public holiday
05. June 2025 - 09:30
Workshop within the framework of Katrin Stoll’s research project: Pathfinders? Polish-born Jewish-Survivor Researchers and their Place in the…
Workshop at the German Historical…
by Viktoriia Nechyporuk
While there have been recurring debates about how to deal with the Soviet legacy since the country's independence, in 2015 decommunisation became a systemic imperative of Ukrainian state policy. Particularly in the case of monuments that are an essential part of the public space, redefinition became a strategy of decommunisation. The article examines the debates surrounding and the alteration of such a monument, the Motherland statue in Kiyv.
Vortragsreihe
Mit der bedingungslosen Kapitulation des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands am 8. Mai 1945 endete in Europa der Zweite Weltkrieg, der weite Teile…
Jerzy Kochanowski is professor of history and teaches at the Faculty of Culture and Art Sciences, Warsaw University, Polen.
Marta Gospodarczyk is a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.
Tetiana Grebeniuk is a philologist with a research focus on contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture.
Veneta Ivanova is a historian of Eastern and Southeastern Europe with an interest on the interplay between socialism, occultism, religion, science, and utopia in twentieth-century Europe.