“Science First Hand” Lecture Series

This lecture series is organized by our Berlin-Brandenburg Regional Group (contact: Dr Olesia Lazarenko, e-mail: Berlin (at) Ukrainet.eu, in cooperation with the Embassy of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany. Video-recordings of some of the previous lectures could be found here

———2025——–

27 June 2025, online lecture (in English)

“Science First Hand” Lecture on “Speaking Through Theatre: Ukrainian Voices of Resistance in Europe – Post-2022 Ukrainian War-Time Drama on European Stage” by Dr. Iuliia Skybytska

23 May 2025, online lecture (in German)

“Science First Hand” Lecture on “Kreative Wortneuschöpfungen als pragmatisches Einflussmittel im zeitgenössischen ukrainischen Mediendiskurs” by Dr. Oksana Popkova, video-recording

29 April 2025, online lecture (in English)

“Science First Hand” Lecture on “Omeljan Pritsak and the Soviet Secret Services: An Attempt at a Critical Reading of the Declassified KGB Documents” by Prof. Dr. Andrii Portnov, video-recording

Online, 27 March 2025

“Science First Hand” Lecture on “Literature and Community: “Role reversal” in the dramatic works of Lesia Ukrainka”, by Prof. Dr. Olena Haleta

27 February 2025, online lecture (in English)

“Science First Hand” Lecture on “Reflexive and Ethical Mind: decolonial dispositions of museums of non-European heritage in Europe and Ukraine”, by Dr Hanna Rudyk, video-recording

22 January 2025, online lecture (in English)

“Science First Hand” Lecture on “Waiting for home – Ukrainian female refugees’ strategies of home-making in Germany”, by Jeannine Teichert and Olena Kononenko, video-recording

———2023——–

12 December, lecture (in Ukrainian)

“Science First Hand” Lecture on “Ukrainian Literature in Germany: The Image of Ukraine in German-Language Literary Translations and Literary Studies”, by Prof. Mariia Ivanytska, video-recording

28 November, lecture (in Ukrainian)

• Structural and semantic features of the Old Ukrainian text of the end of the 17th – beginning of the 18th century, by Dr Uliana Standenko, video-recording
  

24 October, lecture (in Ukrainian)

• German-language literary works and German translations of the literature of Ivan Franko, by Dr Vasyl Tkachivskyi, video-recording
  

26 September, lecture (in Ukrainian)

• “Ukrainian as a heritage language in Germany: from experience to language planning”, by Dr Oksana Turkevych, Associate Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Applied Linguistics of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv/ Visiting Scholar at the Humboldt University of Berlin (MSCA4Ukraine Fellow), video-recording

28 June, lecture (in Ukrainian)

• The Language of Seventeenth-Century Kyivan Elites and Corpus Linguistics: How to Combine Them?, by Halyna Naienko, PhD, Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Language and Applied Linguistics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Rzeczpospolita Polska, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Lodz, video-recording

30 May, lecture (in Ukrainian)

• Orthodoxy at war: on “national” identification problem of Orthodox churches in Ukraine, by Dr. Vitaly Mudrakov, PhD in Philology, associate professor, visiting researcher of the “Religion and Politics” improvement cluster of the University of Westphalia in Münster, video-recording

25 April, lecture (in Ukrainian)

• Trends in the development of modern Ukrainian urban toponymy, by Dr Liubov Ostash, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Ilarion Sventsitsky Chair of Slavic Philology at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv / Ústav pro jazyk český Akademie věd České republiky, video-recording

21 March, lecture (in Ukrainian)

• The Armed Forces of Ukraine and the troops of the russian federation in memes in the Ukrainian digital space: humour, political ideas and ideological images, by Dr Olga Ryabchenko (Kharkiv/ Cambridge)

28 February, lecture (in Ukrainian)

• “Cultural practics of Ukrainians during the war“, by Prof. Iryna Petrova (Kyiv/ Cologne), video-recording
  

31 January, lecture (in Ukrainian)

• “The Life and Death of one Viber Channel. Media Chronicles of the Besieged City”, by Prof. Olena Pavlova (Kyiv/ Berlin), video-recording

———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, see the video-recording 

———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/ video-recording

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/ video-recording

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/ video-recording

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/ 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