This edition of the Kyiv International Lecture is organized by the Embassy Switzerland, in cooperation with the Sorbes Group. The Ukrainian Week and DAY are the media partners, the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv the academic partner of the Kyiv International Lectures Series.
In the framework of the Kyiv International Lectures Series, Mrs. Svetlana Alexievich, writer and journalist, addressed questions such as:
- The influence of nonfiction prose in the modern world
- Role of media in war conflicts
- Time of Second Hand
- Woman in a war
- Chernobyl as a challenge of cosmic dimensions / or Chernobyl as a challenge and a riddle for the 21st century
- Revolution or a slow evolution?
The public had a unique opportunity to get Mrs. Alexievich’s opinion concerning the Ukrainian way of suffering and courage; her estimation on revolution and evolution in the post-Soviet territories and about tragic-literature in this time of living. Travelling through-out the former Soviet countries, Mrs. Alexievich could create a unique genre of actual human voices and confessions, witnessed evidences and documents. In her book “Time Second-Hand” Mrs. Alexievich defined the diagnosis to Soviet people (type of a human being – “homo soveticus”) and what they have been doing during the past 20 years. She represented also her resonant books “The Unwomanly Face of War” and “Chernobyl Prayer”. Especially, it was relevant in terms of the today’s life in Ukraine. Significantly, at the end of April 2016, it will be the 30th anniversary since the terrible technological disaster and tremendous ecological catastrophe on the global scale took place.
Links to Print Media:
- Komsomolska Pravda
- Ukrainska Pravda
- National Academy For Public Administration
- 112.ua
- Istorychna Pravda
- Day
- Espreso.tv
- cultua.media
- Obozrevatel
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Gazeta.ua
- Eramedia
- Detector.media
- National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine
- Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
- Tyzhden.ua
Television:
