21-24. November 2024 Dr. Orest Semotiuk participated in the 56th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). His presentation “Ideology vs. Quasi-Ideology: Ruscism and “Ukrofascism” in World, Ukrainian, and Russian Political Cartoons and Memes” was a part of the panel “Make Laughter, Not War: Caricature, Emotion, and Politics in the Post-soviet Era”.

10-11. October 2024 Dr. Semotiuk participated in the Symposium “Visual Rhetorics of Humor: Using and Forming an Iconography of Stereotypes”. The symposium was organized by Kondas Centre of Naive and Outsider Art (Viljandi) and Estonian Literary Museum (Tartu).

Dr. Semotiuk presented his paper “Impartiality vs. Partiality: Political Cartoons on Russian-Ukrainian War (international and national context)

On September 23-25th Dr. Orest Semotiuk participated in the international conference “Difficult Neighborhoods: The Semiotics of Conflict in Culture, Literature and Language” in Krosno. He presented a paper “Imagefare: Russian-Ukrainian Armed Conflict in Global and National Political Cartoons (Multimodal Content Analysis)”.

The event was co-organized by The Institute of Humanities of the State University of Applied Sciences in Krosno, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, St. Mary’s University College, Queen’s University, Belfast, and Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies.

The 30th International Conference of Europeanists took place in Lyon, France, from July 3rd to 5th, 2024. Organized by the Council for European Studies (CES), the conference focused on the theme “Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation, and Reaction.”