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🇺🇦 Network of researchers, artists & curators interested in Ukrainian Ecologies 🍃 Solomiya: the environmental issue: www.solomiyamag.com/issue/4 🌐 Web: uehn.org Seminars: www.youtube.com/@UkrainianEnvironme…

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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters—Vincent Mundy, The Guardian "Every crater carries a different story, depending on the soil, location, power of the explosion, intensity of the battle and whether clean water is present" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters
In the UK capital, Bomb Crater Pond is full of wildlife, while scientists studying land obliterated by recent Russian blasts 1,500 miles away have seen ‘how quickly nature begins to heal itself’
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
«Суспільне Культура» опублікувало нашу статтю українською до 40-річчя Чорнобильської ядерної катастрофи. Ми досліджуємо поліські "природокультури" у творчості Марії Примаченко до та після Чорнобиля. suspilne.media/culture/1297...
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Горе тим людям, які неграмотні й нічого не розуміють
Як змінився поліський ландшафт після аварії на Чорнобильській АЕС, Полісся у творчості Марії Примаченко, реакція Марії Примаченко на Чорнобильську катастрофу. — Суспільне Культура
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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. Earlier this month, @ukrinstitute.bsky.social and the Royal Society of Arts co-hosted a major discussion on its legacy for European security. #Chornobyl40 #Ukraine #EuropeanSecurity 1/3
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A boy climbs a tree to get a better view of bats being released into Leontovych Central Park in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Incredible work by the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Centre. Wonderful to see so much public curiosity for our nocturnal urban neighbours. #NightlifeInTheMoreThanHumanCity
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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
UKRAINIAN CARTOGRAPHIES 🌍 🌐 🇺🇦 How & why has Ukraine been mapped in the past & present, & what is (counter-)cartography’s role in shaping Ukraine’s future? Workshop: in person & online! 🗓️: 8 May 2026, 9-5 📍: Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, Oxford Registration: tinyurl.com/OxUkrHub
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Last week, I was honoured to discuss Chornobyl's environmental and political legacies with fantastic colleagues as we approach the 40th anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe A recording is available, featuring Serhii Plokhy, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, and Sasha Dovzhyk www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrz...
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40 years on: Chornobyl’s legacy and European environmental security
YouTube video by Ukrainian Institute London
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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Many thanks to everyone who attended last night’s event, '40 Years On: Chornobyl’s Legacy and European Environmental Security', co-organised by the @Ukr_Institute and @theRSAorg. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/vrrza_z... 1/2
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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
And if you’re looking for a weekend read, look no further. Our new issue of the London Ukrainian Review, dedicated to the Chornobyl anniversary, is now live: www.londonukrainianreview.org
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London Ukrainian Review
The London Ukrainian Review is an open-access journal that tackles global challenges through the prism of Ukraine while adopting a distinctly internationalist perspective on the Ukrainian past and pre...
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Another form of "war-wilding"? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief
Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
«Болота проти танків. Як водно-болотні угіддя допомагають під час війни» Олега Листопада 'Swamps vs tanks: How wetlands help during wartime' by Oleh Listopad uwecworkgroup.info/uk/%d0%b1%d0...
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Болота проти танків. Як водно-болотні угіддя допомагають під час війни – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
This article has been published in Ukrainian and will be coming out in English and Russian in the very near future.
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"The fact that hedgehogs are a part of the culture of Ukraine is a wonderful thing... they punch well above their weight & are stronger & better defended that you might expect" Part 2 of @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's report on hedgehog rescuers in Ukraine 🦔 🇺🇦 hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-hedgehog...
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A Hedgehog on the front line (part 2)
don’t be greedy with love and caring!
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15/09/2025
⚡️ Global oil prices rise as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian energy sector escalate. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 14 that Ukraine's strikes on oil facilities amount to the "most effective sanctions," weakening Russia's ability to finance its war.
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Global oil prices rise as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian energy sector escalate
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 14 that Ukraine's strikes on oil facilities amount to the "most effective sanctions," weakening Russia's ability to finance its war.
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"Until that moment the only Ukrainian hedgehogs in my mind were the ones placed on roads to act as tank defences!" Read my friend, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's, new post on hedgehog rescue in #Ukraine, part 1 of 2. hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-hedgehog...
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A Hedgehog on the front line (part 1)
While the world swirls into ever increasing spirals of chaos and doom it is lovely to find a cause for hope.
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb?
Two years after the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed in Ukraine, nature has returned in abundance to the drained land in a ‘big natural experiment’ – but it could be lost as quickly as it appeared
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A thoughtful review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's 'Ecocide in Ukraine' by @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social published on the website of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group uwecworkgroup.info/ecocide-in-u...
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Ecocide in Ukraine. The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War. Book review – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
Alexander Vorbrugg Ecocide in Ukraine is an outstanding testimony to the environmental costs of Russia’s war, a moving tribute to humans, ecosystems, animals, and plants in Ukraine, and a thoughtful r...
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Delighted to have a chapter in 'The Nuclear-Water Nexus' edited by @perhogselius.bsky.social & @siegfriedevens.bsky.social Kate Brown and I trace the legacies of #Chornobyl through the proposed E40 waterway, exploring historical/contemporary attempts to engineer the #Prypiat River
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The Nuclear-Water Nexus
Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. To operate efficiently and safely, a standard nuclear reactor needs around 50 cubic meters (13,000 gallons) of...
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
An exciting opportunity 👇 Please share widely!
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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The Oxford Ukraine Hub will host its first interdisciplinary Ukraine Summer School on 22-26 September 2025. We invite applications from postgraduate students with an interest in contemporary Ukraine. Deadline: 30 June 2025 More info on how to apply: oxfordukrainehub.web.ox.ac.uk/ukraine-summ...
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Oxford Ukraine Hub Summer School
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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🇺🇦 Registration for our next event is now open! 🇺🇦 'Security and Warfare in #Ukraine: Domestic and Global Developments Post-2022' 🗓️ Friday 6th June at St Antony's College, Oxford. 🕰️ Full info & schedule here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b28... 📝 Registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
📢 Call for Submissions – Postgraduate Research Symposium at Oxford Everyday Experiences of Conflict: The Daily Life, Legacies & Textures of War 📅 November 6, 2025 📌 Location: University of Oxford ⏰ Deadline: May 30, 2025 Find out more: www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/event/everyd...
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Everyday Experiences of Conflict
Call for Abstracts and Photographs
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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🇺🇦 Registration for our next event is now open! 🇺🇦 'Consolidating the state: challenges and opportunities in postwar #reconstruction of #Ukraine' 🗓️ Friday 14th March at St Antony's College, Oxford. 🕰️ Full schedule here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/dd1... 📝 Registration: forms.office.com/e/YvyXhRce1t
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This forthcoming book looks very important for understanding the US-Ukraine mineral deal in its broader political economic context and in relation to histories of colonial resource extraction
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
My new paper in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies asks what it means to treat the #Chornobyl Zone as a laboratory, exploring a strange experiment conducted with the Chornobyl dogs. Thanks @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social and @tlrichardson.bsky.social for support! drive.google.com/file/d/1pDUo...
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Article in Translation Anna Olenenko. “‘Our New Sea Is Our New Grief’: The Conflict between the Ukrainian and the Soviet in the Struggle to Construct the Landscape of the Lower Dnipro.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 2024. drive.google.com/file/d/1ap8o...
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11.2.5 Olenenko_translation_GD.pdf
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Jonathon Turnbull. “Chornobyl as Laboratory? The Curious Case of CTVT.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1pDUo...
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11.2.4 Turnbull_article_GD.pdf
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Iryna Skubii. “Toward an Animal-Sensitive History of Famines: Animals, the Environment, and Soviet Famines in Ukraine.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1l6kw...
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11.2.3 Skubii_article_GD_with pictures.pdf
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Julia Malitska. “Polycentring Vegetarianism in the Russian Empire: Human-Animal Relationships in the Pages of Vegetarianskoe obozrěnie, 1909–15.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 2024.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yr-xAPbPiZ9PFvNKl0ZJD0Dow73V42m4/view?usp=sharing
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11.2.2 Malitska_article_GD.pdf
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Tanya Richardson & Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Constellations of Ukrainian Thought and the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1PASJ...
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11.2.1 Richardson Tsymbalyuk_Constellations_GD.pdf
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Adrian Ivakhiv. “Becoming Tuteishyi: Ukraine in the New Global Climatic Regime.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/10rlC...
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11.1.5 Ivakhiv_essay_GD.pdf
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Iryna Zamuruieva. “Gathering Ecofeminist Stories with Kateryna Hrushevs'ka.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1Mlye...
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11.1.4 Zamuruieva_essay_GD.pdf
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Kateryna Iakovlenko. “A Systematic Robbery: Transforming the Memory, Culture, and Landscape of the Ukrainian Steppe.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1yy_9...
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11.1.3 Iakovlenko_article_GD.pdf
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Anastassiya Andrianova. “Sunflowers in the Ruins: A Multimodal Analysis of the Environmental Aspects of Ukrainian War Songs from March to May 2022.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1Bhxm...
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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Introduction. Tanya Richardson & Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1EQM6...
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11.1.1 Richardson Tsymbalyuk Beyond Anthropocentrism_GD.pdf
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Technological Life - SoGE Oxford @technatures.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This week we're delighted to be joined by Karolina Uskakovych who will screen her film 'Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil' and discuss her work on #agriculture and #gardening in the UK and #Ukraine. 🗓️ Thursday 20th Feb ⏰ 4pm 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social All welcome!
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Anna Nacher @nytuan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Finally got my hands (and eyes) on @solomiyamag.bsky.social published in collaboration with @ukrenvhum.bsky.social Absolutely brilliant! Order while you can - worth every penny.
Covers of 2 issues of Solomiya magazine.
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
'Landscapes of War, Landscapes of Victory: Ukraine’s Changing Environment' Looking forward to taking part in this event on #ecocide in #Ukraine at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Registration below 👇 huri.harvard.edu/tcup-confere... @ukrenvhum.bsky.social @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social
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2025 TCUP Conference | Ukrainian Research Institute
Landscapes of War, Landscapes of Victory: Ukraine’s changing environment. The 2025 TCUP Conference will address how Ukrainians are being denied their right to build (and rebuild) a safe environment du...
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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Tickets are now sold out to attend this event in person! We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Oxford in a couple of weeks. For those of you who would like to attend online/remotely, please register using the following form: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Delighted to have an essay in here with Oksana Semenik on nature in the work of Maria Prymachenko in the #Chornobyl region. Get your copy now 👇
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🔱 Solomiya: The Environmental Issue is now available for pre-order in #Ukraine and the rest of the world 🔵 We're so excited to share this issue with you which features photography, art, and writing on key #environmental issues in Ukraine Order here: solomiyamag.com/issue/4
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Don't miss this event in Oxford in a couple of weeks 👇 Ukrainian Environmentalists by the Oxford Ukraine Hub.
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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Check out the schedule for our seminar on Ukrainian Environmentalisms below 👇 Friday 31st January at Reuben College, Oxford. Registration is now open, and there are some tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukrainian-... @marniehowlett.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social
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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🌍 Registration for «Ukrainian Environmentalisms» is now live! 🌍 The inaugural seminar of the Oxford Ukraine Hub brings together four distinguished speakers to reflect on the most pressing issues related to the #environment and #ecology in #Ukraine www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ukrainian-...
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Ukrainian Environmentalisms
Perspectives from Science, Policy, and Culture
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Anna Nacher @nytuan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Absolutely thrilling news! Looking forward to it as I'm working on my book on #ecomedia in the Central and Eastern European perspective.
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🔱 Coming soon: Solomiya - the #Environmental Issue 🔱 🇺🇦 We're super excited to be collaborating with Solomiya Magazine to showcase different perspectives on Ukrainian ecologies from artists and scientists in light of Russia’s war More info: solomiyamag.com/issue/4
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🇺🇦 Very excited to launch the «Oxford Ukraine Hub» w/ fantastic colleagues from across Oxford, funded by the Social Sciences Division! 🌍 The Hub will integrate the study of #Ukraine into university curricula across disciplinary divides. www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/article/new-... @marniehowlett.bsky.social
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New Interdisciplinary Hubs receive funding to boost collaborations across borders
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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🔱 Coming soon: Solomiya - the #Environmental Issue 🔱 🇺🇦 We're super excited to be collaborating with Solomiya Magazine to showcase different perspectives on Ukrainian ecologies from artists and scientists in light of Russia’s war More info: solomiyamag.com/issue/4
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