Thinking about the borderline experience - meeting Marcy Shore
19 March 2024 18:00
The liminal experience, the ""borderline situations"" (Grenzsituation) is one of the most important topics in twentieth-century philosophy, from psychoanalysis and existentialism to postmodernism and dissident thinking. What of this philosophy can we take with us into the twenty-first century? How can this reflection help us to comprehend the past and the present?We invite you to attend a discussion with the American author and researcher Marci Shore.
Event organizers: Kyiv School of Economics in partnership with PEN Ukraine, UkraineWorld, Ukraine Crisis Media Center, Kult: Podcast.
Participants:
Marci Shore, an American researcher and author, associate professor of European cultural and intellectual history at Yale University. She is the author of Ukrainian Night (2017), a book about Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, and continues to make significant contributions to the study of Eastern Europe, including Ukraine.
Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, essayist, president of PEN Ukraine, editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld.org, lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and co-author at Kult: Podcast.
Tetyana Ogarkova is a Ukrainian literary critic and journalist, head of the international department at Ukraine Crisis Media Center, lecturer at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, co-author of Kult: Podcast.