Venue: Institute for Human Sciences, 1090 Vienna.
Ukraine is in the midst of its existential struggle for survival. Although the war is still ongoing, it has already wrought profound transformations upon the Ukrainian physical and metaphorical topography. The contours of Ukrainian fields and urban centers have been forever altered, mirroring a shift in mental maps, habits, and ideological and social categories. In its literal and symbolic senses, the landscape is a useful unifying lens to examine the vast array of phenomena that must be revisited and reanalyzed. Just as the war has exposed our deep global interconnectivity, the many landscapes of ecology, emotions, inclusivity, solidarity, anti-colonialism, justice, and the like must be reinscribed globally. How has Russia’s ecological destruction altered Ukrainians’ understanding of climate justice in general? To what extent is the Ukrainian landscape of inclusion and diversity, which has been transformed by the war, part of a global struggle for the rights of the disabled, LGBTQ+, indigenous people, and other marginalized groups? How do the frames of decoloniality shape Ukrainians’ understanding of global decolonial struggles or their conceptualizations of justice and solidarity?
Day 1: 9.11., Agenda
Agenda
9:45 – 11:15
Visual Landscape: Memorials and Urban Spaces
Discussant: Jelena Dureinovic (RECET)
Ukraine’s Altered Monumentscape
Mischa Gabowitsch (RECET)
Mykola Homanyuk (Kherson State University)
Mosaics at War. On current state of monumental art in Ukraine and the recent methods of its preservation.
Lizaveta German (The Naked Room)
Decommunization of the Urban Space in the Times of War: Kharkiv Case
Anna Ivanova (University of Giessen)
11:45 – 13:15
Representations and Visibilities in Ukrainian Art
Discussant: Magdalena Baran-Szołtys (RECET)
Images of the Chornobyl disaster in Ukrainian art from 1986 to the present
Oksana Semenik (Radio Kultura)
Warscape, Ruins, the Macabre, & a Promise of a Brighter Future in Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Atlantis (2019)
Yuliya Ladygina (Pennsylvania State University)
Transformed Visibility of Marginalized Voices in Ukrainian Comics
Svitlana Pidoprygora (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University / Basel University
14: 15 – 15:45
Environmental Damage and Post-Humanitarian narratives
Discussant: Matthias Kaltenbrunner (RECET)
Post-humanitarian Narrative of Care: Extending the Boundaries of Alterity in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian war
Yuliia Yurchuk (Södertörn University)
The Return of the Steppe: Weaponizing Landscape During the Russian War in Ukraine
Svitlana Matviyenko (Simon Fraser University)
"30%" -- Research and Art Project on the Impact of the Russian War in Ukraine on Forest, Steppe, and Water
Daryna Pyrogova (independent researcher)
Nina Direnko (independent researcher)
Day 2: 10.11., Agenda
10:00 – 11:30
Society and Identities during War: Cohesion and Fractures
Discussant: Jannis Panagiotidis (RECET)
Destruction of National Diversity and New Waves of Migration Caused by Russia’s War against Ukraine
Olesya Yaremchuk (Ukrainian Catholic University)
Jewish Identity Amidst the War in Ukraine
Nadia Iermakov (Ariel University)
Amidst the Nexus of “Common Threat” and “Common Good”: Exploring Social Cohesion Dynamics and Risk Zones in Wartime and Post-War Ukraine
Oleksandra Deineko (Kazarin Kharkiv National University)
12:00 – 13:30
Attachment to Land and Collective Home
Discussant: Darya Tsymbalyuk (School of Advanced Studies, University of London)
Earth as a Garden
Kateryna Botanova (Culturescapes)
Find me Dream-walking in the Steppes: From Landscapes to Kin-regions
Iryna Zamuruieva (independent researcher and artist)
Territoriality in Ukraine: Unsettled Ground
Monica Eppinger (Saint Louis University)
14:30 – 16:00
Wartime Cities: Vulnerabilities, Postcoloniality, and Decentralization
Discussant: Tetiana Zhurzhenko (Center for East European and International Studies)
Reconsidering Post-Soviet Settlements: The Case of the Satellite City of Pyatikhatki in Kharkiv
Kateryna Didenko (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University)
Nadiia Antonenko (Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture)
Fragmentation vs Decentralization: Social Protection in Wartime Ukraine
Oleksandra Demianenko (Cherkasy National University)
Urbicide in Ukraine. On the Vulnerability of the Urban Fabric, the Life of Architecture, and Resistance in the face of War
Susanne Krasmann (University of Hamburg)
16:00 – 16:30
Concluding Remarks
20:00
Film Screening at Schikaneder
This conference is held in cooperation with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM).
