Great to join Freefilmers' Sashko Protyah Oberlin College this week to talk neoliberal origins of self-organisation in Ukraine, activist mania and burnout, and the problematics of resilience. Thanks to Anna Lordan for convening! As always watch and donate: help-freefilmers.network

From abstract: experiences collaborating on the project “Un/archiving Post/industry,” a heritage preservation & public engagement initiative resulted in digitization & promotion of vulnerable industrial heritage collections from Ukraine’s East in 2019-2024. Book to join online!

Delighted to be delivering the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy together with Center for Urban History's Iryna Sklokina in association with the DECOPE project University of Stirling next week:

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Join our last Byre World event on 'Energised Ukraine: Art in Precarious Times' tomorrow at 6:30 PM at Byre Theatre. This event will be hosted by Viktoriia_Grivina from Modern Languages at St Andrews. Guest speaker Igor Chekachkov will also share his path as a photographer in Ukraine with us!

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Wed 3 Apr 6:30pm at Byre Theatre, join our next Byre World event, 'Energised Ukraine: Art in Precarious Times', hosted by Viktoriia_Grivina. The guest speaker is Igor Chekachkov who will speak about his path as a photographer in Ukraine. More here: ow.ly/hTZ950R5zvZ

Easter is about renewal, rebirth, and re-energization. Wishing Ukraine all these things as it continues its struggle against Russian colonial violence in 2024.

Ukraine Week in St Andrews! 2024 marks 10 years since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Join us for a programme of cultural events on Ukraine’s cultural&environmental heritage, supported by the Centre for Global (Post-)socialisms and the Centre for Art and Politics.

The decimation of Anthropology at UK universities (Kent 😭; us at Goldsmiths facing becoming unviable due to rendundancies) is incredibly short-sighted.

A short 🧵 giving 8 reasons why the world needs anthropology and anthropologists, now more than ever 1/9:

Can't wait to visit Nicky Bird's show Before and After Coal National Gallery. Have been a huge fan of Nicky's work ever since I discovered her amazing projects with the West Lothian oil shale bings: nickybird.com/projects/herit… This exhibition will also be brilliant, I'm sure.

russia hit ukraine's largest dam last night in a mass attack on the country’s infrastructure. in 1941 the soviet union blew up the same dam, killing *at least* 20,000 and causing untold environmental damage.

Delighted to be joining this important workshop to talk about how Black activist archiving can help shape thinking about work with vulnerable heritage in today's Ukraine. Thanks you Aro Velmet for the invitation and looking forward to this timely dialogue!

Don't miss the last in this important series 'Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited' with brilliant speakers and Modern Languages at St Andrews PhD moderators Viktoriia Grivina (@brams884) and Kateryna Volochniuk!

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Deeply saddened to read this. I visited Myrnohrad in July 2021, and climbed my first terikon (coal slag heap) with a local activist, Serhii, who talked about what the local community was doing to change things and diversify cultural life in this monotown. Now this horror.

Can't wait to read this article which emerges from Kate Cowcher's beautifully conceived & implemented public outreach and impact project with African modernist collections based in Argyll and Bute. This is what the civic and engaged humanities look like:

i have a limited ability to change epistemic infrastructures, but what i always felt even i can do is to build more actively on & recover knowledge from our region. i hope this roundtable will open a conversation that will be carried on through all days of The RUTA Association

Great postdoc 2-yr opportunity for the right candidate. And an amazing project and PI that anyone would be lucky to get a chance on/with!

For #IWD2024 , another 🧵, this time of some of my Ukrainian women translator heroes. First: Halyna Hryn, translator of Oksana Zabuzhko's Field Work in Ukrainian Sex, a landmark in Ukrainian postcolonial/feminist writing and a tough stylistic challenge! amazon.co.uk/Fieldwork-Ukra…

Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.

Happy International Women's Day, international women!

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Here's to strong women.

May we know them.

May we be them.

May we raise them.

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