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Yevheniy Stasinevych gives a lecture “In Search of Style: Emigration and Essay Writing”. Ukrainian literature has a significant and colorful tradition of essay writing, which is intensified in times of crisis. When new challenges must be responded to quickly and – if possible – effectively. This is exactly what the time was like after World War II: Germany, displaced persons camps, a vague future, a difficult past. And in the midst of this: debates, discussions, irreconcilable disputes on cultural and literary topics. And also books, publications, the founding of the Artistic Ukrainian Movement. And a lot of essay writing. Yuriy Shevelyov, Viktor Petrov-Domontovych, Yuriy Lavrinenko, Yuriy Kosach, Ihor Kostetsky: those whom we now consider the greatest Ukrainian intellectuals, “dispersed” just then. The event took place within the framework of the Essay Writing Days, which are traditionally held before the awarding of the Yuriy Shevelyov Prize.