nadiya chushak
nadiya chushak is a professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is an activist, educator, and anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Their research centers around the culture of memory, nostalgia, and post-socialism, with a particular focus on identity politics, memory, feminism, and queer theory and practice. They play a crucial role as the coordinator of human rights programs at the Docudays International Documentary Film Festival and are a founding member of the “Feminist Workshop” initiative. Since the spring of 2022, nadiya has been involved in the Invisible University for Ukraine.
The course aims to engage students in a dialogue with different disciplinary frameworks that explore the concepts of sexuality and decoloniality, and their intersection with other epistemic categories. These frameworks, that include anthropology, sociology, gender, queer and trans* studies, are introduced with attention to and focus on the “decolonial option” as a method and source of knowledge.