KMA Benefit Conference
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What Good is Philosophy?

A benefit conference for Ukraine
March 17-19, 2023

'What Good is Philosophy?' An Online Benefit Conference for Ukraine — Watch on Youtube March 17 to 19

‘What Good Is Philosophy?' – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine aims to raise the funds required to establish a Centre for Civic Engagement at Kyiv Mohyla Academy. This Centre will provide support for academic and civic institutions in Ukraine to counteract the destabilizing impact that Russia’s invasion has had on Ukrainian higher education and civilian life. By assisting Ukrainian students and scholars today, this Centre will also help pave the way for a vibrant and engaged post-war Ukraine.

Watch the conference online on the Munk School's YouTube channel from March 17-19, 2023 and support the creation of the Centre for Civic Engagement at Kyiv Mohyla Academy through the KMA Foundation. 

Keynotes

Margaret Atwood
 

Crisis Literature

Headshot of Tim Synder
 

Thinking About Freedom in Wartime Ukraine

Mychailo Wynnyckyj
 

Grappling with Evil: An Intellectual Delineation of War, Atrocity, and Attempted Genocide

Volodymyr Yermolenko
 

Thinking in Dark Times

Host

Aaron Wendland

Aaron Wendland

Aaron James Wendland is Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King's College London and a Senior Research Fellow at Massey College, Toronto. He is the co-editor of Wittgenstein and Heidegger and Heidegger on Technology. He is also an associate producer at Ideas on CBC Radio and the editor of the Agora series in The New Statesman.

Speakers