Program Archive

Join us at e-flux Screening Room for “Swamps, Steppes and Souvenirs,” a group screening featuring films by Daryna Mamaisur, Oleksiy Radynski, Darya Tsymbalyuk, and ruїns collective (Teta Tsybulnyk and Elias Parvulesco). The program explores the vastness of Ukraine’s ecology and the powers—both real and imagined—that have shaped its landscape. This program is hosted by the Ukrainian Cultural Festival in collaboration with e-flux.

Environmental destruction has dramatically altered our understanding of home, place and belonging. Tracing ways in which ecological grief is reckoned with across these different contexts, the Thomas Mann House- which recently reopened after the devastating Palisades Fire- presents a conversation between Darya Tsymbalyuk (UChicago) and Ursula Heise (UCLA). Tsymbalyuk will introduce her recent book Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War, followed by a conversation with Heise about the loss of cherished places and the role of storytelling as a way of inhabiting the damaged Earth.