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<p>Dear all, <br>
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<p>I would like to draw your attention to the seminar given below.
Please note that it can probably be counted towards Master's
modules in Slavic Studies. But it is also interesting and
important in its own right, of course!<br>
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<p>Best!<br>
Ruprecht<br>
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<h1><font size="2">Society, Culture and Identities in Modern
Eastern Europe: Ukraine in Context.</font></h1>
<p>Mi 12-14 Uhr, UHG SR 221<br>
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<p>Prof. Dr. Ostap Sereda<br>
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<p>This course aims at the problematization of selected key topics
of modern Ukrainian history and at critical reflection on the
notion of an Eastern European borderland as contested,
polycentric and culturally diverse space. The conceptual
repertoire of cultural and social history and case studies on
the regions that constitute Ukraine shall help to go beyond
either teleological nation-state-centered paradigm or reduction
of borderlands to the peripheries shaped by imperial centers.
Instead, the local agency and responses to the imperial
policies, national inventions of tradition, both emancipatory
and conservative intellectual agendas of Ukrainian educated
elites will be in the focus of the course. We will analyze how
competing national projects attempted to dominate public sphere
that emerged in the nineteenth century and survived under
various regimes through the twentieth century, and how the new
cultural markers of identity were received and articulated with
societal transformations and under changing political
conditions. The course will also provide a perspective on the
current debates about the mass violence launched by Soviet and
Nazi regimes and also employed by competing radical nationalist
groups, on conflicting consequences of Soviet modernization, and
on the applicability of post-colonial approaches to the
contemporary Ukrainian society and culture.</p>
<p><strong><em>Literatur:</em></strong> Serhii Plokhy, The Gates
of Europe. A History of Ukraine (New York 2015); Andriy
Zayarnyuk and Ostap Sereda, The Intellectual Foundations of
Modern Ukraine. The Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge,
2023).</p>
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