In this episode of the CEU Review of Books Podcast Series we sat down with Mariia Shuvalova, Kateryna Zarembo and Roman Horbyk to discuss how Russian imperialism has impacted the study of Ukrainian history, literature and culture and contemplate the future of the field.

Mariia, Kateryna and Roman are also preparing a special issue entitled Empathy vs Empire: How (Mis)Understanding of Imperialism Shapes Discourses and Decisions in and about Ukraine, Europe, and Beyond.

In the meantime, for further reading, this is a list of articles they mention in the episode:

Katarzyna Kaczmarska & Stefanie Ortmann, “IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics” in Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol. 24, 2021, pp. 820-847

Olga Bertelsen, “Russian Front Organizations and Western Academia”, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2023, pp. 1184-1209

Mariia Shuvalova, "First Go Novels, Then Go Tanks. Contemporary Russian Military Fiction (2009-2022) and Ukrainian Literature About the War (2015-2022),” in Russia’s War in Ukraine 2022, edited by Tamara Martseniuk and Tetiana Kostiuchenko (ibidem Press/Columbia University Press, 2023).

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