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Polish Program For Tbilisi International Book Festival
Poland is the Focus country for the 25th Tbilisi International Book Festival. The focus country program is prepared by the Polsky Institute in Tbilisi.
25 May, Thursday
12:00 – 13:00 Opening Ceremony
14:00 – 14:30 ‘The Little Polish Book of Tbilisi’ – book presentation by Brendan Jackson
15:00 – 15:30 ‘Small centre of the world' - book presentation by Krzysztof Czyżewski
16:00 – 16:30 200 years of Ossolineum Publishing House – presentation by prof. Łukasz Kamiński
17:30 – 18:00 ‘Pro Georgia’ – presentation of the journal by founder and editor-in-chief, prof. David Kolbaia
26 May, Friday
12:30 – 13:00 Meeting with author Barbara Klicka facilitated by translator Keti Kantaria
13:30 – 14:00 New Eastern Europe – presentation of the journal quarterly by the editor Iwona Reichardt
14:30 – 15:00 Meeting with author Julia Fiedorczuk facilitated by translator Keti Kantaria
16:00 – 16:30 Meeting with author Jacek Dehnel facilitated by translator Miranda Gurgenidze
17:00 – 17:30 Head of the Ukrainian Institute, Volodymyr Sheiko in talk with curator Anna Łazar
27 May, Saturday
12:00 – 12:30 ‘Eastern Europe since 1989’ – book presentation by the author and scholar prof. Mykola Ryabchuk
13:00 – 13:30 Presentation of the ‘Herito’ journal quarterly by editor-in-chief Bartosz Sadulski
14:30 - 15:00 ‘How to explain contemporaneity’ – panel discussion with Zofia Król, editor-in-chief of the Dwutygodnik.com and prof. Waldemar Kuligowski of Adam Mickiewicz University, facilitated by translator Magdalena Nowakowska
16:00- 16:30 ‘Central Europe: Reactivation’ – panel discussion with Deputy Head of the International Culture Centre in Krakow Łukasz Galusek; Head of the Borderland Foundation Krzysztof Czyżewski and author Żanna Słoniowska, facilitated by translator Magdalena Nowakowska
19:00 – 20:00 [at the Writers’ House, 13 Machabeli Str., Tbilisi] – Culture Fights Back: Director General of the Ukrainian Institute, Volodymyr Sheiko in talk with prof. Waldemar Kuligowski of Adam Mickiewicz University, Deputy Head of International Cultural Centre Łukasz Galusek, author Iva Pezuashvili and curator Anna Łazar, facilitated by translator Magdalena Nowakowska
28 May, Sunday
13:00 – 13:30 ‘Core Europe: How Russia’s War is Changing European Politics & Society’ – panel discussion with author Franziska Davies and Laurynas Vaičiūnas, Collegium of Eastern Europe
15:00 – 15:30 ‘Living With The Past’ – panel discussion on Polish and Georgian Soviet era studies by Head of the Karta Foundation, Zbigniew Gluza, prof. Wlodziemierz Suleja (Institute of National Remembrance), Anton Vatcharadze (IDFI) and Giorgi Kandelaki (SovLAB) facilitated by translator David Kandrewicz
