Olha Holovina
War in Ukraine Through the Prism of Art
Olha Holovina is a historian with a PhD in History. She is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines at the Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, where she teaches Ukrainian history and culture. She has extensive teaching experience and has published widely. Olha is interested in political ideologies and social movements in Ukraine in the early 20th century and the influence of historical processes on the present. At the moment, she is a visiting researcher in the project “Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia, 1905–2005” held at Heidelberg University. She also has an MA in Project Management, works as a project manager in the field of culture, and has previously organized presentations and concerts by Ukrainian artists. She is currently working to support Ukrainian culture. Olha Holovina is a 2022/2023 Prisma Ukraïna Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien.
War in Ukraine Through the Prism of Art
Within the framework of the project Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration and Memory, I am working on a project and an accompanying event, “War in Ukraine Through the Prism of Art”. I see art as having the potential to promote Ukraine’s current message. Thereby, the aim of the event is to demonstrate the humanitarian tragedy in Ukraine through artistic performance, and, at the same time, to show what the Ukrainian people have hung on to during the last tragic months: a belief in victory, hope, and love. Modern Ukrainian performers will take part in this project. I am also looking for translators to interpret works written by Ukrainian poets. The target audience of the project includes German citizens who support Ukraine, Ukrainians in Germany, contemporary art fans, public organizations, and the media.
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