Sunday, June 5, 2022
2:00 PM ET (Online)
FREE Virtual Event / БЕЗКОШТОВНО
This presentation is offered in English.
You are invited to attend the presentation War in Ukraine — An Anthropological Perspective. The presenters will offer first-hand, insider reflections on Russia’s war in Ukraine through an anthropological lens.
Moderated by Anastasia Baczynskyj
Dr. Tina Polek and Dr. Julia Buyskykh are Ukrainian anthropologists who remain in the area during this horrific time.
Dr. Polek will reflect on the meaning of online communication in today’s Ukraine, addressing personal correspondence and social media during the current war. She will also concentrate on the sense of belonging in war in different regions of Ukraine (Western, Central Ukraine and Kyiv).
Dr. Buyskykh has moved several times since February 24. She began in her native city of Kyiv, moved to Khmelnytskyi in Western Ukraine, and finally ended up in Warsaw, Poland. Sharing her own experience with volunteer engagement, interactions with other temporarily displaced people, and observations, she will speak about what is "home" for people in transition. It is important to pay attention to small but important things (both material and non-material) that shape the vision and gives the feeling of home for an individual in his or her everyday life during the war. This opens a wider discussion about a sense of belonging for an individual, and for a community, the processes of identities' changes and construction.
Anastasia Baczynskyj
Anastasia Baczynskyj holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Toronto with a speciality in Immigration, Pluralism and Ethnicity Studies. Her specialties include the topics of community building, identity formation and the transfer of heritage. Considered a community history expert, she is often called to write articles and speak publicly on the topic of the Ukrainian Diaspora. As an original member of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra, she is also a respected performance artist. Anastasia engages frequently in projects focusing on the preservation of heritage and culture, most recently becoming Chair of the UNF Toronto Rare Book Collection (2020) and the Honorary President of the Salon du Livre de Toronto (2022).
Dr. Tina Polek
Dr. Tina Polek is a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists and a co-founder of the NGO “Centre for Applied Anthropology.” For the last four years, she worked as an applied anthropologist in non-commercial projects and as business anthropologist for Ukrainian companies.
Dr. Julia Buyskykh
Dr. Julia Buyskykh is a historian and socio-cultural anthropologist affiliated with the Institute of History of Ukraine and the Kyiv-based Centre for Applied Anthropology. She did her post-doc at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Warsaw (2015-2016). She spent the academic year of 2019-2020 at Pennsylvania State University as a Fulbright scholar. Her research interests include lived religion (Eastern Christianity) in post-socialist Europe, inter-confessional relationships, memory and border studies, Polish-Ukrainian shared history, empathy and ethics of qualitative research.
While participation is free, donations are appreciated.
We are dedicating our cultural programming to those affected by the war in Ukraine. Please support our workshops by participating and sharing the information widely. All donations will be directed to the CUF-UCC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal – Ukraine needs our support.
St. Vladimir Institute gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Shevchenko Foundation, Temerty Foundation Community Development Fund, the SUS Foundation of Canada, and Delta Bingo & Gaming.
Інститут св. Володимира висловлює подяку Фонд громадського розвитку Фундації родини Темертей при Фундації ім. Т. Шевченка, Фундації СУС в Канаді i Delta Bingo & Gaming за фінансову підтримку культурних програм.
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