Ukrainian War Memes: The Insider’s Vibe? by Ievgueniia BONDARENKO

GATES Talks / Recherche

Le 26 mars 2026

As part of the GATES project, a morning talk will be presented by Ievgueniia BONDARENKO, Professor at Kharkiv State University and GATES Senior Fellow in collaboration with Caroline ROSSI, Researcher at ILCEA4 LAb and Professor of Translation Studies at UGA

The talk will examine the role of Ukrainian memes in coping with the crisis from the perspectives of both insiders and outsiders to the events.

First, the cultural translatability of these memes will be addressed, focusing on the experience of external audiences.

Second, the talk will analyze memes in terms of their types and characteristics, using these features as criteria for classifying memes according to their adaptability to different cultural contexts.

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.

Caroline ROSSI is Professor in Translation Studies at Université Grenoble Alpes. Trained as a psycholinguist, her recent research focuses on the application of corpus linguistics to translator training, as well as on the uses and perceptions of neural machine translation.

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

Le 26 mars 2026

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Localisation

Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation
Meeting Room 137 (First floor)
Station Gabriel Fauré - MUSE