the stasiuk lecture in contemporary ukrainian studies
Initiated in 2003, the annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies explores the internal dynamics and international implications of events in today's Ukraine and features the foremost experts in the fields of Ukrainian politics, history, and society.
The event, held at Robinson College, Cambridge, is organized by Cambridge Ukrainian Studies with the support of the Cambridge Ukrainian Society. From 2003 to 2010, the lecture was generously supported by the Stasiuk Programme for Contemporary Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. The name of the lecture honours this support and collaboration.
the 2012 Stasiuk Lecture
The Tenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies was delivered by Andrii Portnov, one of Ukraine's most celebrated historians, on Friday, 24 February 2012 in the Umney Theatre of Robinson College, Cambridge. Dr Portnov's lecture, entitled 'Lieu de non-mémoire: A Ukrainian City and Its Russian, Jewish and Soviet Traces', sought to understand the paradoxes of post-Soviet pluralism. It employed Dnipropetrovsk (imperial Yekaterinoslav) as a laboratory in which to study the coexistence of, and conflicts between, different ethnic and religious groups in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr Andrii Portnov graduated from Dnipropetrovsk and Warsaw Universities. He is the author of, most recently, The Histories of Historians (Kyiv 2011) and Editor-in-Chief of the groundbreaking new Internet journal and network historians.in.ua.
