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Join us tonight: Canada, Plast, and the young ones - Myron Spolsky
Date: Thursday, August 18 2022
Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21-30 UAT)
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According to the High Commissioner for Human Rights 356 children are killed and 595 are injured since the Russian war on Ukraine started on Februari 24. We hardly paid any attention to the price children have to pay in this war. It's high time we make this right starting with this episode. Children and young boys and girls are not only victims of the war but are also actively supporting the military and helping their country to survive and win. The Ukrainian scouting organization Plast plays, since its foundation, 110 years ago, an unique role in the education of young boys and girls. Plast is today also active in all kinds of solidarity: "We have been fighting for 110 years, so we will win." You will find Plast not only in Ukraine but also in the Ukrainian diaspora. Numerous girls and boys learned in the scouting practice of Plast what is means to be Ukrainian. We talk about these topics tonight with Myron Spolsky. Mr. Spolsky will adress three issues: the Canadian diaspora, Plast in Canada and Plast international.
Myron Spolsky is CEO of the World Plast Executive. He was born in Toronto and has been a member of Plast for 60 years. In 1977-1978 he was a vice-president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress; in 1980-1986 he headed the Commission of Development of the Ukrainian Community in Winnipeg; and in 1986-1987 he was a director of the Department of the Multiculturalism of the provincial government of Manitoba. In 1988 he moved to Ukraine, where he established one of the first pizzerias in Ukraine, Vesuvio Pizza. Mr. Spolsky has been a member of Plast Ukraine’s board of trustees and for the last three years was a member of the World Plast Executive.
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Join us Thursday evening: Ten books you should read - Orysya Bila and Ruud Meij
Date: Thursday, August 11 2022
Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21:30 UAT)
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After the war started we did what philosophers should do: try to make sense of the war. Try to find a logic in this event that defies common sense. Because there is something incomprehensible in the unprovoked aggression of Russian and the Russians against Ukraine and the Ukrainians. What we are trying to do do is laying a puzzle with unknown borders. But where do you find bits and pieces? For philosophers the answer is quite simple: books. So we started a proces of relentless reading. Almost without a plan, by association. Are we finished? Not at all! However some books impressed us more than others. Some authors came with revealing concepts and ideas. Tonight we want to share with you ten books which struck us a original and important. Some of them you might know. Others will be quite new for you. But they are definitely ten books you should read.
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Join us tonight: Ukraine after the War. The Ukrainian Foundations - Valeriy Pekar
Date: Thursday, August 4 2022 Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21:30 UAT) Youtube Live: watch the conversation here Info: [email protected]
This Thursday we will talk about Ukraine 2030: Ukraine after the war. While it might look a bit premature and tempting fate, we believe that it is important to start talking about the Ukrainian future right now while the war is developing full scale.
Our guest Valeriy Pekar recently published his last book Українські основи / Ukrainian fundamentals (2022) dedicated to being Ukrainian and the future of Ukraine. He will share with us the ideas behind this collection of essays and explain what these are ‘Ukrainian fundamentals’ that make the Ukrainian situation so peculiar.
In an earlier essay The End of the Russian Empire and Challenges for Ukraine (2016) Valeriy Pekar claimed that Russia is inevitably doomed to civilizational failure and Ukrainians need to withdraw from it. The war seems to make this inevitable. That puts the war also in a different perspective. Could the war be the crisis in which a new nation is born? Or put it a bit more dramatic: don’t we owe it to those who sacrificed their lives in the war, who fell by bullets, missiles and brute violence for the future of Ukraine and the Ukrainians, that Ukraine of tomorrow will not be a continuation of Ukraine of yesterday?
If we think about the future of Ukraine will this future be a continuation of Ukrainian politics, culture and tradition? Or will it be a new beginning and is the war a treshold of what Ukraine has been, and what Ukraine can become? Valeriy Pekar seems pointing in the direction of what Hannah Arendt calls 'natality’: the human possibility to make a new beginning: “the language and religion on the threshold of modernity do not determine anything, because values are the main thing”? If this is so, what are these values Ukrainians have to cherish as a nation?
Whatever happens: reflecting on Ukraine after the war is not building fancy air castles, but one of the most pressing questions of today.
Valeriy Pekar is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and public activist, professor of Kyiv Mohyla Business School, co-founder of the civil platform New Country, author of the book Colorful Management (2016). His most recent book (as publisher and co-author) is The Ukrainian Foundations (2022).
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Now available on Youtube: Don't give up Ukraine! episode 23 - Eurasianism
Now available on Youtube. Episode 23 of #dontgiveupukraine on Eurasianism- A conversation of Orysya Bila and Ruud Meij with Andreas Umland and Hubert Smeets. Learn more about Classical and Neo-Eurasianism. About Trubetzkoy, Gumilev and Dugin. Is Putin an adept of Eurasianism? Can Eurasianism shed some light on the War in Ukraine?
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Thursday evening - Eurasianism - Adreas Umland & Hubert Smeets
Date: Thursday, Juli 28 2022
Time: 20:00-21:00 (21:00-22:00 UAT)
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Understanding the Russian war against Ukraine provokes puzzling questions. It beats our reservoir of simplistic answers and it often seems totally irrational. On the other hand: understanding this war is indispensable for putting an end to it and finding a way to a lasting peace. Seeing the war as an outgrowth of the ideology of Eurasianism sheds a light on the Russian aggression and reveals at least a certain 'logic' in the 'rape of Ukraine'.
Eurasianism is a political movement in Russia that states that Russia is not a nation, but a civilization. This civilization is not 'European' or 'Asian'. Instead the geopolitical concept of Eurasia is making Russia, according tot Eurasianist as Alexander Dugin, a standalone civilization.
Eurasianism has its origins in the Russian émigré community in the 1920s. The Eurasianists believed that the Soviet Regime after the October Revolution could evolve into a new, non-European Orthodox Christian government. Early proponents of Eurasianism argued that control of the Eurasian heartland was the key to geopolitical dominance. Along several lines Eurasianism developed after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 in Neo-Eurasianism. It considers Russia to be culturally closer to Asia than to Western Europe. This ideology was influenced by political theorist Aleksandr Dugin to publish in 1997 Foundations of Geopolitics. Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism is according to some analysts a fascist ideology centred on the idea of revolutionising the Russian society an building a totalitarian, Russia-dominated Eurasian Empire. This ideology was used to justify the Kremlin's War in Ukraine.
In this episode of Don't Give Up Ukraine! we discuss Eurasianism with Andreas Umland and Hubert Smeets. Andreas Umland is poltical scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history as well as regime transitions. He published among others on the post-Soviet extreme right, Ukranian and Russian nationalism and the Donbas and Crimea conflicts. He is Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future well as a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm. Andreas Umland also teaches as Associate Professor of Politics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Hubert Smeets is a Dutch journalist and historian. He is one of the founders of the knowledge and analysis platform Raam op Rusland (Window on Russia). Hubert Smeets is a prominent commentator on the war in Ukraine. He worked for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. From 2003 to 2007 he was editor-in-chief of the Dutch opinion weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. In 2015 he published his book De wraak van Poetin (The revenge of Putin).
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Join us tonight - Faces of War - Taras Tymo
Date: Thursday, July 21
Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21:30 UAT)
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It's now day 149 of Russia's War against Ukraine. War affects millions of lives of common people in, but also outside Ukraine. In the first place the young men and women who are fighting at the front of freedom. Overnight their common lives changed from peaceful living men and women doing his or her daily work, being brother or sister, mum or dad. Then they became actor in a 'Apocalypse Now' fighting for the freedom of their Ukrainian nation. Giving their life, getting wounded, or acting in heroic ways. War also affects the Ukrainian society. Grandparents and grandchildren, and all in between, have do endure losses of their loved ones. But they also support their army in unique and creative ways. Like this girl playing flute raising money for the army.
Tonight, in episode 22 of Dont Give Up Ukraine!, we want to discuss these different faces of war with Professor Taras Tymo. Taras Tymo covered the first hundred days of the war on his Youtube channel on a daily basis. By that Taras provided a unique chronicle of the war, starting from day one.
Taras Tymo is a Professor in theology at the Ukraine Catholic University in Lviv and an expert in Patristics. He is also an active organizer and fundraiser for 'Help to the Frontlines' supporting soldiers at the front.
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Thursday evening - The Ukrainian diaspora: Concepts and Canada - Vic Satzewich
Date: Thursday, Juli 14
Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21:30 UAT)
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Two weeks ago we started our series on the Ukrainian Diaspora with Mychailo Wynnyckyi and Christiana Santore. The Ukrainian Diaspora as a Third Front is still our main topic of interest. Tonight we want to clarify the concept of diaspora itself. Iconic is the Jewish Diaspora or exile as the dispersion of Israelites of their ancient ancestral homeland - the Land of Israel - and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe. A very different diaspora is 'the brutal and chaotic history of Russias exiles, émigrés, and agents abroad' told by Adrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan in The Compatriots. With Professor Victor Satzewich we discuss diaspora as a concept and reasons and motives for people to leave their country, like victim diaspora, imperial diaspora, labor diaspora, trade diaspora and cultural diaspora. Of course we focus on the Ukrainian diaspora, more in particular in Canada. Especially we like to discuss how the diaspora in Canada developed as a political force. Our interest, however is not primary conceptual and historical. We like to find out how the Ukrainian diaspora acts today as civic force in the war against Russia. Is there a strategy of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada? What are challenges and successes? What can other Ukrainian diaspora's - e.g. in Europe - learn from the Canadians?
We are very happy to have as our guest Professor Victor Satzewich. Victor Stanzewick is Professor at the Department of Sociology at McMaster University in Ontario. He wrote an excellent book on our topic The Ukrainian Diaspora. He also published on racism and transnational practices in Canada.
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Thursday evening: Ukrainian and Russian Values. Making a Difference - Orysya Bila and Ruud Meij
Date: Thursday, Juli 7
Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21:30 UAT)
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Recently Orysya Bila made, on a conference on the future of Ukraine, a short but insightful statement on the difference between Russian and Ukrainian values. In this episode of Don't give up Ukraine! we are going to discuss this statement. We are going to talk about issues like the way this difference in value orientations sheds light on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On the ruthless violence of the Russian agressor. The roots of these values in the Russian and Ukrainian history and in dealing with the aftermath of the age of totalitarianism. The prospects and the conditions for peace. And, last but not least, the future of Ukraine and Europe and, in the end, also Russia. In this discussion we also pay tribute to the friends of Don't give up Ukraine! who, in the last twenty episodes, helped to make this a true community of inquiry.
Orysya Bila and Ruud Meij initiated Don't give up Ukraine! Orysya Bila is philosopher at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and head of the Department of Philosophy. She is a feminist thinker and expert in moral learning in government and public organizations.
Ruud Meij is philosopher and worked until his retirement at the University of Humanistic Studies (Utrecht, The Netherlands). He is partner in Governance & Integrity International and director of the Foundation for Justice, Integrity and Anti Corruption. With others he published Lviv, City of Paradoxes.
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Thursday evening - The Ukrainian Diaspora as a Third Front? - Christina Santore and Mychailo Wynnyckyj
Date: Thursday, June 30.
Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21:30 UAT).
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The Ukrainian diaspora comprises Ukrainians and their descendents who live outside Ukraine around the world. Today more than twenty million Ukrainians live outside Ukraine. You can find them all over the world in post-Soviet states, as well as in other countries such as Poland, the United States, Canada, Brazil and, for example, the Netherlands.
The Ukrainian diaspora is considered to have started between 1608 and 1880 with the settlement of Cossacks in Turkey and in Western Europe. The First World War and the Russian Civil War led to the first massive political emigration. After the Second World War, the Ukrainian diaspora increased due to a second wave of displaced persons. This second wave of emigrants was an impuls for Ukrainian organizations in the Americas and Western Europe. In 1967, in New York City, the World Congres of Free Ukrainians was founded. Ukrainian migration in the USSR to shape in the later decennia of the Soviet Time. After the Ukrainian independence (1991) many Ukrainians emigrated to Western countries because of the economic depression in the 1990's. Today, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians left home and hearth and turned into displaced persons.
Your are not born as a 'diasporian'. Even the word 'diaspora' was not used by the first generations Ukrainian migrants. Being a refugee, an exile or migrant does not mean belonging to a diaspora. There are many reasons to migrate: seeking a beter economic future, fleeing political repression and terror, or escaping the violence of war. Being part of the Ukrainian diaspora means belonging to an imagined community re-creating Ukrainian identity, culture and ideals. Being a diasporian means balancing between belonging and longing. Belonging to the country where you live and work. Longing for the Motherland, cherishing its culture or being a political activist for a free and independent Ukraine.
In several episodes devoted to the Ukrainian diaspora, under the title 'The Ukrainian diaspora as a third front', we want to examine the diaspora as a political force. The title is of course suggestive. It suggests that apart from the political and military front to stop and defeat the Russian Federation, we should consider a civic front, of which the Ukrainian diaspora could be its core. Tonight we discuss this question and look back and forward at the Ukrainian diaspora with Mychailo Wynnyckyj and Christina Santore.
Mychailo Wynnyckyj is Associate Professor at the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Sociology Dep’t and Business School). Until recently he served as Head of the Secretariat of Ukraine’s National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, and prior to that as Advisor to three of Ukraine’s Ministers of Education (2015-2019). Originally from Canada, Mychailo has lived permanently in Kyiv for almost two decades. He was awarded a PhD in 2004 from the University of Cambridge (U.K.), and gained Ukrainian citizenship in 2019. Mychailo is a regular commentator for English-language media outlets (CNN, FoxNews, AlJazeera, BBC, CBC, CTV, KyivPost, and others), and provides analysis on current events in his Thoughts from Kyiv blog. His book Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity was published in English in 2019, and in Ukrainian translation in 2021.
Christina Santore (1966, Philadelphia, USA) is a writer and communications, editorial, publishing and cultural consultant and entrepreneur whose professional experience spans three decades, two continents, multiple sectors and various media. She spent the first half of her life in the US Ukrainian diaspora before moving to the Netherlands, where she also volunteers as a Ukrainian cultural and community advocate and activist within the Dutch Ukrainian diaspora. Christina is the founder of the Netherlands branch of Plast Ukrainian Scouting, and head of its European Coordination Centre, co-founder of Friends of Lviv Foundation, and initiator of Ukrainian cultural and awareness initiatives.
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The G7, the 'battle for unity' and conventional mass destruction
Orysya Bila, Ruud Meij
Today the G7 assembles on the historical ground of Schloss Elmau, a hundred miles or so south of Munich. Of course, our thoughts go back to September 30, 1938. Will this also be a historical meeting? We are a bit worried about it. You won’t blame us for that as we read “G7 face battle for unity as costs of Ukraine war mounts”.
The simple answer to this ‘battle of unity’ is that the costs of war mount because of Western hesitations, indecisiveness, and capitulation for Putin’s nuclear blackmail. A major gamechanger was the Ukrainian victory in the battle of Kyiv. It’s an old adagio that winning a battle is very different from winning a war. Putin knows this lesson all too well. The West was surprised by the Ukrainian courage, resilience, and patriotism. They shouldn’t if they had paid more attention to the Ukrainian independence vote in 1991, the Orange Revolution in 2004 and Maidan in 2013-14.
After the victory of Kyiv some Western leaders hesitated. What if Ukraine will win the war? Is there a way out so that we can stay in our comfort zone? Shouldn’t we offer Putin a face-saving way out? Let’s wait a bit by arming Ukraine with heavy weapons. After all he threatens with his nuclear power…
But Putin and his clique learned another lesson. The way to defeat Ukraine is conventional mass destruction, as the relentless bombing of Mariupol, Severodonetsk and today again Kyiv prove. They don’t care about victims, nor civilians, or even their own soldiers. They don’t care about war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. And do you know why? Because they know they can carry on with mass murder with impunity.
Putin not only knows that the West and NATO won’t intervene directly in Ukraine which is OK. But he also counts the West won’t supply heavy weapons on a mass scale. The weapons which can help defeating Russia. Even today Putin is playing this card by stationing potentially nuclear missiles in Belarus. And Putin is playing the nuclear blackmail card with success, considering the Western procrastination on arming Ukraine with the weapons that would help to win the war, instead of not losing it. However, giving in to Putin’s blackmail means capitulating for the Russian Federation, giving way for conventional mass destruction, losing the war in Ukraine, and giving up Ukraine. It will be a victory for all autocratic, dictatorial, pseudo-, or real totalitarian regimes, which are today gaining ground in the world.
From 1945 till 1989 the West had an answer to this nuclear blackmail. That was the Cold War and the strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction. A nuclear attack could count on massive retaliation. This balance of deterrence was not a pleasant world to live in, to put it mildly. But we lived with it then, and we must learn to live with it again: a nuclear bomb on Kyiv will be retaliated by a nuclear bomb on St. Petersburg. Period. It was a scary time, but it was effective, it lifts impunity and in the end it broke the Soviet totalitarianism.
Resisting Putin’s blackmail helps to overcome hesitations and indecisiveness of the West. It means opening up the opportunity to provide Ukraine with heavy long-range weapons on a mass scale by which they can hit Russian troops behind the front lines. It also ends the impunity of conventional mass destruction, committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the genocide.
In the end we have to understand that Putin's regime is not a ‘normal’ autocratic regime. It is the organized madness of the regime that for 75 years had terror as its fundamental principle, and the Gulag as its core. A nation in which yesterday’s perpetrators of terror were the victims of tomorrow. A nation where no one has been convicted for these ‘unjustified repressions’ (Khrushchev). If terror stays unpunished, when responsibility is not taken, when retribution is not forthcoming, this terror will keep repeating itself as madness, senselessness, and delirium. This re-enacting of terror is what we witness in Ukraine. The hesitation, indecisiveness and capitulating for blackmail by the West means sacrificing Ukraine and the world to terror and madness and betraying its own civilization. That should be unthinkable.
(Thanks to Frans Geraedts)
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Thursday evening: The Gulag, Mourning, and the War - Alexander Etkind
Date: Thursday, June 23
Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21:30 UAT)
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How to make sense of the Russian brutal invasion, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine? Should we see it as a geo-political struggle for power and influence? Should we see it as a hunger for land and economic gain? Or is something different, more uncanny at stake? What to make of Putin comparing himself with Peter the Great? What to think of this reclaiming land 'that has always been ours?' Doesn't this sound as madness, frenzy, mania or delirium?
In one of our earlier conversations our guests, Orysya Bila, mentioned that "the Russians since the '90's haven't done their homework yet. Russia is like a dragon: as long as you keep it if feeding it still longs for more." She was referring to coming to terms with the catastrophic experience of the Gulag, 'the torture camps', as our guest of tonight, professor Alexander Etkind, called it. "To learn about oneself is the toughest among the challenges of learning", professor Etkind continues. "The self-inflicted nature of Soviet terror has complicated the circulation of three energies that structure the post-catastrophic world: a cognitive striving to learn about the catastrophe, and emotional desire to mourn for it victims; and an active desire to find justice to take revenge of the perpetrators. ... The suicidal nature of the Soviet atrocities - in which victims and perpetrators were mixed together in the same families, ethnic groups, and lines of decent - made revenge all but impossible, and even learning very difficult." (Warped mourning) The ban on the highly esteemed Russian NOG, Memorial, which is committed to the memory of the terror and the Gulag is just one symptom of the difficulty to learn and do justice to this catastrophe.
Could this inability to mourn the Gulag and a history of internal colonization shed some unexpected light on the madness of the rape of Ukraine by its 'big brother'? In this episode of Don't Give Up Ukraine! we explore this question with Professor Alexander Etkind. We will discuss two of his books which are especially relevant for our subject: Internal Colonization (2011) and Warped Mourning (2013). Alexander Etkind (1955, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a historian and cultural scientist. He is a Mikhael M. Bakhtin Professor of History of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute (Florence). He is fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations (Paris).
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Save the date: Thursday June 23 - Alexander Etkind on Russia, Internal Colonization and Warped Mourning
On June 23 we welcome as our guest in Don't Give Up Ukraine! Professor Alexander Etkind. Professor Etkind is author of a number of books on Russia. We will discuss two of his books which are especially relevant to the brutal war that is now going on in Ukraine: Internal Colonization (2011) and Warped Mourning (2013). More on this livestream soon.
Date: Thursday, June 23
Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21:30 UAT)
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Thursday evening: Humanity and humor in classical Ukrainian Literature - Elena Oranskaia and Dmytro Lytvynenko
Date: Thursday, June 16.
Time: 19:30-20:30. (20:30-21:30 UAT)
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Against the background of the war in Ukraine tonight we discuss classical Ukrainian literature with Elena Oranskaia and Dmytro Lytvynenko. Elena Oranskaia argues that classical Ukrainian literatuur from Skovoroda to Lesya Ukraïnka was ahead of its time. It was an avant-garde which warned us about the problems we are now beginning to face. The common thread is respect for living beings, nature and the environment and the place of humans in the world. Dmytro Lytvynenko stresses the humor in Ukrainian literature. In novels like Dead Souls of Gogol, Master and Margarita of Bulgakov and Isaak Babels Odessa Novels - which he considers as stolen by the Russian Empire - you find great examples of humor. The secret for working with humor is that you need to feel freedom inside. And Ukraine is a nation of freedom.
Dmytro Lytvynenko is an Ukrainian TV journalist with 25 years of experience. He was born in the Donetsk Region and graduated from the Russian Rostov on Don University on Russian literature and journalism.
Elena Oranskaia is a philologist and studied Slavic Languages at Shevchenko University. She lives in the Netherlands for 29 years and is founder of the Art-East+Art-West Foundation. She is an organizer and curator of projects that perform Ukrainian design in Europe, including Ukraine: Affair with Earth in Eindhoven.
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Thursday evening: Art, Memory, War. A View from Odesa - Oksana Dovgopolova
Date: Thursday, June 9.
Time: 19:30-20:30 (20:30-21:30 UAT).
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Visual Arts have always been a powerful medium in which war meets the eye. We only have to think of Los Disastres de la Guerra of Francisco Goya sketching the cruelties during the Peninsular War, which began in 1808. Or what to say of Picasso's memorizalisation of the terror bombing of Guernica in 1937. The visual arts create a site de memoir of war. Is helps to shape identities. The visual arts are also aesthetic means of coming to terms with the trauma's and atrocities of war.
In this episode of Don't give up Ukraine! we discuss with Oksana Dovgopolova form Odesa how art is influenced by the war in Ukraine and what the role of art is in living through the experience of war. We will also discuss how art becomes a means for rethinking (re-writing) one's own identity, what role art played in the common imperial past of Ukraine and Russia and what changes it undergoes today, in a situation of the war.
Dr. Oksana Dovgopolova is a professor of philosophy at the Odesa I. Mechnikov National University and curator of the platform for memory culture "Past/Future/Art". She is member of the Memory Studies Association, the Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies Association, and the International Association for the Humanities. Oksana Dovgopolova is author of the book Other, Alien, Rejected as the Elements of Social Space («Другое, Чужое, Отторгаемое как элементы социального пространства») (Odessa, 2007).
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The conversation with Alena Muravska and Tobias Wals, 'Ukrainian Literature as a Passion', is now available on YouTube.
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Thursday evening: 100 Days of War - Orysya Bila, Michiel Driebergen, Bogdan Pankevych & Iryna Starovoyt
Date: Thursday, June 2.
Time: 20:30-21:30 (21:30-22:30 UAT)
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Friday is Day 100 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Friday it will also be 100 days since we started Don't give up Ukraine!. No day to celebrate of course. Even not to commemorate. In these 100 days we gave voice to the experience of the war and reflected on what hit Ukraine and the world in such an unprecedented way. In fifteen conversations we talked about philosophy, religion, human rights, Europe, intellectuals and universities, just peace and Ukrainian literature. All our conversations were inspiring and full of ideas.
Today we look back to these 100 days of war with guests we met earlier in Don't give up Ukraine!. We explore wartime experiences with philosopher Orysya Bila, journalist Michiel Driebergen, politician and activist Bogdan Pankevych and poet and cultural critic Iryna Starovoyt. What are their most memorable experiences and surprises? What have they learned in this war about Ukraine, Russia, or Europe? Did the war change the world? We also want to look forward a bit. What are their expectations, plans and wishes?
Orysya Bila is philosopher at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, feminist thinker and expert in moral learning in government and public organizations. She is currently living in the Netherlands.
Michiel Driebergen is a Dutch writer and journalist. He reports for radio, newspapers and magazines, like NOS, Trouw, Volkskrant and VPRO. Michiel Drieberger has a long history of writing on Ukraine and is covering the war in Ukraine from day 1.
Bogdan Pankevych devoted his life to a free, democratic, sovereign and independent Ukrainian nation. He took his first steps on his calling when Ukraine was still a member of the Soviet Union. Bogdan Pankevych was honorary consul of the Netherlands in Lviv. His is also prominent politician of the Ukrainian Galician Party.
Iryna Starovoyt is a poet, essayist, and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Born in Lviv she made her poetry debut with the book No Longer Limpid (1997). In 2017 her A Field of Foundlings was published in English by Lost Horse Press.
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The conversation with Iryna Starovoyt, 'A Field of Foundlings', is now available on YouTube.
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