Presentations
2025
- "'Why Deny What Really Happened?': Contesting the Soviet Past in Ukraine’s Urban Space". 20-23.11.2025, Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Washington, D.C.
- "Can Academia Speak about Ukraine? Bridging The War, Scholarly Knowledge Production, and Ukrainian Studies". 16-18.10.2025, Conference
"Academic Freedom in Flux: Purpose, Beneficiaries, and Practices in the Contemporary World", Tashkent. - "A Matter of National Security": War, Memory Politics and the Urban Space of Ukraine". 26-27.06.2025 Conference "Dynamics of Conflict and Peacebuilding in Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary and Cross-Regional Perspective", University of Bern.
- 'Wartime Memory Politics and the City: Competing Approaches in the Production of Space in Kharkiv, Ukraine'. 31.01.2025, Conference "Re-Thinking Post-Socialist War(s): Comparative Dimensions of the War in Ukraine (2014-2024)", Justus Liebig University Giessen.
2024
- 'Destruction and Production of (Urban) Space in Wartime Kharkiv: Discourses, Practices, Objects'. 24.10.2024, Workshop "Kharkiv under Fire: Local History in Times of War", FernUniversität in Hagen (Berlin).
- Co-Presenter (with Gundula Pohl and Domenico Scagliusi), Memories of an Uneasy Past. 8.10.2024, DGO Congress of Central and Eastern European Studies (ceecon 2024), Freie Universität Berlin.
- 'Urban Space Transformation as an Instrument for Social (Dis)Integration'. 29.08.2024, 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association "Tension, Trust and Transformation", Porto.
- 'Competing Discourses on Decolonization of the Urban Space on the Russian-Ukrainian Borderland: Examining the Case of Kharkiv, 2022-2023'. 10.07.2024, CADAAD 2024: Borders and Boundaries in/across Discourses, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.
- 'Russain and Soviet Monuments and Memorials in War-Time Ukraine: The Case of Kharkiv 2024'. 17.06.2024, Workshop "Contested Monuments", University of Bonn.
2023
- 'Decommunization, Decolonization and Derussification in the Urban Space of Wartime Ukraine'. 14.12.2023, Workshop “A Space for ‘Place’ in Social Sciences”, Sciences Po, Paris.
- 'Decommunization in the Urban Space of Ukraine: in the Times of War: Kharkiv Case'. 9.11.2023, Ukraine's Altered Landscapes: Losing and Recovering Alterity in the Face of War, Institute for Human Sciences, Wien.
- “Doing Critical Social Science Research under the Conditions of War: Levels of Unfreedom”. 21.01.2023, Workshop “Unfree Spaces in the Modern World: Resistant Responses – Empowering Acts”, University of Regensburg.