Erasmus Mundus MA student in History in the Public Sphere at Central European University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and NOVA University Lisbon. She earned her BA in Cultural Studies (Honors) from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2023. She works with the IWalk educational program, leading historical tours and workshops on collective memory and human rights. She is interested in memory politics and urban history in East Central Europe, Holocaust memory, and testimony-based teaching.
Stories
Legislating Memory: On Memory Governance and Decision-Making Amidst the War
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war highlighted the continuing struggles in fostering democracies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Given the significance of transitional justice, identity politics, and historical memory within these processes, memory…
If Socially Relevant Research Does not Become Public Knowledge, What is it For?
With the full-scale war, the roles within the public sphere change, and academia is no exception. We have talked with Oleksand Ivashyna about the decolonization and marketing of Ukrainian academia, researchers’ responsibility, and transformation of the role of intellectuals. Kateryna…
Collecting, Sharing, Letting Be
Speaking about traumatic memory generally presupposes speaking about narrative creation. Articulation and re-telling are often perceived as weaving the canvases back after rupture, as filling the empty spaces left by the trauma. But are these the only effective ways to…