21 December 2025: 12:00-20:00
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From Ukraine’s humanist, cosmopolitan port of Odessa, the civic-intellectual collective Ukrainian Cosmopolis brings together those who refuse censorship and resist the comforts of orthodoxy — writers, scholars, and creators who hold fast to intellectual freedom and civic courage as public duties.
We are the only organisation in Ukraine openly confronting the weaponisation of culture — a core tactic of Russia’s hybrid war, designed to fracture the country from within. We stand firmly against the culture-war politics that enable this strategy.
Through public debates, residencies, and civic initiatives, we cultivate Ukraine’s civic resilience to hybrid warfare and polarising radicalism — the resilience necessary not only for its democratic, European future, but for its ability to survive.
We do not speak for Ukraine; we cultivate public spaces for open, responsible disagreement.
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Cosmopolis invites applications for the Sutasoma Residencies in Odessa.
Cosmopolis develops the official Odesa UNESCO City of Literature Website.
Cosmopolis receives a three-year Sutasoma Trust grant.
Cosmopolis is helping Odessa's artists reach global audiences.
Cosmopolis launches a collaboration with Odessa's oldest school: the Richilieu Lycèe.
Cosmopolis launches an open letter to Ukraine's Institute of National Memory to defend the city's World Heritage.
Cosmopolitan composer and music critic Peter Culshaw launches his new album Piano Nomad.
The Holodomor in Politics, Memory and History by cosmopolitan Georgiy Kasianov now out!
Co-founder of Cosmopolis and anthropologist Anastasia Piliavsky speaks about Fairness and [In]Equality at the University of Michigan’s Anthropology Four-Field Symposium.
Co-founder of Cosmopolis, writer & translator Maya Dimerli received the “People of Action” Award.
Cosmopolitan artist Kateryna Biletyna exhibits her work.
Cosmopolitan filmmaker Eva Neymann screens her new documentary "When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea" (2025) at the 2025 Odesa Film Festival.
Co-founder of Cosmopolis Ilya Kaminsky opens the new season of the poetry studio “Litera.”
Cosmopolis develops official website for the Odesa UNESCO City of Literature office
02.09.2025 • Odessa, Ukraine
As part of our Odessa To the World initiative
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Ukrainian Cosmopolis operates in Ukraine under the NGO “Odesa Vilnyi Universytet” (“Odesa Free University”) (Registration No. 38227510), and internationally through Ukrainian Cosmopolis Ltd (Company No. 16901636), a UK non-profit company limited by guarantee. All funds support the cultural and civic programmes of Ukrainian Cosmopolis in Ukraine.
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© 2025 Ukrainian Cosmopolis, all rights reserved
Ukrainian Cosmopolis operates in Ukraine under the NGO “Odesa Vilnyi Universytet” (“Odesa Free University”) (Registration No. 38227510), and internationally through Ukrainian Cosmopolis Ltd (Company No. 16901636), a UK non-profit company limited by guarantee. All funds support the cultural and civic programmes of Ukrainian Cosmopolis in Ukraine.
Textures courtesy of Odessa
moc.liamg%40silopomsoc.nainiarku
+38 063 487 70 13 (WhatsApp; Viber)