At the centre of global attention, what can Ukraine offer the global humanities?

Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture with Metropolitan Borys Gudziak

Reception for Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture

What comes after four years of decolonization work? What is the Ukrainian contribution to evolving patterns of knowledge production in the humanities?

With Marci Shore, Vitaly Chernetsky, Volodymyr Yermolenko, and Taras Koznarsky (lead)

What global power does Ukraine hold at this moment, if any, and what might the political future of that power be?

With Dominique Arel, Oxana Shevel, Lila Roldan Vazquez, Bohdan Krawchenko and David Marples (Lead)

Religions of Ukraine have united and divided its peoples at critical moments. What is the future of interfaith dialogue, and what role will faith play after the war?

With Heather Coleman, Borys Gudziak, Olenka Pevny, Elmira Muratova, and Frank Sysyn (Lead)

With many conflicts unfolding worldwide, what dialogues emerge between global discourses on justice and those in Ukraine? What is Ukraine's role in rethinking what justice means?

With Oleksandra Matviichuk, Refat Chubarov, Kristina Hook, and Temitope Oriola (Lead)

History is often manipulated through distorted discourse and storytelling. How can these patterns be broken, and what can the case of Ukraine offer scholarship on propaganda and disinformation?

With Andrew Wilson, Andriy Kohut, Gelinada Grinchenko, and Oleksandr Pankieiev (Lead)

Ukraine is experiencing an unprecedented moment of displacement that is reshaping its global diaspora. How will this affect diaspora institutions, and Ukraine's social, political, and cultural future?

With Vic Satzewich, Alla Nedashkivska, Olenka Bilash, Serhii Kvit, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (Lead)

Ukraine is experiencing an unprecedented moment of displacement that is reshaping its global diaspora. How will this affect diaspora institutions, and Ukraine's social, political, and cultural future?

With Vic Satzewich, Alla Nedashkivska, Olenka Bilash, Serhii Kvit, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (Lead)

When the fighting stops, Ukraine will decide what it teaches, what it puts in its museums, and what it does with the archive this war is producing. Those decisions are being taken now, mostly without historians in the room. What can the discipline actually contribute, and what is it not equipped to do?

With Serhiy Bilenky, Andrii Zayarnyuk, Oksana Dudko, and Larysa Bilous (lead)

Rotating presentations from eight emerging scholars.

How can Ukrainian studies build a dialogue with global Indigenous studies? Can indigeneity serve as a central analytical lens for understanding Ukraine, its Indigenous peoples, and its past and future?

How can Ukrainian studies build a dialogue with global Indigenous studies? Can indigeneity serve as a central analytical lens for understanding Ukraine, its Indigenous peoples, and its past and future?