{"id":13087,"date":"2025-07-27T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/discussion-crimea\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:58:39","slug":"discussion-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/en\/discussion-crimea\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion: \u201cWhy We Need to Talk About Crimea\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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On June 26, 2025, Amsterdam\u2019s De Balie cultural center hosted the discussion <\/b>\u201cWhy We Need to Talk About Crimea\u201d<\/b><\/a> as part of the European Forum on Culture in collaboration with the Past \/ Future \/ Art memory culture platform and the Ukrainian Institute.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n

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Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge, Oksana Dovgopolova, a co-founder of the Past \/ Future \/ Art memory culture platform, and Alim Aliev, deputy director at the Ukrainian Institute, were invited as speakers to discuss the peninsula\u2019s complex history, culture, and geopolitical significance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia began its war on Ukraine by occupying Crimea in 2014, when the \u201clittle green men\u201d came and took it by force. Rory Finnin emphasizes that returning Crimea to Ukraine is the only path to lasting peace. The Russian Crimea is a colonial myth ingrained through many years of repression and ethnic cleansing of Crimean Tatars. But what can Europeans do now, while the peninsula is still under occupation? The scholar offers to de-occupy Crimea cognitively: look into and try to understand its history, culture, and geography.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the European Forum on Culture, Past \/ Future \/ Art and Ukrainian Institute presented two works of contemporary authors about Crimea: the recording of <\/span>Bi\u00f1 Ba\u015f<\/span><\/i> (2025), a performance by Khalil Khalilov and Vlodko Kaufman, and <\/span>Drawing Session on Crimea\u2019s History<\/span><\/i> (2023), Alevtina Kakhidze\u2019s video meditation on the loss of and search for identity.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n

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