FORMAT
offline, Kyiv
10, Dobrovolchykh Batalioniv St.
SPEAKER
Ostap Ukrainets
Convversations on senses
Traditions of military culture and the image of the defender
Transcending the boundaries of the known, encountering the wild and inhuman, overcoming threats and protecting one’s community are among the oldest motives in culture and art. Conflict accompanies all human existence, so reflections on the nature of conflict and fantasies about a universal, invincible protector have also been part of culture and art since ancient times. In this lecture, we will try to figure out how real needs shape the imaginary heroes of human communities from the Stone Age to the present day, and how we fit the physical feats of real people into the imaginary matrix of the ‘heroic.’
The uniqueness of this lecture lies in its combination of cultural anthropology, history, social psychology, and mythology to explore one of the deepest questions of human existence: how heroes are born. This is not just a story about cultural archaic types, but an analytical journey through the ages that reveals how fear, conflict and the desire for security give rise to collective ideas about the protector — and how these ideas shape our understanding of strength, honour and community today.
THIS COURSE IS FOR
- Leaders and managers who work with collective motivation, risks and crisis situations
- Cultural studies specialists, philosophers, sociologists and historians
- Communications, branding, PR and media professionals
- Psychologists and psychotherapists working with trauma, identity and symbolic thinking
- Experts researching identity, myth and social transformations
SPEAKER
Ostap Ukrainets
Ostap Ukrainets is a writer, literary critic, and representative of the Cultural Forces platform.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
- Awareness of the deep cultural mechanisms of hero image formation
- Ability to recognise archetypal structures in art, media and public space
- Comprehension of the relationship between collective threat, imagined security and symbolic figures
- Broadening knowledge of the evolution of ideas about heroism from ancient times to the present day
- Critical thinking skills regarding the role of real and fictional heroes in shaping communities and values
We recommend this course to those who want to:
- gain a deeper understanding of the nature of heroism and its role in culture and society
- explore how conflicts shape collective perceptions of security, protection and power
- analyse archetypes of heroes in art, history, politics and the media
- broaden their horizons in the fields of cultural studies, anthropology, social psychology, and philosophy
- deepen their knowledge of the connection between the imaginary and the real in the construction of shared experience
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10, Dobrovolchykh batalyoniv Str., Kyiv