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A group of experts discussed how the invasion has been perceived in the global south and what can be done to increase support for Ukraine there.

About the speakers:

Tymofii Brik is serving at Northwestern University as the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies in the Department of Sociology during the Spring 2023 quarter. Brik is rector at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in Ukraine. His research interests focus on religious markets, long-term social mobility and social network analysis. Since 2021, Brik has served as the national coordinator of the European Social Survey (ESS) in Ukraine, an international comparative study conducted in the majority of European countries since 2002. Brik also serves as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the CEDOS think tank, as a member of the advisory board of the Texty.org “Rating Sellers” project, and as a member of the advisory board of Gradus Research.

Sebastian Elischer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. His work analyzes the interplay between identities and institutions. He is particularly interested in how identities shape and affect democratization and other political dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Maria Repnikova is an Associate Professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University. Dr. Repnikova is an Associate Professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University. This year she is also a non-residential Wilson China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. She received her doctorate (DPhil) in Politics at the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Olexiy Haran is Professor of Comparative Politics at Kyiv Mohyla Academy; Research Director, Democratic Initiatives Foundation, a leading Ukrainian think tank since 1992. Since fall 2022 Haran was a member of Ukrainian civil society delegation which visited 5 African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa), Indonesia, Brazil, and Argentina.

Lucan Way (Chair) is a professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program.

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For more information, see the conference program: https://www.french.utoronto.ca/events/le-rugissement-de-la-langue-po%C3%A9sie-et-animalit%C3%A9

Online attendees can join via Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/s/83338841940

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"Two global crises have affected the entire humanity in recent times – the “man-made” financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 of 2019-22 caused by the so- called “act of God”! Both these crises led to statutory distortions of the market forces for immigrant labour – both knowledge workers (the highly educated/skilled) and service workers (the low-skilled/manual workers). They helped governments to cover up temporization of immigrant workers and forced employers to become more selective in offering employment. Driven by the hearsay that immigrant knowledge workers displaced the native-born out of employment and/or led to a curtailment in their wages and incomes, these tendencies were already there for some time, but what we experienced is that camouflaging of restrictive policy barriers became more intense during and after the two crises."

– Binod Khadria

Join us as Binod Khadria discusses this complex, pervasive, and important issue.

About the Speaker:

Binod Khadria is presently a Visiting CERC Scholar of Excellence at Toronto Metropolitan University. A former Professor of Economics, Education and Int’l Migration, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, he is the elected President of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), a global think tank on migration issues. His recent publications include the co-edited World Migration Report, 2020 (IOM), the co-guest edited special issue of Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (APMJ), Dec 2022, and several scholarly articles. Recently, he has been appointed an Affiliated Fellow of ISIM at Georgetown University.

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During this special event, Academy Award-nominated film producer, Alexander Rodnyansky will discuss the relationship between arts and politics in today’s Russia and Ukraine.

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Alexander Rodnyansky is a Ukrainian film director, producer, and businessman. His film "Leviathan" won the Golden Globe in 2015. Four of his films were nominated for an Academy Award, including "Chief in Love," "Est-Ouest," "Leviathan" and "Loveless."

Professor Anna Shternshis is the Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, Al and Malka Green Professor in Yiddish Studies and a Fellow at the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Presented with Show One Productions.

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Anna Olenenko is an environmental historian from Ukraine, currently at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada). She has a Candidate of Sciences degree in history from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2013. Anna’s research interests are related to the environmental history of Ukraine, especially the Steppe region, and animal studies. Her research on the history of Dnipro wetlands which disappeared in the 1950s due the construction of Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station was published in the article“’Our New Sea Is Our New Sorrow’: The Conflict between the Ukrainian and the Soviet in the Struggle for the Design of the Lower Dnipro’s Landscape,” Ab Imperio 2019.

Ivan Moysiyenko has a doctor of biological sciences degree and is professor and is head of the Department of Botany at Kherson State University. A key focus of his recent research has been Ukraine’s grassland habitats. For example, he has studied kurgans as refugia of steppe flora in the agricultural landscapes in southern Ukraine. He has carried out applied research in preparation for the formation of many protected areas in Ukraine, including the National Park “Kamianska Sich.” Recent co-authored publications include “Vascular Plants of Old Cemeteries of the Lower Dnipro Region” and “Potential Protected Areas in Kherson Oblast.”

Viktor Komorin is the acting director of the Ukrainian Scientific Centre of the Ecology of the Sea. He is a recognized expert in the field of oceanology and marine ecology and has more than 30 years of experience working at this centre. He has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in oceanology from the Marine Geophysical Institute of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. He is actively involved in researching marine ecosystems, developing mathemetical models and organizing ecological monitoring. He represents Ukraine in several professional bodies connected with oceanography and monitoring pollution in the Black Sea. He is the author of more than 70 scientific works.  

Viktor Karamushka has a candidate of sciences degree in biology and is currently head of the Department of Environmental Studies at the National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy.” His areas of research include environmental microbiology, ecology and environmental management. His recent co-authored publications include “Trends in the Environmental Conditions, Climate Change and Human Health in the Southern Region of Ukraine” Sustainability (2022) and “Climate impact drivers provoke fires in protected areas of Polissia. In: XVI International Scientific Conference “Monitoring of Geological Processes and Ecological Condition of the Environment” (2021).

Ihor Pylypenko is Professor of Geography and Ecology and Dean at the Faculty of Geography, Biology, and Ecology at Kherson State University. His areas of expertise include regional development, rural development, and nature conservation in southern Ukraine, particularly in Kherson Oblast. He has commented extensively in the Ukrainian media about the consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka HES. His recent publications include “Mykolaiv and Kherson as Port Centres: Common Characteristics and Problems of Development” and the co-authored articles “A Regional Analysis of the Use of Recreation Potential of Ukrainian Regions in Contemporary Geopological Conditions” (2021).

Brian Kuns is currently Associate Senior Lecturer at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in the Department of Rural and Urban Development. He received his PhD in Human Geography from Stockholm University and he studies questions of agricultural corporatization, changing agrarian structure, smallholders, and farm labor, with respect to Ukraine and Sweden. Brian has conducted research in Kherson oblast in southern Ukraine, studying, among other things, how irrigated agriculture, which in this region is dependent on the now emptying Kakhovka reservoir, has changed during the period of Ukrainian independence. He is author of “’In These Complicated Times’: An Environmental History of Irrigated Agriculture in Post-Communist Ukraine” which appeared in Water Alternatives. (https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol11/v11issue3/468-a11-3-21/file)

Moderator and Organizer: Tanya Richardson, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Global Studies Programs, Wilfrid Laurier University

Sponsored by the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine

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