What We Can Learn from Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy

The 2025 Ukrainian Studies Conference continues with a plenary session by Olesya Khromeychuk. This event is part of the 2025 Ukrainian Studies Hub Conference: Revolutions of Hope: Resilience and Recovery in Ukraine, March 6-8, 2025, at the University of Notre Dame. It is hosted by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at Notre Dame. Join us on Friday, March 7, 2025, from 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. ET.

Olesya Khromeychuk, a historian and writer, has served as director of the Ukrainian Institute London since September 2020. She earned her Ph.D. in history from University College London and has taught East-Central European history at several institutions, including the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of East Anglia, and King’s College London. In 2019, she also taught a special module at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Dr. Khromeychuk has been widely published, including the books The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022) and ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians: Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division (2013). Other writing has appeared in media publications such as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. In February 2024, she delivered a TED Talk entitled “What the World Can Learn from Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy.”

Speakers:

• Olesya Khromeychuk, Director, Ukrainian Institute London
• Michael Pippenger, Vice President and Associate Provost for Internationalization, University of Notre Dame

For more information visit the event website.