Confirmed speakers include: Stanislav Aseyev (author of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street and In Isolation. Dispatches from Occupied Donbas), one of the most celebrated contemporary Ukrainian writers, in conversation with Syria expert, Ammar Azzouz (Oxford University); Maksym Butkevych, renowned journalist and human rights activist; Nataliya Gumenyuk, co-founder of the Reckoning Project; Oksana Kis, author of works including Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag; Bohdan Tokarsky, an expert on Vasyl Stus and Ukrainian dissidence.
The workshop is free to attend, and open to all members of the university and the general public. If you are interested in attending, please register. A more detailed programme for the day will be released closer to the workshop date.