Dafna Rachok

Russia looted his artworks and killed his great-grandson, an artist.

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If you are a junior scholar and have recently published a paper or a book chapter on any aspect of postsocialism (broadly defined), submit your paper for the Sonja Luerhmann Article Prize soyuz.americananthro.org/article-prize/ ! We’re looking for good papers to give prizes to ☺️

We are so pleased to share n important essay by @dafnushka.bsky.social regardin the Russian occupation of Ukraine in the first issue of MAQ’s online publicaetion Critical Care:

medanthro.net/critical-car... Vulnerability Is Not a Metaphor – Society for Medical Anthropology

My short piece about vulnerability and care during the invasion of Ukraine is out!

Huge thanks to the MAQ team and especially to Jess Robbins-Panko medanthro.net/critical-car...

She loves stretching on my yoga mat! It’s as if she’s telling me “this is what a proper downward facing dog looks like, you clumsy human”

We had a little snow in Durham, NC and the city went dead because apparently even a whiff of snow equals apocalypse in the US south

why yes i do need all these adjectives and adverbs. they’re there to emotionally support my argument.

I am really looking forward to reading your book! People raved about how good it is, so it’s time I stop pretending I read it and read it for real

Just sent you the pdf, sorry that i move so slow! Happy holidays

Here’s my reading list for the winter break 😊 I’ll try to read as many as I can but I tend to overplan, so I’m also cognizant that it’s a lot of books and it’s okay to not finish all of them before Jan 6. Still, I am super excited to have a cozy and reading-intense holidays

Weird, it wasn’t paywalled before (I don’t have a subscription to NYT and yet was able to access the whole thing). Can send you a pdf, if you’re interested!

Let’s not forget that “the great ru culture” became possible because of assimilation of some writers, artists, musicians and execution of many others

Writers Silenced by Stalin Get New Life Amid War in Ukraine The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to preserve its cultural heritage.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/w...

Unexpectedly there is a decent article in today’s @nytimes.com about the executed renaissance and how Russia continues to destroy Ukrainian culture in the ongoing war (link in the next comment)

Deadly Care: What HIV Policies Reveal about Russia’s Colonial Logic During the Invasion of Ukraine (2014-ongoing) A lecture by Dafna Rachok, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

If you’d like to register, the link is here

www.huri.harvard.edu/event/dafna-...

This Wednesday, 12/4, I am back in Boston, presenting some ideas of mine at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. I will talk about how imperial ambitions sometimes disguise themselves as care about the vulnerable and humanitarianism

I added this book to my reading list today after learning it exists! Somehow I also missed that Robin Wall Kimmerer has written a new book

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Thank you for coming to the event!

I can relate to this

This Thursday (Nov 28), we’re having a virtual book presentation, exploring feminist perspectives on russia’s war on Ukraine

👉 Register now (a link to join the discussion will be sent upon registration): bit.ly/4fWz9zp

If I were to teach a course on Ukraine, I’d adopt this book as well tbh

Thank you, Dafna, for the endorsement! We had a great book panel at #ASEEES24. Anyone interested in purchasing the book, 30% discount code (PSH30) is in my pinned post on the other platform.

Yes, I was there at the book panel, couldn’t miss it! Congratulations on the book again!

Book cover of Russia and Ukraine: Entangled histories, diverging stated

Brought this book from #ASEEES24. And it is amazing. I’ve been reading it on the plane, in the dog park, every spare second I get. A huge thanks to @popovaprof.bsky.social and @oxanashevel.bsky.social for writing such a timely, thoughtful, and easy to read book!

This Friday at #ASEEES I’ll be my usual grumpy self talking about feminist and anti-authoritarian initiatives in Ukraine during war and whether “liberation” even means anything now. I don’t promise to be very articulate, but I do have some thoughts and I’ll be in a good company

My dog was posing for a picture this morning. She makes a great model

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