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9.30-10am – Coffee (Besse building lobby)
10am-12pm
Introduction to the workshop: Pany Xenophontos and Polly Jones (Oxford)
Prisons in Ukraine and Syria
A conversation between writer Stanislav Aseyev and Ammar Azzouz (Oxford).
Moderator: Pany Xenophontos
12pm-1pm – Lunch
1-3pm
Ukrainian Gulag history and literature
Oksana Kis (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), ‘Creativity as Resistance in Ukrainian Women’s Experiences of Imprisonment in the Gulag’
Bohdan Tokarskyi (Harvard): paper title TBC
Moderator: Polly Jones
3-3.30pm – Coffee
3.30-5.30pm
Imprisonment and Testimony
Panel discussion with film-maker Roman Bondarchuk and journalist and activist Maksym Butkevych. This session will also include a screening of one of Roman’s short films, Lost Paradise. Viktor Maruniak.
Moderator: Pany Xenophontos
