Webinar: Experiences of Time after Displacement

Wars inevitably produce displacement and dispossession. Such experiences also rupture understandings of the past, everyday routines, and visions of the future. The speakers on this panel will explore how the uncertain present serves as a precarious moment from which past displacements during World War II and experiences following the russian invasion affect visions of the future for individual Ukrainians and for Ukraine collectively.

Julia Buyskykh (Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University)

Natalia Otrishchenko (Center of Urban History in Lviv)

Iryna Koval-Fuchylo (Maksym Rylsky Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv)

Moderator: Catherine Wanner (Penn State University)

Julia Buyskykh is an anthropologist with a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in History and Ethnology from the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw in 2015-2016 and was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Pennsylvania State University (2019-2020). She held a Sanctuary Fellowship at University College Cork, Ireland, from September 2022 to February 2023. Her research focuses on lived religion (Orthodoxy and Catholicism) in Ukraine and Poland, inter-confessional relationships, pilgrimages, memory studies, borderlands, and ethics and empathy in ethnographic research. She is currently writing her second Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology at the Study of Religions Department at University College Cork, Ireland, and is a visiting scholar at the German Historical Institute, Warsaw and the Institute of History, the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her book To the West of the Bug: Diaries from the Borderlands (in Ukrainian) was shortlisted for the Yuri Shevelyov Award (2024) from PEN Ukraine for the Best Collected Work of Non-Fiction Essays.

Natalia Otrishchenko is a sociologist and a research fellow at the Center for Urban History in Lviv. From 2019 to 2022, she was an associate researcher at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, and during the 2022–2023 academic year, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University. Since March 2022, she has led the Ukrainian team of the “24/02/22, 5 am” documentation initiative. Her research interests include qualitative methods, oral history, memory studies, urban sociology, and sociology of expertise. She holds a PhD in sociological methodology from the Institute of Sociology, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Iryna Koval-Fuchylo earned a doctorate in philology from the Ivan Franko University of Lviv with a dissertation titled “Ukrainian Lamentations: Genesis and Poetics.” Since 2002, she has been at the Maksym Rylsky Institute of Art History, Folklore, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. She is the author of more than 260 publications, including three books and three co-authored books, that have been published in 11 countries. Her research focuses on the autobiographical narratives of the Ukrainian diaspora, the oral histories of refugees from the Russo-Ukrainian war, as well as traditional Slavic culture, including rituals, songs, and the history of Ukrainian folklore. In 2022-2023, she was affiliated with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Centre for Ethnology and Contemporary Anthropology in Warsaw, the Institute of Cultural Research at the University of Tartu, the Department of Slavic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, and the Archive Department of the Finnish Literary Society in Helsinki.

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