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![]() ![]() Svitlana Biedarieva is an art historian, artist, and curator with an interest in Ukrainian, Eastern European, and Latin American art. Svitlana Biedarieva – Non-Resident Fellow, 2022 – 2023ĭr. This was possible because of their professional autonomy, even during Stalinism when access to abortion was severely restricted.ĭr. Despite concerns about the harm caused by the procedure, many doctors saw their patients as political subjects who had the right to decide their own maternity. Looking at early Soviet public debates and at how abortions were performed in this postwar provincial hospital, Ruban argues that abortion was not only a social and demographic issue, therefore, challenging the view of the Soviet Union as pronatalist from the beginning until the end. In her study, Ruban explores the role of doctors in the Soviet-proclaimed emancipation of women through a microhistory of a hospital in Transcarpathia (Western Ukraine) in the 1950s–1960s. Yet how were they to combine being workers and mothers, and what level of control could they have over their bodies? These questions were fiercely disputed, and no single answer was ever agreed on. Once women in the USSR were to join the workforce and become equal to men in social and economic terms, their decision to reproduce was supposed to be responsible and rational. Kateryna Ruban: Women’s Emancipation in Doctors’ Hands: A New Short History of Abortion in the USSR Sergii Pakhomenko on Historical Narratives in Russian Propaganda – The Ukrainian Case (email for the link to attend)ĭr. The study is based on an original survey of 241 local authorities, interviews and focus groups with public officials at the local and regional levels, and is co-authored with Oksana Huss (Bologna University). New thinking about national security should include network-based instead of hierarchy-based approaches and partnership-oriented instead of client-service-oriented philosophy in citizen-state relations. Instead, they highlight the importance of a collaborative approach to managing complex crises. The findings challenge conventional security thinking confined to military terms. ![]() This study illuminates how local authorities ensure the effectiveness and legitimacy of their emergency responses using elements of collaborative governance. Local authorities in particular continue to provide public services and respond to crises arising from massive internal displacement and Russian attacks on critical civilian infrastructure and housing. Ukraine has demonstrated strong resilience in the face of the full-scale Russian invasion since February 24, 2022. Oleksandra Keudel: What Makes Ukraine Resilient in the Asymmetric War? A Study of Local Governments’ Emergency Responses Biedarieva will address institutional transformation as the key to decolonization, and analyze how Ukrainian art organizations are working to dismantle historically entangled narratives and contribute to the establishment of a new epistemological basis.ĭr. After eight years of partial occupation of Ukrainian territories by Russia and tense hybrid war, the outbreak of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia on February 24th, 2022 further fueled decolonization processes. She will discuss the war’s impact on culture, which triggered decolonization processes in Ukraine at all institutional levels, from private grassroots initiatives to non-profits and state-funded public institutions. Svitlana Biedarieva will explore how the Russian war against Ukraine has affected institutional development in the Ukrainian cultural sector, with particular attention to changes in art organizations. This is a hybrid event- we encourage you to join us in-person at the Elliott School for International Affairs, but you can also join online through this Zoom link. Voesar Conference Room (Elliott School of International Affairs, Suite 412) Decolonizing Ukrainian Culture: The Role of Art Institutions in Wartime
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