“ ‘Russian Mercy’: Forced Adoptions of Ukrainian Children during the Russo-Ukrainian War,” a keynote presented at Politics of Child Adoption in 20th Century conference (Jan 8-10, 2025)

“Discovering the Union: Soviet Ukrainian Children go to Artek,” presented at the Annual Convention of the Association of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (Nov. 21-24, 2024)

“Those who stayed: conducting research at the frontline,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association (Oct 30-Nov 2, 2024)

“Periphery of Desire: The Myth of Soviet Crimea,” presented at the RUTA Association for the Central, South-Eastern, Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies (June 27 – 30, 2024)

“Insider/Outsider: Recording Oral Histories in the War Zone,” presented at the Association for the Studies of Nationalities (May 16 – 18, 2024)

The Rose and Isac Ebel Lecture in Judaic Studies Program at Princeton University: “History for the Future: Creating Archives of War” (February 22, 2024)

“Contested Histories in a Museum Setting,” a roundtable presentation at the 2023 Association of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Philadelphia (Nov. 30 – Dec. 3, 2023).

“You Don't Know What It Took to Wash My Hair': Adolescent Girls' Self-Fashioning in Late Soviet Ukraine’s Summer Camps,” presented at the 2023 Association of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Philadelphia (Nov. 30 – Dec. 3, 2023).

“Not Just Victims: Presenting Children’s War Experiences in Museum Spaces,” presented at Bard College (November 23, 2023)

“Food (In)Security, Consumption, and Social Justice in Soviet Ukraine,” presented at the Association for the Studies of Nationalities World Convention (18-20 May, 2023)

“Surviving the Turmoil: Eastern Ukrainians’ Self Narratives at the Time of War,” presented at the Kruzhok, University of Pennsylvania (April 4, 2023)

“Surviving the Turmoil: Eastern Ukrainians’ Self Narratives at the Time of War,” presented at Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University (Jan. 31, 2023)

“Of Nostalgia, Belonging, and Agency: Kharkivites Remember Their Soviet Past during Wartime,” presented at Kruzhok, Program in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, Princeton University (Sept. 27, 2022).

“Under the Crossfire: Remembering the USSR in Eastern Ukraine,” presented at the 2017 Association of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Chicago, IL (Nov. 2017).

“Turn off the Recorder, Now I Will Tell You: Navigating Audiences in Oral History Research in Post-Soviet Ukraine,” presented at the 2017 Oral History Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN (Oct. 2017).

“Discovering the World: Soviet Children Meet Their Peers from Abroad,” presented at the 2016 Association of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. (Nov. 2016).

“Mobilization of the Great Patriotic War Narrative in Soviet Children’s Military and Patriotic Education, 1960s-1970s,” presented at War and Conflict in (Post)Socialist Societies, Kharkiv, Ukraine (July 2016).

“Creating Meaningful Rest – All-Ukrainian Conferences of Summer Camp Organizers 1954-1956,” presented at the 2016 ASEEES-MAG convention, Lviv, Ukraine (June 2016).

“Asserting Good Habits, Creating a New Man: Soviet Summer Camps’ Educational Approach,” presented at the VIIth Conference on Childhood Studies, Turku, Finland (June 2016).

“Soviet History in American Scholarship,” guest lecture given at Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine (Dec. 2015).

“How to Express ‘the Will of the Victorious Class’ by Means of Art: Kharkiv Architects in Search of the New Style,” presented at the 45th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, MA (Nov. 2013).

“From Factory to Neighborhood: Workers’ Settlement of Kharkiv Tractor Plant, 1930s-1960s,” presented at Illusions Killed by Life: Afterlives of (Soviet) Constructivism, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (May 2013).

“Social Construction of Built Environment: Current State of KhTZ District in Kharkiv,” presented at The First International Scientific and Practical Conference “Cultural Studies within the Space of Humanitarian Communication,” National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine (Sept. 2010).

“Total Project of Constructivism?” presented at the Annual Conference of Young Scholars, Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine (April 2010).

“Social Role of Architecture and the Ideas of Soviet Avant-Garde Artists” presented at Culture in the Context of Information Society of the 21st Century, Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Kharkiv, Ukraine (April 2010).

“Rhetoric of Contemporary Architecture Journal,” presented at the Days of Science conference, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine (June 2010).

“Integrity of Experience and the Image of Soviet Self the 1930s,” presented at the Days of Science conference, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” Kyiv, Ukraine (Jan. 2009).

“Kharkiv Constructivism: Socialization of Aesthetics,” presented (with Sobutskyi, M.)  at the Post/Soviet Urbanism conference, Visual Culture Research Center, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” Kyiv, Ukraine (Oct. 2008).

“Kharkiv Constructivism and the Politics of Remaking of a Man in the Soviet Union in the 1920s,” presented at the Days of Science conference, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine (Jan. 2008).