Online Discussion “City and Water: Natural, Technological, and Social Dimensions in Narratives of the Experience of russia’s War against Ukraine”
18 June 2026 року
Speaker: Nadiia Pastukh is an anthropologist, folklorist, and oral historian. After completing her undergraduate studies in philology at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, she earned a Candidate of Sciences degree in Philology with a specialization in folklore studies. She subsequently served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2001–2023). Since 2025, she has been a Senior Research Fellow at the National Music Academy of Ukraine. As a resident scholar at the Center for Urban History, she collaborates with the UCORE project, where she is curating the archive of the initiative “24.02.22, 5 a.m.: Testimonies from the War.”
25 June 2026
online
When? June 25 at 3:00 PM (EEST)
Where? Zoom (link will be available after registration)
Who is it for?
- researchers
- students
- anyone investigating the russo-Ukrainian War
Organizers: “CITY AND WAR 2.0” project
Key discussion questions:
- How does the destruction of water infrastructure transform urban residents’ perceptions of water and its role in everyday life during wartime – from a routine public utility to a strategic resource essential for survival?
- In what ways does water, once it becomes a prerequisite for survival, reshape the urban landscape, structure daily life, and generate new forms of social connection, tension, and hierarchy within communities?
- How does the infrastructural violence inflicted by russia compel urban residents to return to preindustrial practices of obtaining and using water, drawing on its various forms and properties as resources for survival?
