Tim Winkler, A New Class of Conflict, Future Campus, October 2025
Inside Ukraine’s Phoenix Universities
After being invaded, hunted by Russians, forced to flee along the road of death and evading ongoing threats and bombardments, Ukrainian academics Yana Sychikova and Igor Lyman are rebuilding their workplace as a University Without Walls.
Stories of war are often built around guns and bullets, death or escape, fear or loss, sacrifice, open and hidden.
We preference war stories with a clear conclusion – of shooting, abduction, drones, explosions, loss and victory. All important; but importantly, not all.