Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe (CAS – SEE) inaugural conference “New challenges for democracy – Crisis of trust and democratic legitimacy in Europe” will bring together leading international and European scientists and intellectuals in order to discuss new challenges for democracy in Europe, with particular emphasis on its southeastern part. The conference will be held from October 16th 2013 to October 18th 2013 at the University of Rijeka. Our first permanent academic fellows, including Michael Walzer (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Maurizio Ferraris (Università degli Studi di Torino), and Peter Eisenmann (Yale School of Architecture) will be introduced at the conference.