Research Interests:
Modern European history with the focus on Central and Eastern Europe
Memory Studies, cultural history, perpetrators of mass atrocities and cultural memory of them and their actions
Recent Conferences & Presentations:
Date Contribution / title of presentation Place
21 November 2013 presentation on Remembering the Holodomor Ukrainian Institute in London, UK
November 2013 interview to Radio Svoboda on how the knowledge Radio Svoboda, London, UK
about the Famine could be shared outside Ukraine
19 February 2014 presentation Forgotten Soldiers of the Grain Front. Graduate Workshop at Faculty of History
Testimony of the Rank and File of the 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine University of Cambridge, UK
14th March 2014 presentation Forgotten Soldiers of the Grain Front. 6th Bi-annual Graduate Student Symposium
Cultural Memory of the Holodomor's Perpetrators 'Ukraine: Lessons of the Past and Outlook to the Future'
CERES, Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto, Canada
9 April 2014 presentation (in Russian) Забытые солдаты хлебного фронта: International Conference of Young Historians
Культурная память о Голодоморе и его рядовых исполнителях Clio-2014, RGASPI, Moscow, Russia
Published abstract on pages 273-4 of the conference book
1 May 2014 presentation on my research at Graduate Research Forum Slavonic Studies Department, Cambridge, UK
7 June 2014 presentation at Holodomor Workshop Holodomor Research and Education Consortium
for Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars Toronto, Canada
10 June 2014 presentation on Postmemory of Holodomor Conference 'New Research on Memory in Eastern Europe (Ukraine and Belarus)'
Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
23 August 2014 presentation on Postmemory of Holodomor 'Media of Memory' Mnemonics Summer School
'Ordinary People' in Cultural Memory University of Stockholm, Sweden
6 February 2015 presentation on the perpetrators in the narrative Approaches to Narrative in the Russian and East in the narrative of the Holodomor in the Russian and East European Context
TORCH, University of Oxford
28 March 2015 ‘Ordinary People, True Believers or Outcasts? British Association of Slavonic and Eastern
Popular Participation in State Violence in Ukraine in 1932-1933’ European Studies, Cambridge, UK
for panel information see page 70
24 April 2015 to be updated Association for Studies of Nationalities 2015 Convention, Harriman School of International Affairs
Columbia University, New York, USA
9 May 2015 presentation ‘Thugs, Heroes or Ordinary People? 2015 Annual Conference of the Irish Association
Cultural Memory of the Rank-and-file Perpetrators for Russian, Central and East European Studies Studies
of the Holodomor' ‘Memories and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe’
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Modern European history with the focus on Central and Eastern Europe
Memory Studies, cultural history, perpetrators of mass atrocities and cultural memory of them and their actions
Recent Conferences & Presentations:
Date Contribution / title of presentation Place
21 November 2013 presentation on Remembering the Holodomor Ukrainian Institute in London, UK
November 2013 interview to Radio Svoboda on how the knowledge Radio Svoboda, London, UK
about the Famine could be shared outside Ukraine
19 February 2014 presentation Forgotten Soldiers of the Grain Front. Graduate Workshop at Faculty of History
Testimony of the Rank and File of the 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine University of Cambridge, UK
14th March 2014 presentation Forgotten Soldiers of the Grain Front. 6th Bi-annual Graduate Student Symposium
Cultural Memory of the Holodomor's Perpetrators 'Ukraine: Lessons of the Past and Outlook to the Future'
CERES, Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto, Canada
9 April 2014 presentation (in Russian) Забытые солдаты хлебного фронта: International Conference of Young Historians
Культурная память о Голодоморе и его рядовых исполнителях Clio-2014, RGASPI, Moscow, Russia
Published abstract on pages 273-4 of the conference book
1 May 2014 presentation on my research at Graduate Research Forum Slavonic Studies Department, Cambridge, UK
7 June 2014 presentation at Holodomor Workshop Holodomor Research and Education Consortium
for Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars Toronto, Canada
10 June 2014 presentation on Postmemory of Holodomor Conference 'New Research on Memory in Eastern Europe (Ukraine and Belarus)'
Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
23 August 2014 presentation on Postmemory of Holodomor 'Media of Memory' Mnemonics Summer School
'Ordinary People' in Cultural Memory University of Stockholm, Sweden
6 February 2015 presentation on the perpetrators in the narrative Approaches to Narrative in the Russian and East in the narrative of the Holodomor in the Russian and East European Context
TORCH, University of Oxford
28 March 2015 ‘Ordinary People, True Believers or Outcasts? British Association of Slavonic and Eastern
Popular Participation in State Violence in Ukraine in 1932-1933’ European Studies, Cambridge, UK
for panel information see page 70
24 April 2015 to be updated Association for Studies of Nationalities 2015 Convention, Harriman School of International Affairs
Columbia University, New York, USA
9 May 2015 presentation ‘Thugs, Heroes or Ordinary People? 2015 Annual Conference of the Irish Association
Cultural Memory of the Rank-and-file Perpetrators for Russian, Central and East European Studies Studies
of the Holodomor' ‘Memories and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe’
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
