Keynote lecture, “Ambicoloniality: Cultural Proximity, Agency, and the Afterlives of Empire,” KIU Summer School, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, 10 September 2026.
Ucrania 2026: Lecciones al presente y para el futuro. Panel discussion with Svitlana Biedarieva, Ganna Matichyna, and Tetiana Tsvyk, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM, 28 August 2026. In Spanish. Watch the recording.
Keynote lecture, “Ambicolonial Theory: Art, Power, and Liberation in the Ukrainian-Russian Case,” Finnish Art Society 180th-anniversary symposium, Ateneum Museum, Helsinki, Finland, 22 April 2026.
Panel Discussion “Postcolonial Thought and Ukraine: Broadening the Field,” December 15, 2025. Speakers: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Marci Shore, Vitaly Chernetsky, and Tamara Hundorova. Moderated by Svitlana Biedarieva. Organized by the Ukraine Decolonial Studies Network.
Book Discussion “Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian–Russian Case,” November 18, 2025. Speaker: Svitlana Biedarieva. Discussants: Oksana Yakushko and Mykola Riabchuk. Moderated by Henry Hale. Organized by the Petrach Program on Ukraine, George Washington University. Book talks and lectures on ambicoloniality at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London (UCL SSEES), and Denkraum Ukraine at the University of Regensburg, October 2025.
Book Discussion “Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian–Russian Case,” October 16, 2025. Speaker: Svitlana Biedarieva. Moderated by Klara Kemp-Welch. Organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Book talks and lectures on ambicoloniality at the Free University of Berlin, Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Center for Baltic and Eastern European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University in Stockholm, and the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) at Utrecht University, October 2025.
Svitlana Biedarieva presented Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian–Russian Case at the Free University of Berlin (1 October), CBEES at Södertörn University (6 October), Utrecht University (9 October), St Antony’s College, Oxford (15 October), the Courtauld Institute of Art (16 October), UCL SSEES (17 October), and Denkraum Ukraine at the University of Regensburg (20 October 2025).
Book Discussion “Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian–Russian Case,” September 23, 2025. Speaker: Svitlana Biedarieva. Moderated by Emily Channel-Justice and Nataliya Shpylova-Sayeed. Organized by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
Book talk “Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance.” Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. 2 April 2025. Moderated by Olena Martynyuk.
Book talk “Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance.” Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York. 29 March 2025. Moderated by Vitaly Chernetsky.
Book talk “Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance.” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York. 27 March 2025. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.
Panel discussion “Ukraine’s Global Identity: Eurocentric and Decolonial.” Kennan Institute and Global Europe Program. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 11 April 2024.
“What Art Makes of War: Perspectives on and from Ukraine,” London School of Economics and Political Science, 8 June 2023
Lecture “Decolonizing Ukrainian Culture: The Role of Art Institutions in a Time of War,” IERES, George Washington University, 11 May 2023
14 February 2022. Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art (ibidem 2021). Book Launch. Participants: Svitlana Biedarieva, Jessica Zychowicz, Kateryna Botanova, Andrii Dostliev & Lia Dostlieva. Moderated by Nataliya Shpylova.
4 February 2022: Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art. Political and Social Perspectives. Book Talk. Participants: Svitlana Biedarieva, Olena Martynyuk, and Ieva Astahovska. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.
26 January 2022: British-Ukrainian Aid. Political & Social Perspectives in Contemporary Ukrainian & Baltic Art. Book Launch. Participants: Svitlana Biedarieva, Margaret Tali, and Andrij Bojarov. Moderator: Andreas Umland. Discussant Uilleam Blacker.
27 Aug 2020: “Art on the Front Line”, Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre “Oseredok”. Participants: Yevgenia Belorusets, Jessica Zychowicz, and Piotr Armianovski. Moderated by Svitlana Biedarieva and Hanna Deikun.
Interview for UkeTube about the book Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art. Interviewed by William Szuch. 10 November 2021. Виставка «На лінії фронту»: Мехіко дізнається про війну в Україні. Інтерв’ю Громадському Радіо, 27 вересня 2019.
