Ukraine’s Global Identity: Eurocentric and Decolonial

As the full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues into its third year, Ukraine is grappling with multiple identities on a global level, marking its path towards Europe, anti-colonial resistance, and deeper underlying decolonial processes while fighting Russia's war on its territory. In this discussion, panelists examined the ways in which Ukraine can embrace its European political and cultural orientation while confronting its own colonial past and fostering new disentangled discourses. They focused on the role that cultural diplomacy and the re-examination of contested history play in this process. The panel proposed theoretical and practical interpretations of Ukraine's complex and multivectoral historical, geographic, and political landscapes and discuss key transformative policies leading the resistance of Ukrainian society against external aggression.