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Dariusz Stola Delivers 34th Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture

On Wednesday, 25 October, Dariusz Stola, historian, professor at the Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and IWM Vice President, will give the 2023 Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture. Established in 1987, the…

15 Voices on Patočka for the 21st Century

The year 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of Charter 77, the Czechoslovak declaration of human rights that played a pivotal role in inspiring opposition movements in Eastern Europe, ultimately leading to the fall of communism. Nineteen seventy-…