October 16, 18:00-19:30 CET

With Oksana Dudko, Mayhill Fowler and Eleanora Narvselius, moderated by Gelinada Grinchenko and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen.     

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This webinar wants to tackle the following questions: How is the Russo-Ukrainian War represented in cinema and theatre? What formal and narrative techniques are used to convey the experience of war, trauma, and displacement? How do artistic depictions contribute to shaping collective memory and national identity? In what ways can they function as forms of resistance, offering alternative perspectives on the war and countering official state narratives or propaganda? How can historians and cultural scholars approach the study of war through these artistic lenses?

 The speakers will be:

• Oksana Dudko, University of Toronto (Canada)
• Mayhill Fowler, Stetson University (DeLand, USA) and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
• Eleonora Narvselius, Lund University (Sweden)

The panel will be chaired by Gelinada Grinchenko, University of Munich/Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada). At the end of the webinar, there will be a Q&A section where questions from the audience will be read out. The Seminar will be held in Ukrainian and English with simultaneous translation.

To participate, please register here. A recording of the seminar will be published on the Youtube channel of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission.

The seminar series is a joint initiative by the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Ukraine-based scholarly journal "Ukraina Moderna. We thank for the sponsorship by the German Academic Exchange service (DAAD) with funds of the German Foreign Ministry.