You must register by 4pm on November 19, 2024 to attend this event.
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for an author talk by Jessica Zychowicz. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.
This talk draws upon two decades of firsthand historiographic and ethnographic engagement by Zychowicz, an American scholar, and her extensive time spent in Ukraine with Ukrainian peers also writing about and participating in global movements for democracy and gender equality since 2005, throughout Ukraine’s two revolutions, the onset of the war in 2014, and ongoing large-scale invasion since 2022. The central book featured explores the role of intellectuals and creative communities in conceptualizing notions of belonging, social progress, dissent, and international engagement of institutions, peoples, and places linked to post-revolutionary Kyiv. Gender and women’s demonstrations feature significantly in the history of protest across all of Europe and North America since 2000 to the present. Ongoing attacks on Ukraine that have upended the rules-based order across the transatlantic have further entrenched divides between populations mapping other issues onto movements for gender equality, while women’s marches have worldwide come to signify broader opposition movements. What, if any, roles do intellectuals and artists have in shaping the languages and possibilities for civil dissent and dialogue amid a violent war? Are international responses to gender inequalities, including complex and nuanced lines of solidarities in wartime still possible as emancipatory and/or liberating from cycles of violence and occupation?
Dr. Jessica Zychowicz is currently serving as the Director of Fulbright Ukraine & Institute of International Education Kyiv Office, one of seven international offices on five continents with headquarters in NYC and DC. She is also an Associate Advisor to the Human Rights in Eurasia graduate program at the University of Arizona. Her areas of research include women’s rights and gender equality, peace and conflict, visual culture, education and culture in Eastern Europe with specialized expertise on Ukraine. Current projects include a new monograph, edited volume, collaborative research, teaching and practice in these areas. She holds a Ph.D. From the University of Michigan and BA from UC Berkeley.
