Historical Moments and Movements in Ukrainian Art and Film: From Medieval to Contemporary

This two-part public forum explores the historical development of Ukraine's culture manifested in art and film. Russia’s invasion in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has upended the international law, challenged the rights of existence of a sovereign state, and brought a humanitarian crisis. Our goal in this public forum is to offer the documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa and scholars of Ukrainian art to present their work and voice their position against Russia’s war.

Session 2: "Ukrainian Art: From Medieval to Contemporary"

Three art historians lead a discussion on the art of Ukraine from the medieval to contemporary period:

Olenka Pevny, Cambridge University: The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Kyv and the Making of Ukraine

Bohdan Tokarsky, University of Potsdam: The Unexecuted Renaissance: Modernist Culture from Ukraine

Alisa Lozhkina, PhD candidate in History at Central European University: "Artist as a Revolutionary Agent. Visual Practices and Radical Sociohistorical Transformations in Ukraine: 1991-2022"

Respondents:

Daria Chrystyna Storoshchuk, PhD Candidate, Stanford University

Liliya Dashevski, PhD Candidate, Yale University

This webinar is in collaboration between Yale University and Stanford University

Yale University, Department of the History of Art and Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies REEES

Stanford University,  Department of Art & Art History and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies CREEES