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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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Scientific meeting in Institute of Slavic Studies PAS

On 28.02.24 the Department of Linguistics of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy held its regular meeting. The speaker was Dr. Orest Semotiuk, who presented a paper entitled “Humor as Weapon: Political Cartoons in the Russian-Ukrainian War.”

How political humor works? What are main Humor Theories? How the Russian full-scale aggression in Ukraine is depicted in international and national cartoons and memes? These and other questions have been answered during the presentation and deepen in the following discussion.