Date: February 6, 2026; 14:00-16:00

Location: Landshuter Str. 4, Room 017, Regensburg, 93047

Speaker: Anna Romandash

Organizer: Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies^UR, Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World", “Denkraum Ukraine” / “Think Space Ukraine” at the University of Regensburg, financed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) through the funds of the Federal Foreign Office (AA).

Language: English

Anna Romandash 

Anna Romandash is an award-winning journalist and researcher from Ukraine. She was named Media Freedom Ambassador of Ukraine for her human rights and media work and was one of the winners of the European Institute of the Mediterranean literary contest for her reporting. In addition, she is the recipient of awards from Internews, the Council of Europe and the Samovydets Literary Reportage Contest for her work in Ukraine. She works at the intersection of media, technology, and human rights, and is passionate about making technology more inclusive and digitalizing democracy to better the lives of people in developing democracies. She is the author of Women of Ukraine: Reportages from the War and Beyond (2023).

About the book

This book gathers reportages from Ukraine covering the period between February 2022 and February 2023. It focuses on women’s experiences in wartime — as soldiers, volunteers, refugees, or civilians outside these roles — exploring how they confront conflict and its personal consequences.

The stories range widely: a soldier fighting while her child was deported to Russia; a woman who endured filtration camps to rescue her mother with a disability; another who joined the army after her partner’s death; and a journalist documenting Russian troops amid personal loss. Others portray different facets of resilience — a grandmother tending her garden under bombardment, an African Ukrainian dancer facing prejudice, and a disability activist evacuating others trapped under occupation.

Together, these accounts form a multifaceted picture of Ukrainian women living through war — diverse in circumstance yet united by displacement, endurance, and the search for meaning amid upheaval.

The book presentation is part of the workshop “Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies”, organised by the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies^UR in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World".

Photo: (c) Arnas Šarkūnas, 2018