Programme
9:30-10:00 - Coffee (Hilda Besse building lobby)
10:00-12:00
Introduction to the workshop: Pany Xenophontos and Polly Jones (Oxford)
Prisons in Ukraine and Syria
A conversation between writer Stanislav Aseyev and Ammar Azzouz (Oxford).
Moderator: Pany Xenophontos
12:00-13:00 – Lunch
13:00-15:00
Ukrainian Gulag history and literature
Oksana Kis (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), ‘Creativity as Resistance in Ukrainian Women’s Experiences of Imprisonment in the Gulag’
Bohdan Tokarskyi (Harvard): paper title TBC
Moderator: Polly Jones
15:00-15:30 - Coffee
15:30-17:30
Imprisonment and Testimony
Panel discussion with film-maker Roman Bondarchuk and journalist and activist Maksym Butkevych. This session will also include a screening of one of Roman’s short films, Lost Paradise. Viktor Maruniak.
Moderator: Pany Xenophontos
The workshop is open to all members of the university, and the general public.
Attendance is free, but places for in-person and online attendance must be reserved in advance via this form.
Any questions, please email: oxford_ukraine_hub@area.ox.ac.uk
