Dr Roman Horbyk
Dr. Roman Horbyk obtained his doctorate at Stockholm's Södertorn University in 2017 with a dissertation on the role of journalists and the way in which Europe was portrayed in the media during the "Euromaidan" of 2013/14 and Russia's subsequent war on Ukraine. His extensive research since then on "fake news" in the media, the use of mobile phones in Russia's war on Ukraine, and on media and propaganda, has made an important contribution to present-day Ukraine studies. Dr. Horbyk has been teaching and researching at Örebro University in Sweden since 2022.
Roman Horbyk has taken up a position as a lecturer at the Slavic Department of the University of Zurich on August 1, 2024 (roman.horbyk@uzh.ch). All information about this new position can be found here.
Contact (roman.horbyk@unibas.ch)Research project
Connecting soldiers: Media ecologies and materialities in the Russia-Ukraine War
Since the annexation of Crimea and the attack on the Donbas in 2014, Russia has been waging a hybrid war of aggression on Ukraine. In addition to conventional weapons, electronic infrastructure and targeted disinformation are being deployed in this war. The research of our new 2024 spring semester URIS fellow Dr. Roman Horbyk focuses on the role of modern media in present-day warfare.
Events
Finissage: Exhibition "Comics at War. The Ukrainian Comic-Magazine INKER"
Talk with Roman Horbyk, Anette Gehrig, and Oleksandra Katsalap
Wednesday, April 24, 18.30, @Atelier Mondial (Freilager-Platz 9, 4142 Münchenstein)
Talk between our URIS fellow Roman Horbyk (Ukrainian specialist in media studies, propaganda, social media and informational warfare) and Anette Gehrig (Director of the Cartoonmuseum, Centre for Narrative Art). In this talk, embedded in the exhibition, the media specialist and the comic specialist will engage in a conversation on the role of comics in informational warfare, on transmedial storytelling and on documentary comics as counter-propaganda.
Refugees, Diasporas and Belonging in the Digital Age: Rethinking Citizenship after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
URIS Workshop with Dr. Roman Horbyk, Prof. Dr. Olena Palko und Dr. Oleksandra Tarkhanova
7. Mai 2024, University of Basel, Mehrzweckraum 035, Kollegienhaus der Universität Basel
As part of his URIS fellowship, and in cooperation with Professor Olena Palko (University of Basel) and Dr. Oleksandra Tarkhanova (University of St. Gallen), Roman Horbyk will organise an international workshop on the subject of "Refugees, Diasporas and Belonging in the Digital Age: Rethinking Citizenship after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" at the University of Basel on 7 May 2024. Information about the event programme will be published shortly on the URIS website. The event is open to the public and guests are very welcome to attend.
From Post-Soviet to Post-Truth: Eastern European Media Systems in a Comparative Perspective
University course from Roman Horbyk during the 2024 spring semester
28. Februar – 31. Mai 2024, Department of History, University of Basel
The course gives a theory-based overview of the media landscape in the successor states of the USSR from a comparative perspective.
CV & Key Publications
- CV Horbyk Roman
- Boyko, K. & Horbyk, R. (2023). Swarm Communication in a Totalizing War: Media Infrastructures, Actors and Practices in Ukraine during the 2022 Russian Invasion. In: Mortensen, M. & Pantti, M. (eds). Media and the War in Ukraine. New York: Peter Lang, 37-5
- Horbyk, R. (2023). The Territory Resists the Map. In: Palko, O. & Férez Gil, M. (eds). Ukraine’s Many Faces: Land, People and Culture Revisited, S. 365-372.
- Horbyk, R. (2022): "The War Phone". Mobile Communication on the Frontline in Eastern Ukraine. Digi War 3, 9–24 (2022)
- Horbyk, R. (2017). Mediated Europes: Discourse and Power in Ukraine, Russia and Poland During Euromaidan. Huddinge: Södertörn University (Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations 149).
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International Conference 2024 organized by URIS, the CEES (Zurich) & GCE (St. Gallen) at Monte Verità in Ascona (1-6 September 2024)
Ein Gespräch im Literaturhaus Basel über den kürzlich ins Deutsche übersetzten Roman «Die Stadt» von Walerjan Pidmohylnyj mit Übersetzer Alexander Kratochvil und Autorin Tanja Maljartschuk.
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