Debate around Professor Agnieszka Matusiak's book Emerging from Silence. Decolonial Struggles of 21st Century Ukrainian Culture and Literature with Post-Totalitarian Trauma (KEW, University of Wroclaw, 2020). The meeting was held on April 7, 2022, entitled Modern Literature, Imperialism and War, and the Holocaust. Participants in the debate: Prof. Agnieszka Matusiak, Prof. Maiia Harbuziuk (art sciences, theatre studies, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv) Prof. Ewa Bal ( theatre studies, performance studies, Jagellonian University). Moderator: Katarzyna Buganik, Paweł Dziel. Media patronage: Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe Foundation in Wroclaw, Honorary patronage: Rector of Wroclaw University.
A conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko , author of the book Planet Wormwood (Agora Publishing House, 2022) at the Gdansk Shakespeare Theater, March 18, 2022. Oksana Zabuzhko is one of Ukraine's leading writers and philosophers, author of more than 20 books of poetry, prose, essays and winner of numerous awards. She perceptively traces scenarios for the development of Western and Eastern European culture in the face of the ongoing war in Ukraine, and sees possibilities for overcoming the existing divisions between the Global West and East in the ethos of minority nations. The meeting is moderated by journalist and sociologist Ludwika Wlodek.
"Who Killed the Soviet Union? Revisiting the Soviet Collapse Thirty Years Later" wykład prof. dr hab. Serhija Płochija (z Harvard University), specjalisty od historii Ukrainy i dyrektora Ukrainian Institute na Uniwersytecie Harvarda - wykład w jęz. ang.:
Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. A leading authority on Eastern Europe, he has published extensively on the international history of the region. His books won numerous awards, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best English-language book on the international relations for The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (2014), Taras Shevchenko National Prize (Ukraine) for The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015), and Ballie Gifford Prize and Pushkin House Book Prize, UK for Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, (2018). His latest book, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis was released in April 2021.
What shapes your identity? Why - and how - are both theater and reportage so keen on local stories? How many visions of Poland are there, and does Poland even exist? We talk about localness, local stories, cultural codes and migration. In the conversation participate: reporter, winner of the Nike Award for his book Kajś Zbigniew Rokita and professor of the Department of Performance Studies of the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University Ewa Bal, and . Moderated by playwright Wojtek Zrałek-Kossakowski
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