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Laughter during the war: Russian agression in Ukraine in political cartoons and memes

Modern wars differ from the classic ones in that they use not only military equipment and regular troops. Values, ideology, culture, symbols, media, humor are becoming weapons in the 21st century.
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Dr. Orest Semotiuk in Estonia

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)