We would like to welcome as a part of our team Dr. Leonidas Donskis, Ph.D. close friend of Professor Bauman. We are very happy to announce that Dr. Leonidas Donskis become Executive producer of our documentary film “The Trouble with Being Human These Days”. This is an enormous honor for us.

Dr. Leonidas Donskis is a Member of the European Parliament (2009–2014). He has written and edited thirty books, thirteen of them in English. Donskis combines political theory, history of ideas, philosophy of culture, philosophy of literature, and essayistic style. Among other books, he is the author of Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging (2011), Troubled Identity and the Modern World (2009), Power and Imagination: Studies in Politics and Literature (2008), and Forms of Hatred: Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature (2003). His works are published in 14 languages. A wandering scholar in the past, Donskis has been researching and lecturing in the USA, Great Britain, and Europe. He acts as a visiting professor of politics at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Donskis holds an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Bradford, Great Britain. He hosted the political and cultural debate program Pique-Free on Lithuanian TV (2003–2009).

Dr. Leonidas Donskis in Brussels. Photo: G.Lepiarz