On June 3, 2019, the Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw (IH UW) is organizing a scientific conference devoted to recalling the memory and circumstances of conducting the first partially free parliamentary elections in Poland on 4 June 1989.

The so-called contractual elections took place on June 4 and 18, 1989. The rules of their organization were agreed within the so-called Round Table talks. As a result, candidates not from then ruling communist party and satellite parties applied for 35% of seats in the Sejm and for all Senate seats. These were the first free parliamentary elections in Poland after the Second World War.

The participants of the event will include Dr Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spano, director of IH UW, Dr Paweł Kowal (Eastern European Studies at the University of Warsaw), Prof. Jan Skórzyński (Collegium Civitas), Prof. Andrzej Friszke (Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Tomasz Nałęcz (Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk).