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The Dylynsky Memorial Lecture- Russia’s Propaganda State: Creation of the War against Ukraine

Online & in-person
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December 5, 2024 | 6:00PM - 9:00PM
Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, Europe & Eurasia
Location | In-person: Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 & Online via Zoom
ABOUT THE EVENT
In this lecture, Andrew Wilson will explain what ‘political technology’ means in the Russian context. He will delve into how ‘political technology’ has been constructed and used to give the Kremlin total control over domestic politics and how it has expanded into the spheres of history and international affairs, and even into Church matters. ‘Political technology’ methods were utilized by the Putin regime to help craft propaganda that served as a basis for incepting the war of aggression against Ukraine. With time, this war has increasingly been framed by Russian ‘political technology’ as an existential contest between Russia and the entire Western world.
 
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrew Wilson is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at University College London. He is the author of several monographs, including (most recently) Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation (Cambridge UP, 2024) and The Ukrainians: The Story of How a People Became a Nation (new edition; Yale UP, 2022). He is in the final stages of completing his newest book, titled How Russia Created the Propaganda that Helped Create the War against Ukraine.
 
Chair and moderator: Tania Plawuszczak-Stech, Managing Editor of Scholarly Publications at CIUS and Coordinator of the CIUS Dylynsky Lecture Series.
 
This lecture will be followed by a reception
 
 
 
Main sponsor: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS); Co-sponsors: Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine and Centre for European and Eurasian Studies   
Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, Europe & Eurasia
Tanyaa Mehta cees.events@utoronto.ca

Speakers

Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson

Professor of Ukrainian Studies, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

Tania Plawuszczak-Stech
Tania Plawuszczak-Stech (Chair)

Managing Editor of Scholarly Publications at CIUS; Coordinator, CIUS Dylynsky Lecture Series