Gudrun Steinacker was born in Düsseldorf, in 1951. She has studied History and Social Sciences in Munich, Münster and Belgrade. From 1978 until her retirement in 2016, she
has worked in the German Diplomatic Service, in New York (UN), Zagreb,...
Krzystof Czyżewski – practitioner of ideas, writer, philosopher, culture animator, theatre director, editor. Co-founder and president of the Borderland Foundation and director of the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” in Sejny, Poland. Teacher and lecturer, professor at...
Siddhartha Deb (born 1970) is an Indian author. He was educated in India and at Columbia University, US. He has written several novels, one of which has been awarded by PEN/Open Book and shortlisted for Orwell Prize. As a journalist, Deb...
Wolfgang Klotz was born 1954 in Lower Franconia as son of a workers family and in an environment deeply informed by traditional Catholicism. Studying Theology and Philosophy during the 1970s in Würzburg and Munich finally resulted in an emancipation...
On practising the ethos of the borderland
Krzystof Czyżewski – practitioner of ideas, writer, philosopher, culture animator, theatre director, editor. Co-founder and president of the Borderland Foundation and director of the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” in Sejny,...
Péter Krasztev ( Budapest, 1965) is a social scientist, literary historian and translator, Associate Professor at Budapest Business School (Communication Department).
After receiving his Ph.D. in 1995 he published three edited volumes, one monograph on Central-East European Literary Symbolism (1995)...
Alexandra Channer began translating in Kosovo in 2009 while conducting research for her doctoral thesis on Albanian national self-determination movements. She translates a selection of prose and poetry each year for the POLIP festival and has translated and edited many...
Agnes Heller is one of the leading thinkers to come out of the tradition of critical theory. Her awesome intellectual range and output includes ethics, philosophical anthropology, political philosophy and a theory of modernity and its culture. Born in...
Agnes Heller is one of the leading thinkers to come out of the tradition of critical theory. Her awesome intellectual range and output includes ethics, philosophical anthropology, political philosophy and a theory of modernity and...
Jean-Patrick CONNERADE is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Imperial College London, Honorary Professor at the East China University in Shanghai and permanent guest researcher at the WIPM Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences....
