“Science First Hand” Lecture Series

This lecture series is organized by our Berlin-Brandenburg Regional Group (contact: Dr Olesia Lazarenko, e-mail: Berlin (at) Ukraine.eu), in cooperation with the Embassy of Ukraine in Germany

Forthcoming:

———2022——–

10 February, lecture (in German)

• Dr. Kateryna Kobchenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv/ FU Berlin: “The only Ukrainian university in the free world”: Ukrainian Free University in Munich in the years 1945-1991/ „Dieeinzige ukrainische Universität in der freien Welt“: Ukrainische Freie Universität in München inden Jahren 1945-1991

Past events:

———2021——–

11 November, online round table discussion (in Ukrainian)

• Round-Table Discussion to mark the 95th Anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin (1926-1945).    Video-recording.   Speakers:
  • Dr. Dmytro Burim, Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
  • Oleksandra Binert, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
  • Veronika Weisheimer, European University of Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
  • Moderator: Dr. Olesia Lazarenko, European University of Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder

24 June, web-lecture (in Ukrainian)

• Prof. Andriy Luzhetskyy, DUAG member, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)/ Saarland University: Innovative approaches for search and development of new biologically active compounds (antibiotics)/ event link

15 April, web-lecture (in German)

• Lukas Joura, Humboldt University of Berlin: The intellectual phenomenon of Ahatanhel Krymsky/ Das intellektuelle Phänomen Ahatanhel Kryms′kyj/ event link

26 February 2021, web-lecture (in Ukrainian)

• Prof. Sviatoslav Pylypchuk, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv: Phenomenon of Lesia Ukraїnka/ Феномен Лесі Українки/ event link, incl. video-recording

25 February, web-lecture (in German)

• Anastasija Au:  Lesia Ukraїnka and the Ukrainian modernism/ Lesja Ukraїnka und die ukrainische Moderne/ event link, incl. video-recording

———2020——–

17 December, web-lecture (in Ukrainian)

• Dr. Oleg Feia, researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, junior research fellow at Kyiv Academic University, science reporter for the magazine “Український тиждень” (Ukrainian Week): The rise and fall of the Kharkiv physical science school during the years of Stalinist terror/ event link

22 October, web-lecture (in German)

• Bozhena Kozakevych, research assistant at the Chair for Entangled History of Ukraine, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder): Jews and Christians: Soviet Religious Policy in Berdychiv of the 1920s and Early 1930s/ event link

30 July 2020 (in Ukrainian)

• Dr. Oleh Turiy, Vice Rector for External Affairs, Associate Professor of Church History, Chair of Church History Department, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv: Between ideals and principles: political aspects of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s work/ Між ідеалами та принципами: політичні аспекти діяльності митрополита Андрея Шептицького/ event link, nickel. video-recording

19 March 2020 (in German), cancelled due to Corona-Pandemic

• Peter Koller, Travel book author and owner of a travel agency specializing in rail travel„UKRAINE: Handbook for individual discovery”/ „UKRAINE: Handbuch für individuelles entdecken“, book presentation/ event link

6 February (in Ukrainian)

• Dr. Olena Novikova, DUAG member: Kyiv historians of the XIXc. – beginning of the XX c. and the Western European culture/ Київські історики ХІХ – поч. ХХ століття і західноєвропейська культура/ event link

———2019——–

5 December (in German)

• Prof. Dr. Ievgeniia Voloshchuk, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder): Ukraine-Bilder in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur/ event link

14 November (in Ukrainian)

• Dr. Mariya Kucherenko, Postdoctoral scientist, German Heart Center Berlin and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Challenges and Perspectives in Pulmonary Hypertension Research/ event link

24 October (in Ukrainian)

• Dr. Denys Shatalov, Head of Research Department of the “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies (Dnipro), Visiting Fellow of the ‘Prisma Ukraïna–Research Network Eastern Europe’ at the Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin): The “Ruthenian Trinity” and beginning of reception of the “Cossack Myth” in Galicia/ event link

13 June (in German)

• Dr. Maria Tkachivska, Vasyl Stephanyk National University, Ivano-Frankivsk: Die Ukraine von A bis Z“ (witzig und würzig), Buch-Präsentation, Lesung & Kommentare/ event link

23 May (in German)

• Veronika Dyminska, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder): „Ehrenmann vom Scheitel bis zur Sohle“. Pavlo Skoropadskyj in den ersten Jahren der Emigration/ event link

14 March (in Ukrainian)

• Roman Alieiev, Research Department, MAN Truck & Bus AG/ TU Braunschweig: The Crimean toponomy in Ukraine: living evidence of the centuries-old interactions between Crimea and the mainland Ukraine/ event link, interactive map link

31 January (in Ukrainian)

• Dr. Tetiana Kosenkova, University of Potsdam: Some aspects of modelling with stochastic processes/ event link