22/03/2026
discussion
Personal Dimensions of War
This Cat Was Drawn During the War
The conversation focuses on war through personal and embodied experience. Drawing on literature, historical research and material culture, participants reflect on the loss of home, language and established ways of life, as well as on the fragile structures of everyday survival.
- Participants:
- Anna Gruver — writer from Donetsk, author of the novel Immovable Property (Donetsk — Kyiv/Kraków).
- Karolina Sulej — doctoral researcher at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw, where she works in the Holocaust Memory Research Group; fashion history expert, author and co-author of several books, including Personal Effects: Stories of Clothing in Concentration Camps and Death Camps.
- Moderator:
- Kateryna Iakovlenko — curator, visual culture researcher and writer from Ukraine.
