Diary of the Plague Time

Abstract

The author publishes an excerpt from her personal diary. She has been writing it since the outbreak of the covid epidemic. This fragment begins on 24 February – the day of Russian aggression against Ukraine. She believes that war is also a cruel kind of pestilence. The author contrasts the atmosphere of apparent peace and spring mood on the streets of Warsaw with the terror of war in Ukraine. She quotes e-mails from his friends in Kiev and poems by Oleksandr Irvanets and Timothy Snyder. She reports on a hybrid conference from the Jagiellonian University under the slogan “University and War”. Vice-rectors of Ukrainian universities spoke about the situation and activities of universities in Ukraine. In the final part of the diary, the author included a description of the meeting with her friend in Warsaw, professor Natalya Starchenko.