Prisma Ukraïna

07/01/2026

👉 Happy to share this upcoming event at the European University Viadrina on 13 January 2026 at 11 a.m.:
Book Presentation & Video Essay Screening of ‘Images and Objects of Russia´s War against Ukraine‘ with the editors Natasha Klimenko, Miglė Bareikytė and Viktoriya Sereda
KIU Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies

📘 Book Presentation & Video Essay Screening
in the framework of our UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES at the European University Viadrina:

👉 Natasha Klimenko, Miglė Bareikytė, Viktoriya Sereda
(Editors of ‘Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine‘)

📅 Tuesday, 13 January 2026 | 11:00 a.m.
📍 Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), GD HS 08 (Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building), Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
💻 Hybrid format
🔗 Zoom link: https://europa-uni-de.zoom.us/j/68729669855?pwd=UxPbxCiTiH3d6nKTZaotzyOIgQbFFh.1%23success

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has destroyed lives, communities, and cities. From the very beginning, images of this destruction have circulated across media platforms — from photographs and drone footage to TikToks and Instagram posts — shaping how the war is experienced, represented, and archived.

This event presents the multidisciplinary volume Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine, in which artists, scholars, and writers explore how art, media, infrastructures, and material culture respond to and contest the Russo–Ukrainian War.

The book presentation will be followed by a screening of a video essay based on selected contributions from the volume, highlighting the intersections of art, media, and war. Together, the presentation, screening, and discussion offer an interdisciplinary reflection on visual culture, collective memory, and media-infrastructural practices in wartime Ukraine.

Natasha Klimenko is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
Miglė Bareikytė is an Assistant Professor of Digital Studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).
Viktoriya Sereda is a sociologist and Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS).

In cooperation with European New School of Digital Studies and the Project War Sensing.

Supported by DAAD dwide with funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA).

Europa-Universität Viadrina Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies VCPU Freie Universität Berlin ZOiS - Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Susann Worschech

14/11/2025

🎓On Monday and Tuesday, Prisma Ukraïna organized two intensive events in Berlin focusing on current developments in Ukrainian research and remembrance culture.
First, the volume “Images and Objects of Russia's War Against Ukraine” was presented and discussed: how art, media, and material objects document the war—and become part of remembrance.
🧭 This was immediately followed by the conference “War, Migration and the Future of Ukrainian Studies,” which took stock of where Ukrainian research stands today — and where it is headed.
✨ A big thank you to Pilecki Institute, all the moderators, panelists, supporters, and the audience for the exciting exchange!

07/10/2025

📢 New dossier by PRISMA UKRAЇNA!

📚 The volume analyses the war of images in Russia's war agains Ukraine. It adresses the questions and limits of representation, propaganda and testimony in times of war and borderless publics in art and media.

➡️The volume also examines the effects of war on material culture and infrastructure, as well as debates about historical heritage and cultural redefinition in Ukraine.

👥The idea for the publication arose from Natasha Klimenko's work for the research group “Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration, Memory” in collaboration with Miglė Bareikytė from Viadrina University.

💡The research group was founded in the summer of 2022 by sociologist Viktoriya Sereda and consists of Ukrainian scholars who collaborate from various cities in Ukraine or places of refuge in Germany.

Link in Bio!

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