Events 2023

Thursday, 22 June

Thursday, 22 June

17:00 - 17:30

Stage #1

Thursday, 22 June

17:30 - 18:00

Opening of the exhibition of Ukrainian and Israeli book illustrations “The Eye of the Storm”


Supported by the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine

Participants: Ivan Kravets, Maksym Palenko, Oksana Drachkovska.
Moderated by Nadiia Antonets.

Lecture Hall

Thursday, 22 June

17:45 - 18:45

“I Am Transforming”. Presentation of Volodymyr Vakulenko’s war diary


Together with Kharkiv Literary Museum, Vivat Publishing House, International Renaissance Foundation, and Suspilne.Media

Participants: Victoria Amelina, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Olena Rybka, Kateryna Lykhohliad, Olena Ihnatenko, Iryna Novitska, Sashko Dermansky.
Moderated by Tetyana Teren.

Stage #2

Thursday, 22 June

18:00 - 19:30

“Democracy and War”. Discussion

By fighting against Ukraine, Russia is also trying to prove that democracies are weaker than authoritarian systems and that the world should be dominated by the rule of force. But isn’t the army of a democratic country and a democratic society stronger? An army consisting of citizens who consciously chose to defend their country. After all, what is an ‘army of a democratic country’? And what does democracy mean in the army? The participants of this conversation are Ukrainian servicemen and servicewomen. When we hear the opinion that today “Ukraine is protecting democracy in the world”, what do they say about it? What is the real price of it? How do they see Ukrainian democracy during and after the war?

Supported by the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna, Austria) within the Documenting Ukraine project.

Participants: Artem Chekh (writer and soldier), Andrii Bashtovyi (lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ex-commander of an air assault platoon, and media manager), Yevheniia Zakrevska (military servicewoman and lawyer), Denys Kobzin (military serviceman of the Territorial Defence Forces and sociologist), Pavlo Khazan (lieutenant colonel and ecologist), Yevhenii Shybalov (serviceman of the Territorial Defence Forces and former prisoner of war), Daria Zubenko (military servicewoman, commander of the division of the International Legion of the AFU), Andriana Arekhta (leader of the Women's Veterans Movement, servicewoman of the special unit of the AFU).
Moderated by Nataliya Gumenyuk.

Stage #1

broadcast

Thursday, 22 June

18:30 - 20:30

Lecture Hall

Thursday, 22 June

18:30 - 19:30

Workshops Area

Thursday, 22 June

19:00 - 20:00

“Pixelated Poetry”. Poetry readings


In partnership with Radio Culture

Read by: Yaryna Chornohuz, Olena Herasymiuk, Artur Dron, Yelyzaveta Zharikova, Anatoliy Dnistrovyi, Pavlo Vyshebaba, Maxym Kryvtsov.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova (Radio Culture).

Stage #2

Thursday, 22 June

19:30 - 20:30

“DJ-set. Borys”. Music event



Participant: Borys Stepanenko.

(non)public libraries

Thursday, 22 June

20:00 - 21:00

“Our Crimea: On the Book Pages”. Discussion



Participants: Rustem Khalil ("There Is No Time"), Svitlana Taratorina ("House of Salt"), Anastasia Levkova ("There Is Land Behind Perekop"), Alim Aliev («Crimean Fig»).
Moderated by Victoria Narizhna.

Stage #1

broadcast

Thursday, 22 June

20:00 - 21:00

Concert of the “Renaissance” Chamber Orchestra of the Mariupol Chamber Philharmonic


In cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute. Supported by the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna, Austria) within the Documenting Ukraine project.

Conducted by Vasyl Kriachok. Andriy Rakhmanin (solo performer, violin).

Street Stage

Friday, 23 June

Friday, 23 June

10:30 - 11:30

“Reading for Lauging”. Meeting with children’s writers



Participants: Hryhorii Falkovych, Volodymyr Chernyshenko, Oleksandr Podoliak.
Moderated by Valentyna Vzdulska.

Lecture Hall

Friday, 23 June

11:00 - 11:50

The Night Before Dawn: A Conversation on Faith in Times of Loss



Participants: Volodymyr Sheyko, Tetiana Ogarkova, Myroslava Barchuk.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova (Radio Culture).

Stage #2

Friday, 23 June

11:00 - 12:00

Workshops Area

Friday, 23 June

11:00 - 13:00

Meeting of “Kurin Library” nomadic library readers



Participants: Valeria Nasedkina, Volodymyr Chyhrynets.

(non)public libraries

Friday, 23 June

12:00 - 12:50

“The Future and the Past of Ukraine through the Eyes of Science Fiction Writers”. Discussion



Participants: Olena Kuzmina, Pavlo Derevianko, Nataliia Savchuk.
Moderated by Victoria Narizhna.

Stage #2

Friday, 23 June

12:00 - 13:00

“Ukrainian Books about Art, Artists’ Biographies, and Museums: How Cultural Diplomacy Works”. Discussion



Participants: Volodymyr Sheiko, Oksana Semenik, Nataliya Teramae.
Moderated by Valentyna Klymenko.

Stage #1

Friday, 23 June

12:00 - 13:30

“Knyhodruziachennia-Peredbachennia”. Performance by children’s writers


In partnership with BaraBooka. Space of Ukrainian Children’s Literature

Lecture Hall

Friday, 23 June

12:30 - 13:30

“How to Create an Original Comic Character?” Master class


In partnership with Wacom Ukraine

Held by Ria.

Workshops Area

Friday, 23 June

13:00 - 14:00

“Diary of the War Days”. Public interview


In partnership with Radio Culture

Participants: Anatoliy Dnistrovyi, Ostap Slyvynsky.
Moderated by Vadym Karpiak (Radio Culture).

Stage #2

Friday, 23 June

13:15 - 14:15

“Readers’ Highlight. Book Clubs”. Discussion



Participants: Anastasiia Yevdokymova ("Sens"), Vadym Kyrylenko ("Gogol Media"), Danylo Haidamakha (blogger).
Moderated by Bohdana Neborak, curator of The Ukrainians Book Club.

Stage #1

Friday, 23 June

13:45 - 14:45

«Ukrainian Children’s Literature: challenges of the year, losses and successes at home and abroad, prospects in times of war”. Discussion



Participants: Hanna Bulhakova, Alex Sharlay, Nargis Gafurova, Oleksandr Mymruk, Maria Shubchyk.
Moderated by Tania Stus.

Lecture Hall

Friday, 23 June

14:00 - 15:00

Workshops Area

Friday, 23 June

14:00 - 15:00

“Gathering and collecting books, creating private and (non)public libraries”. A Talk



Participants: Oleksandra Pohrebniak, Valeria Nasedkina, Volodymyr Chyhrynets, Stanislav Turyna, Ihor Odnopozov.
Moderated by Borys Filonenko.

(non)public libraries

Friday, 23 June

14:30 - 15:30

“The Time of the Spirit”. Discussion



Participants: Anatolii Loi ("The Situation of the Mind"), Mykhailo Boichenko.
Moderated by Vakhtang Kebuladze.

Stage #1

Friday, 23 June

15:00 - 16:00

“Сriticality of the moment: state policy in book publishing”. Discussion



Participants: Oleksandr Tkachenko (Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine), Oleksandra Koval (Director of the Ukrainian Book Institute), Oleksandr Krasovytskyi (UPBA board member, publisher), Oleksandr Afonin (UPBA President), Valerii Pekar.
Moderated by Myroslava Barchuk.

Lecture Hall

Friday, 23 June

15:00 - 16:00

“Unbreakable Libraries”. Event of solidarity with Ukrainian libraries affected by Russian aggression



Participants: Olena Stovba (Nikopol City Centralised Library System), Hanna Pushkar (Chernihiv City Municipal Centralised Library System), Olena Sliozka (M.M. Kotsiubynskyi Central Chernihiv Library), Olena Kiiko (Zaporizhia Regional Universal Scientific Library), Olena Shestakova (Kherson Regional Universal Scientific Library).
Moderated by Alisa Bondarenko.

Stage #2

Friday, 23 June

15:30 - 16:30

Workshops Area

Friday, 23 June

15:45 - 16:45

“How Will Ukraine Change the World?”. Discussion

The international security system is showing its inability to save the lives of people who are being killed by crazy dictators. Meanwhile, many Ukrainians believe that by defending their country, they are defending civilization as such. While debates about geopolitics operate with the concept of negative solidarity (‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’), the values that are talked about so much in speeches and lectures are going through the reality check on the Ukrainian frontline. Is the world able to restore the original meaning to the principles and ideals that we consider fundamental to the survival of humanity?

Supported by the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna, Austria) within the Documenting Ukraine project.

Participants: Ivan Krastev (political scientist, chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, and permanent fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna), Carl Henrik Fredriksson (literary critic, essayist, founder of the network of European intellectual magazines “Eurozine”), Nataliya Gumenyuk.
Moderated by Kate Younger (co-head of the Documenting Ukraine project and head of the program “Ukraine in European Dialogue” at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna).

Stage #1

Friday, 23 June

16:15 - 17:00

“Poems About Us”. Poetry readings


In partnership with Radio Culture.

Read by: Kateryna Kalytko, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Yuliya Musakovska, Lesyk Panasiuk. Texts by Aneta Kamińska, Krysia Dąbrowska (Poland), Olena Jennings, Ilya Kaminsky (USA), Gintaras Grajauskas, Jurgita Jasponytė, Marius Burokas, Rimas Užgiris (Lithuania), Lina Ekdahl (Sweden), Marie Iljašenko (Czechia), Diti Ronen, Guy Perel, Nathaniel Laor (Israel), Sinisа Matasović (Croatia).
Moderated by Olena Huseinova (Radio Culture).

Stage #2

Friday, 23 June

16:30 - 17:30

“Various sustainability: stable models in the publishing business”. A Talk



Participants: Mariana Savka (the Old Lion Publishing House), Ilona Zamotsna (Vikhola), Anetta Antonenko (Anetta Antonenko Publishing House), Anton Martynov (Laboratoria).
Moderated by Oksana Karpiuk.

Lecture Hall

Friday, 23 June

17:00 - 18:00

Timothy Snyder’s Online Lecture “Why Freedom Matters More Than Everything”

Timothy Snyder is an American historian and co-head of the Documenting Ukraine project at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. For centuries, Ukrainians have fought against various prohibitions, and now they give their lives to protect themselves from enslavement. For people who are kept in torture camps, residents of cities and villages who found themselves under occupation, freedom is not an idea, but something perceivable. However, in general, in post-authoritarian societies, people most often talk about ‘freedom from’, and discussions revolve around the choice between freedom and security. But why are these things mutually exclusive and not mutually dependent? Ukraine’s protection of its borders proves that only a safe territory can be a space of freedom. Ukrainian society also shows the practical effectiveness of freedom. Can such an interpretation of it be unifying for the modern world?

Stage #1

Friday, 23 June

17:15 - 18:15

“Sci-pop during the war”. Discussion


In partnership with Kunsht popular science media

Participants: Nataliia Shnyr, Kateryna Shavanova, Olena Pareniuk, Artem Albul.
Moderated by Olesia Pavlyshyn.

Stage #2

Friday, 23 June

18:00 - 19:00

(non)public libraries

Friday, 23 June

18:30 - 19:30

“To Be a Purpose for Herself: Olha Kobylianska”. Discussion


In partnership with Radio Culture

Participants: Bogdana Romantsova, Viktoria Kobyliatska, Evhenii Stasinevych.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova (Radio Culture).

Stage #2

Friday, 23 June

18:30 - 20:00

“Books about War, Life, and Love.” Discussion



Participants: Yulia Laputina, Pavlo Vyshebaba, Artur Dron, Svitlana Povalyaeva, Saigon, Hanna Uliura.
Moderated by Vadym Karpiak (Radio Culture).

Stage #1

Friday, 23 June

18:30 - 20:30

Lecture Hall

Friday, 23 June

19:00 - 20:00

“Why Do We Need a Ukrainian Poster?” Lecture


Together with Sunseed Art platform

Hosted by Olesia Drashkaba.

Workshops Area

Friday, 23 June

19:00 - 20:30

Street Stage

Friday, 23 June

19:30 - 20:30

(non)public libraries

Saturday, 24 June

Saturday, 24 June

10:30 - 11:15

“Audio and Books: Experiences of Interaction”. Discussion


In partnership with MEGOGO AUDIO

Participants: Kateryna Kotvitska (MEGOGO Audio), Ilona Zamotsna (Vikhola), Iryna Slavinska (Radio Culture), Max Kidruk (co-founder of the Bearded Tamarin publishing house, author of the Theory of Improbability podcast).
Moderated by Yuliia Bilous (MEGOGO Audio).

Stage #1

Saturday, 24 June

10:30 - 11:30

“School Library: A (Post)War Vision”. Panel discussion


In partnership with SavED charity foundation

Participants: Olenka Severenchuk, Oksen Lisovyi, Natalia Vovk, Tania Stus, Valentyna Zakhabura.
Moderated by Heorhii Arabuli.

Lecture Hall

Saturday, 24 June

11:00 - 11:45

“Women’s voices. A story-confession of the liberated female prisoners of war about Russian captivity”. Discussion


Co-organized by Center for Civil Liberties

Participants: Maryana Mamonova (a military medic from Lviv who was captured pregnant while leaving Mariupol and held in captivity for six months), Victoria Andrusha (a teacher from the Chernihiv region who was abducted by the occupiers from her parents' home and held in captivity for six months), Lyudmila Huseynova (a human rights activist from Donetsk region who was arrested in 2019 and held in prison for three years).
Moderated by Anastasia Bagalika (radio host, co-author of the podcast "Free Our Relatives" on Hromadske Radio, gender coordinator of the Povaha campaign).

Stage #2

Saturday, 24 June

11:00 - 12:00

Workshops Area

Saturday, 24 June

11:30 - 12:30

Bridges of Solidarity: A conversation between Lithuanian and Ukrainian writers


Supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute

Participants: Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Yuliya Musakovska, Daiva Čepauskaitė (Lithuania).
Moderated by Tetiana Oharkova.

Stage #1

Saturday, 24 June

12:00 - 13:30

(non)public libraries

Saturday, 24 June

12:00 - 12:50

“Republishing Ukrainian Classics: Trend or Pattern”. Discussion



Participants: Mariana Savka, Olena Rybka, Eleonora Solovey.
Moderated by Bohdana Neborak, curator of The Ukrainians Book Club.

Stage #2

Saturday, 24 June

12:00 - 13:00

Lecture Hall

Saturday, 24 June

12:30 - 13:30

Workshops Area

Saturday, 24 June

12:45 - 13:45

“We Are the State”. Discussion

It is inherent in Ukrainians not to trust the authorities because the state has been hostile to its citizens for centuries. Society is used to relying not on institutions, but on individual heroes. And that’s OK. But after February 24, 2022, Ukrainians realized that in conditions of full-scale aggression, only the army can oppose the army, it is impossible to save the victims solely by volunteer efforts, and to have water and electricity, you nedd infrastructure. For the first time, Ukrainians felt that their state could serve them. Meanwhile, the business helps both the government and the civil society. Have we moved to the stage where the state can rely on its citizens, and they can rely on it? Those who were volunteers and activists at different times, but were in power during the great war, are invited to this conversation. What is the difference between these roles, and what is the best interaction?

Supported by the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna, Austria) within the Documenting Ukraine project.

Participants: Andrii Seletskyi (leader of the Novovorontsovka Territorial Community, Kherson Oblast), Ihor Kukobko (Head of the Iskra Dobra Foundation, Chernihiv), Mykhailyna Skoryk-Shkarivska (deputy mayor of Bucha), Tymofiy Bryk (rector of the University of the Kyiv School of Economics and sociologist), Tamila Tasheva (Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea).
Moderated by Nataliya Gumenyuk.

Stage #1

Saturday, 24 June

13:00 - 14:00

“Family and War”. Public interview


In partnership with Radio Culture

Participants: Tetiana Oharkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova (Radio Culture).

Stage #2

Saturday, 24 June

13:30 - 14:30

Lecture Hall

Saturday, 24 June

14:00 - 15:00

“The Fight for Reality Goes On”. Public interview with Dmytro Kuleba


Together with #knygolove

Moderated by Vadym Karpiak (Radio Culture).

Stage #1

Saturday, 24 June

14:00 - 15:00

Workshops Area

Saturday, 24 June

14:00 - 15:00

“Collecting and Creating Zines”. A Talk



Participants: Sasha Murakha, Nazarii Sheshuriak, Volodymyr Zhmurenkov.
Moderated by Victoria Prystavka.

(non)public libraries

Saturday, 24 June

14:15 - 15:00

“Malopys Matters: the state and prospects of Ukrainian comic book industry”. Discussion



Participants: Maryna Dubyna, Sashko Komiakhov, Mykyta Yanyuk, Yaroslav Mishenov.
Moderated by Max Nestelieiev.

Stage #2

Saturday, 24 June

15:00 - 16:00

“The Diary of a Bookseller”. A conversation with and about independent bookstores



Participants: Halyna Dolnyk (Knyharnia-Kaviarnia), Kateryna Hlushchenko (Skovoroda), Kateryna Ivanova (Book Lion), Hlib Malych (Syaivo Knyhy), Olha Pohynaiko (Smoloskyp).
Moderated by Oksana Karpiuk.

Lecture Hall

Saturday, 24 June

15:15 - 16:00

“Chronicles of (Lost) Time: How Literature Affects History”. Discussion


Co-organized by Post Bellum-Ukraine NGO

Participants: Radomyr Mokryk, Vira Kuryko, Martin Kroupa (Czechia).
Moderated by Yevheniia Nesterovych (Head of Post Bellum-Ukraine NGO).

Stage #2

Saturday, 24 June

15:15 - 16:15

“Food and Terror: Instruments of the Empire.” Discussion


Co-organized by the Old Lion Publishing House

Participants: Witold Szabłowski (Poland), Olena Stiazhkina, Andriy Bondar.
Moderated by Oleksandr Mykhed.

Stage #1

Saturday, 24 June

15:30 - 16:30

Workshops Area

Saturday, 24 June

16:15 - 17:00

“Hryhorii Skovoroda. How we read his texts 300 years later”. A Talk



In dialogue: Taras Lyuty (author of the book "Skovoroda. Self-Composure") and Vakhtang Kebuladze.

Stage #2

Saturday, 24 June

16:30 - 17:45

“Supporting Ukraine in Latin America: a dialogue with the participants of the ¡Aguanta Ucrania! Campaign”. Discussion


Co-organized by Compás Publishing House in partnership with the ¡Aguanta Ucrania! Campaign and PEN Ukraine

Participants: Héctor Abad Faciolince, Sergio Jaramillo, Victoria Amelina, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Oleksandra Matviichuk.
Moderated by Catalina Gómez.

Stage #1

Saturday, 24 June

16:30 - 18:00

Lecture Hall

Saturday, 24 June

17:00 - 18:00

“Fortune-Telling on Libraries”. Interdisciplinary performance



Participants: Oleksii Shmurak, Dima Kazakov.

(non)public libraries

Saturday, 24 June

17:00 - 19:00

Sketching at the Book Arsenal


Together with Illustractor community

Hosted by Natalia Haida.

Workshops Area

Saturday, 24 June

17:15 - 18:30

“War Speaks in Women Voices”. Poetry readings


In partnership with Radio Culture

Read by: Kateryna Kalytko, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Yuliya Musakovska, Mariana Savka, Svitlana Povalyaeva, Yaryna Chornohuz, Lyuba Yakimchuk.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova (Radio Culture).

Stage #2

Saturday, 24 June

18:00 - 19:00

“Can I Do More?”. Discussion

Ukrainians who went abroad feel guilty that they are outside the country. Those who are far from the war zone think about those who are closer to the frontline. Those who do not serve may feel guilty before those who are in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But also those who serve may feel guilty before their fellow soldiers on the frontline. The latter, in their turn, may feel guilty before those who have already given their lives. To overcome this cycle of guilt, in the fifteenth month of the war of attrition, we ask the question: do we have the right to slow down? To take a breath? Pre-war sociological studies showed that many Ukrainians feel that they have no influence on anything. But the mentioned feeling of guilt can be interpreted as a feeling of subjectivity. You can feel guilty only when you think that you can do something. How can we use this resource? Can we organize the vocabulary of our new experiences?

Supported by the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna, Austria) within the Documenting Ukraine project.

Participants: Ivanna Skyba-Yakubova (culture manager), Alevtyna Kakhidze (artist), Oleksandr Mykhed (writer), Yaroslava Kravchenko (director of the “Wild Theatre”), Masi Nayyem (founder of “Pryntsyp” Human Rights Center for Military Personnel).
Moderated by Khrystyna Havryliuk.

Stage #1

Saturday, 24 June

18:30 - 20:30

Lecture Hall

Saturday, 24 June

19:00 - 20:30

“Between the Air Raid Sirens”: a literary and musical presentation of a new war poetry anthology


Together with Vivat Publishing House

Music by: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Taras Lyuty, Mykola Sioma, Anatoliy Vekskliarskyi, Ihor Golfman, Oleh Kadanov, Vadym Menzhulin. Poetry by: Victoria Amelina, Svitlana Povalyaeva, Dmytro Lazutkin, Yuliya Musakovska.
Moderated by Ostap Slyvynsky.

Street Stage

Saturday, 24 June

19:30 - 20:30

“How to Translate the Ukrainian Experience”. Discussion



Participants: Victoria Amelina, Kateryna Botanova, Olena Huseinova, Pavlo Kazarin, Rati Mujiri (Georgia), Haska Shyyan.
Moderated by Iryna Slavinska.

Stage #1

Saturday, 24 June

19:30 - 20:30

“DJ-set: Strukturator”. Music event



Participant: Mykhailo Myronenko.

(non)public libraries

Sunday, 25 June

Sunday, 25 June

10:30 - 11:15

“Vogue Ukraine Edition: contemporary prose and poetry in glossy magazines”. A Talk


In partnership with Vogue Ukraine

Participants: Irena Karpa, Haska Shyyan, Iryna Slavinska, Tetiana Vlasova.
Moderated by Daria Slobodianyk (culture editor at Vogue Ukraine).

Stage #1

Sunday, 25 June

10:30 - 11:30

Lecture Hall

Sunday, 25 June

11:00 - 11:50

“Women Voices in Science Fiction”. Discussion



Participants: Daria Piskozub, Natalia Matolinets, Nataliya Dovhopol, Iryna Hrabovska, Maryna Ponomarenko.
Moderated by Iryna Nikolaichuk.

Stage #2

Sunday, 25 June

11:00 - 12:00

Workshops Area

Sunday, 25 June

11:30 - 12:30

“Joint Action: What Ukrainian Resistance Looks Like”. Discussion

Our conversation is based on the key Russian paradox: “Ukraine does not exist, but it must be destroyed”. Russia bombards Ukrainian cities, creates filtration camps, destroys schools, museums, churches, synagogues, and mosques, and persecutes the Crimean Tatar people. Millions of people of totally different origins consider it necessary to resist together in any available way, to protect their home, Ukraine. But what is Ukraine today? What does its complex, multicultural society look like, and what exactly is the strength of its resistance?

Supported by the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna, Austria) within the Documenting Ukraine project.

Participants: Akhtem Seitablaiev (actor, director, and military serviceman), Anzhelika Bielova (Roma activist, head of the Roma women’s association “Voice of the Roma”), Oleh Rostovtsev (culturalist, public figure, representative of the Jewish community of Dnipro), Azad Safarov (co-founder of the “Children’s Voices” Foundation, the second director of the film “A House Made of Splinters”).
Moderated by Anhelina Kariakina (co-founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab).

Stage #1

Sunday, 25 June

12:00 - 12:50

“Contemporary publishing and reading of world classics”. Discussion



Participants: Roman Malynovsky, Iaroslava Strikha, Bogdana Romantsova, Oleksii Erinchak.
Moderated by Bohdana Neborak, curator of The Ukrainians Book Club.

Stage #2

Sunday, 25 June

12:00 - 13:00

Lecture Hall

Sunday, 25 June

12:30 - 13:30

Workshops Area

Sunday, 25 June

13:00 - 14:00

“A Scientific View of the World as a Way to Counter Propaganda”. Discussion


In partnership with Kunsht popular science media

Participants: Oksana Moroz, Svitlana Slipchenko, Mykola Davydiuk.
Moderated by Oksana Broshnivska.

Stage #1

Sunday, 25 June

13:00 - 14:00

“Readers’ Experiences in Times of War”. Public interview


In partnership with Radio Culture

Participants: Eugenia Kuznetsova, Irena Karpa, Bogdan Kolomiychuk.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova (Radio Culture).

Stage #2

Sunday, 25 June

13:30 - 14:30

“Not Alone with the Experience of the War. How to talk to children about war”. Discussion


In cooperation with Voices of Children Foundation

Participants: Liudmyla Romanenko, Nazar Romanenko, Olya Rusina, Olena Zaretska.
Moderated by Olena Rozvadovska.

Lecture Hall

Sunday, 25 June

14:00 - 15:00

Workshops Area

Sunday, 25 June

14:15 - 15:30

“The History of Culture in Times of War”. Public interview



In dialogue: Volodymyr Yermolenko ("Eros and Psyche. Love and Culture in Europe"), Tetiana Oharkova (Kult: Podcast).

Stage #2

Sunday, 25 June

14:15 - 15:15

“What Kind of Crime is Russia Committing?”. Discussion

Executions, torture of prisoners, forcible removal of children, obstruction of evacuation, shelling of civilians, hospitals, and infrastructure... During the 15 months of the war, the army of the Russian Federation committed almost all types of crimes mentioned in the Geneva Conventions. The General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine has opened more than 80,000 proceedings related to war crimes. Ukraine demands the creation of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression, which it calls ‘the mother of all crimes’. But what crime is Russia actually committing? What exactly is it trying to destroy, persecuting volunteers, representatives of local self-government, and everyone who does not agree to the occupation? The purpose of this conversation is not to establish the legal qualification of crimes that are prescribed in international conventions but to understand the nature of the great war of the 21st century.

Supported by the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna, Austria) within the Documenting Ukraine project.

Participants: Peter Pomerantsev (British writer and co-founder of The Reckoning Project), Oleksandra Matviichuk (human rights activist), Jonathan Littell (French writer), Yurii Belousov (Head of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed During Armed Conflict of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine), Wayne Jordash (international lawyer),
Moderated by Victoria Amelina.

Stage #1

Sunday, 25 June

15:00 - 16:00

Panel discussion of illustrators: challenges and opportunities


Together with Illustractor community

Participants: Maksym Palenko, Anna Ivanenko, Oleh Hryshchenko.
Moderated by Olesia Drashkaba.

Lecture Hall

Sunday, 25 June

15:00 - 16:00

“Building audio collections and sound archives”. A Talk



Participants: Ian Spector, Borys Stepanenko, Dmytro Prutkin, Mykhailo Myronenko.
Moderated by Vlad Holovko.

(non)public libraries

Sunday, 25 June

15:30 - 16:30

Workshops Area

Sunday, 25 June

15:30 - 17:00

Stage #1

Sunday, 25 June

16:00 - 17:00

“How to talk about Ukraine in France?” Discussion



Participants: Irena Karpa, Tetiana Oharkova, Olivier Truc (France).
Moderated by Iryna Slavinska.

Stage #2

Sunday, 25 June

16:30 - 17:30

A conversation about the Best Book Design Contest and trends in the visual culture of Ukrainian books


Together with Projector

Participants: Sasha Bychenko, Yevheniia Polosina, Kateryna Nosko.
Moderated by Hlib Kaporikov.

Lecture Hall

Sunday, 25 June

17:00 - 18:00

Meeting of authors of children’s books, professional networking


Organized by the Book Arsenal and BaraBooka. Space of Ukrainian Children’s Literature

Workshops Area

Sunday, 25 June

17:00 - 18:00

(non)public libraries

Sunday, 25 June

17:15 - 18:45

“Poetry after February 24th”. Poetry readings


In partnership with Radio Culture

Read by: Yaryna Chornohuz, Anatoliy Dnistrovyi, Dmytro Lazutkin, Pavlo Korobchuk, Svitlana Povalyaeva, Pavlo Vyshebaba, Maryna Ponomarenko, Marysia Nikitiuk, Andriy Khaietskiy, Bohdan Kutsenko.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova (Radio Culture).

Stage #2

Sunday, 25 June

17:30 - 18:30

Complexities of Solidarity: A Talk On War, Memory, and the Limits of Collective Understanding


Together with PEN International

Participants: Volodymyr Yermolenko (PEN Ukraine), Tanja Tuma (PEN Slovenia).
Moderated by Olha Mukha.

Stage #1

Sunday, 25 June

18:30 - 20:30

Workshops Area

Sunday, 25 June

18:30 - 20:30

Lecture Hall

Sunday, 25 June

18:45 - 20:15

“Literature: Transforming the Experience into Memory.” Discussion



Participants: Kateryna Kalytko, Oleksandr Mykhed, Artem Chekh, Ostap Slyvynsky, Larysa Denysenko, Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta.
Moderated by Iryna Slavinska.

Stage #1

Sunday, 25 June

19:00 - 20:00

Street Stage

Sunday, 25 June

19:00 - 20:00

“Routes to (re)thinking the social contract for Ukraine”. Panel discussion


Co-organized by Aspen Institute Kyiv

Participants: Vakhtang Kebuladze, Oleh Khoma, Halyna Hryhorenko.
Moderated by Nataliia Kryvda.

Stage #2