Iryna Skubii

Historian | Environmental & Material Culture Studies | Ukrainian & Soviet History

Media

Selected Media Commentary: 

Newspapers: 

Al Jazeera, “Trump proposes Putin-Zelenskyy summit in push to end Ukraine war,” 19 August 2025. 

ABC News, “Ukrainian officials say they’ve intercepted a plot to assassinate Volodymyr Zelenskyy. What happens if the country lost the ‘public face’ of the war,” May 2024. 

TV: 

BBC News Global (Singapore), Interview with Steve Lai on the US’ and EU’s commitment to Ukraine, 17 October 2025. 

ABC News, Trump makes ‘reassuring’ shift on war in Ukraine after Zelenskyy meeting, 24 September 2025. 

BBC News Global (Singapore), Interview with Steve Lai on Russia’s drones in Poland, 9 September 2025.  

ABC News, On Russian nuclear doctrine, 20 November 2024. 

Radio: 

SBS. Ukrainian. “Lyshe deshcho pro novyi proiekt shchodo usnoi istorii ukraintsiv kriz pryzmu pamiati nashchadkiv.” With Olha Shmihelska-Kozuliak, 10 July 2025. https://www.sbs.com.au/language/ukrainian/uk/podcast-episode/oral-history-of-the-ukrainian-community-in-australia-through-the-memory-of-the-descendants/hju3n60hg 

Polskie Radio. “Holodomor and Contemporary War. Materiality as Means of Survival: Women’s Histories.” 13 January 2025. https://www.polskieradio.pl/398/7988/Artykul/3470017  

SBS. Ukrainian. “Kvitka sontsia. Yak soniashnyk stav symvolom Ukrainy.” [A Flower of Sun. How Has the Sunflower Become a Symbol of Ukraine]. 13 October, 2024. https://www.sbs.com.au/language/ukrainian/uk/podcast-episode/the-tale-of-the-sunflower-and-its-travels-in-ukraine/3rfnhl5jj  

SBS. Ukrainian. “Lektorat ukrainistyky im. M. Zerova: novyi etap z d-rom Irynoiu Skubii.” [Mykola Zerov Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies. New Stage with Dr. Iryna Skubii]. 11 July, 2024. https://www.sbs.com.au/language/ukrainian/uk/podcast-episode/mykola-zerov-fellow-in-ukrainian-studies-dr-iryna-skubii/8s2b5tcmc  

SBS. Ukrainian. “A few comments of a historian on Holodomor-genocide from past and contemporary perspectives.” [Kilka aktsentiv istorykyni pro holodomor-genotsyd kriz pryzmu mynuloho i suchasnoho]. 14 December, 2023. https://www.sbs.com.au/language/ukrainian/uk/podcast-episode/holodomor-genocide-in-ukraine-historian-dr-iryna-skubii/qxt7c1a6n 

Hromads’ke radio. Antycult Programme.“’Haslo radyans’kykh ditey — stoyachy za mamu v cherzi za molokom, ty dopomahayesh yiy v inshiy cherzi kupyty kovbasu.’ Spohady pro defitsyt.” 2021. Talked on shortages in the Soviet Ukraine and trauma about consumption practices. Invited by Grygorii Pyrlik. 

Interviews and Podcasts: 

Istoria, scho ne vidpuskaie: yak holod vplynuv na ukrains’ke suspilstvo [History That Does Not Let Go: How Famine Impacted Ukrainian Society]. Mynizhyn.com. Interviewed by Anastasia Kozoriz. 18 November 2024. https://mynizhyn.com/news/misto-i-region/35308-istoriia-shho-ne-vidpuskaje-iak-golod-vplinuv-na-ukrayinske-suspilstvo-interviu-z-irinoiu-skubii.html  

Republished: Hromadske. Chernihiv. https://hromadske.cn.ua/novyny/nizhyn/istoriia-shcho-ne-vidpuskaie-iak-holod-vplynuv-na-ukrainske-suspilstvo-interv-iu-z-irynoiu-skubiy/  

The Politics of Language in Wartime Ukraine. Episode 11. The Secret Life of Language (by School of Language and Linguistics, University of Melbourne). Hosted by Olga Maxwell. Invited speakers: Iryna Skubii and Natalia Kudriavtseva. https://rss.com/podcasts/the-secret-life-of-language/1346540/