In a brazen act of imperialist aggression, Russia attempted to conquer Ukraine. But Ukrainians stopped them in their tracks, mounting a mass military and civilian resistance. Ukrainian socialists Denys Bondar and Hanna Perkhoda and Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis will analyze the nature of the war and argue for the left to support Ukraine’s struggle for self-determination and a progressive reconstruction of their country.
Ilya Budraitskis is a political researcher and activist previously based in Moscow. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley. His articles on Russian politics, culture and intellectual history were published in academic journals such as Radical... Read More →
Denys Bondar, a native of Ukraine, is a professor of physics at Tulane University. He is involved in a varaity of initiatives to help Ukraine and is a member of Socialniy Rukh (The Social Movement), a Ukrainian left-wing community organization.
Hanna Perekhoda is a researcher at the University of Lausanne, studying political imagination in Russia and Ukraine. She is a founder of the Swiss-based Committee of Solidarity with the Ukrainian People and with the Russian Opponents of the War and also a member of the Ukrainian left... Read More →
Sunday September 3, 2023 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
Field A/B/C
