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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. Semotiuk in London

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.