COMMUNISM'S NEGOTIATED COLLAPSE:
THE POLISH ROUND TABLE TALKS OF 1989,
TEN YEARS LATER
A Conference at the University of Michigan, April 7-10, 1999

Bishop of the Diocese of Wloclawek since 1992 and Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin since 1981, Bronislaw Dembowski (b. 1927) participated in the Round Table negotiations as an observer for the Catholic Church. He studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw and the Catholic University of Lublin, where he received a Ph.D. in 1961, and at Warsaw's Theological Seminary, where he taught from 1970 to 1992. A member of the International Catholic Council for Charismatic Revival and the Polish Episcopate's Commission for Catholic Education, Missionaries, and Priesthood, Bishop Dembowski has published extensively on religion and philosophy.

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