INSTITUT 003 | panel | MARCI SHORE & KAROLINA KOZIURA | "NOTHING BAD..."

Facing the past with eyes wide open and what it means to grapple with historical truth at a time of war; a deeper look at Victoria Amelina's neighbourly essay.

Vol 3: MARCI SHORE in conversation with Karolina Koziura on academia, poetry and publishing in Ukraine — and what it means to look history in the face without blinking.

This is the opening of VOLUME 3 of the INSTITUT experiment. Every week, a different hypothesis. Underground at 620 Spadina Ave - around the back, through the lot to the steel doors, down the stairs, past the mechanical room, through the swinging wood laminate door...

Stick around — the night goes deep. Film at 7PM, live score at 9PM, vinyl til close. But RSVP even though it's PWYC so we know who to expect.

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5:00 PM | PANEL | MARCI SHORE x KAROLINA KOZIURA | "NOTHING BAD HAS EVERY HAPPENED"

7:00 PM | FILM | "WELL FOR THE THIRSTY" (d. YURI ILLIENKO) — UKRAINIAN POETIC CINEMA curated by PYLYP ILLIENKO

9:00 PM | LIVE SCORE | SHAUNT RAFFI x THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES (PARAJANOV, 1969)

11:00 PM | VINTAGE VINYL | SHAUNT RAFFI

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MARCI SHORE is Chair in European Intellectual History at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, and formerly professor of history at Yale. A regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, she is the author of The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, The Taste of Ashes, and Caviar and Ashes, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, and The New York Times, among others. In spring 2025 she co-curated the Kyiv Book Arsenal with the theme "Everything is Translation."

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