical Platform
VENUE: THE GALLERY
16:00 – 18:00 Joint Workshop: Creative Global Futures with "Blood, Love and Rhetoric"
4th and 5th workshop group
VENUE: THE SMALL DINING HALL
19:30 Symposium Dinner (special invitation only)
Thursday, October 5th
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 11:00 Responsibility in a Leaderless World
Speakers:
Anna Durnova, Faculty Fellow at the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology, Editor of Critical Policy Studies
Libor Rouček, Former Member of the European Parliament with the Czech Social Democratic Party
Alexander Vondra, Former Minister of Defence, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
Slawomir Debski, Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs
Jan Macháček, Chairman of the Board of Trustee, Institute for Politics and Society
Chair: Ondřej Císař, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 Key Note Address and Discussion Working language – English
Speaker:
Joachim Bitterlich, Senior Advisor for Cranemere, Professor at ESCP Europe, former Permanent Representative of Germany in NATO
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Political Context of the Czech Foreign Policy: three decades of vanity? Working language – English
Speakers:
Vít Dostál, Director of the AMO Research Centre
Michal Kořan, Deputy Director, Aspen Institute Central Europe; External Researcher, Institute of International Relations Prague
Petr Kolář, Senior Advisor at Squire Patton Boggs, former Czech ambassador to Russia
Chair: Lucia Najšlová, Associate Researcher, Institute of International Relations
16:00 – 16:15 Symposium Closing
Nahoru
Tomáš Profant
Vladislav Strnad