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.”
13-14.06.2024
Justus Liebig University Giessen/Germany
Main topics: Language ideologies and Language Attitudes, Language Identities, Language, History and Culture in the Russian-Ukrainian War
Presentation „Ideology vs. quasi-ideology: Rashism vs. “Ukrofascism” in World, Ukrainian and Russian political cartoons and memes”.
On 14.05.2024 Orest Semotiuk was a speaker in a seminar as part of the “Ukrainian Tuesdays” series under the auspices of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In his presentation “IDEOLOGY VS. QUASI-IDEOLOGY: ‘Racism’ and ‘Ukrofascism’ in global, Ukrainian and Russian political caricatures and memes he emphasized the importance of the fight against Russian propaganda and disinformation, as well as of defending Ukraine’s national interests abroad. The presentation was followed by an interesting and constructive discussion among the participants.
2-3 May Orest Semotiuk participated in the international conference „Languages and cultures in times of war: (im)possible, (re)imagined, (un)manageable”.
With the colleagues from Institute of Slavic Studies (Warsaw) he took part in the panel “Imagefare, mocking enemies and identity struggle”.
His presentation entitled “How Political Satire became a Weapon in Russo-Ukrainian war” was received with interest and provoked a lively discussion.
Dr. Orest Semotiuk participated in the 34 Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies hosted online by Texas A&M University-Commerce from April 19-21, 2024. There were nearly 200 in attendance, 17 poster presentations, 82 papers and panel presentations, and four plenaries.
On 16 April, Dr Orest Semotiuk took part in the 1st International Scientific Conference ‘Ukraine – 20 years after the Orange Revolution – Security of Europe and the World in the 21st Century in the Context of the War in Ukraine’. The conference was organized in Krakow by the Institute of Journalism and International Relations of the University of the Commission of National Education in Krakow in cooperation with the Polish Geopolitical Society.
On April 5, Dr. Orest Semotiuk, assistance professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies, gave a lecture on “The Russian-Ukrainian War: Political Humor as a Weapon” at the invitation of the Gdansk Branch of the Ukrainian Union in Poland. The lecture was held as part of the promotion of the project “Laughter during war: Russian aggression in Ukraine in political caricatures and memes” under the POLONEZ BIS program of the National Science Center. The lecture was held at the Ukrainian cultural center, and was devoted to the role of political humor in times of war, as well as differences and similarities in global and national political humor.