human rights behind bars. Russia and Memorial in the Second Year of the Russian War of Aggression

2023-04-21 16:45:10

Lecture: Irina Sherbakova – Friday, April 28, 2023

Vienna (OTS) – Irina Sherbakova, the co-founder of the human rights organization Memorial (Nobel Peace Prize 2022), managed to escape from Russia before she was expected to be arrested. There, opposition members and civil rights activists have been under even more pressure than before since the war of aggression against Ukraine, and the first show trials have already taken place. In her lecture, Irina Scherbakova will report on the situation of the opposition in Russia, address the resistance against Putin and the war, and give an assessment of the near future, in which the scenarios range from permanent trench warfare to the collapse of Russia. She will also present her own experiences and activities in exile.

Moderation: Renata SchmidtkunzORF

Irina Scherbakowa, born in Moscow, is a historian who worked as a Germanist and translator of German fiction until 1987. From the late 1970s she collected tape recordings of the memories of victims of Stalinism. Since 1999 she has been a member of the Board of Directors and Head of Educational Programs of the Society “Memorial”. Sherbakova is the author of three books: Only a Miracle Could Save Us: Living and Surviving Under Stalin’s Terror (Campus 2000), Torn Memory: Dealing with Stalinism and World War II in Contemporary Russia (Wallstein 2010), Die My father’s hands: a Russian family history” (Droemer & Knaur 2017). Scherbakowa is the recipient of the Carl von Ossietzky Prize (2014), the Goethe Medal (2017) and the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art (2019).

The event is organized by the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).

human rights behind bars. Russia and Memorial in the Second Year of the Russian War of Aggression

A conversation with Irina Scherbakova
Moderation: Renata Schmidtkunz

Datum: 04/28/2023, 2:00 p.m

Ort: Campus of the University of Vienna, lecture hall of the Institute for Eastern European History, Spitalgasse 2, courtyard 3, entrance 2, ground floor
Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria

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