Historical Diversity Workshop

The workshop is part of the project “Rethinking the Soviet experiment: Ukrainian and Russian perspectives” (RSE) which brings together scholars of 20th c. Soviet culture and society who had to flee the ongoing war in Ukraine and its catastrophic aftermath. RSE is being organized as a cooperation between the University of Oslo, the Humboldt University in Berlin, and the University of Belgrade and aims to provide opportunities of networking and intellectual exchange for Ukrainian, Russian, and Ukrainian-Russian scholars who are currently based in Europe.

Sponsored by Circle U (European University Alliance).

If you wish to participate in the first workshop, please contact the organizers.

Time: –

Photo: Dnipro, “Polovtsian Stone Sculptures” in front of the National Historical Museum (Source: Google Maps, April 2019)

 

FRIDAY
 

16.10-19.00

Chair: Vera Faber (University of Oslo / Barents Institute Kirkenes)

Introductions

Section 1: The past as a challenge to the present

  • Michail Minakov (Kennan Institute/Wilson Center and University of Pavia)
    “The variety of political creativity (four post-Soviet country cases)”

  • Svitlana Shcherbak (Aachen University)
    "'The Past' in the Horizon of Modernization after the Collapse of the USSR: Russia and Ukraine"

SATURDAY

10.00-13.00

Section 2: Cultural diversity: The Greek minority

Chair: Mikhail Minakov

  • Svitlana Arabadzhy (University of Oslo/Mariupol’ State University):
     “National minorities in Ukraine: a case study of the Greeks of the Azov region”

  • Alexander Dmitriev (EPFL Lausanne): “Kostiantin Kharlampovich (1870-1932): the legacy of the Greek minority in Ukrainian cultural history”

 

14.00-17.00

Section 3: Language diversity

Chair: Stijn Vervaet (University of Oslo)

  • Ljudmila Popović (Belgrade University)
    “Protection of Minority Languages in Ukraine from the Perspective of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages”

  • Tetiana Shestopalova (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv / Saarland University, Saarbrücken)
    “The Russian-Ukrainian War as a Challenge to the linguistic Identity of Ukrainian Writers and Society”

 

17.15-19.00

Chair: Boris Maslov (University of Oslo)

Section 4: An outlook into an uncertain future

  • Andrei Rogatchevski (University of Tromsø)
    “Songs of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Collector’s Notes”

Concluding discussion

 

Organizer

Boris Maslov and Vera Faber
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