Natasha Klimenko is a doctoral fellow and instructor at Freie Universität Berlin, where she researches Soviet and European art, intellectual, and cultural history. Her dissertation project considers the interplay between artistic institutions and the building of socialism in Soviet Central Asia. She also teaches courses in cultural studies and edits nonfiction.
Lidia Kuzemska is a sociologist working on forced migration, internal displacement, borders, and citizenship. She was a 2022-25 Prisma Ukraïna fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the Forum Transregionale Studien and academic coordinator of the research group War, Migration, Memory. She is currently a research affiliate at the Internal Displacement Research Programme (SAS, University of London) and a part-time lecturer in Sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv).
Yelizaveta Landenberger is a research associate at the Chair of East Slavic Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and also works as a freelance journalist and translator. Previously, she worked as a language assistant at the Goethe-Institut Ukraine. Yelizaveta is passionate about contemporary cultures from Central and Eastern Europe. Her articles have been published in taz, F.A.Z., and dekoder, among others.
Viktoriya Sereda is a sociologist and the head coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. From 2024 to 2025 she was the senior academic advisor to the research group Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration, Memory. She initiated and directed the project from 2022 to 2023 at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin.
Read the volumes here:
Sereda, Viktoriya (ed.), War, Migration, Memory. Perspectives on Russia´s War Against Ukraine. Forum Transregionale Studien – Dossiers, 4/2025, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2025. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839475874
Klimenko, Natasha, Migle Bareikyte, and Viktoriya Sereda (eds.), Images and Objects of Russia's War against Ukraine. Forum Transregionale Studien – Dossiers, 5/2025, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2025. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839400869
Kuzemska, Lidia (ed.), Fragmented Lives in Times of War. Displacement Within and From Ukraine. Forum Transregionale Studien – Dossiers, 6/2026, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2026. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839477427
