Ukrainian diaspora in Great Britain and France in the post-Maidan period: key challenges and trends
Date and time:
Wednesday 31 October, 2018
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
The Ukrainian Institute
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
The Ukrainian diaspora in Europe is growing in size and complexity, already representing 3 million people. How do these migrants interact with each other and with their new environment? How do they engage with the country they come from? What are their main concerns, challenges and aspirations? This event gives the floor to research looking at key trends in the development of the Ukrainian community in the Paris region. The research was conducted by the Ukrainian Catholic University and supported by Eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in France, the Benelux countries and Switzerland. It will be unveiled by Bishop Borys Gudziak. He will be joined by Dr Ivan Kozachenko, Researcher at Cambridge University.
The event will be moderated by Marina Pesenti, Director of Ukrainian Institute London.
This event will be held in Ukrainian.
FREE
Speaker
Bishop Borys Gudziak
Bishop Borys Gudziak is the President of the Ukrainian Catholic University with which the Ukrainian Institute in London is affiliated. Bishop Borys Gudziak is Eparch for Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in France, the Benelux countries and Switzerland. He was born in Syracuse, New York (USA) in 1960 and was ordained a priest in 1998. He received his doctorate in Byzantine and Slavic studies from Harvard University and is the author of numerous academic works. He also leads the Department of External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.
Speaker
Ivan Kozachenko
Ivan Kozachenko holds a Postdoctoral Research Associate position that is attached both to the ‘Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies’ project and the Ukrainian Studies Programme, Department of Slavonic Studies. His current project focuses on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, he investigates how linguistic unity, diversity, power and identity are reflected on social media. The study also considers how Ukraine is being 're-narrated' by writers, poets, politicians, and intellectuals since Euromaidan. Previously, Dr Kozachenko was a Stasiuk Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, where he worked on the project ‘The Ukraine Crisis: Contested Identities, Social Media and Transnationalism’. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen.
