Join us for a powerful and thought-provoking evening in conversation with Dr Helen Vatsikopoulos, featuring world-renowned economist, author, and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.
By writing RAISE YOUR SOUL Yanis Varoufakis attempted to counter the rise of authoritarianism, chauvinism and the loss of hope that seems to be infecting our Western societies. To react to the creeping hopelessness, Varoufakis decided to tell the story of five Greek women who shaped him. His secret hope is that, in reading the stories of Eleni, Anna, Trisevgeni, Georgia and Danaë, readers will also steel their resolve against authoritarianism, fascism, chauvinism – and, yes, in the process, raise their soul too, if only a little.
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Yanis Varoufakis leads MeRA25 in Greece and is co-founder of the paneuropean movement DiEM25 as well as the Progressive International. An academic economist who served as Greece’s Finance Minister in 2015, Varoufakis is the author of best-selling books including RAISE YOUR SOUL (Penguin, 2025), TECHNOFEUDALISM: What killed capitalism (Penguin 2023), ANOTHER NOW (Penguin 2020), ADULTS IN THE ROOM (Penguin 2017), TALKING TO MY DAUGHER (Penguin 2017), AND THE WEAK SUFFER WHAT THEY MUST? (Penguin 2016), THE GLOBAL MINOTAUR (Zed Books 2011)
