On 16–18 October 2026, the First Eastern Bloc Censorship Research Group Conference was held at the University of Łódź, Poland. The conference brought together international scholars to discuss censorship, cultural control, and resistance in the Eastern Bloc and beyond.
The keynote speakers were Robert Darnton (Harvard University, USA) and Nicole Moore (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia).
Tetiana Kachak and Tetyana Blyznyuk, “CNU EcoSystem ” presented a topic entitled “War, Identity, and New Forms of Censorship: Ukrainian Children’s Literature Amid Contemporary Political and Cultural Challenges.” Their research focused on children’s literature in the context of war in contemporary Ukrraine, outlined political and cultural challenges, contributing a Ukrainian perspective to the international discussion on censorship and cultural resistance.