Guest Presentation – Stolen Children: Russia’s abductions in Ukraine
Ukrainian Canadian Congress | London Branch invites you to a presentation and discussion with excerpts from the film Uprooted.
Guest speakers: Professor Oleksa Drachewych, PhD, with Mr. Dan Ward, MACPRP
Admission is FREE. Please note that seating capacity in the museum theatre is limited. Seats are available on a first come, first serve basis.
About the Speakers:
Oleksa Drachewych is an Assistant Professor of History at Western University, and a lecturer in History at King’s University College. His research interests have focused on Soviet history, modern international relations, and the history of international communism. His current research focuses on connections between the Soviet experience during the Second World War and Russian efforts in Ukraine today. He is also working on a textbook on the global history of totalitarianism. He has also written on the instrumentalization of history in Putin’s Russia, including on Russia’s relations with the Global South, and on the influence of international communism on global anti-imperialism. He is the author of The Communist International, Anti-Imperialism and Racial Equality in British Dominions (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor (with Ian McKay) of Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).
Dan Ward is a Registered Psychotherapist who has been working with children and youth in various mental health settings for over 33 years. In his current practice, he employs a wide range of modalities to treat victims of trauma and PTSD: such as Animal and Equine Assisted Therapy, EMDR and Clinical Hypnosis.