Where the apricots grow: memories from the east of Ukraine

Sketch for "Displaced Garden" docufiction animation, by Kateryna Voznytsia, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Yulia Serdyukova, Victor "Corwic" Zasypkin.

Where the apricots grow: memories from the east of Ukraine

Monday, 15 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Venue: 
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): 
Dr Darya Tsymbalyuk (St Antony's)...
Convenor: 
Dr Darya Tsymbalyuk (St Antony's)
Series: 
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

In this talk, I present the thinking process behind the manuscript-in-progress, which is focused on testimonies, stories, and memories from the east of Ukraine. In my research about Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, I stay attuned to the presence of vegetal worlds. It is through attention to plants, that I engage both with experiences of people displaced from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as a result of Russia's war on Ukraine, and with longer temporalities of colonial violence in the region. 

Environmental Perspectives: Land, Water, Air, Underground -  in between, within, across