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On 27.02. 2025, an event was held at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences to commemorate the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to summarise a grant implemented by Dr Orest Semotiuk at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences entitled ‘Laughter during war: Russian aggression in Ukraine in political cartoons and memes’ (NCN Polonez Bis 2023-2025).

On the 3rd anniversary of Russian full-scale aggression of Ukraine Dr. Orest Semotiuk participated in two online conferences. The first conference Ukraine: towards the West. Culture, Values and Language was organized by the Faculty of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Dr.Semotiuk’s presentation Ukrainian Refugees in International and National Political Cartoons and Memes on Russian Full-scale Aggression: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis was a part of the panel Images of War.

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.