For centuries, writers and intellectuals have been the bearers, defenders and interpreters of collective memory and truth in Russia and large parts of Eastern Europe. In today’s Belarus, a new kind of collective memory and a new idea of a nation have emerged within wider groups of the population.
A process of democratization has taken place, difficult to imagine without the literary and artistic ’preparatory work’ done by intellectuals and artists. How did the process come about, and what happens today, when violence and barbarism once again dominate the Belarusian state? What are the chanses of freedom of expression, history, truth and art today? What does the future hold for these sensitive processes? How is the situation in Belarus similar to what is happening elsewhere in the world, for exampel in Hongkong?
Johan Öberg slavicist, essayist, translator, Olga Shparaga Ph.D. philosophy, European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus, Dmitri Plax artist, poet, play-wright, translator, Ida Börjel poet, translator, Denis Romanovski artist, teacher, Olga Bubitj curator in Minsk, participant in the STATUS project; Mikael Nydahl translator, publisher, assistant lecturer HDK-Valand and Fredrik Fällman associate professor in sinology, both at the University of Gothenburg.
Note: The programme may change depending on current events in Belarus.
Kl 19.00 In a connected evening event at Stora Teatern, Gothenburg, artists, directors and authors read and discuss ”Art and Resistance in Belarus”.
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