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One War, Two Displacements: Language Practices and Attitudes of Ukrainian IDPs and Refugees (10/28)

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Volodymyr Kulyk. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine forced millions of Ukrainian citizens to leave their homes for safer places in Ukraine or abroad, causing the largest displacement in Europe since World War II. At the same time, an indignation at the unprovoked aggression led millions of Ukrainian to fully or partially abandon the Russian language which they had used exclusively or in some combination of Ukrainian. This process involved not only people who stayed in Ukraine but also those displaced to other parts of Ukraine or abroad. However, these two kinds of displacement were characterized by different social contexts in which people underwent different language changes. Based on data from focus group discussions with IDPs and refugees, Volodymyr Kulyk will discuss recent changes in language practices and attitudes of these two categories of Ukrainians.