22nd – 23rd of May 2025
The Centre for Global Postsocialism together with the Centre for Art and Politics and the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art would like to invite you to our two days of conversations and actions in solidarity with Crimea, its land, and people.
This event comes about shortly after the 81st anniversary of the 1944 genocide and deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet regime and is happening at a time when the peninsula is in its 12th year of occupation by the Russian state. (Re)framing Crimea: Family Archives and Letters of Solidarity will centre the work of Emine Ziyatdin, a Crimean Tatar documentary photographer.
The event runs across two days, and you are welcome to come to any individual part of the event or to join us for the duration of the whole program. Do show up to bear witness to the many ways in which Crimean people have resisted occupation, past and present, and show the political prisoners illegally held in prisons and penal colonies in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, and Russia that they are not alone, and that we remember.
Schedule:
22nd of May
15:00 –16:30: Emine Ziyatdin in Conversation with Kateryna Volochniuk (School 3)
This conversation is framed by the subject of family archives—their role in bridging public and private histories, navigating complex questions of belonging and memory, and serving as potential sites of resistance.
16:30: Photographic Work Guided Tour (Art History Lobby)
Together with Emine we will have a chance to see some of the images from her photo-essay Crimea of Emine Ziyatdin (ed by Ivanna Kozachenko, 2024 and published in the third volume of Living The War).
23rd of May
14:00 – 16:00: Letter Writing Workshop (Anthropology Coffee Room – School V)
In solidarity with the political prisoners and hostages of the Russian occupation in Crimea, which will be facilitated by friends of the Centre.
17:00: Film Screening 1944 Crimea. Deportation (School 3)
We will conclude the program with a screening of a documentary by Fatima Osman and Yunus Pasha
Crimea of Emine Ziyatdin
Crimea of Emine Ziyatdin is an exhibition co-curated by the Centre for Global Postsocialisms and St Andrews CCA, which borrows its name and material from Emine Ziyatdin’s photo essay (edited by Ivanna Kozachenko, 2024) published in the book Living The War: Under Occupation During the Russian War Against Ukraine.The book is the third instalment of the Living the War series, combing photography and text to tell personal stories of experiences of living under occupation since 2014. The exhibition coincides with an event co-organised by Centre for Global Postsocialisms and Centre for Art and Politics entitled (Re)framing Crimea: Family Archives and Letters of Solidarity, which Emine will be attending.