Yuliya Yurchuk

@yuliyayurchuk.bsky.social

Historian. Intellectual history, memory, heritage, Ukraine.

Please apply to the conference we are organising together with @oksanadudko.bsky.social at the University of Manitoba April 30-May 3. Deadline for applications is 10 March.

Oksana Dudko@oksanadudko.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@yuliyayurchuk.bsky.social and I are organizing the Prairie Conference in Ukrainian Studies. Please consider applying and share widely. Date: April 30–May 3, 2026 Deadline: March 10, 2026 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Details: networks.h-net.org/system/files...

As the discussions on the monuments in Ukraine were re-actualised because of the recent article in The Economist , I want to share my article from 2017, where I compare the movement against the Confederate monuments in the US and the situation in Ukraine balticworlds.com/monuments-as...

Monuments as reminders and triggers « balticworlds.com

A scholarly journal from the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) Södertörn University, Stockholm.

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Yesterday I had my lecture on upon getting the title of Associate professor. I spoke about the changes of #memory in #Urkraine since 2022. I framed my talk as the reflection from a scholar whose object of study (cultural memory and national identity) is a target for extermination.

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The section on the Decolonisation of memory in the former Soviet spaces is out. It finalizes the conference we had at Södertörn University in summer 2023. It features my introduction, and three texts of Madina Tlostanova, Kateryna Botanova, Anastasiia Bozhenko and Olesya Chagovets lnkd.in/dR56uejq

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Viele russische Raketen unterschiedlicher Typen fliegen an diesem Morgen wieder auf ukrainische Städte. Bei Minusgraden im ganzen Land dürfte das Ziel wieder die Zerstörung der Energieinfrastruktur sein. Menschen sollen im Dunkeln sitzen, frieren und demoralisiert werden.

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Academic colleagues, please consider signing this. The growing repression of academic freedom is part of the wider authoritarian moves by the election-stealing, Putin-backed government of Georgia. Our Georgian colleagues and their students need our solidarity. ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

Open Letter in Solidarity with Georgian Academics and Students - Ruta

We, the undersigned academics, stand in solidarity with the professors, researchers, and students of Georgia in their ongoing fight for democracy, justice,

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