The front cover of Linas 12. field note from Kyiv called melt. A black and white image, mostly covered with a light blue rectangle, serif typeface writing that says "field note 12 Melt".

I've been keeping a field diary in Kyiv. From that I started writing short pieces last year. I didn’t know if anyone would care. But the practice mattered: paying attention, noting things down, giving form to what stayed with me.

This year they found a new home on Substack.

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Vietnam was the first so-called “living room war,” watched on TV and seen through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured the war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. See the photos, 50 years after the war ended. nyti.ms/4iG1Kd0

Interesting report just out from @itrustai.bsky.social "Report on the Survey “Digitization and Artificial Intelligence for Archives and Documentary Heritage Materials”. Organizations are at an early stage of uptake & risk analysis in employing AI when digitizing and processes need to be developed...

She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.

Incredible and haunting reporting by @catebrown.bsky.social, @osviz-jarrett.bsky.social, Catherine Belton, Anastacia Galouchka & others: “She took risks not for the sake of bravery or being recognized, but because she believed it was her duty" www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Ukrainian teenagers who live on Russian-occupied Ukrainian lands have secret book clubs to discuss Ukrainian books.They take great risks doing that as anything Ukrainian is prohibited. The teenagers can be taken away from parents,be interrogated or face other dire consequences

dMSA February 2025 - Monuments and Territory - War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine YouTube video by Memory Studies Association

A recording of the dMSA seminar in which Mykola Homanyuk and I presented our book is now available.
Thanks a lot to Violeta Davoliūtė for chairing, and to Katarzyna Anzorge, Ulla Savolainen, and Lana Đaković for organizing the session!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVpDP0xDCY0

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

International educational conference: "(Re)member. Is Memory Enough in the 21st Century?"

June 30 to July 2, 2025.

We invite experts to participate in a discussion on the significance of memory in shaping our moral responsibility.

Details: www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/ne...

Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics A series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure

Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics

www.ft.com/content/02d55623-fea8-42...

Ukrainische KollegInnen verbreiten jene Fotos aus Butscha und anderswo, die so schrecklich sind, dass sie sie bisher nicht gezeigt haben. Those are the days.

The talk in Europe is “how to get a seat at the table.” Respectfully, that’s the wrong question. The right question is, “how can Europe build a new table.”

This is an interesting take on right's love of generative AI, but I think it's ultimately misleading. The main problem is that it compares AI slop to the work of artists. But the use of generative AI has little to do with art, and much more with stock photos and other already generic imagery
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When the symbols of Ukrainian resistance fade War fervour has subsided in Ukraine, but not the desire to live and the drive to carry on against all odds.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Lovely. But can we please stop using "former Soviet republics" as a category? It has been 33 years.

A hand holding up a copy of Sally Stein's Migrant Mother, Migrant gender to the camera.

A bit off topic but I'm enjoying this immensely! A wonderful example of studying an image in depth. Plus, it gives an insight into the practice, life and relationships of a 'difficult woman'.

How should we look at images of horror and suffering? | Aeon Essays W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them?

My father was a photographer. He taught me how to look at the world and its images. I am grateful to Aeon and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for commissioning & sticking with this essay. 🙏

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#WEugeneSmith #eugenesmith #minamata #imagesofhorror #photography #photographers

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Bilder vom Krieg #25 Fotografische Perspektiven auf den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine: Pernille Sandberg / Quelle: dekoder

Wie kommt der Krieg auf den Laufsteg? Die dänische Fotografin Pernille Sandberg thematisiert die große Kraft, die die Ukraine aus ihrer Kultur schöpft. Folge 24 unserer Serie „Bilder vom Krieg“. www.dekoder.org/de/article/u...

Art for Justice: What Ukraine’s Artistic Heritage Teaches Us about Russian Imperialism In the aftermath of the ground-breaking exhibition of modernism from Ukraine ‘In the Eye of the Storm’, its co-curator Katia Denysova reflects on justice in the realm of art history. Erased by Russian...

This one is especially interesting to me, but every piece in this issue I've read so far has left an impression. Two translations of Vasyl Stus poems or Yevhen Shybalov asking himself what makes a humanist kill, just to pick out two more contributions.

www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/art-fo...

Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights

A new wonderful collection of historical feminist texts from East and Central Europe (including the Baltic countries).

Edited by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz

ceupress.com/book/texts-a...

“Documenting caregiver culture on social media allows us to identify the contributions that caregivers and care communities make, along with the barriers they face.” Amanda Gray Rendón Researcher & historian

🩹 Community care is vital—so how do we preserve the support networks built online? Explore why digital preservation matters for these fragile, often-overlooked forms of cultural & social heritage in our latest #VanishingCulture essay.

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CFP: The social experiences of urban space in socialist cities of Eastern Europe

http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145260

Gent, 30.01.2025-31.01.2025, Brigitte Le Normand, Maastricht University; Pieter Troch, Ghent University, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2024

Zwei Tage nach dem Terroranschlag in der Konzerthalle Crocus City Hall bei Moskau, präsentieren Behörden vier der mutmaßlichen Täter – auf ihren Körpern Spuren brutaler Gewalt und Folter. Der Politologie Kirill Rogow schreibt über die zur Schau gestellte Brutalität: www.dekoder.org/de/article/c...

European Heritage Hub Launches Small Grants Scheme for Heritage Projects The European Heritage Hub project has launched a Small Grants Scheme to support projects led by civil society which protect cultural heritage in 11 EU neighbouring countries.

Call for Applications: Small Grants Scheme for heritage-related projects led by Civil Society in EU neighbouring countries. Deadline: 31 March

Dealing with the Russian Aggression against Ukraine through Art Spotlight on Ukraine 4 | Alina Mozolevska

"The artworks, representing individual and collective war experiences, demonstrate the shocking, changing reality of millions of Ukrainians and help to share emotional experiences of the war with others." ZOiS Spotlight by Alina Mozolevska (UNET@ZOiS): www.zois-berlin.de/en/publicati...

Auch wir sind beim Cafe Kyiv dabei! Gemeinsam mit der @dgoberlin.bsky.social organisieren wir die Diskussion "War Trauma: The Effects on Ukrainian Society and Science".

www.zois-berlin.de/en/events/wa...

Programm: cafekyiv.kas.de

Experts to draft recommendations to safeguard cultural heritage in Ukraine European and Ukrainian experts to meet for the third time on 22-23 January 2024 in Brussels. Their goal is to draft policy recommendations for the reconstruction of cultural heritage in Ukraine.

Let's see what comes of it -

Unser "Forum für historische Belarus-Forschung" vergibt auch für 2024 einmonatige Stipendien an belarusische Wissenschaftler*innen und Akteur*innen der historischen Bildung, die sich mit der belarusischen Geschichte befassen.

Mehr Informationen unter: dgo-online.org/forum-fuer-h...

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How to Lose a Library On October 31, 2023, the British Library suffered a massive cyberattack. Since then, what has been lost?

"For good reason, this theft makes me wax existential: What did those cyberterrorists steal, when they stole the library’s entire digital footprint? What is a library, anyway?"

cc: @shannonmattern.bsky.social