The article is dedicated to the issues considered during the international conference “The motive of the disease in the history of literature and culture of post-totalitarian states of Central and Eastern Europe”, which took place on November 6, 2020. The main topics of the speakers were focused on the disease as a weakness in the literature, the trauma of loss, the theme of illness and healing in world literature from its beginning to the present, including the periods of Kyiv Rus, Renaissance, Baroque and Modernism and the traumatic experience in the narratives of the Holodomor, Ukrainian women’s prose and the ability of Ukrainian sacred and decorative, as well as modern women’s art to visualize the disease and help artists overcome their injuries.
On 21 May 2012 in Budapest, at the opening ceremony of the international conference “Historians and the World – the World of Historians in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe,” the fifth Socius Honoris Causa title was awarded to a very special person from the United States: Ann M. Kleimola. The following speech was presented as professor Kleimola’s Laudation when the award was given out.
THE REVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “PHENOMENOLOGY OF EMOTIONS. THE 4th CONFERENCE ON TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL MOVEMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE” (October 12-13, 2018, Kaunas, Lithuania)
