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Adam Balcer is a political scientist, an expert on the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East, a lecturer at Warsaw University’s Centre for East European Studies and a former programme director at demosEUROPA‘s Centre for European Strategy. Adam Balcer is also a co-author of the book Polska na globalnej szachownicy [Poland on the global Chess Board] (2014). Information valid as…

Stefan Krastev has a B.A. in ethnology from Sofia University and an M.A. in sociology and social anthropology from the Central European University. He has worked on themes including ethnic minorities, racism, urban marginality, illegality and squatting. Currently, Stefan is doing a PhD in sociology at the University of Sofia, for which he is researching the processes of everyday financialisation…

Filka Sekulova was born in Bulgaria in 1979 and holds initial degrees from the universities of Sofia [psychology] and Amsterdam [economics]. Honing her skills further, she then studied spatial, transport, regional and environmental economics at Amsterdam’s Free University and completed a PhD in ecological economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, focusing on happiness economics and climate change. Filka is…

Boyan Rashev is a co-manager of denkstatt Bulgaria. Five years ago, he created the Bulgarian office of the Austrian sustainable development consulting company with his wife. Since 2003, Boyan has worked for environmental NGOs, consulting firms and international projects in the fields of climate change, nature reserve management, evaluation of ecosystem services, water management and the funding of conservation activities.…

At 18:30 CET on the 6th March 2017, CCCB will host a discussion with Xiaolu Guo on the meaning of the other in Europe today. This event will take place in English, is free to attend and will form part of the Old Europe, New Utopias series of discussions, which you can find out more about below. Discussion / Speakers / Recording /…

At 18:30 CET on the 27th February 2017, CCCB will host a discussion on the role of media in democracies and ways to resolve the field’s current crises. This event will take place in English, is free to attend and will form part of the Old Europe, New Utopias series of discussions, which you can find out more about below. Discussion / Speakers…

Valentina Orazzini has always been an active trade unionist and she now works as the European representative of the Italian metal workers’ trade union FIOM/CGIL. In her work, she focuses on finding common cause in the battles of trade unions and those of similarly aligned social movements, be such in Italy or the continent at large. It is her belief…

Sayeeda Warsi is a lawyer, businesswoman, campaigner and former cabinet minister. She is best known for being the first Muslim to serve in a British cabinet. In 2010, she was appointed Chairwoman of the Conservative party and Minister without Portfolio in the British Cabinet. In 2012, she became Senior Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Minister…

Tom Junes is a historian who holds a Ph.D. from the KU Leuven in Belgium. He is a member of the Human and Social Studies Foundation in Sofia and currently a visiting fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia. As a postdoctoral researcher, he has held fellowships in Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Helsinki, Potsdam and Jena. His research interests…

Vladimir Shopov is an author, researcher and consultant. A graduate of political science at the University of Sofia University (St. Kliment Ohridski) and the London School of Economics and Political Science, he has also studied at Oxford University, London University (Queen Mary College), the New School for Social Research in New York, the Sonoma State University of California and Peking…