August 2025 Recommended Reading and Viewing

Ukrainian Culture, Russia’s War Against Ukraine, the Alaska Summit, and Challenges to US Democracy

Aug 19 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

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July 2025

Manuscript Submitted: Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections on War, Violence, and Responsibility: Listening to Ukrainian Voices…

Although this will be a short post, I want to let my readers know that I have finally completed my book, Ethical and Hermeneutical Reflections on War…

Jul 30 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

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March 2025

What We Can Learn From Ukrainian Parrhēsia amid US Orwellianism

In contrast with the Kremlin’s abuse of language to serve its imperial and illegal war objectives, Ukrainians’ suffering the consequences of Russia’s…

Mar 19 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

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February 2025

Hermeneutical and Ethical Reflections on Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War

This essay explores what kind of language we speak when war engulfs us, when we are awakened by chaos and “the noise of Russian helicopters.”[1…

Feb 14 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

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January 2025

Erica Franz on Elected Strongmen, Personalists Parties, and The Destruction of Democracies from Within

I recently listened to a fantastic episode of Ezra Klein’s Podcast in which he interviews political scientist Dr.

Jan 31 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

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June 2024

Excerpts from Stanislav Aseyev’s Torture Camp on Paradise Street

Here I offer a few brief reflections on excerpts from Stanislav Aseyev’s book, The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. I plan to write more on Aseyev’s…

Jun 23, 2024 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

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Recent Podcasts on Ukraine: Rethinking Russian Imperialism and Ukraine, War, Resistance: A Conversation at Yale

For those of you who, like me, enjoy podcasts, I want to highlight two recent podcasts on Ukraine that I have found incredibly insightful, educational…

Jun 3, 2024 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

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April 2024

If Ukraine Loses, the United States Loses

Although it has been too long since my last newsletter, I have not stopped thinking and writing about Ukraine and finding various ways to support…

Apr 15, 2024 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

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January 2024

Darya Tsymbalyuk on Russia's War in Ukraine and Learning to Listen to Multispecies Stories

Extractivism, Rupture, and Displacement in the Donbas, Toward Seeing the More-Than-Human-World

Jan 8, 2024 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

November 2023

Funeral Song for Fallen Leaves

Nov 23, 2023 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

October 2023

Audio Lecture on "Ukraine, Ecocide, and Thinking About Environmental Justice in a Time of War"

On Friday Oct. 27, I had the privilege of participating (via Zoom) in an international conference called, “Voices from Ukraine: Women Philosophers…

Oct 28, 2023 • Cynthia R. Nielsen

September 2023

Article and Interview Spotlights on Ukraine (Sept 2023)

Here are a few articles and a video interview over which I found myself lingering and returning to this week.

Sep 2, 2023 • Cynthia R. Nielsen