Ina Shved

Ina Shved is a Professor at Anhui University and Director of the Center for Belarusian Studies (China). Her work focuses on traditional Slavic culture, gender studies, and oral history, particularly examining trauma, memory, and survival strategies in rural Belarusian communities across historical regimes. She has published extensively on folkloric symbolism, including monographs like Раслінныя сімвалы беларускага фальклору (Brass 2000) and Міфалогія колеру ў Belarusian tradition (Brass 2011).

• Research Interests: Traditional Slavic culture, folkloric personalities, trauma and memory studies, gender roles in historical narratives.
• Email: Shved_Inna@tut.by

The article Жаночая вусная гісторыя (2023) analyzes a case study of an elderly Belarusian woman's oral history, spanning Polish and Soviet eras. It explores narrative strategies for coping with trauma, cultural symbolism, and gendered survival tactics. Key subfields include biographical trauma, rural historiography, and myth-ritual frameworks.