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SUMMARY:Why women’s stories of war matter. Ukraine in a global context.
DESCRIPTION:Location:\n\n\n\n\nInstitut français\n17 Queensberry Place\nLondon\nSW7 2DT \n\n\nJoin us for a conversation on women’s experiences of war\, inspired by stories from Ukraine collected by the Ukrainian writer Yuliia Iliukha in her book My Women. These are diverse\, often unseen and silenced experiences:painful\, intimate\, sometimes even funny. They rarely make newspaper headlines\, yet they are no less important than frontline reports or updates from sites of destruction. \nTogether with Christina Lamb OBE\,Chief Foreign Correspondent at The Sunday Times\, one of Britain’s leading foreign journalists and bestselling author of Our Bodies Their Battlefields and What War Does to Women\, we will discuss why women’s stories matter and how they resonate within a broader global context. \nStories of women’s wartime experiences allow us to better understand the trauma of contemporary war and the ways it shapes daily life. They stay with us. They are remembered\, retold\, and carried forward. They bear witness\, cultivate solidarity\, and help us endure. \n\nSpeaker \n\n\nYuliia Iliukha \n\nYuliia Iliukha is a poet\, prose writer and journalist\, born in 1982 in Kharkiv oblast\, Ukraine. She is the author of several books for adults and children. Her poems and prose stories have been translated into over fifteen languages. Iliukha has received awards\, including the Oles Honchar International Ukrainian-German Literary Prize\, the Smoloskyp Prize\, and the Rotahorn Literaturpreis. My Women won the BBC Book of the Year 2024 in Ukraine and was shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize 2025. The book has been published in the US\, France\, Sweden\, Slovakia\, Austria\, Poland\, Greece\, Lithuania and Italy\, with translations forthcoming in Bulgaria\, Latvia\, Spain and Finland. Illukha is currently working on a novel. \n\nModerator \n\n\nChristina Lamb \n\nCovering conflicts across the globe for the past 38 years\, Christina Lamb is recognised as one of the world’s leading foreign correspondents and is Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times as well as a bestselling author. \nHer dispatches with the Afghan mujaheddin fighting the Soviet Union saw her named Young Journalist of the Year at the age of 22. She has since reported everywhere from Israel to Ukraine\, Syria to Zimbabwe and been awarded Foreign Correspondent of the Year seven times as well as Europe’s top war reporting prize\, the Prix Bayeux\, the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Society of Editors and Women in Journalism as well as the Chesney Gold Medal for promoting the understanding of war\, previously awarded to Henry Kissinger and Winston Churchill. Christina’s work has earned her international renown not only as a ground-breaking journalist but as a campaigner for women impacted by war.  She has authored ten books\, including Our Bodies Their Battlefields\, What War Does to Women and co-writing I Am Malala with Malala Yousafzai. \nShe is a Global envoy for UN Education Cannot Wait\, on the board of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting\, and an Associate of the Imperial War Museum and was awarded an OBE in 2013 as well as an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 2026. \n  \n 
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/why-womens-stories-of-war-matter-ukraine-in-a-global-context/
LOCATION:Cinema Lumiere\, 17 Queensberry Place\, London\, London\, SW7 2DT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Culture as security: how culture protects us
DESCRIPTION:An evening of conversation exploring the ways in which culture protects\, provokes and sustains societies. Together with a distinguished panel of speakers we will examine the role of culture in national security\, the ways in which cultural narratives strengthen resilience\, civic identity and democracy\, and what it means when culture itself comes under attack. \nHosted by Kirsty Lang (BBC Radio 4)\, this crucial conversation will feature Mariam Naiem (Ukrainian writer\, researcher and educator)\, Charlotte Higgins (The Guardian) and Yassmin Abdel-Magied (Sudanese diaspora writer and social advocate). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nFull price – £15.00Concession – £7.50Young person (16–25) – £6.00Universal Credit / Pension Credit (ID required) – £6.00  \n  \n\n\n\n\nBook here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\nMariam Naiem \n\nMariam Naiem is a Ukrainian writer\, researcher\, and educator examining Ukraine through a post-colonial lens. Since 2015\, she has been educating global audiences about Ukrainian society and culture. Her work includes the graphic novel A Brief History of a Long War (available in multiple languages) and The Guide for Self-Decolonization (Ukrainian). She co-hosts award-winning podcasts on decolonial practices\, has spoken at Harvard\, Penn State\, and international conferences\, and her commentary appears in The New York Times\, Politico Europe\, and Der Spiegel. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\nYassmin Abdel-Magied \n\nYassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese diaspora writer and broadcaster. Yassmin is the author of the essay collection Talking About a Revolution (2022)\, and her debut novel At Sea\, (May 2026). Founding Youth Without Borders at 16\, Abdel-Magied is now an award-winning speaker on social justice\, delivering keynotes and workshops in 25 countries. Her TED talk has over 2.8 million views and is one of TED’s top 10 ideas. She created the website eyesonsudan.net and supports sudandigitalarchive.com\, a free\, open source digital archive for Sudanese collective memory. \nPhoto Credit: Alex Cameron \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\nCharlotte Higgins \n\nCharlotte Higgins is the chief culture writer of The Guardian\, contributing work across the paper on art and the politics of culture. Since 2022\, she has been reporting regularly from Ukraine. Her book Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War (Jonathan Cape)\, is published in August 2026\, with a Ukrainian translation expected the following year. With Mary Beard\, she is co-host of the podcast Instant Classics\, and most of her books draw on her interest in classical history\, literature and culture. Her works include Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain and Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths. Her most recent book\, Greek Myths\, with illustrations by Chris Ofili\, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. \nPhoto Credit: Nastya Telikova \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\nKirsty Lang \n\nKirsty Lang is a journalist and broadcaster who works for BBC Radio and Television. She was formerly on the staff of The Sunday Times and Channel 4 News\, working as a presenter and reporter. Lang was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York for several months at the beginning of 2012. She chairs the Board of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead and since 2014 has been on the board of the British Council.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/culture-as-security-how-culture-protects-us/
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SUMMARY:Impact of Impunity for Europe and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss new challenges to justice in Ukraine and the far-reaching implications of impunity for European and global security. \nThis expert panel brings together specialists from Truth Hounds\, a human rights organisation documenting and investigating war crimes\, and The Reckoning Project\, an international initiative combining legal action\, journalism\, and documentation to pursue accountability. \nWith over 164\,000 war crimes cases pending in Ukraine\, the discussion will examine why investigations and prosecutions must expand beyond Ukraine’s borders\, how international solidarity and shared responsibility can help counter impunity\, and what is at stake when accountability is treated as a bargaining chip in peace negotiations. \nThe panel will also explore reparations\, prosecutions underway in Ukraine and abroad\, and emerging legal challenges—including the unregulated use of new weapons such as drones—situating Ukraine’s struggle for justice within shifting global norms and the future of international security. \nThis event is co-organised by the Ukrainian Institute London\, and the Delegation of the European Union to the UK. \nOpening remarks:\nAmbassador Pedro Serrano\, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom \nSpeakers: \n\n\nWendy Betts – Legal Director for The Reckoning Project and a consultant to the Oxford Institute for Justice and Technology \n\n\nOksana Pokalchuk – Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Co-Executive Director of Truth Hounds \n\n\nZera Kozlyieva – Legal Director at Truth Hounds \n\n\nTsvetelina van Benthem – Legal Expert at The Reckoning Project \n\n\nModerator:\nNigel Gould-Davies\, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia\, International Institute for Strategic Studies \nThe discussion will be followed by an informal drinks reception and networking. \nSpeaker \nOksana Pokalchuk \nOksana Pokalchuk is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Co-Executive Director of Truth Hounds\, an investigative NGO documenting international crimes committed during Russia’s war against Ukraine. She has previously worked at the European Court of Human Rights and served as Executive Director of Amnesty International Ukraine. Her work lies at the intersection of legal accountability\, documentation\, and international advocacy\, advancing justice through global solidarity and international legal mechanisms. \nSpeaker \nDr Tsvetelina van Benthem \nDr Tsvetelina van Benthem is a lecturer in Law and Technology at the University of Reading School of Law and a lecturer in international law at the University of Oxford. She is a senior legal adviser at The Reckoning Project. Tsvetelina is a generalist international lawyer specialising in international humanitarian law\, human rights law and international criminal law. \nSpeaker \nZera Kozlyieva \nZera Kozlyieva is the Legal Director at Truth Hounds\, a Ukrainian investigative NGO documenting war crimes and other international crimes committed during Russia’s war against Ukraine. A former prosecutor at the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine\, she has extensive experience in international legal cooperation\, parliamentary engagement\, and the investigation of crimes committed in occupied territories. At Truth Hounds\, she coordinates legal investigations\, works on universal jurisdiction cases\, and trains investigators\, prosecutors\, and judges on international humanitarian and criminal law. She is a Crimean Tatar and has been focused on accountability for crimes related to the occupation of Crimea and the war since 2014. \nSpeaker \nWendy Betts \nWendy Betts is an expert in documenting\, analyzing\, and preserving evidence of human rights violations and international crimes and ensuring the information is used effectively for accountability. She is currently the Legal Director for The Reckoning Project and a consultant to the Oxford Institute for Justice and Technology. She previously served on the Legal and Policy Advisory Council of the Conflict Observatory\, a consortium that investigated and reported on alleged war crimes in Ukraine and Sudan. Prior to that\, she was the founding Director of eyeWitness to Atrocities\, an organisation that combines law and technology to promote accountability for serious international crimes. eyeWitness was awarded the 2016 Innovation in Global Security Prize from the Global Centre for Security Policy. Additionally\, Wendy has worked as the Director of the American Bar Association War Crimes Documentation Project\, overseeing projects in the Balkans and west Africa. She has also served on the Technology Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. \nModerator \nNigel Gould-Davies \nDr Nigel Gould-Davies is Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He previously served in the British Foreign Office as head of the Economic Section in Moscow (2003–2007)\, Ambassador to Belarus (2007–2009)\, and project director in the Strategy Unit. He has held senior government relations positions in the energy industry\, and taught at Oxford University. He is author of Tectonic Politics: Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation (Brookings\, 2019). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/impact-of-impunity-for-europe-and-beyond/
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