Occupation | Istoria 2026
Date and time:
Tuesday 6 October, 2026
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
ONLINE
Foreign control and resistance.
The seminar focuses on periods of occupation in the 20th and 21st centuries, discussing strategies of survival, negotiation, and resistance.
Lecturer: Dr Olena Stiazhkina, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Lecturer
Olena Stiazhkina
Olena Stiazhkina is a Ukrainian writer and Doctor of Sciences, Professor of History, and Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences. She also teaches at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) and is a member of PEN Ukraine.
Until the Russian occupation of Donetsk in 2014, she lived in the city and taught in the Department of History at Donetsk National University. After being forced to flee, she founded the non-profit organisation ‘Deoccupation. Homecoming. Education’. She now lives and works in Kyiv.
Her recent work in English includes Zero Point Ukraine: Four Essays on World War II (Ukrainian Voices, 10, ibidem, 2021).