Workshop 5: Ukrainian prison literature, history and activism

This workshop explored Ukrainian prison literature, history and activism and included important personal testimonies.

Please find recordings of the talks below.

Stanislav Aseyev (Writer), Prisons in Ukraine and Syria

Dr Ammar Azzouz (Oxford), Prisons in Ukraine and Syria

Dr Bohdan Tokarskyi (Harvard), Barbed Freedom: Ukrainian Poetry in the post-Stalin Gulag

Maksym Butkevych (Journalist and Activist), Imprisonment and Testimony

Dr Oksana Kis (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Roman Bondarchuk (Film-Maker)

This workshop also included a screening of one of Roman's short films, The Lost Paradise. 

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