Thematic Cluster “The Time is Out of Joint”
About historical shifts, new rhythms and philosophical ruptures, technological challenges, and literature as a way of thinking in times of uncertainty. Key themes of the cluster: life in a world without rules; technologies, AI, and the future of literature; literature as intellectual resistance. Curators: Olha Mukha and Yurko Prokhasko The 32nd Lviv International BookForum is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation, House of Europe, the Polish Institute in Kyiv, the Mieroszewski Centre, the Canadian non-profit organization Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, and the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine.
Events
russia We Will Have to Live With for the Next 50 Years
AI Tools: Capabilities, Restrictions, How Not to Infringe Copyright, and Why AI Authors and AI Artists Do Not Exist
Panel Discussion: “Let’s Manifest: Words That Changed the World of Design”
The Ukrainian exodus from the empire: from red imperialism to the “russkiy mir”
The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
TikTok, Reels, Chatbots: Competitors to Books or Promotion Tools?
Post-Apocalypse, Horror, and Humanity: A Conversation on The Listener by Petro Stehlikov and Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Journalism and essay writing by the military as a way of speaking to the world
Time Doesn’t Hold Together and Space Has Fallen Apart: Life Experience Amid the Loss of Rules
Post-Apocalypse or a Look into the Future? Presentation of the comic series With Good Intentions.
Presentation of the Book Showman The New York Times bestseller, published in Ukrainian in 2025.
Presentation of the Book A Bomb as an Inheritance: The Collapse of the USSR and Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament by Maryana Budzherin
From Decolonization to Agency: What History Does Contemporary Ukraine Need?
Identity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: How Society, Thinking, and Boundaries of Control Are Changing
AI for the Book World: 10 Tools That Are Already Transforming the Industry
Public Conversation: “Go Where It’s Scary”
A few words about the new canon
What Changes Do School Curricula and History Textbooks Need? The 20th Century in Ukrainian and World History — a 21st Century Perspective
Postmodernism in Europe and the USA
Resilience and Endurance: Literature as Testimony and a Form of Memory
Львівський книжковий ярмарок «Форум видавців»
15-19 вересня 2021 р
