Conferences / Lectures (Recent)

Invited Lectures and Invitational Symposia:

  • June 19, 2025: Presentation “What is the role of Eastern Europe in decolonizing art history?” at the Roundtable on Decolonization, organized by Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA), New York, USA.
  • January 27, 2025: “Hell Risen from Chornobyl: Apocalypse, Anthropocene, and Anarchist Insurrection in Volodymyr Kuznetsov's Destroyed Last Judgment.” Lecture presented at the Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
  • November 19, 2024: “Displaced Performers: Artmaking at the EU/Ukraine’s State Border” Lecture presented at the interdisciplinary seminar “RETHINK. Objects, models, and methods in Humanities and Social Sciences since the invasion of Ukraine,” French Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), Praha, Czech Republic.
  • September 25, 2024: “Preserving the Past or Erasing History? Ukraine's Medieval Churches and Russian Colonial Ideology.” Lecture presented at the Institute for German as a Foreign Language Philology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, October 17, 2023; Förderverein des Historischen Instituts, University of Mannheim, Germany.
  • September 23-24, 2024: “Saving Religious Heritage in Times of War.” Keynote lecture at the conference “Religious Heritage in Transition: Challenges and Solutions” organized by Future for Religious Heritage (FRH), Krakow, Poland.
  • September 25, 2023: “Why Ukraine’s Medieval Churches are under Threat of Reconstruction.” Key-note lecture at the conference "Reconstruction of Religious Buildings in 20th and 21st century Europe. Monuments, Heritage, Identity" organized by the Chair of Architectural History, RWTH Aachen, Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwkUyQRm9CM&t=1278s.
  • December 8, 2022: “(Post-)Byzantine Akathistos Cycles and the Natural Word: An Ecocritical (Re)Interpretation.” Lecture presented at a seminar “Global Perspectives on Art & Ecology II,” Department of Architecture at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • May 25, 2022: “Kenji Yanobe's Atom Suit Project in Chornobyl: An Ecocritical and New Materialist Interpretation.” Presentation at a seminar “Global Perspectives on Art & Ecology,” Department of Architecture at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • December 7, 2022: “The Clash of Images: Religious Art and Social Flux in Early Modern Ukraine.”Lecture presented at a research seminar “(Dis)Continuities: Navigating Through the History of Ukrainian Art,” Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, Italy.
  • October 13, 2022: “The Sovereign's Image and its Site-Specificity in Kyivan Rus'." Lecture presented at a lecture series “From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine: Virtual Conversations on History, Art, and Cultural Heritage,” Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., USA https://vimeo.com/820556342?fl=pl&fe=vl.
  • February 7, 2020: “How Can Art Fight Back? Refugee artists and the Ukrainian crisis," Lecture presented at at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, USA.
  • October 22, 2019: “Surmounting Chernobyl: Artistic Responses to Ecological Disaster." Lecture presented at the Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
  • February 11, 2019: “Breaking Through the State Border as an Art Project.” Lecture presented at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Conference Presentations:

  • October 21-28, 2024: “Postcolonial Perspectives on the Restoration and Reconstruction of Medieval Churches in Ukraine” Paper presented at the workshop “Dislocated Landscape: Disruptions and reconfigurations in the humanities and social sciences since the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” French Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), Praha, Czech Republic.
  • June 23-29, 2024: “Invisible Chornobyl: Alice Miceli's Radiography and the Hyperobject of Nuclear Disaster.” Paper presented at 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), Lion, France.
  • January 26, 2024: “Circularity in the traditional wooden architecture of the Ukrainian Carpathians.” Paper presented at the 3rd International Paul-Frankl-Kolloquium organized by WIR!-Bündnis GOLEHM, Halle (Saale), Germany.
  • January 15-19, 2024: “Digitalizing Ukraine’s Museum Collections in Times of War." Paper presented at the conference “The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2024” organized by the Belvedere, Vienna, Austria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t047ljumy9g.
  • October 26-28, 2023: “Stencils and Relief Ornamentation in Post-Byzantine Icons from the Ukrainian Carpathians.” Paper presented in co-authorship with Oksana Sadova-Mandyuk at the conference “Late medieval stencil painting of the 15th and 16th centuries on wooden objects in Central Europe: Cultural History, Art Technology, Conservation” organized by Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen, Dresden, Germany,
  • August 22-27, 2022: “Wall-Paintings in Rituals: A 16th-Century Case From Kyivan Metropolitanate.” Paper presented at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice and Padua, Italy.
  • February 17–19, 2022: “Living Through Undead Phantasm: the Chernobyl Zone in Diana Thater's Video Installation.” Paper presented at the 110th CAA Annual Conference, New York, USA, Online.
  • January 17-21, 2022: “Helping migrants/breaking borders: art's agency and world's biopolitical divide.” Paper presented at the 35th CIHA World Congress “MOTION: Migrations,” São Paulo, Brazil.
  • November 5-6, 2021: “The Akathistos cycles and Identity (Re-)Formation in the Kyiv Church Metropolia around 1627 CE.” Paper presented at the scholarly workshop “The Kyiv Church Metropolia searching for its identity in the 16th – 18th centuries,” Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, Online.
  • February 10-13, 2021: “Ecological Agency of Art: Kenji Yanobe's Descent into Chernobyl's Necrolandscape." Paper presented at the 109th CAA Annual Conference, New York, USA, Online.
  • November 1-2, 2019: “One Artist Army: Serhii Zakharov vs. Russia's Military-Visual Complex." Paper presented at the conference "Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations," Columbia University, New York, USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ZydJQ8hpQ&t=50s
  • February 21-24, 2018: “In the Name of ‘External Proletariat’: Artists Against State Borders.” Paper presented at the 106th College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles.

Conference Panels Organized:

  • November 27-29, 2024: “From Maidan to the War: Mapping Ukraine through Its Musics” Panel chair at “Ukrainian diplomacy and musical creation 2014–2024,” French Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), Praha, Czech Republic.
  • February 10-13, 2021: “Visuality of the Disease and the Future of the World." Pannel co-chaired with Halyna Kohut at the 109th CAA Annual Conference, USA, Online.
  • February 12-15, 2020: “Global Conversations 2020: Things Aren't Always as They Seem: Art History and the Politics of Vision." Session chaired at the 108th CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, USA.
  • February 13-16, 2019: “Global Conversations 2019—Creative Pedagogy: Mapping the In Between across Cultures." Session chaired at the 107th CAA Annual Conference, New York, USA.
  • February 12, 2019: Moderator at the CAA-Getty International Program Preconference, New York, USA.
  • February 15-18, 2017: “Holy Images on the Move.” Session chaired at the 105th College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, USA.