The discussion’s focus was how the Western tradition of humanism and humanistic social science faces evil in our times.
The discussion was hosted by Krzysztof Czyżewski.
Marci Shore is a renowned American professor at Yale University. She is alsothe author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, a milieu biography of Polish and Polish-Jewish writers drawn to Marxism in the twentieth century; and of The Taste of Ashes, a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's
Eastern Europe. In 2017 she published The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution which is devoted to the Ukrainian crisis of 2013 and 2014. Besides writing she translated Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons (2005).
Marci Shore is a regular visitor of Sejny and Krasnogruda.