Lecture by Dr Yuliya Yurchenko on the Challenges and Opportunities of Documenting Inequality amidst Russo-Ukrainian War

We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr Yuliya Yurchenko, INDEX Scholar in Residence and Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the Centre for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich, UK.

The lecture will build on Dr Yurchenko’s experience of researching the structure and the making of inequality in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war, as well as the interaction between state, society, economic entities and nature as mediated via institutional forms. Taking her own research as a case study, she will talk about challenges and opportunities that lie in obstacles to the process, evidential incompleteness and temporal fragility of fragmented evidence.

'Studying and documenting Ukraine at the time of war is a complex task. It requires immense emotional strength to navigate rapidly changing reality where theories and pre-cut analytical lenses do more hindrance than help, where evidence is often patchy and incongruent with the requirements of “academically rigorous research” and likely will not be available soon, if ever. At the same time, security, ethics and health and safety protocols preclude engagement with precisely the research objects, subjects and places which contain the most valuable and most fragile evidence that holds the key to our understanding of the complexity of social phenomena,' says Yurchenko about the subject of her lecture.

— 27 November, 3:10 p.m.

— 2a Kozelnytska St., UCU Academic Building, Room 306

— Working language: English

Registration is required. Please register via the link.