Dr. habil. Karolina Wigura is a historian of ideas, sociologist, and journalist. She is member of the Board of Kultura Liberalna Foundation (Warsaw), and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Liberal Modernity (Berlin). Wigura is an Associate Professor at Warsaw University's Faculty of Sociology and focuses on the political philosophy of the 20th century and emotions in politics, as well as sociology and ethics of memory, particularly transitional justice, historical guilt, and reconciliation. She was a co-director of the Polish Programme in St. Antony's College at University of Oxford (2016-2018). Wigura was awarded fellowships at Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin, Robert Bosch Academy, Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, German Marshall Fund, and St. Antony's College at University of Oxford. In 2008, she received the Grand Press prize for her interview with Jürgen Habermas "Europe in death paralysis". Wigura is the author of "The Guilt of Nations: Forgiveness as a Political Strategy" (2011) and "The Invention of Modern Heart: Philosophical Sources of Contemporary Thinking of Emotions" (2019). Karolina Wigura together with Jaroslaw Kuisz published books "The End of the Liberal Mind: Poland's New Politics" (2020) and "Post-Traumatic Sovereignty. An Essay" (2023). She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The New York Times, Die Tageszeitung, Gazeta Wyborcza, and other periodicals.