Ukrainian War Memes: The Insider’s Vibe? | MaCI

Exposition, GATES / Recherche

Du 26 mars 2026 au 3 avril 2026

This exhibition is organized by Ievgueniia Bondarenko (GATES Senior Fellow)

Blending harsh realities with national black humor, these memes form a potent coktail for emotional release. How do they function? Can they truluce? Can they truly be deciphered?

This exhibition will present a series of memes illustrating the project carried out by Pr. Ievgueniia Bondarenko during her GATES fellowship at the MaCI and in connection with her talk as part of the GATES Talks series.

Opening and guided tour on March 26 at 6:30pm

Ievgueniia BONDARENKO is Associate and Full Professor at the Department of English Philology since 1990. In 1994 defended her PhD thesis focusing on temporal contextual semantics of the noun and the verb in the sentence and text. In 2012 defended her Full Professor’s thesis that deals with the TIME concept, its historical evolution in the English language and in British scientific, philosophical and poetic discourse in 7-21 centuries. She is the author of more than 200 scientific articles, 9 personal and collective monographs, and more than 20 textbooks in English philology, theory of translation and cognitive linguistics.

Supported by the GATES project (Grenoble ATtractiveness and ExcellenceS), funded by the French government's Programme d'Investissement Avenir and implemented by ANR France 2030

Date

Du 26 mars 2026 au 3 avril 2026

Localisation

Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation
First Floor
Station Gabriel Fauré - MUSE