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Marichka Paplauskaite, Jurko Prokhasko and Wojciech Tochman in conversation with Vira Kuryko

How war unites or divides us

Lviv BookForum 2024, 

What drives people to engage with each other during wartime? How and why does war paralyze society's will to resist? Is war a sentence or a challenge that demands action? The discussion will focus on the key experiences of the Russian-Ukrainian war, its global context, and the main dangers and challenges of the post-war future.
Marichka Paplauskaite is an Ukrainian reporter, media manager. Co-founder of The Ukrainians Media, editor-in-chief of the online magazine Reporters, author of the reportage books God of Amazing People and Other Sinners and The Train Arrives on Schedule. Wojciech Tochman is a polish reporter, Co-founder of the reporter's bookstore-café and publishing house Wrzenie Świata in Warsaw, author of 10 reportage books, including the post-genocide trilogy Like Eating a Stone, Today We`ll Draw Death, and Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry; Jurko Prokhasko is a literary scholar, psychoanalyst, essayist, publicist and translator. Corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Arts (Dresden), Co-founder and lecturer at the Lviv Psychoanalytic Institute and Member of PEN Ukraine. They talk with the Ukrainian reporter, Vira Kuryko, author of documentary books The Street of the Involved. Chernihiv Case of Lukyanenko, Mazepa. The Right to the Sword or A Healthy Person's Reform. Writes for Reporters, Local History, and a number of Ukrainian and foreign publications.



Marichka Paplauskaite, Jurko Prokhasko and Wojciech Tochman in conversation with Vira Kuryko