The memory of Ukraine’s struggle for independence is being shaped right now — and the way we work with it will determine not only how history is preserved, but also our identity and who we will be in the future.
How do memory policies influence societies and the narratives within which they live? Why can the same events either serve as safeguards or generate new conflicts, and how does the perception of trauma change over time? Which lessons of the past are still unlearned, and what should we take from them for ourselves?
In the RIGHTS NOW! lecture programme, Anton Drobovych — public figure, veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, former head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and now Director of the Centre for Human Rights and War Memorialisation at the Kyiv School of Economics — will reflect on cultures of memory in different countries, the processing of traumatic experience and the search for our own language of remembrance.
