Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin (KIU)

About

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The KIU competence network is a four-year DAAD-funded project to strengthen Ukraine-related research, teaching, networking and transfer activities. The competence network, initiated and led by the European University Viadrina, includes the ZOiS, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin.

The project aims at establishing a visible center of Ukraine-related teaching and research. Based on close scientific cooperation in the German capital region and in an international framework, innovative research, new academic courses and a successful transfer of Ukraine-related knowledge in and between science, politics, business and society will be ensured.

Dr. Susann Worschech

Academic Coordinator

News

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Monday, 11th November 2024, 6–8 PM, Olena Haleta (HU/L’viv), "Hidden Archives — Endangered Heritage. The Case of Yuri Mezhenko"

For Michel Foucault, the archive opens up a new discursive field that offers additional possibilities for understanding what is said and what remains beyond what is said in individual texts. In the intensified process of revising the Ukrainian cultural tradition, literary archives become an important resource not only for the reinterpretation of individual texts, but also for the reconceptualization of cultural history itself. The archive of Yuri Mezhenko, a literary critic and one of the leading Ukrainian bibliographers of the 20th century, contains unique evidence of an intensive process of theoretical reflection and emotional experience of the cultural reality of the 1920s, a period that today is one of the most important and at the same time the most controversial for understanding cultural continuity.

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Monday, 4th November 2024, 6–8 PM, Hanna Lehun, Arolsen Archives "Preservation of Heritage / Destruction of Heritage: Ukrainian Microarchives Under War Conditions"

During the russian invasion of Ukraine, archives and cultural heritage were severely damaged and lost. Arolsen Archives' research shows that the destruction of historical documents was often deliberate and premeditated. The so-called micro-archives - small collections of museums, local initiatives or even family archives - often did not survive the russian occupation. They contained some unique and important documents on local history that may never be recovered or properly documented, including various aspects of Nazi persecution during the Second World War.

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Start of the lectures series on Monday, 21st of October 2024

On Monday, October 21, 6 p.m., the Berlin-based Ukrainian photographer and writer Yevgenia Belorusets (*1980, Kyjiw) will open the public KIU lecture series in the winter semester 2024/2025 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The opening lecture will focus on the narrative dimension of the destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure and the question of why it is so difficult to process this destruction in literature. The series forms the first part of a multi-semester lecture series of the Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) - Berlin (KIU), which is organized alternately by the members of the network led by the European University Viadrina.

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Course Catalog for Winter Semester 2024/2025 has been published!

The KIU course catalog “Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies” is a guide for putting together an individual Ukraine focus at the three KIU universities – European University Viadrina, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin – at both the BA and MA level. The course catalog summarizes the current courses on Ukraine and thus offers the possibility of a cross-institutional and interdisciplinary focus. Students from all three universities are welcome to attend the courses at the other universities in the competence network. Courses at the MA level are already eligible for the certificate program “Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies”, which will start in the winter semester of 2025.

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Fellowships and Programmes

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Fellowships

The KIU Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies supports innovative and significant research on topics related to Ukraine.

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Programs

The KIU Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin offers various programmes. Among them is its first Summer School on "War in Ukraine: Destruction of heritage – mastering legacy".

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