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With the rise of right-wing nationalist parties all over the continent, Brexit, the refugee emergency and the recent war in the Ukraine, the European Union is in crisis. At this event, the renowned intellectual and political commentator Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria) will reflect on the future of democracy in the European Union and the urgent challenges it faces. Ivan Krastev has analysed the European political union of the last 30 years in a number of book-length essays, including Is It Tomorrow Yet (2020), The Light That Failed: A Reckoning (2019) and After Europe (2017).

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We humans like to believe that we act rationally, but the emotions are a much more important part of experience that most of us think. Richard Firth-Godbehere has put his thoughts on this matter into his book A Human History of Emotion, which analyses and studies the role of human emotions throughout history and in different cultures. In conversation with Daniel Pardo, the author will talk about how the emotions, in all their complexity and diversity, have modelled the world that we live in over the course of history. This fascinating work of non-fiction weaves together psychology, neuroscience, art, philosophy and religion.

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The Ukrainian writer, novelist and essayist, Andrey Kurkov, recently awarded the French Médicis Étranger Prize, started to write a diary when the first Russian rockets fell on Kiev on 24 February 2022. In Diary of an Invasion (2022), Kurkov chronicles the terrible impact of the conflict through a personal narrative, which is both a testament to Ukrainian identity and the day-to-day lives of his compatriots. Kurkov has published, in both English and Spanish, the books The Gardener From Ochakov, Death of the Penguin and the recent Grey Bees. In conversation with Emma Graham-Harrison.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk (Ukraine), a lawyer and activist with the Center for Civil Liberties, winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize together with Memorial and the activist Ales Bialiatski; and the artist and writer Victoria Amelina (Ukraine), will talk to Catalina Gómez Ángel about their country, the war that has changed the life of its inhabitants irreversibly and how to continue working in the midst of war.

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