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Thinking About Freedom in Wartime Ukraine

Sep 30, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Timothy Snyder |Ihar Babkou |Kateryna Botanova |Inessa Medzhibovskaya

Volodymyr Zelensky (2024) | Public DomainThis lecture was delivered as part of a benefit conference for the Ukrainian academy that Aaron James Wendland organized in March 2023 at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Ukrainian Studies Struggle Against Imperial Heritage

Sep 26, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed |Kateryna Botanova |Maria Bucur |Dwight A. McBride

Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Skovoroda-300 forum in Pereiaslav, Ukraine (2022) | President of Ukraine / Public DomainIn the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the international community rallied behind Ukrainians’ determination to defend their country. Vital financial aid was accompanied by efforts to better understand a nation that did not surrender in the face of the Russian military forces that overwhelmingly surpassed the Ukrainian capacities.
New School Community Statement on Navalny’s Assassination and in Support of Ukraine

Mar 6, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Inessa Medzhibovskaya |Heather Richardson |Ihar Babkou |Kateryna Botanova

Alexei Navalny at a demonstration in Moscow on Russia’s Unity Day (2011) | Rosfoto.ru / ShutterstockThe villainous, cowardly assassination of Alexei Navalny in Putin’s Russia must shake everyone for whom the political future of the world matters. The murder occurred on the eve of the dictator’s predictable “reelection.” Many were shocked that Navalny exchanged the safety of an honorable retirement abroad for an inevitable arrest, and, ultimately, murder at home.
The never-ending lessons of war

Feb 23, 2024 | eurozine.com | Kateryna Botanova

How can we learn to live next to violent deaths, mass graves, and knowledge of rape and torture? When looking for an answer to this question, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine yet after its occupation of Crimea and war in Eastern Ukraine, Nikita Kadan suggested we ‘measure contemporary art against the execution pit’. The artist wrote, ‘We have bones in common.
Sahara

Feb 13, 2024 | mitpress.mit.edu | Kateryna Botanova |Quinn Latimer

An anthology that accompanies Culturescapes 2023 Sahara, the 17th edition of the Swiss multidisciplinary festival. Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices.
Accounting for war crimes

Mar 14, 2023 | eurozine.com | Nergis Canefe |Kateryna Botanova

The Russo-Ukrainian war has reignited old debates on the right to wage war (ius ad bellum) as well as on the rules to abide by in armed conflict (ius in bello) and their ramifications in international criminal law. However, the chasm between debates on the laws of war and the lived experience of it have once again been revealed. The two must be reconnected by restoring war’s historical connections with political violence. There is much at stake here.
Refusing victimhood and commanding attention

Mar 10, 2023 | eurozine.com | Kateryna Botanova

Ukrainian artists are pressured by their international peers who still entertain the naive idea that the purpose of culture is reconciliation. They have to push back against these initiatives, but walk a tightrope as they need to nevertheless keep western attention, says Kiyv-born curator and art historian Kateryna Botanova, who is also a recurring Eurozine author. This episode is an edited version of a longer conversation, which is available in its entirety only to our Patrons.
Karas ir menas: koks gali būti dialogas tarp agresoriaus ir okupuotos šalies?

Feb 23, 2023 | delfi.lt | Kateryna Botanova

... Balandis/Vladimiro Agafonkino nuotrauka D+ nariams Prenumeruoti Karas ir menas: koks gali b... 0:00 0:00 Kultūra Tai nutiko 2017 m. Aš, ką tik persikėlusi iš Kyjivo į Bazelį, jaučiausi dėl to kalta prieš tautiečius.