About Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East

Experience Ukraine for a day!

Join Dr. Olesya Khromeychuk (Ukrainian Institute London) and Prof. Victoria Donovan (University of St Andrews) as they share tales from the Ukrainian East.

Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She received her PhD in History from University College London. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of East Anglia, and King’s College London. She is author The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022) and ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division (2013). She is currently the Director of the Ukrainian Institute London.

Victoria Donovan is a Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies and the Director of the Centre for Global (Post)socialisms at the University of St Andrews. She works at the intersection of heritage studies, urban history, visual anthropology, and the public humanities. Her work is collaborative and often delivered in partnership with researchers, artists, and activists in Ukraine. She is the co-producer of academic research, exhibitions, archives, community workshops, and artistic practice exploring the industrial history and heritage of eastern Ukraine and the UK.