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WiSe 22/23: Cultural Complexity and Ethnic Violence in Ukraine. A Transnational History of a Heterogeneous Country

Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe

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Subject: Ukraine is the second largest European country with a very complex and heterogenous history. Although there was no Ukrainian state as late as 1991, Ukrainians have actively shaped the history of East Central Europe and the globe. As a country located in the European borderlands, Ukrainians adopted aspects of Polish and Russian cultures and were shaped by the political situation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Habsburg Empire and the Russian Empire. From the late Middle Ages until 1942, Ukraine was also home to a large Jewish population in whose annihilation many Ukrainians actively participated. Program: In this seminar, we will discover the complexity and heterogenous nature of Ukrainian history, try to comprehend what shaped it, and how this history, in turn, had an impact on Jewish, Polish, Russian, Soviet and other histories. We will also study the history of the Holocaust as well as interethnic and Soviet violence in Ukraine and try to understand how Ukrainians took part in these processes. Is this course suitable for you? This course is open to students from the Arts & Humanities, Cultural Studies, Global History, Social Sciences and Economics. In this course, you will be expected to be open to new perspectives, interested in reading texts about Ukrainian, East European and Soviet history and discussing the texts with other students. Workload and Assessment: In order to obtain 5 ECTS credits, you will have to attend the course regularly (at least 14 out of 16 sessions); study the weekly course materials (an average of 15-35 pages of English texts per week); give a presentation alone or in a group (10-15 min) or submit a short essay (approximately 750 to 1,000 words) and pass the written examination (90 minutes). Schließen