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The Ukrainian Institute of America has been at the forefront of promoting Ukrainian culture and democratic values to the world for 75 years. Through its vibrant programs, the Institute serves as a bridge between Ukraine and the American people, fostering cultural interaction, mutual understanding, and appreciation of shared values and goals. Located on Museum Mile in the heart of New York City in a National Historic Landmark building, the Institute is Where the World Meets Ukraine.

Oksana Karpovych is a Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker, writer and photographer born in Kyiv. She lives and works between Kyiv and Montreal. Her first feature documentary DON’T WORRY, THE DOORS WILL OPEN won the New Visions Award at RIDM in 2019 and received a special mention at Hot Docs 2020. In her personal projects, Karpovych explores the everyday life and oral histories of ordinary people and how state politics intrude into the private sphere, influencing the communities she intimately documents. Karpovych is a Cultural Studies graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine and a Film Production graduate of Concordia University in Montreal.

Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the author, most recently, of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler.




 

Emma Mateo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Jordan Center, New York University. She researches political behaviour in times of crisis, such as mass protest and war, with a regional focus on eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine and Belarus. She is currently working on a book project which explores the ways in which Ukrainian civilians are participating in Ukraine’s war effort, which is based upon fieldwork in Ukraine and analysis of local media and social media. Her work has been published in Post-Soviet Affairs and Social Media + Society, and featured at major conferences and expert workshops in the US, Canada, UK, and EU. Emma holds a PhD in Sociology and MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Modern Languages (Russian, French and Ukrainian) from the University of Cambridge. Before joining New York University, Emma worked at Columbia University as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harriman Institute.

Supported by a Humanities New York Action Grant

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