Winners of the FOR UKRAINE Programme
PhD Ewa Wróblewska-Trochmiuk
Dr. Ewa Wróblewska-Trochimiuk, is a doctor of cultural studies, a Slavist, a Croatist, and a researcher of images. She works at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She researches the interface between visual culture and politics. She is interested in images of civil society, but also in images of resistance and disobedience. She is the author of Sztuka marginesów (The Art of Margins), a book on political posters in Croatia, as well as numerous academic articles and translations from Croatian. She is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Sprawy Narodowościowe: Seria Nowa.
PhD Yana Hladyr
Dr. Yana Hladyr is a philologist and literary scholar, a graduate of the Kryvyi Rih National University in Ukraine, and its long-time lecturer. She was awarded the title of associate professor in 2022. She specializes in literary theory, literature, and the Ukrainian language. Her second research specialization is glottodidactics. Since 2006, she has been teaching Ukrainian and Russian to foreigners. In 2021, she published (co-authored) a handbook for teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language Pозмовляємо українською, which was approved in Ukraine as an original study material.
The aim of the project “Visual Narratives of Civil Society: The Modern Ukraine Project.” is to create an archive of visual communication from selected accounts published by Ukrainian public institutions and to develop a catalog of values associated with the collected images – based on materials posted on Ukrainian social media. The researchers assume that the axiological system of the designed new Ukrainian society focuses on cultural and ideological convergence with its international audience, emphasizes its closeness to the political culture of the West, while constructing a modern image of Ukrainian society – in clear opposition to the set of characteristics attributed to the mentality of “Homo Sovieticus.”
