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I\u2019ll be giving an online public talk called “The Invasion of Ukraine as a Turning Point?” for the University of California Santa Barbara this Tuesday at 4 pm Pacific Standard Time (7 pm Eastern US\/Canada time, 11 pm GMT). It hinges on the idea that the Russian invasion, like other unexpected \u201chyper-events<\/a>\u201d (such as the\u00a0Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>\u00a0or the 1986\u00a0Chernobyl nuclear disaster<\/a>), may provide a historical \u201cinflection point\u201d at which rearrangements of agency \u2014 that is, rearrangement of the structural forces and capacities by which human potentials are shaped and constrained \u2014 could occur. There\u2019s of course no guarantee that they\u00a0will<\/em>\u00a0occur, or that the rearrangements will be for the better and not for the worse. But it’s good to know what kinds of rearrangements might be possible, so that we could better act on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Invasion of Ukraine as a Turning Point<\/strong><\/p>

What are the implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the hindsight of its first six weeks, for world affairs? This talk by Adrian Ivakhiv will highlight the role of media and \u201cinformation war,\u201d the refugee crisis, and policy responses by western and other countries, to understand how the invasion and its apparent failure could reshape the possibilities for global cooperation on other challenges including climate change, refugeeism and migration, and democratic and authoritarian politics. 4:00 pm on Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 via Zoom (Zoom ID: 825 9988 6556).<\/p>

Adrian Ivakhiv is Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture and Steven Rubenstein Professor for Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. He is currently a visiting scholar at UCSB\u2019s Carsey-Wolf Center, where he is researching global media and the changing \u201cinformation ecosystem.\u201d His most recent book is Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times<\/a><\/em> (2018). He has conducted research in Ukraine since 1989 and writes about Ukraine at UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone<\/a>.<\/p>

Sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and the Graduate Center for Literary Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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