Book Presentation "Ukraine Not 'The' Ukraine" by Marta Dyczok
Schedule
Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 03:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
145 Evans Avenue, Suite #101, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M8Z 5X8 | Toronto, ON
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Opportunity to meet Marta Dyczok, the author of the "Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine"This book was published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2024
Introduction by Sofia Bodnar, book blogger @millionstories.bookclub and Kontakt Next Gen Reporter
Marta Dyczok's summary of the book:
This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine's twenty-first-century rock star president Volodymyr Zelensky. It presents Ukraine as an actor, not a pawn, in international history. And it focuses on people. In the past, historians wrote about Ukraine from a colonial perspective that portrayed it as a region, not its own entity. This shaped the way people thought about Ukraine and created mental maps where it was just part of something else. Put in contemporary terms, Ukraine was subjected to a historical disinformation war. This Element joins voices that are decolonizing that way of thinking by drawing a different mental map, one where Ukraine exists as itself. It explains how the people living on its lands have their own distinct history, how they shaped it, were shaped by it, and had an impact on both European and global history.
This event is free to the public
Please register by emailing: [email protected]
Co-organizer: Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada
Sponsors: UCU, Delta Bingo, Kontakt Ukr TV
Author:
Marta Dyczok is Professor, Departments of History and Political Science, Western University, Fellow, University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, Adjunct Professor, National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Wilson Fellow (2005-2006), Harvard Shklar Fellow (2011). Author of 7 books, the most recent one is Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine with Cambridge University Press (2024); also Ukraine Calling. A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016-2019 (2021); Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Broadcasting through Information Wars with Hromadske Radio (2016) Ukraine Twenty Years After Independence: Assessments, Perspectives, Challenges (2015), Media, Democracy and Freedom. The Post-Communist Experience (2009), and The Grand Alliance and Ukrainian Refugees (2000). Latest articles: “Ukraine’s Information Warriors,” Journal of Democracy (2022); “Zelens′kyi uses his communication skills as a weapon of war,” Canadian Slavonic Papers (2002). Published numerous book chapters and her articles have appeared, among others, Journal of Democracy, Europe-Asia Studies, Demokratizatsiya, and Canadian Slavonic Papers. Her doctorate is from Oxford University, she researches mass media, memory, migration, and history, and regularly provides media commentary.
Moderator:
Sonia Bodnar is a Toronto-based book blogger and a 4th-year student of the International Relations and Regional Studies bachelor's program. Sonia graduated from George Brown College with a Human Resources diploma with honours in 2022.
Reading is Sonia's biggest passion. Her favourite genres are romance, thrillers, and nonfiction about psychology and neuroscience. You can read her regular posts, book reviews and recommendations on her Instagram book blog @millionstories.bookclub.
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