Ukraine, Chechnya and the Fight for Freedom

Anna Gunin is a translator from Russian. Among her translations are Svetlana Alexievich’s Chernobyl Prayer (co-translated with Arch Tait), Mikail Eldin’s war memoir The Sky Wept Fire (winner of an English PEN award) and Pavel Bazhov’s folk tales in Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov (shortlisted for the 2014 Rossica Prize).

Daria Mattingly is a lecturer in European History at the University of Chichester and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she received her doctorate and is an affiliated lecturer. Dr Mattingly’s teaching covers Soviet History, Russian and Chinese contemporary history. Daria frequently contributes to international media, including CNN, L’Express, Ukraina Moderna, and Ukrainska Pravda. She is the author of four book chapters and several articles, one of which received the ASN doctoral paper prize in 2015. Daria is finishing her book, titled Stalin’s Activists, on rank-and-file perpetrators of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor.

Javaad Alipoor is a British-Iranian, Manchester-based and Bradford-built artist, writer and founding Artistic Director of The Javaad Alipoor Company. The Company takes stories beyond the stage through powerful multi-platform creations that explore the intersection of politics and technology in the contemporary world.