Ukrainian Resistance and the Future of Europe Volodymyr Yermolenko (Vorsitzender des ukrainischen PEN)

Vortrag & Diskussion

mit Klaus Gestwa und Schamma Schahadat

Dr. Volodymyr Yermolenko (born 1980) is a Ukrainian philosopher, journalist and writer.President of PEN Ukraine. Doctor of political studies (France), PhD in philosophy (kandydatnauk, Ukraine). Analytics director at Internews Ukraine, one of the biggest and oldest Ukrainianmedia NGOs. Chief editor of UkraineWorld.org, a multimedia project in English about Ukraine. Associate professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Book writer (non-fiction and fiction), winner of Myroslav Popovych Prize (2021), Petro Mohyla Prize (2021), Yurii Sheveliov Prize (2018), Book of the Year prize in Ukraine (2023, 2018, 2015) and others. Head of board of International Renaissance Foundation (OSI Network). Public lecturer. Expert in information analysis and media literacy; architect and trainer at several media literacy projects within the activity of Internews Ukraine and UkraineWorld. Co-founder and author of podcasts Kult:Podcast (in Ukrainian) and Explaining Ukraine (in English). Anchorman of TV programmes Ukraina Rozumna and Hromadske.Svit at Hromadske.ua (2016-2020). Author of numerous articles in international and Ukrainian media. Published in The Economist, Le Monde, Financial Times, New York Times, Newsweek, gave numerous comments to BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, France 24 etc. His texts and interviews have been published in Ukrainian, English, French, German, Polish, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian, Czech, Greek, Chinese and others. Father of three daughters.