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Seventh International Leonidas Donskis Conference: From Black and White to Shades of Grey
Join the Seventh Leonidas Donskis Conference, a thought-provoking event exploring the complexities of history and historiography. Under the theme "From Black and White to Shades of Grey" the conference delves into the continuous process of investigating, assessing, and re-assessing historical events to understand what truly happened.
The Sixth Leonidas Donskis Conference: Will Russia Survive 2024?
On September 21, 2023, at Vaidilos Theatre (Vilnius) the sixth Leonidas Donskis Conference will be held, organized by The Andrei Sakharov Research Centre at VDU. The conference will bring together a select group of experts to discuss Russia topic based on learned lessons from the past, putting them in a contemporary context and suggesting what steps should be taken to facilitate the above-mentioned processes. The conference will be followed by a concert in memory of Leonidas Donskis. More information and registration here.
Sister Voidogaitė was chosen as the person of tolerance, the Donskis Prize was awarded to Vanagas
Viktorija Voidogaitė, an educator and nun, was elected the Tolerance Man of the Year 2021 by the decision of the board of the Sugihara Foundation “Diplomats for Life”. The annual Leonidas Donskis Prize is awarded to writer, journalist and translator Rimantas Vanagas.
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Grotesque, God and miracles
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991), a great Polish-born Jewish writer, a poet of the East European Jewish soul, the guardian angel of the Yiddish language in modern literature, and a Nobel Prize winner, died twenty-five years ago. This brings us closer to his immense legacy that covers Jewish tradition and modernity, especially his short stories on how modernity came into Jewish life. (Continue...)
The Year of the EU, a Year of Anxiety
2012 seems to have been the year of the EU. This is the conclusion I drew after I started out by assuming this was a crisis of the Euro, which I realized was, and continues to be, a crisis of the entire economic and political project of the EU. (Read more...)
What Happened to the World? Ukraine Was Born Anew
The new nation has come into existence. This great event in world politics was predicted and aptly described by more than one European political analysts and writers, Eastern and Western alike. Suffices it to remember Andrei Piontkovsky, Vladimir Sorokin, or Alexander J. Motyl, to prove this to have been the case. Ukraine has engraved her name anew on the political map of the world. (Continue...)
