On 18 March 2014, Russia formally annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea. Russia’s first annexation has wrought unprecedented and brutal repressions in Crimea and a sharp decline in human rights, where Crimean Tatars, in particular, but also ethnic Ukrainians, Ukrainian speakers, and political dissidents, have faced arrest, censorship, torture, kidnapping, extra-legal prosecutions, and murder. Russia did anything but stop at Crimea: in 2014, Russia brought conflict to Ukraine’s regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. And in 2022, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of and war against Ukraine, committing horrific war crimes against civilians and annexing four further Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. This public online event is organised to commemorate and discuss the events surrounding the 10-year anniversary of Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine and the events that have followed. It is the second of a two part reflection on the anniversary of the Russian invasion. Speakers will discuss the impact of the Russian invasion, its cultural and political effects in the context of Ukraine's on-going fight for survival as a nation and people. The first part of this event took place on the 18th March 2024.
Meet the speakers and chair
Kseniia Smyrnova is Vice-Rector for Education (International Cooperation) at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where she has pursued her academic career as a member of the Department of Comparative and European Law, Institute of International Relations since 2006. She was awarded the academic rank of professor in 2017. She has participated in research and academic programs in the EU (Germany, France, Poland) and the US and has been a visiting lecturer in various settings including the EU, UK, Turkey, China (Hong Kong) and other countries. She is currently the head of the EU Law section at the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence and has authored around 200 academic publications.
Oleksandr Gladun is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography for Science. He has a doctorate in Economics and has the position of Senior Researcher and Head of the Department for Demographic Modeling and Forecasting. He carried out and headed studies in demographic statistics, the Ukrainian nationwide population census of 2001, sample surveys of the population, labour statistics, the living conditions of households, and multivariant modelling. He participated in realising international projects on socio-demographic and statistical issues. He is a member of the International Association of Survey Statisticians, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, and the International Statistical Institute.
Taras Shevchenko is the Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine for European Integration. He previously held the position of Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine (2020 - 2022). Before going into politics he was the founder and director of the Public Organization Center for Democracy and the Rule of Law (2005 - 2020), where he participated in drafting of most media laws of Ukraine, trained journalists and lawyers on legal issues in the field of media. He holds masters degrees in law and economics from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Dina Gusejnova is Associate Professor in International History at LSE. Her research interests include modern European political, intellectual and cultural history of transitional periods, especially the revolutions of 1918-20 and the two World Wars. She is the author of European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 (Cambridge University Press, 2016, pbk 2018) and an editor of the volume Cosmopolitanism in Conflict: Imperial Encounters from the Seven Years' War to the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is currently working on a cultural and intellectual history of forced displacement and internment in the Second World War.
Ukraine in global context is an online event series run by PeaceRep’s Ukraine programme
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This event is organised as part of our work for the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), an international research project on peace and transition processes in the 21st century led by the University of Edinburgh Law School and funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
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