A SELECTION OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS, November 2021 – February 2022

In November – December 2021, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), leading international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and Eastern Europe in regional and global contexts, will hold the annual convention in person in New Orleans and virtually via Zoom. Please see the online convention program.

November 2021

  • 22/11/2021

Ukrainian Institute London, This Rain Will Never Stop“, Ukrainian Film Festival 2021: Freedom on Screen, with speakers: Alina Horlova, Dr Kamran Matin, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk

  • 22/11/2021

U.S. – Ukraine Foundation, Discussion “Ongoing Battle to Honor Millions of Victims of the Holodomor”. Register here. Zoom Link. Join the discussion with Andrea Chalupa, screenplay writer and producer of Mr. Jones about the Welsh journalist who fought to break through the Soviet misinformation campaign to tell the world the truth about the artificial famine instigated by Stalin; Oksana Piaseckyj, Chair of Duranty Revocation Subcommittee of U.S Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor Genocide Awareness, who will discuss current efforts to revoke Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize, and Robert A. McConnell, co-founder of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation and Head of FOUN External Communications, who will share the history of recognizing the Holodomor within the U.S., first starting in 1934. H.E. Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA, will give opening remarks. This discussion will be moderated by USUF President Nadia McConnell. Watching Mr. Jones prior to the webinar is recommended. Due to time constraints, only the trailer will be shown at the event. Ways to access the movie can be found here (http://www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/mr-jones/). Simultaneous interpretation between English and Ukrainian will be provided (also see the next event).

  • 23/11/2021

Ukrainian Institute London,Mr Jones, Ukrainian Film Festival 2021: Freedom on Screen, Speaker: Dr Daria Mattingly

  • 24/11/2021

Ukrainian Institute London, Communist coverups: parallels between Chornobyl & Covid-19. Join for a talk with Michael Bociurkiw about the parallels between the handling of the Chornobyl & Covid-19 disasters

  • 26/11/2021

Famine-Genocide Commemorative Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto Branch, “Not by Starvation Alone: Stalinist Cultural Genocide in Ukraine“, 2021 Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture – Online, by Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria

  • 26/11/2021

Ukrainian Free University (Munich), Open Lecture: “Prague School” of Ukrainian Composers in L’viv and its role in the national culture/ “Празька школа” українських композиторів Львова і її роль в національній культурі

  • 29/11/2021 

Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, Entangled History of Ukraine, European University Viadrina presents Olena Petrenko (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) with an online lecture “Das weiße Gold: Die Rübenzuckerindustrie im Süd-Westen des Zarenreiches und die neuen Agrareliten/ The white gold: The beet sugar industry in the south-west of the Tsarist empire and the new agrarian elites”

  • 30/11/2021

Prisma Ukraїna Roundtable Discussion “The Un/Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Soviet Modernism and Its Legacies” with

    • Uilleam Blacker (University College London),
    • Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge),
    • Mayhill Fowler (Stetson University) and
    • Bohdan Tokarsky (University of Potsdam)

December 2021 ———————————————

  • 01/12/2021

Freie Universität Berlin, Lecture Series “Digital East. Eine Region im Netz der Daten”,  Digital Democracy in Eastern Europe: A Reflexive Overview, Dmytro Khutkyy (Tallinn University/University of Tartu)

  • 01/12/2021

LMU, Video-Conference devoted to the Day of Ukrainian literacy & language

  • 01-03/12/2021
International online conference “History of Science and the Challenges of “Non-simultaneity” in Eastern and Central Europe”, organized as an annual conference of the EUTIM – European Times joint project of the European University Viadrina, the University of Potsdam and Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin
  • 04/12/2021

Shevchenko Scientific SocietyНеспокійна історія: Ваффен СС Дивізія ‚Галичина‘ “, Мирослав Шкандрій, Манітобський університет/  Unsettled History: The Waffen SS Division ‘Galicia‘”, Presenter: Myroslav Shkandriy, University of Manitoba

  • 06/12/2021

Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, Entangled History of Ukraine, European University Viadrina presents Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Nortwestern University Chicago) with an online lecture “National Democracy behind Bars: Ukrainian and Jewish Dissidents in the Gulag, 1959-1989”

  • 06/12/2021

Ukrainian Institute LondonMy Thoughts Are Silent. Ukrainian Film Festival 2021: Freedom on Screen

  • 13/12/2021

Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, Entangled History of Ukraine, European University Viadrina presents Kateryna Hryshchenko (Dmytro Yavornytsky Historical Museum in Dnipro) presents an online lecture “Nikolai Gersevanov, publicist from Katerinoslav: Ordinary and Uncomfortable

  • 20/12/2021

Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, Chair Entangled History of Ukraine, European University Viadrina presents Ursula Woolley (University College London) with an online lecture ” ‘Mythical Odesa’ in ‘Palimpsest Ukraine’: Public History for Activists, Specialists or Epistemologists?”

January 2022————————————————————-

  • 10/01/2022

Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, Chair “Entangled History of Ukraine”, European University Viadrina presents Tetiana Portnova (Dmytro Yavornytsky Historical Museum in Dnipro) with an online lecture “Nestor Makhno and Makhnovist Movement in Ukrainian Historiography and Public Discourse

  • 17/01/2022

Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, Chair “Entangled History of Ukraine”, European University Viadrina presents Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Centre for East European and International Studies, ZOIS) with an online lecture “Ukraine in Border Studies, Border Studies in Ukraine

  • 24/01/2022

Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, Chair “Entangled History of Ukraine”, European University Viadrina presents Galina Babak (New Europe College Bucharest) with an online lecture “Anti-Imperial Marxism: Mykola Khvylovyi and Early Soviet Orientalism

  • 31/01/2022

Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, Chair “Entangled History of Ukraine”, European University Viadrina presents Hiroaki Kuromiya (Indiana University Bloomington) with an online lecture “Understanding ‘Hybrid War’ Historically

February 2022————————————————————-

  • 03-05/02/2022

Conference of the Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand “Independence. Archive. Prognosis. Ukraine in 1991-2021 and beyond”, University of Melbourne, hybrid

  • 07/02/2022

Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, Chair “Entangled History of Ukraine”,  European University Viadrina presents Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge) with an online lecture “Blood of Others: Stalin`s Crimea Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity

  • 7-11/02/2022

Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program (TCUP) Conference “Beyond Borderland: 30 Years of Ukrainian Sovereignty” 

  • 10/02/2022

DUAG Science First Hand Lecture Series, Lecture (in German) “The only Ukrainian university in the free world”: Ukrainian Free University in Munich in the years 1945-1991″, by Dr. Kateryna Kobchenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv/ FU Berlin