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Video recording of the lecture ‘Origins of Slavic mythology: historical tradition and contemporary reality’ by Liubov Lankina, Universidad Internacional de Cuernavaca is now available online

Our next lecture, “Origins of Slavik mythology: historical tradition and contemporary reality” by Liubov Lankina, Universidad Internacional de Cuernavaca, Mexico will take place TODAY, on May 25 (14:00 Mexico; 20:00 London; 22:00 Kyiv) Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6649748877

You are cordially invited to join Olena Palko (Birkbeck) and Constantin Ardeleanu (University of Galati) for the launch of Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century (MQUP, 2022), along with Ulrich Schmid, author of the foreword. The book launch is hosted by the New Europe College (Bucharest) and is co-organizedContinue reading “Making Ukraine. Book Lauch. TODAY”

Video recording of our yesterday’s lecture “From Grain of Wheat to Gas Pipeline. Ukraine’s Economy from the 18th to the 21st century” by Dr Boris Belge (University of Basel/University of Illinois) is now available online

Today at 20:00 (London; 21:00 Warsaw; 22:00 Kyiv) please join us for the next lecture in our series “Discover Ukraine: history, culture, and its people”. Dr Boris Belge (University of Basel) will offer a lecture, “From Grain of Wheat to Gas Pipeline. Ukraine’s Economy from the 18th to the 21st century” Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6649748877

Our virtual series “Discover Ukraine: history, culture, and its people” will continue on 18 May with a lecture “From Grain of Wheat to Gas Pipeline. Ukraine’s Economy from the 18th to the 21st century” by Dr Boris Belge, University of Basel. Registration link https://forms.gle/rpp6i6MTH427mxRo6 Ukraine has an immense wealth of raw materials and fertile soils.Continue reading “18 May: Discover Ukraine”

We are happy to share a link to the video recording of the lecture ‘The ABC of Ukrainian literature: Resilience, Diversity, Tradition‘ by Dr Bohdan Tokarsky (University of Potsdam) Between 17th century futurism and avant-garde Baroque, subversive anti-imperial poetry and pioneering feminist modernism, multilingual writing and poetics of dissent and solidarity, Ukrainian literature comprise centuriesContinue reading “Discover Ukraine: Video Recording”

Our next lecture will take place on 11 May. Dr Bohdan Tokarsky (University of Potsdam) will speak about “The ABC of Ukrainian literature: Resilience, Diversity, Tradition” To register for our future lectures go to: https://forms.gle/rpp6i6MTH427mxRo6

The video recording of Jan Rybak‘s lecture “Destruction, Revolution, and Autonomy: Jewish History in Ukraine from the late 19th century to the Holocaust” is now available to watch on the Study Group for Minority History’s YouTube channel. To register for our future lectures go to: https://forms.gle/rpp6i6MTH427mxRo6

In this episode, Professor David Smith at the University of Glasgow discusses the minority aspect in the history and politics of the Baltic States. David suggests that the ‘commonality of fate’, rather than ethnic and demographic character, has made this region seem so culturally uniform in the popular imagination. Nowhere does this seem more apparentContinue reading “Episode 20. David Smith: the Baltic States’ Minorities between History and Politics”