The USAANZ-RIPSS Book Presentation Webinars, “Thinking and Writing about Ukraine in a Turbulent World”
The USAANZ-RIPSS Book Presentation Webinars, “Thinking and Writing about Ukraine in a Turbulent World,” will bring together authors, scholars, and Ukrainian and wider communities to discuss new books and approaches in writing history and understanding Ukraine’s and global present of Ukraine. The series will be held online as monthly webinars, scheduled for the third week of each month from April to October 2026, and will be opened by H. E. Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia and New Zealand.
16 April, 9:00 am – Plokhy, Serhii. David and Goliath: Commentaries on the Russo-Ukrainian War. Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2025. Moderated by Mark Edele.
Register via the link:
https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/86275680195?pwd=SkrcCf7sTA2mPwJXkbvXN6ll3KYwQb.1
[Webinar: 862 7568 0195 Passcode: 141932]
20 May, 19:00 pm – Herkules, Olia. Strong Roots. A Ukrainian Family Story, Interrupted. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. Moderated and organised by Olga Maxwell.
24 September, 9:00am – Tsymbalyuk, Darya. Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War. Polity Press, 2025. Moderated and organised by Iryna Skubii.
16 October, 19:00 pm – Ulrich Schmid, Alessandro Achilli, and other authors. Roundtable. Ulrich Schmid, ed., Ukrainische Literaturgeschichte [Ukrainian Literature History] (J.B. Metzler, 2025). Moderated and organised Marko Pavlyshyn.
More details:
Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand: https://www.ukrainianstudies.asn.au/
Research Initiative on Post-Soviet Space, University of Melbourne: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-historical-and-philosophical-studies/our-research/research-centres-hubs-and-groups/ripss
Contact person and email:
Iryna Skubii, iryna.skubii@unimelb.edu.au
