On Thursday 22 October at 13:00, Elena Kostioukovitch will present her book "Kyiv. A fortress over the abyss" at the University of Granada (Centro de Culturas Eslavas) in Granada, Spain. The event will take place at Sala de Conferencias de la Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación (University of Granada)
On Wednesday 21 October at 20:00, Elena Kostioukovitch will present her book "Kyiv. A fortress over the abyss" at the University of Granada (Centro de Culturas Eslavas) in Granada, Spain. Alongside her, the musical project Trio Intermezzo (Anna Milman, Larisa Tedtoeva and Mikhail Milman) will play works by Shostakovich and Glinka that will provide a musical landscape to the book themes.
On Sunday 18 October 2026 at 17:00, Elena Kostioukovitch took part in a special event in Perugia, in memory of Umberto Eco 10 years after his passing. At the conference, held in Sala delle Colonne (Palazzo Graziani), Elena shared the stage with Mario Andreose, Anna Maria Lorusso, Giordano Meacci and Stefano Piccardi.
On Thursday 15 October 2026 at 19:00, Elena Kostioukovitch took part in an event at Masseria Barbera in Spinazzola, Puglia, Italy. The event was focused on Elena's book "Why Italians Love to Talk About Food" (2006), on the 20-year-anniversary of its first Italian edition by Sperling & Kupfer.
On Wednesday 14 October at 17:30, Elena Kostioukovitch presented her book "Translating Umberto Eco in an era of revolutions" at Ottobre Alessandrino Festival in Alessandria, the birthplace of the late Umberto Eco.
On Sunday 4 October 2026 at 17:15, Elena Kostioukovitch will take part in an event in honour of the late Umberto Eco, organized by Campania Libri Festival. The event will take place at Palazzo Reale (Teatro di Corte) in Naples.
On Saturday 3 October at 12:00, Elena Kostioukovitch will present her book "Kyiv. A fortress over the abyss" at Pisa Book Festival, at Auditorium Navi Antiche.
On Thursday 1 October 2026 at 15:00, Elena Kostioukovitch will feature in an event at the University of Pisa (Aula Magna Boilleau). The event, moderated by professor Marco Sabbatini, will have Elena talking about her experience as a translator of Umberto Eco.
On Thursday 17 September 2026 at 20:45, Elena Kostioukovitch took part in an event in honour of the Ukrainian resistance at Cafè Rouge inside Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan (via Pier Lombardo 14, 20144, Milano). The event was hosted by Alessandro Litta Modignani. Ukrainian editor, Oleksandr Krasovitsky and Italian journalist, Andrea Valesini, were the other guests appearing on stage.
On Thursday 17 September 2026, at 18:15, Elena Kostioukovitch took part in the online presentation of Titti Marrone's new novel "Primammore". The broadcast, from Parco Cevenini in Bologna, was focused on Titti Marrone's new book, which Elena Kostioukovitch commented on with the author herself.
On Thursday 17 September 2026, at 17:00, Elena Kostioukovitch joined in live streaming a discussion about her new book "Translating Umberto Eco in an era of revolutions". The event was broadcast from Parco Cevenini in Bologna and was hosted by Luigi Gravagnuolo.
On 8 September 2026, Elena Kostioukovitch visited the headquarters of the Ukrainian publishing house Folio, which published her book in Ukraine in such devastating circumstances.
