Digital Seminar - Touching the War through Cinema and Theatre: Depictions of the Russo-Ukrainian War

10 October 2024

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Since May 2022, the seminar series “Historians and the War: Rethinking the Future” has been engaging the world’s premiere experts in the fields of history and political sciences about their thoughts on how history is changing – in front of our eyes – in light of the Russian war against sovereign Ukraine.

The next online seminar of the series, titled: "Touching the War through Cinema and Theatre: Depictions of the Russo-Ukrainian War," will take place on 16 October, 2024, 6:00-8:30 p.m. CET (UTC +1) or 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MDT (UTC -6).

The seminar will explore a number of questions, including:

  • How is the Russo-Ukrainian War represented in cinema and theatre?
  • What formal and narrative techniques are used to convey the experience of war, trauma, and displacement?
  • How do artistic depictions contribute to shaping collective memory and national identity?
  • In what ways can they function as forms of resistance, offering alternative perspectives on the war and countering official state narratives or propaganda?
  • How can historians and cultural scholars approach the study of war through these artistic lenses?

The speakers will be:

The presentations will be held in Ukrainian and English with simultaneous translation. A Q&A will follow.

A recording of the seminar will appear on the Youtube channel of the German-Ukrainian Historians’ Commission.

You can view a listing of past seminars on the CIUS website, on the Historians and the War Project page.

The seminar series is a joint initiative by the German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, the Ukraine-based scholarly journal "Ukraina Moderna", and the Department of Eastern European History at Munich University.

Register via Zoom