Petition for Support of the Visual Culture Research Center at NaUKMA

We call for the immediate restoration of academic and artistic freedom at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and ask the President of NaUKMA Serhiy Kvit to resume the Center's work in full scope in its current working space.

Please join this initiative to support the activities of the Visual Culture Research Center. Please sign the petition with your name, title and affiliation or write your own letter to the President of NaUKMA Serhiy Kvit (kwit@ukma.kiev.ua) asking to resume the Center's activity in the Old Academic building.

Please spread this petition.

For more information about the situation, please read the following:

http://ua.euronews.net/2012/02/14/ukraine-modern-art-controversy/

http://derstandard.at/1329870496526/Ende-eines-Kulturzentrums-Kiew-Kein-Raum-fuer-den-ukrainischen-Koerper

http://ukraineanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/sex-nationalism-and-academic-freedom-the-controversy-at-kyiv-mohyla/

Thank you for your attention and support!

Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, USA

Artur Żmijewski, сurator of the 7th Berlin Biennale for
Contemporary Art, Poland

Slavoj Žižek, social philosopher and culture theorist, the president of the Institute of Sociology, Slovenia

Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, USA

David Elliott, curator of the First International Biennial of Contemporary Art Arsenale 2012, Great Britain

Aleksander Kwasniewski, the President of Poland (1995 – 2005)

Jacques Rancière, philosopher, Emeritus professor at the University of Paris VIII, France

Alexander Bikbov, deputy director of the Centre for Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences at Moscow
State University, associate fellow of the Maurice Halbwachs Research Centre, France / Russia

Serhy Yekelchyk, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Victoria, Canada

Éric Fassin, Professeur agrégé, Département de sciences sociales, École normale supérieure (Ulm), France

Michel Onfray, french philosopher and writer, founder of the Popular University of Caen, France

John-Paul Himka, Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, USA

Oxana Timofeeva, editor of the magazine “New Literary Observer”, “Chto Delat’?” group, Russia

Jan T. Gross, Professor of History, Princeton University, USA

Mikhail Maiatsky, PhD, professor at the Cultural Studies department, Faculty of Philosophy, Higher School of Economics, Russia

Michael Burawoy, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, President of the International Sociological Association, USA
Daniel J. Walkowitz, Professor of History, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA

Genevève Fraisse, philosophe, directrice de recherche au CNRS, enseignante à l'Institut Politique de Paris (Sciences-po), ancienne déléguée interministérielle, ancienne députée européenne, France

Dmytro Horbachov, PhD in Art History, professor, laureate of Ohienko prize, Biletsky prize, Ukraine

Vladimir Malakhov, Institute of Philosophy of Russian
Academy of Sciences, Center for Citizenship and Identity Studies, Russia

Marko Bojcun, Senior lecturer, European Studies and International Relations, London Metropolitan University, Great Britain

Jared McBride, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Rose-Marie Lagrave, Directrice d'études à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes à Paris, France

Don Kalb, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Roman Cybriwsky, PhD, Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

Vitaly Chernetsky, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Miami University, USA

Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor, Russia and the Soviet Union, Department of History, Columbia University, USA

Sara Goodman, Centre for Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden

Ginanne Brownell, journalist, “International Herald Tribune/New York Times”, “The Times of London”, “Open Democracy”, London, UK

Maiju Lehto, University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri institute, Filnand

Alexei Penzin, research associate at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Alek D. Epstein, PhD, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, Open University of Israel, the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Israel

Vlad Sofronov, philosopher, publicist, art critic, Russia
Heribert Hansen, Member of Kunstverein e.V. Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Member of German-Ukrainian Society Rhein-Neckar e.V. Heidelberg, Germany

Oleksandr Soloviov, art critic, contemporary art curator, Ukraine

Liudmyla Gordeladze, director of “Zhovten” Cinema, Ukraine
Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, graduated from the Cultural Studies faculty at Viadrina European University in Frankfurt, Germany

Andriy Zayarnyuk, Assistant Professor, Department of History, The University of Winnipeg, Canada

Delphine Bechtel, Associate professor, University Paris 4 Sorbonne, France

David Miller, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Lethbridge, Canada

Martin Pollack, Schriftsteller und Übersetzer, Österreich

Katharina Raabe, Lektorin für osteuropäische Literaturen im

Suhrkamp Verlag, Germany

Serhiy Kudelia, visiting scholar, George Washington University, USA

Olexandra Hrycak, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA

Per Anders Rudling, Ph.D, Historisches Institut, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany

Dmitry Vilensky, artist, editor of the paper “Chto Delat’?”, member of the editorial board of the “Art Journal”, Russia
Sébastien Gobert, Journalist, Radio France Internationale, France

António Eduardo Mendonça, researcher of the Centro de Estudos Soviéticos e Pós-Soviéticos, Lisboa, Portugal

Andriy Mokrousov, editor of the “Critique” magazine, Ukraine

Leszek Jazdzewski, LIBERTÉ! Editor in chief, Lodz, Poland

Natasa Bodrozic, curator, Zagreb, Croatia

Vladimir Us, director de proiect “Revista la PLIC”, Moldova
Young Artists Association "Oberliht", Moldova

Anton Shekhovtsov, PhD in Political Science, University of Northampton, UK

Erzsébet Szalai, sociologist, Corvinus University of Budapest, University of West Hungary (Sopron), Hungary

Tamás Krausz, historian, professor of Russian Studies and chairman of the department of East European History at the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), editor in chief of “Eszmélet” magazine, Hungary

Mátyás Benyik, economist, president of ATTAC, Hungary
Selin Çağatay, PhD Candidate, Central European University, Hungary

G. M. Tamás, the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Professor at Central European University (Budapest), Hungary

Eva and Franco Mattes, visual artists, New York, USA

Ilya Kukulin, deputy director of the Department for Cultural Projects of the Philosophy Faculty, National Research
University “Higher School of Economics”, Russia

Péter Farkas, economist, CSc, ATTAC, Hungary

Fırat Duruşan, Teaching Assistant and PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Ankara University, Turkey

Elena Sorokina, curator, Ukraine

Judith Schwentner, Member of Austrian Parliament, the Greens, Austria

Zofia Waślicka, Warsaw University, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Poland / France

Taras Polataiko, Professor, Department of Fine Art, University of Lethbridge, Canada

Linda Norris, “Riverhill” collaborative with museums firm, USA

Yasmine Tremblay, Assistant Director, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada

Piotr Piotrowski, Professor Ordinaries, Art History Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Bohdana Kostyuk, Slavic philologist, journalist, Ukraine

Wojciech Przybylski, “Res Publica Nowa”, Poland

Svitlana Oleshko, director of the theatre studio “Arabesky”, Ukraine

Iryna Magdysh, Art Council “Dialogue”, Ukraine

Joanna Nuckowska, “Nowy Teatr”, Warsaw, Poland

Dmytro Petrenko, Associate Professor at the Theory and History of Culture, Department of Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

Marek Wasilewski, “Czas Kultury”, Poland

Mateusz Luft, “Kontakt”, Poland

Marek Łuszczyna, “Bluszcz“, Poland

Łukasz Jasina, “Kultura Liberalna”, Poland

Olexander Sych, “Istorychna panorama“, Ukraine

Khrystyna Chushak, PhD Candidate, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Artur Rudzycky, art and literature historian, President of the Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers and Distributors, Ukraine