Meeting with the author Jarosław Hrytsak

In connection with the release of “Ukraine. Overcoming the past” we invite you to three meetings with Jarosław Hrytsak: on 16 September in Gdansk, on 17 September in Łódź, and on 18 September in Warsaw.

Jarosław Hrytsak is a historian, professor and lecturer, he is considered to be one of the most influential Ukrainians. In his book he poses questions about the chances and ways of modernising Ukraine. His history of Ukraine is based on the local history of Europe, on the country’s relations with Poland, Belarus, and Russia, but it is also global in its scope. The author refers to political and social processes in other corners of the globe: Argentina, Burkina Faso, Chile, China, Germany, United States. Although Hrytsak wrote the final pages of this book in the early months of the 2022 war, he focused as much on the political, economic, social, and linguistic developments of the last 200 years.

The book can be purchased via the ICC online bookstore: buy the book

Meetings schedule:

16 September – Gdańsk, Book Fair – European Solidarity Centre

2:30 pm – meeting with the author, host: Adam Balcer

17 September – Łódź, Freedom Games conference – Centre for Science and Technology EC1

3.30 pm – debate about the current situation in Ukraine

7.15 pm – meeting with the author, host: Andrzej Kompa

more information: programme of the event (in Polish)

18 September – Warsaw –Batory Foundation, 10a Sapieżyńska street

Co-organiser: Batory Foundation