Olga Shparaga

Olga Shparaga, born in 1974, studied philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum and at the Belarusian State University in Minsk. Between 2001 and 2014, she taught at the European Humanities University in Minsk (since 2005 from her exile in Vilnius). In 2014, she co-founded the European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus (ECLAB) in Minsk. She has taught and carried out research in the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the USA. Olga Shparaga is a member of the Belarusian feminist group founded in 2020 as part of the Coordination Council — the political organ of the opposition against dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In 2024 Olga Shparaga was awarded with the “Voltaire Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Differences” by the Potsdam University.