The lecture explores how Ukrainian women documentary filmmakers draw on cultural memory to narrate and make sense of the experience of war.

Guest lecture given by Małgorzata Radkiewicz
The lecture's analysis is informed by the work of Ann Rigney, Astrid Erll, and Marianne Hirsch, as well as feminist frameworks such as the Women Mobilizing Memory project, which emphasise women’s memory practices as ethical, affective, and politically engaged. From this perspective, the selected documentaries are approached not simply as representations of war, but as cinematic interventions that actively shape how war is remembered and understood.

Bio
Małgorzata Radkiewicz is Professor of Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research focuses on women’s creativity in film, photography, and visual arts, as well as feminist film criticism and the history of women in cinema.

The seminar is co-organized in cooperation between the Yes Seminar and the CEMES research group on European Cultures of Memory.

Information and contact:
Ulla Chowaniec – urszula.chowaniec@sol.lu.se
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa – barbara.tornquist-plewa@slav.lu.se