Meeting with Elisa Mignot

As part of the "Ukrainian Library" series, the Centre de Recherche Europes-Eurasie-CREE (Inalco), in partnership with the Institut Français, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ukrainian Institute, invites you to a discussion of Elisa Mignot's book "Ténor de guerre", published by Marchialy.
This scientific event is organized as part of Voyage en Ukraine, the Season of Ukraine in France.
Homme avec un smoking noir en queue de pie sur un piano sur fond bleu et jaune
Couverture de l'ouvrage d'Elisa Mignot, Ténor de guerre © Éditions‎ Marchialy‎

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Moderated by:
  • Iryna Dmytrychyn, Senior Lecturer and Head of Ukrainian Studies (CREE, Inalco)

Book presentation

The last role of Wassyl Slipak

From the Paris Opera to the Ukrainian front, the unique trajectory of an opera singer turned national hero.

His soldier's name was Myth, for Mephistopheles. When Wassyl Slipak, a Ukrainian opera singer who had made his entire career in France, died on the front line of the Donbass war in 2016, Ukraine made him a hero.

Elisa Mignot sets out on the man's trail to try to understand how his personal trajectory came to collide with the history of his country. Her investigation, conducted during the Great War of 2022, sheds light on the Ukraine of today, questioning its need for heroes and the commitment of an entire people.

Author's presentation

Elisa Mignot is a journalist and podcast producer. Freelance then reporter and deputy editor-in-chief of the feature magazine Polka for ten years, she is now head of original productions at documentary podcast studio Initial Studio. She first went to Ukraine as a journalist at the time of the Maïdan revolution. She has been going back ever since. She is behind the series "Le Journal d'Olga et Sasha", published in Le Monde from 2022.

"Ukrainian Library"

This cycle aims to reflect Ukrainian news in the broadest sense, through recent publications dedicated to or affecting Ukraine.

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