Culture and identity
Teaching through a blackout
An online school year assumes electricity and internet. In the winter of 2022 Ukraine had neither reliably, and the education system had to be redesigned around…
Culture and identity
Language, memory, heritage under fire, and what a country decides to protect when it cannot protect everything.
Culture and identity
Copying the archive before it can be lost
A physical collection can be evacuated. A digital one can be copied, and a copy in three countries cannot be destroyed by anything. Through 2022 an…
Culture and identity
A school year that began with a shelter requirement
On 1 September 2022 the Ukrainian school year opened under a rule nobody had needed before: a school could hold classes in person only if it…
Culture and identity
Borscht enters the UNESCO list, and the reason is not culinary
On 1 July 2022 UNESCO inscribed the culture of Ukrainian borscht cooking on its list of intangible heritage in need of urgent safeguarding. It sounds like…
Culture and identity
Ukrainian research joins the European programme
In June 2022 Ukraine was formally associated to Horizon Europe, the European Union research and innovation programme. Ukrainian institutions could apply on the same terms as…
Culture and identity
The philosopher's museum burned, and the response was immediate
In May 2022 the museum of Hryhorii Skovoroda in Skovorodynivka was destroyed by fire after a strike. The collection had been evacuated in time. The response…
Culture and identity
Schools that opened their doors, and universities that made room
Under temporary protection, Ukrainian children had the right to schooling from the day they arrived. Across Europe, schools took them in mid-term, and universities and research…
Culture and identity
Sandbags around statues: protecting heritage in the first weeks
Museum staff packed collections into basements. Conservators abroad sent fire-retardant sheeting and packing materials. UNESCO began documenting damage. Very little of this made the news, and…
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