Guest lectures and events "Country Expertise Ukraine and Belarus"
Guest lectures and events "Country Expertise Ukraine and Belarus"
Here is a review of the talks and events from previous semesters
Summer Semester 2026:
2 July 2026: Prof. Dr Iryna Ramanava (Vilnius): Marked for life: Stigma, Survival, and Return in Soviet Rural Society (on the post-war reintegration into Soviet society of peasants labelled as ‘kulaks’)
12–13 June: ‘Practical Cultural Competences’ workshop: Alesia Kananchuk (Archive of the Centre for Eastern European Studies, Bremen): Insights into the work of an archivist at the Centre for Eastern European Studies; Gaby Coldewey (taz Foreign News Desk, Berlin): Insights into working at the newspaper (Foreign News Desk); Ingo Börner (Vienna): Perspectives on working in the field of digital humanities
11 June 2026: Dr Maria Prenner (Graz): Signs of resistance (?): The Latinica in the digital discourse on conflict in Belarus and Ukraine
12 May 2026: Reading and discussion with Volha Hapeeva: ‘Dictionary of a Nomad’ (at the Literaturhaus Oldenburg)
Winter semester 2025–26:
15 January 2026: Prof. Claire Le Foll (University of Southampton): Writing the history of Jews in Belarus in the 19th century: a regional, decolonial or transnational history?
4 December 2025: Ingo Petz (Berlin): ‘Racing Stagnation: Belarus – a revolution and its consequences’
2 December 2025: Reading and discussion with Alhierd Bacharevič: “Europe’s Dogs” (at the Literaturhaus Oldenburg)
Summer Semester 2025:
10 July 2025: Prof. Dr Ulrich Schmid (University of St Gallen): History of Ukrainian Literature
20–21 June 2025: ‘Practical Cultural Competences’ workshop: Beate Störtkuhl & Silke Pasewalck: The Federal Institute for Culture and History of Eastern Europe (Oldenburg); Ingo Petz (Berlin): Dekoder – Decoding Russia and Belarus; Libuše Černá: globale° – Festival for Cross-Border Literature (Bremen)
5 June 2025: Dr Galyna Spodarets (University of Potsdam): History in Flux – The Dnipro as the Lifeline of Ukraine
29 April 2025: Reading by Katja Petrowskaja: ‘As if it were over’
Winter Semester 2024–25:
16 January 2025: Prof. Dr Regina Elsner (Münster): Orthodox Churches in Ukraine and Belarus in the 21st Century: Politicisation, Protest and War
5 December 2024: Prof. Dr Alexander Kratochvil (Munich): On Sofia Andruchowytsch’s ‘Amadoka’ epic (lecture postponed)
7 November 2024: Prof. Dr Heiko Pleines (Bremen): The political development of Ukraine. The impact of Russia’s war of aggression
Summer Semester 2024:
27 June 2024: Svetlana Efimova (Munich): Ukrainian picture books for children in times of war: aesthetics, politics, psychology
6 June 2024: Sjarhej Kavalёŭ (Lublin, Poland): War in Ukraine and Repression in Belarus. Catalysts for Political and National Identity among Russian-speaking Playwrights in Ukraine and Belarus
23 May 2024: Ulrich Schmid (St Gallen, Switzerland): From Leninopad to Pushkinopad. Models of nationhood and the politics of history in Ukraine
7 May 2024: Pavlo Levchuk (Kraków, Poland): Multilingualism among war migrants from Ukraine in Poland
24 April 2024: Simon Lewis (Bremen): Poland–Lithuania. A multicultural Commonwealth in contemporary memories
events
For the winter semester:
| Course number in stud.IP | Course title |
| 3.04.001a | Ukraine and Belarus from an interdisciplinary perspective: Highlights of current research |
| 3.04.001b | Ukraine and Belarus: Basic Knowledge of Culture |
| 3.04.071 | Ukrainian 1 (with prior knowledge of another Slavic language) |
| 3.04.072 | Ukrainian 1 (with prior knowledge of another Slavic language) |
| 3.04.073 | Ukrainian 3 ( for advanced learners with (good) prior knowledge of Ukrainian) |
| 3.04.074 | Ukrainian 3 (for advanced learners with (good) prior knowledge of Ukrainian) |
| 3.04.191 | Belarusian 1 |
| 3.04.192 | Belarusian 1 |
