Conference | Disinformation versus Culture

We are getting ready to the Year of Information Awareness and Security.

Disinformation is usually treated as a problem of feeds and algorithms. It is just as much a problem of memory: of what a society believes about its own history, language and heritage.

That is the starting point of Disinformation versus Culture: Białystok, on 18 November at Arsenal Gallery .It asks what cultural resilience means, when identity becomes a matter of national security, and how museums, media and public institutions can act together.

In September, our Cultural Guardians programme brought the same topic to a public debate at Humbolt Forum in Berlin. In Białystok it gets a full day, six weeks before 2027, which Poland’s Senate has declared the Year of Information Awareness and Security.

The keynote, From Kyiv and Narva to Białystok: Lessons and Actions, comes from Maria Smorževskihh-Smirnova, Director of the Narva Muuseum lastele seum in Estonia. She is joined by speakers from Ukraine’s parliament, Mystetskyi Arsenal  in Kyiv, Franko House – Дім Франка  in Lviv, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art and Sweden’s Psychological Defence Agency.

Event details:

• Date: 18 November 2026
• Venue: Arsenal Gallery in Białystok
• Registration form: Disinformation versus Culture
• Languages: Polish, Ukrainian, English

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The “Disinformation versus Culture: Białystok” conference is held in partnership with the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok