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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”

You can now watch my lecture “The many faces of Ukraine: Ukraine’s Ethnic Diversity” online. You can still register for our virtual lecture series ‘Discover Ukraine: history, culture, and its people’ here: https://forms.gle/rpp6i6MTH427mxRo6. Lectures take place online every Wednesday. Registration is free but we welcome donations for Razom for Ukraine: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/

In this episode, Marcos Silber, Professor of Jewish History and chair of the Gotteiner Institute for the History of the Bund and der Jewish Labor Movement at the University of Haifa talks to Jan Rybak, Early Career Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism about the Jewish experience in early-20th century EasternContinue reading “Episode 19: Marcos Silber, Nationalism and Autonomy – Jewish Experiences in East-Central Europe”

You can now watch a fantastic lecture “The Territory of Ukraine and Its History” by Stephan Rindlisbacher (European University Viadrina) online. You can still register for our virtual lecture series ‘Discover Ukraine: history, culture, and its people’ here: https://forms.gle/rpp6i6MTH427mxRo6. Lectures take place online every Wednesday. Registration is free but we welcome donations for Razom forContinue reading “Video recording: The Territory of Ukraine and Its History”

Our second lecture will take place on 20 April (15:00 Chile; 20:00 London; 21:00 Berlin; 22:00 Kyiv). Our second speaker is Dr Stephan Rindlisbacher, European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder). His lecture is entitled “The Territory of Ukraine and Its History” Ukraine’s territory is a product of political decisions that date back to the Soviet Union andContinue reading “Discover Ukraine. Lecture 2 on 20 April 8 PM (UK)”