Publications

We invite you to submit texts in English for the edited volume entitled: „Pop Culture, Ukrainian Style: Language, Identity and Decolonisation in Wartime Ukraine”.

Editors: Liudmyla Möbius (Justus Liebig University Giessen) & Olha Tkachenko (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences)

This edited volume explores the transformation of Ukrainian popular culture during the Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–ongoing), with particular attention to the period following Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. In times of war, popular culture has become an important space for negotiating identity, language, belonging, cultural memory, and resistance.

Key Questions:

• What role does popular culture play in constructing identity in wartime Ukraine, especially since 2022?
• How has the relationship between Ukrainian and Russian languages in pop culture shifted? Are there any other decolonial processes taking place in this sphere?
• How does popular culture represent, process, and resist the experience of war?

We welcome chapters on music, film, television, comedy, fashion, memes, social media, advertising, visual culture, gaming, celebrity culture, and other forms of contemporary cultural production. Contributions from scholars at all career stages and across disciplines and methodologies are encouraged.

Please submit a 300-400-word abstract, including proposed chapter title, author(s) and affiliation, main research question, methodology, and main argument(s), and a short biography (100-150 words).

Send submissions to:

liudmyla.moebius@uni-giessen.de

olha.tkachenko@ispan.edu.pl

Abstract submission deadline – January 31, 2027. The monograph is scheduled to be published in 2028.

The book proposal will be submitted to the  University of Wisconsin Press.

More information at the link.

We are pleased to announce that the American publishing house Cornell University Press has just published an English translation of the book „Pod klątwą. Społeczny portret pogromu kieleckiego” (2018) by Prof. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir. The monograph has been translated by Ewa Wampuszyc and is published under the title “Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom”.

It is worth noting that the book by Prof. Tokarska-Bakir, after its publication, caused an international response and won several awards and nominations, including: Yad Vashem International Book Prize (2019), the Jan Długosz award for Poland’s best scientific publication (2019) as well as nominations for the NIKE Award (2019) and the Jerzy Giedroyc award (2019).

The translation is published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

The book can be ordered on the publisher’s website: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771484/cursed/#bookTabs=1

Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom, transl. by Ewa Wampuszyc, Cornell University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781501771484.

We recommend the online publication Searching for Identity: Personal Experiences and Methodological Reflections edited by dr Olha Tkachenko from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and dr Ayur Zhanayev from the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization at the University of Warsaw. Dr Marzena Maciulewicz from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences also contributed to the book.

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We are happy to announce the publication of a new book by Dr. Ewelina Drzewiecka: Юбилейно и модерно. Кирило-методиевският разказ през социализма в България. The monograph is an attempt to answer various questions, among others: about the relationship between the scientific and the party discourses on the narrative of the oeuvre of Saints Cyril and Methodius, which is crucial for Bulgarian cultural memory; about the (non)religious nature of their modern cult, as well as its role in the perspective of the so-called communist nationalism.

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