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<\/a>\u201cChopin, 2013,\u201d Markiyan Matsekh<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Ukraine: Thinking Together Manifesto<\/strong><\/p>\n This is an encounter between those who care about freedom and a country where freedom is dearly won. This year Ukraine has seen protests, revolution, and a counter-revolution from abroad. When millions of people gathered to press for the rule of law and closer ties to Europe, the Yanukovych regime answered with violence. Vladimir Putin offered the Ukrainian government money to clear the streets and join Russia in a Eurasian project. Yanukovych\u00a0criminalized civil society, which only broadened the protests. Then the police began to kill the protestors in large numbers. This brought revolution, a shift of political power to parliament, and the promise of free elections. Russian authorities reacted by invading Crimea, sending provocateurs into eastern Ukraine, threatening to dismember the country, and suppressing Russian civil society. Ukraine today, like Czechoslovakia in 1938, is a pluralist society amidst\u00a0authoritarian regimes, a fascinating and troubled country poorly understood by its neighbors. It is also home to an extraordinary tradition of civil society, and to gifted writers, thinkers, and artists, many of whom, reflecting on the Maidan, have raised in new ways fundamental questions about political representation and the role of ideas in politics.<\/p>\n In the middle of May, an international group of intellectuals will come to Kyiv to\u00a0demonstrate solidarity, meet their Ukrainian counterparts, and carry out a broad public discussion about the meaning of Ukrainian pluralism for the future of Europe, Russia, and the world. The Maidan and reactions to it, in Ukraine and abroad, raise classical and contemporary questions of politics and ethics. How can human rights be grounded and how are we motivated by the idea of human rights? How and when does language provide access to the universal, and how and when does it define political difference? Are some experiences so intense that they alter the character of intellectual exchange as such? How is decency in politics possible amidst international anarchy, domestic corruption, and the general fallibility of individuals? Does revolution renew Europe and revive political thought or can revolution, like everything else, be consumed by the clich\u00e9s and abstractions of globalization? What does the revival of geopolitics mean for the world order? Is the Maidan an eruption of youth or an expression of history? Does its memory bring Ukrainians closer to European preoccupations, or introduce constellations that confound myths? These will be the subjects of our seven panels, in all of which international and local intellectuals will meet. The discussions will take place in Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish, French, and English, and in all panels at least one person, including those traveling from the west, will be speaking a language that is not his or her own mother tongue. In this way we hope to express our respect for language as such, and to demonstrate, in a small way, solidarity to Ukrainiansand others who speak multiple languages. In expressing ourselves in other languages we also stress that the universal themes require a special sort of work from all of us, a labor that we hope will be rewarded by understanding and friendship.<\/p>\n Program<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday May 15<\/strong><\/p>\n 5:00pm<\/strong> Public Lecture by Timothy Snyder Friday May 16<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:00<\/strong> Press conference 5:45pm<\/strong> Public Lecture by Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy Saturday May 17<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:00am<\/strong> Opening remarks by Leon Wieseltier and Timothy Snyder 9:30am<\/strong> Panel One Participants<\/em>: Ivan Krastev, chair, Viktor Erofeyev, Sergei Lukashevsky, Myroslav 1:30pm<\/strong> Panel Two Participants<\/em>: George Grabowicz, brief introduction, Ola Hnatiuk, chair, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Oksana Forostyna, Alexander Roitburd, Konstantin Skorkin, Olena Styazhkina, Serhiy Zhadan.<\/p>\n 3:00<\/strong> Coffee break<\/p>\n 4:00pm<\/strong> Panel Three Participants<\/em>: Daniel Markovits, chair, Wolf Biermann, Timothy Garton Ash, Jurko Prochasko, Mykhailo Minakov, Karl Schl\u00f6gel, Karel Schwarzenberg.<\/p>\n 5:30pm<\/strong> Public lecture by Ivan Krastev 7:00pm<\/strong> Public lecture by Timothy Garton Ash Sunday May 18<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:30am<\/strong> Panel Four Participants<\/em>: Konstantin Sigov, chair, Carmen Claudin, Bernard Kouchner, Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy, Volodymyr Yermolenko.<\/p>\n 11:30am<\/strong> Public lecture by Slavenka Drakuli\u0107 1:30pm<\/strong> Panel Five Participants<\/em>: Leon Wieseltier, chair, Paul Berman, Carl Gershman, Fran\u00e7ois Heisbourg, Volodymyr Kulyk, Anton Shekhovtsov, Tatiana Zhurzhenko.<\/p>\n 3:00pm<\/strong> Coffee break<\/p>\n 4:00pm<\/strong> Panel Six Participants<\/em>: Aleksander Smolar, chair, Agnieszka Holland, Adam Michnik, Mykola Riabchuk, Marci Shore, S\u0142awomir Sierakowski, Andrzej Wa\u015bkiewicz.<\/p>\n 6:30pm<\/strong> Public lecture by Paul Berman Monday 19 May<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:30am<\/strong> Panel Seven Participants<\/em>: Timothy Snyder, chair, Slavenka Drakuli\u0107, Olga Filippova, Frank Foer, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Nikolay Koposov, Martin \u0160ime\u010dka, Andrey Kurkov. 11:00am<\/strong> Closing remarks by Timothy Snyder. End of public events. Locations:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is located in the Podil\u2019 neighborhood, on Kontraktova Square; the entrance to the Center for Polish and European Studies is on Voloska Street 8\/5. The Diplomatic Academy is in central Kyiv, at 2 Velyka Zhytomyrska Street. The Hotel Ukraine is on 4 Instytutska Street. The InterContinental Hotel is on 2A Velyka Zhytomyrs\u2019ka Street.<\/p>\n Practical solidarity:<\/strong><\/p>\n This gathering was the initiative of Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic and Timothy Snyder of Yale University and was made possible by the willingness of colleagues to heed their call and agree to participate in great haste, and by the creativity and hard work of Tatiana Zhurzhenko and Oksana Forostyna. A number of partner institutions helped transform an idea into an event: the Batory Foundation, the Embassy of Canada, the Embassy of France, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, the Embassy of the United States of America, the European Endowment for Democracy, the Network of European Cultural Journals Eurozine, the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Fran\u00e7ais d\u2019Ukraine, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), the International Renaissance Foundation, the Ukrainian cultural journal Krytyka, the National University \u201cKyiv Mohyla Academy,\u201d the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the National Endowment for Democracy, The New Republic, the Open Ukraine Foundation, the PinchukArtCentre, the Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies \u201cTkuma,\u201d the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, and the Visual Culture Research Center.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ukraine: Thinking Together Kyiv, 15-19 May Manifesto This is an encounter between those who care about freedom and a country where freedom is dearly won. This year Ukraine has seen protests, revolution, and a counter-revolution from abroad. When millions of … Continue reading
\nKyiv, 15-19 May<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNot Even Past: Ukrainian Histories, Russian Politics, European Futures<\/strong>
\nSite: Congregation Hall, Old University Building, Kyiv Mohyla Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTimothy Snyder, Leon Wieseltier, international guests
\nSite: Hotel Ukraina, Media Crisis Center<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLa r\u00e9sistible ascension d’Arturo Poutine<\/strong>
\nIn French with simultaneous translation to Ukrainian
\nSite: Congregation Hall, Old University Building, Kyiv Mohyla Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSite: Diplomatic Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDo rights make us human?<\/strong>
\nLanguage: Russian, with simultaneous interpretation into English.
\nSite: Diplomatic Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMarynovych, Alexander Podrabinek, Ihor Shchupak, Josef Zissels.<\/p>\n
\nHow did the Maidan change culture?<\/strong>
\nLanguage: Ukrainian, with simultaneous interpretation into English.
\nSite: Diplomatic Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWhen do politicians become pariahs?<\/strong>
\nLanguage: German, with simultaneous interpretation into Ukrainian and English.
\nSite: Diplomatic Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Global Politics of Protest<\/strong>
\nSite: Congregation Hall, Old University Building, Kyiv Mohyla Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFrom Lisbon to Kyiv?<\/strong>
\nForty Years of Non-Violent European Struggles for Freedom
\nSite: Congregation Hall, Old University Building, Kyiv Mohyla Academy
\n<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDoes Europe need Ukrainian revolution?<\/strong>
\nLanguage: French, with simultaneous interpretation into Ukrainian and English.
\nSite: Diplomatic Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nIntellectuals as Bad Guys?
\nThe Role of Intellectuals in the Balkan Wars<\/strong>
\nSite: Center for Polish and European Studies, Building 6, Kyiv Mohyla Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGeopolitics after Crimea: Realism, Idealism, Eurasianism<\/strong>
\nLanguage: English, with simultaneous interpretation into Ukrainian.
\nSite: Diplomatic Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHas totalitarianism returned to political thought and practice?<\/strong>
\nLanguage: Polish, with simultaneous interpretation into Ukrainian and English.
\nSite: Diplomatic Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAlexis de Tocqueville and the Idea of Democracy<\/strong>
\nSite: Congregation Hall, Old University Building, Kyiv Mohyla Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
\nCan memory save us from history? Can history save us from memory?<\/strong>
\nLanguage: English, with simultaneous interpretation into Ukrainian
\nSite: Diplomatic Academy<\/em><\/p>\n
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\n12:00<\/strong> Press conference
\nHotel Ukraina<\/em><\/p>\n