Olga Dukhnich

A historian of Crimea and Crimean Tatars with a focus on Soviet and post-Soviet periods. In 2021 he defended a PhD dissertation entitled “Crimean Tatars’ Return to the Homeland in 1956–1989”. His research interests include (but not limited to): oral history, memory, trauma, identity, migration and colonialism. Current fellow at Indiana University, Linda Hall Library (Kansas) and Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study. Expert of a Council on cognitive de-occupation.

Journalist and media manager, former editor-in-chief of Bird in Flight, founder of the Bird in Flight Prize photo contest, head of Keep Going Foundation, editor-in-chief of Life in War online outlet, co-founder and producer of the photo archive Ukrainian Warchive.

Cultural manager, communications specialist, reading advocate. She worked in book publishing for 11 years, specifically as the head of the PR & Marketing department at «Old Lion Publishing House», before that as a journalist. Currently, she is the communications director at the NGO «Teach for Ukraine». She also lectures at Litosvita. Together with the Superhumans Centre and «Old Lion Publishing House», she is implementing the social project «Superhumans about the power of books».

Editor-in-Chief, Almanac of Ukrainian Visual Culture (Telegraf) |
Author & Ambassador of Bold Projects

Oleksandra Visych is a literary scholar. She was born and raised in Crimea. Since 2005, she has headed the Lesya Ukrainka Museum in Yalta. She is currently a professor at the National University of Ostroh Academy. She is the author of two scientific monographs.
Primary research interests are the topic of Crimea in Ukrainian literature and the oeuvre of Lesia Ukrainka.

Maryana Savka is a writer and publisher, founder and co-owner of Stary Lev Publishing House. Member of the Ukrainian PEN Center. Performer, artist, singer, composer, author of 25 books for adults and children.

Journalist, TV presenter, vice-president of the Ukrainian PEN, laureate of the «High Standards of Journalism-2020» award and the 2021 Heorhiy Gongadze Award
Host of the political talk show «Count down» and the program «Saints and Sinners» on the Public Broadcaster (2019-2022) From 2022 – the host of the Ukrainian PEN project «Own Names» on the Espresso TV channel. The author of the documentary cycle «The Last War» of Public Broadcaster.

Dr. habil., professor at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, prize-winner of Ukrainian PEN International 2016, member of the board of Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation, member of Ukrainian PEN International, member of the editorial board of Philosophical Thought Journal (Ukraine), member of academic council of LIBRI VIRIDES book series (Germany), member of the Council for Development of Art Arsenal (Ukraine).

Dariia Kuzmych (1991, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian artist, lives and works in Kyiv and Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv and the University of the Arts in Berlin. Through her multimedia practices, such as installation, textile, drawing, video, and text, she explores the impact of traumatic events on the perception of time, transitional periods in society, and the coexistence of different temporalities.