Tereza Hendl
@terezahendl
Philosopher / global (health) justice, critical perspectives on East-West hierarchies of knowledge / decolonial, antifascist and CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
“The German occupiers did not only massacre large parts of the civilian population; they also burnt Warsaw to the ground, specifically targeting museums and other cultural sites. The aim was to wipe out Poland’s national heritage. Warsaw was the most destroyed city of the Second World War...”
RUTA in der TAZ. Thanks to the stubbornness of Czech émigré, art historian, critic, and curator Noemi Smolík. taz.de/Konferenz-ue...
War in monochrome. By artists on the frontlines who paint while hiding in trenches. Exhibited at INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange, which leads the documenting of Ukrainian wartime experiences and fosters intellectual exchange with the broader world: www.index-ukraine.org/en/about
I so vividly remember looking at Victoria at a Polish institute in Berlin, listening to her describe her work documenting russian war crimes, and feeling an intense fear for her life. Now I’m reading her unfinished book in Ukraine after russian occupiers killed her. These crimes are unforgivable 1/2
Lviv is still going. We had a long conversation with Ayshe from Crimea, who has been speaking here for days and told me about her banner and the protests’ ongoing demands.
Eagerly listening to our #Ruta2026 featured panel on rooted and environmental knowledges, with Emine Ziyatdin, Kadri Tüür, Aigerim Kapar, joining us in Ukraine & @seyeabimbola.bsky.social from the unceded land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation in Sydney with critical insights on global health
Some highlights: from much-needed conversations about Ukrainian feminine/ist resistance to interdisciplinary perspectives from Malaysia, Indonesia, Peru and Brazil, and the complex legacies of East-European and Middle Eastern relations, where we also gave a shout-out to Syrian-Ukrainian solidarities
The opening ceremony of the International Conference of Ukrainian Studies, “Ukraine in the World”, at the Lviv National Opera. With @radityodharmaputra.bsky.social, listening to Alim Aliev speak about the importance of embedding Crimean Tatar Studies into the core of Ukrainian Studies
With the core of Crimean Tatar Studies, art and literature: Emine Ziyatdin, Alim Aliev and Martin-Oleksandr Kisly Qırım serbest olacaq!
Melanie Altanian’s book The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism is a key source I build on, and her feedback is invaluable. Very glad to have been read by scholar of transitional justice Selbi Durdiyeva, historian of Ukraine and the USSR Yuliia Skubytska and literary scholar Annette Werberger.
Much gratitude to fellow philosopher Melanie Altanian for organizing a seminar discussion on my book-in-progress, Nothing About Us Without Us: Justice and Knowledge Making, which takes a close look at context-specific patterns of epistemic injustice and genocide denial in debates about Europe’s East
Last day in the OSA archive. Found a 1970 headline that feels like a summary of the Soviet historical legacy in a nutshell
For detox, more powerfully critical work by Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko "May That Nuclear War Be Cursed!" 1978 I wear her art at the archives, her defiance gives me strength
On the Soviet mismanagement of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, the disaster caused by it, the systemic suppression of information about the impact of radiation by the same Moscow management, and the audacity to follow the necropolitics with a gaslighting poem and more nuclear testing in Qazaqstan
This. And not only did Der Spiegel frame the Third German Empire’s invasion of the Soviet Union, over the Belarusian and Ukrainian lands and people as a “war against Russia”, but also as “Hitlers war”, perhaps in recognition of the so many Adolf Hitlers who participated in, supported, and enabled it
Stanislav Menzelevskyi on Chornobyl cinema, ecology, technology and film in Ukraine, at the OSA Archivum Visegrad lecture series
Michał Murawski in Solidarity across fault lines: Is methodological (inter)nationalism possible at the Venice Biennale? A text that is highly worth reading. Michal will be following up on this analysis on our featured art panel at the Ruta 2026 conference in Ukraine artslooker.com/en/solidarit...
…scholar of transitional justice Selbi Durdiyeva, which develops an analysis that traces similar patterns of epistemic and material injustice in their broader transregional context that also encompasses Central Asia, which is how I then approached the OSA archive www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔥🔥🔥 Coming up at the Department of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague www.usd.cas.cz/aktuality/in...