The first purpose of his stay in Lithuania was that he delivered the “Šeteniai Lecture” at the Artists’ House in Kaunas, organized by Vytautas Magnus University, thus continuing the tradition shaped by Svetlana Alexievich, Yuri Andrukhovych, and Nora Ikstena.
The listeners of the speech from 15 November heard, among other things, the following words: “Behind us—in court, in books, in the public agora—there may be different versions of an event suggested by our memory (…) yet between me and the person to whom I attribute the words ‘forget it for me’ there exists exactly what we know and understand about each other without words.”
Apart from the lecture, Krzysztof and his wife, Małgorzata, visited Czesław Miłosz’s birthplace in Šeteniai.
Towards the end of the month, on 28 November, he had a talk with Viktoras Bachmetjevas’s students. Viktoras Bachmetjevas conducts a course The Ethics of Dialogue at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. The new Lithuanian translation of Krzysztof Czyżewski’s Small Centres of the World became a source of inspiration for the emerging Lithuanian grassroots civic protest movement and the self-organised “Practitioners of Ideas” network.