Decolonising Russia’s
War on Ukraine
Thinking and Filmmaking on Invasion as Structure
With Vlad(a), Michal Murawski, Anna Engelhardt
Film program by Olexii Kuchanskyi
Participants: Oleksiy Radynski, Ievgeniia Gubkina, Vitaly Chernetsky, Darya Tsymbalyuk,
Mykola Ridnyi, Freefilmers, Victoria Donovan and Dana Kavelina
Symposium
Reference Point.
London
26 March, 2022
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a new phase of its colonial war against Ukraine - a war which has been ongoing since 2014, with 15,000 lives lost. Since 24 February, tens of thousands more have died, and millions have been driven from their homes. On 24 February 2022, Russian colonial violence suddenly ceased to be local knowledge. The world noticed. While this knowledge came as a surprise to many, Russian colonial violence has long been intimately known to Ukrainian decolonial scholars, filmmakers, writers, and artists. They have felt this violence on their own bodies and in their lives, and they have warned about it in their work. This symposium is devoted to dissecting Russia's current war against Ukraine as a colonial enterprise; and to promoting understanding of Russian colonial violence as an essential part of planetary post-colonial and decolonial theory and practice
Solidarity