Professor Kostyantyn Mezentsev räägib avalikul loengul riigisisestest sõjapõgenikest Ukrainas

Tartu Ülikooli geograafia osakond võõrustab 8. oktoobril kell 16.00 professor Kostyantyn Mezentsevit Kiievi Tarass Ševtšenko Rahvusülikoolist, kes peab avaliku loengu „Between Places: Internal Displacement, Diversity and Attachment”. Loeng toimub Vanemuise 46 õppehoone ruumis 246 ning professor kõneleb inglise keeles.

Professor Mezentsev tutvustas loengut nii: „What happens to relationships with places when war forces people to leave their homes? How can a place extend beyond its physical boundaries, and how can new places become part of people’s sense of attachment without replacing places left behind? These questions provide a starting point for exploring direct and indirect urbicide, displacement, and emergent urban resilience from a geographical perspective.”

„The lecture examines how internally displaced persons reshape spaces in host cities through temporary uses, camps, and temporary public spaces. It discusses the concepts of place elasticity and „displaced place attachment“ to explore how attachment to place can survive, transform, and extend across distance. Through examples of spaces created by IDPs, the lecture shows how displacement can generate not only loss and rupture, but also new urban practices, forms of diversity, and new modes of attachment.”

„The lecture also focuses on return: where might people return to, and what makes return possible? Using academic re-emigration to Ukraine as a case study, it explores the potential for return and its regional dimensions. Ultimately, Between Places is about the spaces in between – between home and elsewhere, departure and return, loss and adaptation – and the diverse ways in which people continue to create, experience, and belong to places in times of war.”

Professor Mezentsev on Kiievi Tarass Ševtšenko Rahvusülikooli majandus- ja sotsiaalgeograafia osakonna juhataja. Ta huvitub oma uurimistöös linnalisest geopoliitikast, linnade hävitamisest (urbicide), linnapiirkondade ja linnade muutumisest ning uute ehitistega kaasnevast gentrifikatsioonist. Samuti rändest ja riigisisestest ümberasujatest, linnaplaneeriminest ja -poliitikast.