Crimean Tatars: 80 Years of Remembrance and Resistance

An expert panel details the rich history and culture of the Crimean Tatars as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the genocide inflicted on them by the Soviet Union. 23 May 2024. Goodenough College.
This event commemorates the 80th anniversary of the deportation (Sürgünlik) of the Crimean Tatars carried out by the Soviet regime on 18 May 1944. Reflecting on the hardships of living in exile and the process of returning to the native land in the 1980s, the panel also discusses the illegal occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014 and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which have further violated the human rights of Crimean Tatars.
This event is organised by the Ukrainian Institute London in partnership with Goodenough College, FeelCan, the Embassy of Ukraine in the UK, and Chevening Ukraine Scholars Elmaz Alimova (LSE) and Ilona Boliubash (King’s College London).
Speakers
Alim Aliev is Deputy Director General of the Ukrainian Institute (Kyiv), a human rights defender, curator of educational and cultural projects, researcher, and journalist. He is a board member of PEN Ukraine, as well as co-founder of the 'Crimea SOS' NGO, and co-author of Mustafa Dzhemilev. Unbreakable, a book about the leader of the Crimean Tatars. Aliev is a member of the supervisory boards of several Ukrainian NGO, and the initiator of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar literary project 'Crimean Fig'. He is also a frequent participant and speaker in Crimean advocacy missions in the Council of Europe, European Parliament, OSCE, UN Security Council, and other political institutions.
Rory Finnin is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge. He launched Cambridge Ukrainian Studies in 2008. He is former Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies (2014-18) and former Chair of the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES) (2011-18). He also focuses on the history of colonialism in Crimea and studies Crimean Tatar literature and culture. His new book, Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (University of Toronto Press, 2022), has won eight international book awards, earning distinctions in the fields of Ukrainian Studies, European Studies, Slavic Studies, nationalism studies, and genocide studies. Finnin is a trustee of the Ukrainian Institute London.
Elmira Muratova, is a post-doctoral researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Germany. She was previously employed at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark and the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Taurida National University in Ukraine. From 2009 to 2014, she provided policy analysis and consultations to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. She is the author and editor of several books and has contributed over sixty research articles and book chapters in the areas of Crimean Tatars’ identity and religion, as well as ethnic and religious developments in Crimea. Her most recent (co-authored) book, Crimean Tatars under the Changes in Political Arena, was published in 2020.
Emine Ziyatdinova is a Crimean Tatar documentary photographer and co-founder and director of the NGO 'Ukrainian Warchive', a digital photo archive of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Born in Uzbekistan, her family was deported from Crimea in 1944 by the Stalin regime. Growing up as part of the Crimean Tatar minority in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union, she gained a firsthand understanding of the human rights issues faced by ethnic minorities and the challenges stemming from the economic and political transition in her country. In the UK, she has contributed her expertise to the non-profit sector, working with organisations such as the Rory Peck Trust and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Her photography projects have been showcased in exhibitions both in Ukraine and internationally.
Moderator
Sasha Dovzhyk is the editor of London Ukrainian Review. She holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Birkbeck, has taught at Birkbeck and UCL SSEES, and edited three books. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, New Lines, Index of Censorship, CNN and others. Having lived in London for nine years, she has recently moved back to Ukraine to work on institutional development.
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Thank you greatly for preparing this video❤
Also, from the bottom of my heart, I thank Prof. Finnin for his work on this topic