Organized by the Chair Entangled History of Ukraine – European University
Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) – and Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network
Eastern Europe; with the support of DAAD. Registration requests for the ZOOM login details at ukraine@europa-uni.de

Each session will be streamed online on the YouTube channel Entangled
History of Ukraine/Prisma Ukraïna

Program:

November 2, 2020
Opening Discussion
Fabian Baumann (U of Basel), Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin (U of Warsaw),
Mykola Riabchuk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Natalia
Sinkevych (LMU Munich)
Moderated by Andrii Portnov (European U Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)

November 9, 2020
Kateryna Ruban (New York U)
The Trial of the Worldview: The Abortion Trial in Kharkiv in 1930 and
the Birth of the Soviet Doctor at the Crossroads of Female
Emancipation and Professional Autonomy
Commentator Jan C. Behrends (Center for Contemporary History, ZZF, Potsdam)

November 16, 2020
Simon Muschick (U of Potsdam)
Decentralization Reform in Ukraine – How does the shift of power and
duties affect local governance and administration in the newly formed
Amalgamated Territorial Communities?
Commentator Sophie Lambroschini (EHESS, Paris)

November 23, 2020
Ursula Woolley (U College London)
Local Pantheon or Local Prosopography? PoroshenkoEra Discursive
Strategies in Poltava for Reappropriating Public Local Historical
Identity Against a Big Backdrop of Byron, Pushkin and Russkiy Mir
Commentator Volodymyr Kulyk (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine)

November 30, 2020
Tobias Wals (Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich)
Zhytomyr in the Second World War
Commentator Olena Petrenko (Ruhr U, Bochum)

December 7, 2020
Ielizaveta Oliinyk (Mozarteum U / U of Salzburg)
Documentary theater as a witness to the historic changes in
contemporary Ukraine
Commentator Bohdan Tokarskyi (Cambridge U)

December 14, 2020
Ihor Andriichuk (The New School for Social Research, New York)
Internationalism or Imperialism? The Communist Party of Ukraine after
the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Commentator Kyrylo Tkachenko (European U Viadrina, Frankfurt/ Oder)

January 4, 2021
Magdalena Gibiec (U of Wrocław)
Picture behind the scenes of operation of the Organization of
Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) on emigration in the light of
correspondence in 1929–1938
Commentator Oleksandr Zaitsev (Ukrainian Catholic U, L`viv)

January 11, 2021
Oleksii Rudenko (Central European U)
Early Modern Ruthenian Self-Identification: Myths of Origins and
Securing the Place on the Maps of Europe
Commentator Tomasz Hen-Konarski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)

January 18, 2021
Pavel Stepanov (European U, St. Petersburg)
VUFKU in the Weimar Germany: Bringing the Expressionism to Soviet Screen
Commentator tba

January 25, 2021
Laura Eckl (Bergische U Wuppertal)
Hunger in Kharkiv and Sumy Oblast: Supply Strategies and Experiences
in Dealing with Scarcity during the German Military Occupation 1941–1943
Commentator Kathryn David (Vanderbilt U, Nashville)

February 1, 2021
Maryna Snizhynska (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
“Ukrainian Parnassians”: Pro and Contra
Commentator Hanna Gnedkova (U of Vienna)

February 8, 2021
Oleksandr Avramchuk (U of Warsaw)
Writing a history of the ‘non-historical’ nation. A shaping of
Ukrainian studies and the Polish-Ukrainian historical dialogue in the
USA, 1939–1991
Commentator Volodymyr Sklokin (Ukrainian Catholic U, L`viv)

February 15, 2021
Denys Gorbach (Sciences Po Paris)
(De)politicising infrastructure: social history of urban mobility and
built environment in a Ukrainian city
Commentator Denys Shatalov (“Tkuma” Institute, Dnipro)

February 22, 2021
Closing Talk: Olena Palko (U of London)
Counting souls, ascribing nationality: interpreting imperial and early
Soviet nationalities statistics
Commentator Bozhena Kozakevych (European U Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)

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