BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3856-e2de0ba5e96369c6fd47299513e095a7@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260611T005729Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T163000 SUMMARY:Guest Lecture on Ukraine:Stanislav Aseyev DESCRIPTION:\nStanislav Aseyev is a Donetsk-born Ukrainian writer and jo urnalist. In 2014\, under the penname Stanislav Vasin\, he published &nb sp\;reports in Ukrainian press about the situation on the ground followi ng the outbreak of Russian-sponsored military hostilities in Donbas. Arr ested and unlawfully imprisoned by pro-Russian militia forces for &ldquo \;extremism&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;spying&rdquo\; in 2017\, Aseyev was held captive and subjected to mistreatment and intermittent torture for over two and a half years. A collection of his dispatches entitledIn Isolati on (2018) was published while he was still in captivity. Following his r elease\, Aseyev published an autobiographical work entitled The Torture Camp on Paradise Street (2020)\, which describes his time in an illegal prison known as  \;"\;Izoliatsia"\;  \;and the mistreatm ent and torture that prisoners experienced there at the hands of the Rus sian-controlled administration. For his journalistic work in the conflic t zone\,he received the Norwegian Free Media Award 2020\, as well as Ukr aine&rsquo\;s National Freedom of Expression Award 2020 and the National Shevchenko Prize 2021. This year\, Aseyev also founded Justice Initiati ve Fund\, which gathers information about Russian war crimes  \;in & nbsp\;Ukraine to make sure the identified perpetrators face justice.\n\n For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/guest_lecture_on_ukrai nestanislav_aseyev/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Stanislav Aseye v is a Donetsk-born Ukrainian writer and journalist. In 2014, under the penname Stanislav Vasin, he published  reports in Ukrainian press a bout the situation on the ground following the outbreak of Russian-spons ored military hostilities in Donbas. Arrested and unlawfully imprisoned by pro-Russian militia forces for “extremism” and “spy ing” in 2017, Aseyev was held captive and subjected to mistreatmen t and intermittent torture for over two and a half years. A collection o f his dispatches entitledIn Isolation (2018) was published while he was still in captivity. Following his release, Aseyev published an autobiogr aphical work entitled The Torture Camp on Paradise Street (2020), which describes his time in an illegal prison known as  "Izoliatsia& quot;  and the mistreatment and torture that prisoners experienced there at the hands of the Russian-controlled administration. For his jou rnalistic work in the conflict zone,he received the Norwegian Free Media Award 2020, as well as Ukraine’s National Freedom of Expression A ward 2020 and the National Shevchenko Prize 2021. This year, Aseyev also founded Justice Initiative Fund, which gathers information about Russia n war crimes  in  Ukraine to make sure the identified perpetra tors face justice.

For more details: https://events.la .psu.edu/event/guest_lecture_on_ukrainestanislav_aseyev/

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