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.

The lecture series entitled “War in Ukraine: Destruction of Heritage – Mastering Legacy” will take place this winter semester on Mondays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in German or English in the auditorium of the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum of Humboldt-Universität, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1-3 in Berlin.

As part of the lecture series, speakers from the fields of science, art and literature, who work on Ukraine from different perspectives, will give lectures on the tension between cultural heritage and legacies in the form of imprints, legacies and traumas. The series consists of various formats: Classic lectures on endangered archives, decommunization and decolonization of Soviet monuments, resistance and resilience of Ukrainian civil society as well as the challenges of reconstruction are flanked by panel discussions and artistic contributions.

21.10.2024
Yevgenia Belorusets
Gesprächsfetzen. Der Krieg gegen das Gewohnte, Zerstörung der Infrastruktur. Und: Warum es nicht gelingt, über die Zerstörung und Wiederherstellung der Wasserversorgung in Mykolajiw zu erzählen
Auditorium Grimm-Zentrum

04.11.2024
Hanna Lehun
Bewahrung des Erbes / Zerstörung des Erbes: Ukrainische Mikroarchive unter Kriegsbedingungen
Alternativer Raum: Unter den Linden 6 (Hauptgebäude), Raum 2093

11.11.2024
Olena Haleta
Hidden Archives — Endangered Heritage (the Case of Yuri Mezhenko)
Alternativer Raum: Unter den Linden 6 (Hauptgebäude), Raum 2093

25.11.2024
Natalia Otrishchenko
History and Beyond: Frames for Sense-Making during the War
Auditorium Grimm-Zentrum

02.12.2024
Nadiia Honcharenko
Decommunisation and Decolonisation of Cultural Heritage: Preservation, Rethinking, and Dismantling of its Elements in Contemporary Ukraine
Alternativer Raum: Unter den Linden 6 (Hauptgebäude), Raum 2093

09.12.2024
Galina Babak / Susanne Frank
Soviet Ukrainian and Yiddish Literary Theory of the 1920s. Shaping and Translating Ukrainian Intellectual Heritage. A Publishing Project for German Ukrainian Studies
Auditorium Grimm-Zentrum

16.12.2024
Oleh Nivievskyi
War-Induced Damages & Recovery Challenges in Ukraine
Auditorium Grimm-Zentrum

13.01.2025
Andrii Portnov
Ukrainian Soviet Patriotism: A Historical Phenomenon and its post-1991 Aftermath
Auditorium Grimm-Zentrum

20.01.2025
Olga Onuch
From Maidan to Mariupol: Civil Resistance in Ukraine
Auditorium Grimm-Zentrum

03.02.2025
Andriy Fert
(Not)leaving the “Moscow Church”: Ukrainian Orthodox Communities During the russian Invasion
Auditorium Grimm-Zentrum

10.02.2025
Tetiana Kostiuchenko / Tamara Martsenyuk
The Effects of War on scholars and scholarship (A conversation based on “russia’s War in Ukraine: Personal Experiences of Scholars“, ibidem 2024, ed. by T. Martsenyuk and T. Kostiuchenko)
Auditorium Grimm-Zentrum