The International Cultural Centre launched its activities on 29th May 1991 during the CSCE symposium in Krakow. It was a special moment: the first big meeting of East and West dedicated to culture and cultural heritage since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. This way the newly set-up institution with a clear mission made its presence felt on the international forum from its inception. The core idea of the Centre is inter-cultural communication and creating a common Europe that bridges political, ideological and religious divisions and underscores the significance of Central Europe for European and global heritage.
Spis treści
20 years on…
Andrzej Wajda, [For the twentieth anniversary of the International Cultural Centre]
Magdaléna Vášáryová, It’s enough that we can go in
Csaba G. Kiss, The Krakow Gate
Shlomo Avineri, Krakow – a city beyond borders
Europe and dialogue
Danuta Hübner, Europe is dialogue
Adam Michnik, Poland and its neighbours twenty years on
Ion Caramitru, “We cannot live in an imaginary world”
Erhard Busek, History, stories, snippets of stories. History as a key ingredient in Europe’s culture
Emil Brix, The european mind. Memory patterns in post-cold war Europe
Janusz Sepioł, A new force? The Visegrad Group after twenty years of transition
Rupert Graf Strachwitz, My vision of Europe
Krzysztof Czyżewski, The Borderland ethos
Ewa Chojecka, Regionalism and Polish thinking about Europe
Pavel Zatloukal, “My” Poland in five images
Yevsey G. Gendel, There are many different Polands and Krakows, but only one ICC!
Thomas Schulz, German cultural heritage in Poland – a common heritage?
Dieter Bingen, The dialogue principle of the German-Polish Copernicus Group
Aleksander V. Lipatov, The Russian perception of Polishness – a historical review
Nelly Bekus, Europe and dialogue: the European school of dialogue as a way of overcoming the Belarusian identity crisis
Bronislavas Genzelis, Changes in Stereotypes: Poles our enemies, Poles our friends
Wu Lan, Culture in Polish-Chinese relations in the early twenty-first century
Heritage and memory
Henryk Samsonowicz, The emergence of Europe
Krzysztof Pomian, The birth and transformations of European heritage
Zdzisław Najder, The links of European memory
Joseph Rykwert, The seductions of age
Giorgio Piccinato, The uses of history
Andrzej Tomaszewski (1934–2010), Between Polish architecture and architecture in Poland
Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović, The european heritage movement: building momentum
Gregory J. Ashworth, Heritage and memory: disinheritance and forgetting: The International Cultural Centre as my heritage
Leopold Unger, A heritage without heirs
Agnieszka Sabor, The Jewish heritage of Krakow
Grzegorz Ryś, The sacrum of Krakow – times, places and people
Anna Niedźwiedź, Krakow – “the Pope’s city”
Karolina Grodziska, On the difficult art of describing cemeteries
Natalia Yakovenko, Common heritage as a field of cooperation between Polish and Ukrainian historians
Daniel Beauvois, The social and cultural life of the Poles in the Lithuanian and Ruthenian lands after 1832. A brief review of major historical writings from 1990–2010
Mykola Riabchuk, The myth of Galicia – a Ukrainian perspective
Robert Traba, “Open regionalism” – a practical civic philosophy
Stefan Muthesius, Ignorance, prejudice, contempt. Some problems with Polish art and art history
Simona Škrabec, An iconography of pain
Shobita Punja, An Indian experience
Culture and development
Rod Fisher, Culture – an essential policy component to enhance the eu’s external relations
Jerzy Hausner, The culture of the information civilization
Rafał Wiśniewski, Like an ugly duckling…, or on the international image of Poland in the past and coming two decades
Andrzej Rottermund, The museum as an educational space, or education for a common Europe
Jan Sucháček, Central Europe – from passive to active space in 20 years
Stanisław Obirek, The happy gift of freedom
Tomislav Šola, The heritage product as suggested by a marketing approach
Tamás Fejérdy, Mechanism for offsetting the restrictions attendant on the (historic) protected status of properties
László Beke, The 20th anniversary of the International Cultural Centre in Krakow
Afterword
Jacek Purchla, An era of vanishing borders