This colloquium is organized by the Chair Entangled History of Ukraine – European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) – and Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network. Eastern Europe at the The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien, with the support of the DAAD.
2 November 2020 – 22. February 2021 | every Monday
Time: 18:00 – 19:30 (CET)
via ZOOM (registration requests for the login details at: ukraine@europa-uni.de). Each session will be streamed online on the YouTube channel Entangled History of Ukraine/Prisma Ukraïna
Program:
November 2, 2020: Opening Discussion
Fabian Baumann (U. of Basel); Natalia Sinkevych (LMU Munich);
Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin (U. of Warsaw); Mykola Riabchuk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Moderated by Andrii Portnov (European U Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)
November 9, 2020
Kateryna Ruban (New York U.): “The Trial of the Worldview: The Abortion Trial in Kharkiv in 1930 and the Birth of the Soviet Doctor at the Crossroads of Female Emancipation and Professional Autonomy”
Commentator: Jan C. Behrends (Center for Contemporary History, ZZF, Potsdam)
November 16, 2020
Simon Muschick (U. of Potsdam): “Decentralization Reform in Ukraine – How does the shift of power and duties affect local governance and administration in the newly formed Amalgamated Territorial Communities?”
Commentator: Sophie Lambroschini (EHESS, Paris)
November 23, 2020
Ursula Woolley (U. College London): “Local Pantheon or Local Prosopography? PoroshenkoEra Discursive Strategies in Poltava for Reappropriating Public Local Historical Identity Against a Big Backdrop of Byron, Pushkin and Russkiy Mir”
Commentator: Volodymyr Kulyk (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine)
November 30, 2020
Tobias Wals (Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich): “Zhytomyr in the Second World War”
Commentator: Olena Petrenko (Ruhr U., Bochum)
December 7, 2020
Ielizaveta Oliinyk (Mozarteum U. / U. of Salzburg): “Documentary theater as a witness to the historic changes in contemporary Ukraine”
Commentator: Bohdan Tokarskyi (Cambridge U.)
December 14, 2020
Ihor Andriichuk (The New School for Social Research, New York): “Internationalism or Imperialism? The Communist Party of Ukraine after
the Dissolution of the Soviet Union”
Commentator: Kyrylo Tkachenko (European U. Viadrina, Frankfurt/ Oder)
January 4, 2021
Magdalena Gibiec (U. of Wrocław): “Picture behind the scenes of operation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) on emigration in the light of correspondence in 1929–1938”
Commentator: Oleksandr Zaitsev (Ukrainian Catholic U., L`viv)
January 11, 2021
Oleksii Rudenko (Central European U.): “Early Modern Ruthenian Self-Identification: Myths of Origins and Securing the Place on the Maps of Europe”
Commentator: Tomasz Hen-Konarski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
January 18, 2021
Pavel Stepanov (European U., St. Petersburg): “VUFKU in the Weimar Germany: Bringing the Expressionism to Soviet Screen”
Commentator: tba
January 25, 2021
Laura Eckl (Bergische U. Wuppertal): “Hunger in Kharkiv and Sumy Oblast: Supply Strategies and Experiences in Dealing with Scarcity during the German Military Occupation 1941–1943”
Commentator: Kathryn David (Vanderbilt U., Nashville)
February 1, 2021
Maryna Snizhynska (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy): “Ukrainian Parnassians”: Pro and Contra
Commentator: Hanna Gnedkova (U. of Vienna)
February 8, 2021
Oleksandr Avramchuk (U. of Warsaw): “Writing a history of the ‘non-historical’ nation. A shaping of Ukrainian studies and the Polish-Ukrainian historical dialogue in the USA, 1939–1991”
Commentator: Volodymyr Sklokin (Ukrainian Catholic U., L`viv)
February 15, 2021
Denys Gorbach (Sciences Po Paris): “(De)politicising infrastructure: social history of urban mobility and built environment in a Ukrainian city”
Commentator: Denys Shatalov (“Tkuma” Institute, Dnipro)
February 22, 2021
Closing Talk: Olena Palko (U. of London): “Counting souls, ascribing nationality: interpreting imperial and early Soviet nationalities statistics”
Commentator: Bozhena Kozakevych (European U. Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)