Lviv BookForum 2024

For the Ukrainian people, Radio Liberty has offered an opportunity to receive uncensored information about events in the world and in Russia, including the work of dissidents.

The station's journalists Vitaly Portnikov and Halyna Tereshchuk discuss the impact of broadcasting in the current crisis. With Iaroslav Hrytsak.

Why should you carry a radio with you in difficult times? How does radio help its listeners cope with current challenges? Why is radio the best helper in times of home isolation during a pandemic, as well as during natural disasters and full-scale war? How have European broadcasters managed to provide support for their listeners during socio-political turmoil, hostilities, natural disasters, and pandemics, and have they managed to protect themselves from all the disinformation, manipulation, and myths that inevitably flourish during such periods?

Marking the 100th anniversary of Ukrainian Radio, two eminent broadcasters discuss the role of radio in a digital world: Marta Dyczok, Dmitry Khorkin , Vadym Miskyi, Matthieu Rawolle, Sofia Taavitsainen, and Yuriy Tabachenko.

Marta Dyczok, Matthieu Rawolle and Sofia Taavitsainen will join digitally.

David J. Remnick is an American journalist, writer, and editor, Pulitzer Prize winner for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, and author of Resurrection and King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. He talks to journalist Kristina Berdinskykh about geopolitics and US elections.

David Remnick will join the event digitally

Why do Ukrainians follow the elections around the world, why do we analyze the programs of the candidates? Because in particular, those points related to global security. Whether our vote is a responsibility for the term of the mandate, or whether each of us with our vote can influence world democracy, even the end of wars. Can we do anything if the choice is made, but the politicians do not choose the democratic course. A conversation beatween Mexican writer and journalist Lydia Cacho, American journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr, Nigerian poet, culture manager and activist Lola Shoneyin, human rights defender, Nobel Prise for Piece winner Oleksandra Matviichuk, historian Franziska Davies and editor-in-chiefof Radio NV Oleksii Tarasov.

Oleksandra Matviichuk and Lola Shoneyin will join the event digitally.

Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize ™ is awarded annually for the most influential work of fiction and non-fiction that promotes Ukrainian-Jewish understading, helping to strenthen the position of Ukraine as a multi-ethnic society and embodying the motto, 'Our stories are incomplete without each other'.

The award ceremony will be held with the participation of Ukrainian writer Yuriy Skira, whose nonfiction book Solid. The Life-Saving Footwear Factory won the 2024 prize; Ihor Balynskyy, co-founder of the Choven publishing house; Iuliia Bentia, Executive Editor at Krytyka journal and Senior Research Fellow at the Modern Art Research Institute, the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (Ukraine/Jury Member); Alexander J. Motyl, professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, writer, and painter (United States/Jury Member); Igor Shchupak, Board Member, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. In conversation with Natalia A. Feduschak.

Iuliia Bentia and Alexander J. Motyl will join the event digitally.