Courses of Chair Entangled History of Ukraine
Our teaching
Our lectures and seminars are offered in English and German, and are aimed at students from all three faculties at all levels of qualification – BA, MA and PhD.
Our Chair uses a variety of methods to provide detailed knowledge of Ukraine in a European and global context, in-depth methodological knowledge from various disciplines, as well as language skills at an academic level.
We participate in and contribute to online teaching programs for and with our colleagues from Ukraine. We will also continue a series of Summer/Winter Transregional Academies for PhD students and early career researchers together with our partners from the New Europe College (Bucharest), the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. The transregional dimension is an important vehicle for developing the inclusive character of Ukrainian Studies.
Prof. Dr. Andrii Portnov
- Collegium Polonicum 136, ul. Kościuszki 1, PL 69-100 Słubice
- portnov@europa-uni.de
Courses in the winter semester 2024/25
Courses:
Andrii Portnov
Re-thinking Soviet History. Russia, Ukraine and others
Monday, 9 to 11 am; AM 204
The course is designed as a historical introduction into Soviet history and the phenomenon of a 'Soviet man' and 'Soviet woman'. The course focuses on the phenomenon of the Soviet state and society in their dynamic historical development. Special attention would be paid to the experiences of the civil wars, collectivisation, the Second World War and the 'Cold war' era and their influence on everyday life, gender, and images of the West. The correlations and conflicts between the Soviet and the Russian, the Soviet and the Ukrainian would be analysed in the context of changing nationality politics of the USSR. Close-reading of the historical documents and discussing of the Soviet movies are planned as an essential part of the course.
Andrii Portnov
Russian Colonialism in Ukraine and Beyond
Monday, 2 to 4 pm; AM 204
In our course we will discuss the analytical notions of "colonialism", "imperialism", and "postcolonialism" when applied to East-Central Europe and, particularly, to the Russian imperial politics towards Ukraine. We will read various academic and literary texts to grasp the complex notion of Russian-Ukrainian relations, historical mythologies, the logic and contradictions of Russian and Soviet politics.
Behrends, J. / Benecke, W. / Jajesniak-Quast, D. / Portnov, A/ Werberger, A.
Jerzy Giedroyć research colloquium
Moodle course
Monday, 6 to 8 pm; HG 217
Our colloquium will focus on various aspects of Ukrainian Studies and the complex analysis of Polish-Ukrainian historical, social and cultural interdependencies. Leading international scholars in the field, prominent public figures (such as former German President Joachim Gauck), young scholars and students will be among the speakers at our colloquium
Bozhena Kozakevych
Lemberg-Lwów-Lviv: Metamorphoses of a city
Mon, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; AM 204
"The city is a colourful place: red-white, blue-yellow and a bit of black-yellow.... (...) You could always hear German, Polish, Ruthenian here. Today people speak Polish, German and Ruthenian. Near the theatre at the bottom of the street, people speak Yiddish. They've always spoken like that in this neighbourhood. They will probably never speak any other way," wrote Joseph Roth in 1924 about the city of his youth. The writer was wrong: Yiddish has not been spoken in the streets of Lviv since 1944. In the seminar, we will embark on a metaphorical research trip into the socio-cultural history of Lviv in the 20th century - an Austro-Hungarian, Polish, Soviet and finally Ukrainian city. How has the cityscape changed and what has remained constant over the decades? What role does Lviv play in Austrian, Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian politics of remembrance and history? The seminar is designed as a micro-historical study that attempts to answer the question of whether the history of Lviv is a special case or whether it fits in with the history of other East Central European cities in the sense of the micro-history theorist Carlo Ginzburg.
Bozhena Kozakevych
Ukrainian politics of memory and history since 1991
Dates: 18.10 (11am to 1pm), 15.11 (10am to 4pm), 22.11 (10am to 3pm), 29.11 (10am to 2pm), 06.12 (11am to 4pm), 13.12 (11am to 4pm); AM 204
"Cultural memory is an elaborate long-term project; it enables people to move within a large time horizon," wrote Aleida Assmann. In this seminar, we will define key events for Ukrainian cultural memory and analyse their reception in the politics of memory and history over the last thirty years. Using selected case studies, we will identify upheavals in debates on the politics of remembrance and analyse different forms of commemoration. The case studies will be selected together with the seminar participants in the first session so that the students have the opportunity to co-determine the seminar content. Using the example of Ukrainian remembrance culture, we will examine which actors shape the remembrance policy landscape and how they create certain narratives and counter-narratives, as well as which foreign and domestic policy factors influence the politics of remembrance and history.
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Previous courses
Prof. Dr Andrii Portnov
Understanding Mass Violence and Genocide (in Eastern Europe and beyond)
Bozhena Kozakevych
Der Zweite Weltkrieg in Berliner Ausstellungen
Bozhena Kozakevych
Zwischen Polen und der Sowjetunion: Die Ukraine in der Zwischenkriegszeit
Behrends, J. / Benecke, W. / Jajesniak-Quast, D. / Portnov, A. / Werberger A.
Jerzy Giedroyć Research Colloquium
Prof. Dr. Andrii Portnov
Memory and Politics in Contemporary Ukraine (1991-2023)
Prof. Dr. Andrii Portnov
Crimea: History and Culture
Bozhena Kozakevych
Der Zweite Weltkrieg in der Ukraine. Der Alltag der Besatzung