Jacek Kuron’s Legacy: The Last Dissident – Panel Discussion
On December 5th, 2004, Boston University hosted a Panel Discussion on the Jacek Kuron’s Legacy: The Last Dissident. Kuron was one of the most important oppositional leaders in Eastern Europe. He was born into a Socialist family in Lviv, Ukraine, which was then Polish territory. Having lived through World War II and the German Occupation in Lviv first and then in Warsaw, Kuron joined the Communist Party in the early 1950s. He also founded the “red” scouting organization which taught new cooperative methods and social goals.
The panel consisted of Padraic Kenney, Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder; David Ost, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Joanna Regulska, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Professor of Geography, and Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey; Jacques Rupnik, Professor of Political Science and Research Director at CERI – Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris & Professor of History at the Sorbonne and Professor of Politics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; and Andrzej Tymowski, Director of International Programs at American Council of Learned Societies, with Irena Grudzinska Gross as Moderator.
WBUR aired this Panel Discussion on December 12th, 2004.
