Boris Chersonskij, Poet, translator, professor of clinical psychology in Odessa, now a fellow of the Brodski Foundation; Pavel Makov, Artist from Kharkiv, who was entrusted with the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year; Constantin Sigov, Philosopher and publisher from Kiev Introduced by Luca Fiore, Art critic and journalist.

We will ask the speakers about their work as intellectuals and artists: where does their commitment come from? What forms has it taken? What has marked their work in the context of a country with a great tradition and marked by the communist years?