The level and scope of trauma in Ukrainian society have reached a tremendous scale. We will talk about approaches to working with trauma and its communication in humanities and artistic practices, and look at the museum exhibition as a space of possibilities. The conversation will focus on how to use international experience while adjusting the postcolonial optics, how to avoid re-traumatisation when working with memories. And most importantly, what is the significance of trauma processing for the future?
Speaker: Iuliia Skubytska, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), historian.
Iuliia Skubytska is an Associate Research Fellow at Princeton University, where she teaches a course Trauma and Oral History: Giving Voice to the Unspeakable. Before the full-scale invasion, Iuliia headed the Ukrainian office of the War Childhood Museum. In 2018, she defended her dissertation in history at the University of Pennsylvania.
Moderator: Oleksandra Nabieva, cultural researcher, and curator of the interdisciplinary art programme DOCU/SYNTHESIS.
