Kyiv Book Arsenal 2025: Academic Program

Last week SUPRR was delighted to be a part of Kyiv Book Arsenal, the annual book festival in Ukraine. SUPRR shared its stand with Ukrainian academic presses and it was the first time that Book Arsenal had an academic program. Representatives of Taras Shevchenko National University facilitated networking events with a number of academic presses from all across Ukraine.

The stand also hosted a brand new digital texbook, open education resource, ‘Ukraine as a Migration Nexus’ edited by Oleksiy Chebotariov and Viktoria Sereda, supported by the Open Society University Network and published by CEU Press.

SUPRR co-organized a discussion for the main program of the festival together with Library Country, and Radio NV on ‘Stealing, appropriation and destruction by Russians of Ukrainian academic heritage, museum collections, and libraries’.

Frances Pinter, the founder of SUPRR and Director of Academic Relations at the Central European University Press spoke about the successful case of controlling ISSNs on the temporary occupied territories of Ukraine.