This event is part of the lecture series on Ukrainian history and culture at the University of Washington in the spring of 2022.

ABOUT THE LECTURE
Children have been at the focus of Soviet authorities' attention starting from the very early years of the USSR. Seen as people who will fulfill the promise of building a transformed communist society, children were subjected to various educational experiments. One of the sites of such experiments was an all-Soviet summer camp Artek, located on the Crimean peninsula. Artek was the only Soviet institution that hosted children from all Soviet republics and even from abroad. Yet, upon a more careful consideration, this model place of friendship and unity can also be seen as a place that established hierarchies among various Soviet regions and ethno-cultural groups--and an institution whose educators never managed to find a way to implement the advertised equality of all Soviet children.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Iuliia Skubytska received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. Her scholarly interests include the history of childhood, history of the USSR and contemporary Ukraine, oral history, and history of emotions. Having defended her dissertation, Dr. Skubytska, a native of Kharkiv, returned to Ukraine to work in a number of NGOs in the Ukrainian civil society sector. For the past year and a half, she has been serving as Project Director at the War Childhood Museum Ukraine.