Knowledge of war experience is passed through personal stories and memories, journalists’ reportages, archives, historical books, documentaries and feature films.

But does this knowledge come out of thin air?

The fourth panel of the «Intersections of the Peripheries» conference is framed by structural and political inequalities, that shape the narratives about war experiences: between grassroots activism and political elites, dominant Western academia and local science, media of capitalist centres and stories from “peripheries”.

Speakers:

– Dana el Kurd, researcher in political science, working on state-society relations in the Arab world with topics like authoritarianism and international intervention, Palestine.

– Eylaf Bader Eddin, researcher, author of When They Cried ‘Forever’: The Language of the Syrian Revolution in 2018, Syria.

– Darya Tsymbaliuk, artist, researcher of the intersection of environmental humanities and decoloniality, as well as imperial heritage, Ukraine.

– Johana Kotišová, journalist, sociologist, author of “Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology: An Ethnography”, Czech Republic.

The discussion is moderated by social anthropologist Volodymyr Artiukh.