| Summary: | Continuation of the Q&A session with the members of the fourth panel of the international conference organized by CEU and Maryland University called “Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Struggle for Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe." The panel, entitled “Vulnerabilities of the New Democracies,” was chaired by John Lampe (Professor at the University of Maryland) and composed of Katherine Verdery (Professor at the University of Michigan), Gail Kligman (UCLA), Kazimierz Poznanski (University of Washington), István Rév (Professor at CEU and Director of OSA Archivum) and Miklós Haraszti (Hungarian Writer, Journalist and Professor). After the debate between the panelists and the audience, U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos shares his thoughts on the issue of civility and consensus building in institutions of representational democracy. Images from the break are also included. The afternoon session that followes contains the fifth and closing panel called "The New Europe: Prospects for Cooperation and Conflict.” The session is chaired by CEU Professor Alfred Rieber. The speakers are Karen Dawisha (Professor of Political Science at Miami University), Bartlomiej Kaminski (Associate Professor of Government at the University of Maryland), Ivo Banac (Croatian Historian and Politician), Ilya Prizel (Professor at John Hopkins University), Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Professor of History at the University of California) and Irena Grudzińska Gross (Polish Historian and Professor). Prof. Alfred Rieber presents the speakers and invites Prof. Karen Dawisha to deliver the first speech of the final panel. She is followed by Prof. Bartlomiej Kaminski and historian Ivo Banac.
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