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Prof. Dr. Birgitt Riegraf,  President University of Paderborn

Prof. Dr. Valerii Miasoiedov, Vice-Rector for Research at Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine

Her Excellence Iryna Shum, General Consul of Ukraine in Düsseldorf, Germany

Prof. Dr. Dorothee Meister, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Arts and Humanities at University of Paderborn

Elke Ferner, Former Parliamentary State Secretary, President, UN Women Nationales Komitee Deutschland e.V.

Dr. Oksana Seumenicht, Alexander-von-Humboldt Fundation, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Christoph Lumer, Welcome on behalf of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy

Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at University of Paderborn.

Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko, Director of the Center for Gender Education at Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine; Researcher, Professor of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at University of Paderborn.

Prof. Dr. Tetiana Gardashuk, a leading scientific researcher and the head of the Department of Logic and Methodology of Science, H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine:

“Feministic Dimension of Ecocide and Women’s Role in Environmental Peacebuilding”

“The vulnerable shimmering of steppe centaurea “

“Resisting Ukrainian ecocide through ecofeminism”

“War and violence against nature: the image of the Ukrainian military in stories for adults and fairy tales for children, 2022-2023”.

Group Photo

Oksana Zabuzhko, an outstanding Ukrainian writer and philosopher. The emergence of modern Ukrainian literature on the world stage is associated with her name. After the publication of her novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex (1996), which in 2006 was named “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence”, she has been living as a free-lance author.

Zabuzhko’s books have been translated into Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish.

Among her numerous acknowledgements are MacArthur Grant (2002), Antonovych International Foundation Prize (2008), the Ukrainian National Award the Order of Princess Olha (2009), Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2019), the French National Order of the Legion of Honor (2023) and many other national and international awards.

Her opus magnum, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (2010), won Angelus Central European Literary Prize for the best novel of Eastern and Central Europe (2013), and her collection of stories Your Ad Could Go Here (2017) was listed by the New York Times among “100 best books from around the world coming out in English in 2020”.

Creative event, Presentation of the book «The longest journey», written during the full-scale aggression of Russia against Ukraine.

Q&A, Discussion.

Prof. Dr. Cynthia R. Nielsen, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas (USA). “Ecocide and Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.” (Online)

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“The specificity of identification practices in the conditions of war and ecocide”

Prof. Dr. Farida Tikhomirov, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy of the Odessa National University named after I.I. Mechnikov, Ukraine:

“Ecocide and urbicide in contemporary feminist studies”

“Nature and environmental crimes of Russia in memes of Ukrainian social networks”

“Psychoanalytic approach to understanding the phenomenon of war and ecocide”

“Ukrainian Women’s Role in Ecocide Resistance: Volunteering and Pet Rescue Amid Russia-Ukrainian War”

12:05-12:20

“Biochemical contamination of the soil during the war and the fight against its consequences”

Prof. Dr. Tentyana Chumachenko, Head of the Department of Epidemiology, Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine (online):

“Epidemic Threats of Ecocide”

“Ecocide in Wartimes: Historical Contexts”

„Das Charisma ukrainischer Frauen in Politik und Kunst vor und nach dem 24. Februar 2022.”

“The Woman Who Remained/Did Not Remain Herself: The Religious Aspect of War and Ecocide”

 “Post-war tasks of overcoming the consequences of Ecocide”

Dr. Tetiana Havlin, University Siegen, Germany:

“Earth and Re-Birth: Resilience, Recovery, and Responsibility in the Wake of War.”       

Prof. Dr. Natalia O. Rynhach, Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the NAS of Ukraine:

“Demography and war”

Prof. Dr. Viktoriia Sychova & Prof. Dr. Larysa Khyzhniak, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine:

“Sexual violence against Ukrainian women as a Russian tactic during the war”

Prof. Dr. Svetlana Kutsepal, Poltava branch of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Ukraine (online):

“Transformation of the image of a woman in wartime conditions: environmental context.”

Olena Slobodyska, a Teacher of the Department of Vocal and Choral Training, Theory, and Methods of Music Education at Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University:

“Formation of socio-cultural competence of future music teachers in the conditions of war”

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Volodymyr Abashnik, Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine*(online):

“Ricarda Octavia Huch (1864–1947): a German Woman Philosopher and Writer against the war”

Prof. Dr. Olena Dobrovolska, Dnipro State University, Ukraine, Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Sciences, HTW Dresden, Germany:

“Economic and Political Aspects of Ecocide”

Volodymyr Abashnik, Oleg Marushenko, Volodymyr Deyneka, Yaroslav Moskvin, Oleksandr Chernukha, Alla Rogova & Oleksiy Trotsenko, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine – Respondents

“The multilayered, inconvenient truth of ecocide in Ukraine: using an ecofeminist lens to plumb the poetry of Ukrainian female poets”

“Feminist Perspective on The Herbert Marcuse’s Concept of the “Logic Domination” in the light of the Current War Crisis”