Author Talk with Greta Uehling

Come hear author Dr. Greta Uehling discuss her book Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine, which looks at the impact of the war on those living through it at home.

Everyday War explores the experiences of noncombatant civilians in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a parent who sends their child to school across a minefield, or a person who must choose between caring for elders and fleeing for safety? Greta Uehling delves into these and many other experiences that have been part of daily life in Ukraine for over eight years. Drawing upon research in Ukraine, Uehling will describe the ways people responded to the military conflict, showing how war prompted moral thinking and attentiveness to human vulnerability.
Bridging the fields of political geography, international relations, peace and conflict studies, and anthropology, Everyday War considers where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.

Greta Uehling’s scholarship is broadly concerned with international migration and forced displacement. Major projects have examined the experiences of refugees, asylum seekers, and the internally displaced. Her current project explores the subjective experience of military conflict and forced displacement in Ukraine. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, she documents how the military conflict reconfigured social worlds that became the site of a different, everyday kind of war. Prior to teaching in the Program on International and Comparatives Studies, Uehling consulted with a number of international organizations including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Watson Institute at Brown University. Uehling holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan. In 2004, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book is Beyond Memory: The Deportation and Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars. Her forthcoming book is Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine. She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and the editor of two edited volumes.