BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Center for European Studies at the Moynihan Institute prese nts American documentary photographer and journalist Brendan Hoffman and N ataliia Yaroshenko\, Fulbright researcher at the University at Buffalo. Ho ffman and Yaroshenko will examine the intersection of war\, environment\, science and visual storytelling in Ukraine.Since Russia’s full-scale invas ion of Ukraine in 2022\, the environmental consequences of the war have be come an increasingly urgent subject of scientific research\, journalism\, public debate and international law. Damage to forests\, rivers\, soils\, protected areas\, agricultural landscapes\, industrial sites and critical infrastructure has raised important questions about how environmental harm caused by warfare can be documented\, understood\, communicated and ultim ately addressed. Moving between field observations\, ecological data\, ima ges and personal experience\, they will consider how war transforms landsc apes\, how environmental loss can be documented across different disciplin es\, and how researchers and journalists can communicate complex ecologica l consequences without reducing them to statistics or isolated images.&nbs p\;Brendan Hoffman is an American documentary photographer and journalist whose recent focus has been the intersection of armed conflict and the env ironment. From 2014 to 2026\, Brendan was based in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, and no w lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. He was a 2018-19 Fulbright Scholar i n Ukraine\, and his photographs have been exhibited in museums\, galleries \, educational institutions and festivals across Europe\, Asia and the Uni ted States. Last year he published a major front-page story in The New Yor k Times on the environmental impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Natali ia Yaroshenko\, Ph.D. in ecology\, is a Ukrainian ecologist\, researcher a nd educator whose work focuses on the environmental consequences of war\, biodiversity conservation and environmental education. She is currently a Fulbright researcher at the University at Buffalo\, where she studies and communicates the ecological impacts of Russia’s war against Ukraine. She i s also the author of enWAR_mental\, an educational comic exploring the env ironmental consequences of Russian war against Ukraine. DTEND:20261015T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260929T023533Z DTSTART:20261015T163000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Ecocide in Ukraine UID:RFCALITEM639262317339242061 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Center for European Studies at the Moynihan Institute presents American documentary photographer and jou rnalist Brendan Hoffman and Nataliia Yaroshenko\, Fulbright researcher at the University at Buffalo. Hoffman and Yaroshenko will examine the interse ction of war\, environment\, science and visual storytelling in Ukraine.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022\, the envi ronmental consequences of the war have become an increasingly urgent subje ct of scientific research\, journalism\, public debate and international l aw. Damage to forests\, rivers\, soils\, protected areas\, agricultural la ndscapes\, industrial sites and critical infrastructure has raised importa nt questions about how environmental harm caused by warfare can be documen ted\, understood\, communicated and ultimately addressed. Moving between f ield observations\, ecological data\, images and personal experience\, the y will consider how war transforms landscapes\, how environmental loss can be documented across different disciplines\, and how researchers and jour nalists can communicate complex ecological consequences without reducing t hem to statistics or isolated images. \;

Brendan Hoffman is an A merican documentary photographer and journalist whose recent focus has bee n the intersection of armed conflict and the environment. From 2014 to 202 6\, Brendan was based in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, and now lives in Cambridge\, Mas sachusetts. He was a 2018-19 Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine\, and his photog raphs have been exhibited in museums\, galleries\, educational institution s and festivals across Europe\, Asia and the United States. Last year he p ublished a major front-page story in The New York Times on the en vironmental impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Nataliia Ya roshenko\, Ph.D. in ecology\, is a Ukrainian ecologist\, researcher and ed ucator whose work focuses on the environmental consequences of war\, biodi versity conservation and environmental education. She is currently a Fulbr ight researcher at the University at Buffalo\, where she studies and commu nicates the ecological impacts of Russia’s war against Ukraine. She is als o the author of enWAR_mental\, an educational comic exploring the environmental consequences of Russian war against Ukraine.

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