Wednesday, April 13, 2022 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Zoom Webinar
Invited experts in media and film studies and the social effects of war Yuliya Ladygina and Natalia Savelyeva will speak on the individual, social, and cultural effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Topics they will address include representations of the war in media and film, Ukrainian resistance, events in eastern Ukraine leading to the present war, Russia’s global disinformation campaigns, war crimes, protest in Russia, and Russia’s increasing isolation.
FEATURING:
Yuliya V. Ladygina is Helena Rubinstein University Endowed Fellow in the Humanities and Assistant Professor of Russian and Global Studies at Penn State University. She specializes in Russian and Ukrainian film and literature, (mis)representing war, terror, and terrorism, cinematic depictions of the ongoing war in Ukraine, and state-sponsored informational warfare.
Natalia Savelyeva is a Resident Fellow at the Future Russia Initiative with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, DC. She is a sociologist who researches Russia’s war in Ukraine, focusing on the perspectives of direct participants in the fighting in Donbas and eastern Ukraine. She also studies protest movements in Russia and Ukraine.
This event will be moderated by Matthew Mangold, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, George Mason University
