Jade McGlynn

Welcome to a lecture in the RUCARR Distinguished Speaker Series on March 17!

Title

“Sovereignty without Territory: the Puzzle of Resistance in Occupied Ukraine”

Speaker

Jade McGlynn is an author and Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her research focusses on Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014, propaganda, memory politics, and state-society relations in Russia.

Her first book, Russia’s War, was released on 17th March 2023. It explains why Russians support the war on Ukraine. Her second book, Memory Makers, came out on 1st June 2023 and shows how the Kremlin rebuilt a mythical past to justify a militant present. Both books are based on over a decade of research into Russian politics of memory and propaganda, including Jade’s DPhil research, which she completed at the University of Oxford.

You can find Jade’s journalism and expert commentary in a wide variety of international media outlets, from CNN to The Times. This is in addition to her academic work at King’s College London and her policy work with New Diplomacy Project and CSIS.

She recently participated on the Swedish Radio program Konflikt about the current situation in Ukraine:

Konflikt (sverigesradio.se)