HUMANITIES IN UKRAINE: RECENT TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

March 10-11, 2023 

Scientific Conference

Friday : AMPHIPÔLE Room 315

Saturday : ANTHROPOLE Room 2064

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PROGRAM

March 10

Narratives of Ukrainian History 9:30-11:00

Anastasiіa Shevchenko Moderator (UNIL) 

Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukrainian Catholic University)

“War and History: How the Current War may affect Historical Writings?”

Viktoriia Sereda (Ukrainian Catholic University / research group “Prisma Ukraїna”)

“Research in wartime: challenges in knowledge production on Ukrainian displaced”

Tetiana Portnova (Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University / University of Potsdam)

“Postcolonial approach to Ukrainian history: research tradition and contemporary perspective”

Olena Palko (University of Basel)

“To whom the past belongs? Studying early Soviet history amidst the Russian invasion”

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The Russian-Ukrainian War and Decolonization of  Ukrainian Studies 11:20-12:50

Oleksii Polegkyi Moderator (EPFL) 

Olena Yasynetska (University of Basel)

“Historical Front Line: Combating Russian Imperial Fakes, Myths and Propaganda in Reference to the History of Ukraine”

Hanna Perekhoda (UNIL)

“Where does Donbass belong? Bolsheviks in Ukraine between class universalism and imperial imagery”

Olha Marmilova (Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University)

“Transformation of the Donbas discourse in the rhetoric of the russian political elite”

Fayet Jean-François (University of Fribourg) and Antonina Skydanova (University of Fribourg)

“Ukrainian Red Cross Society: (Un)Discovered History” 

Mariia Tomak (Head of the project “Crimea Platform”)

“Why academic discourses appear to be so important for politics? The case of Crimea Platform”

Pause

Building Bridges : Panel Discussion on the situation of Ukrainian academic institutions 14:00-15:30

Béla Kapossy Moderator (UNIL) 

Frédéric Herman Rector (UNIL)

Iryna Venediktova Ambassador (Embassy of Ukraine in the Swiss Confederation)

Oleksandr Spivakovskyi Rector (Kherson State University)

Victor Chabai Director (Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine)

Anatoliy Yermolenko Director (H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy NAS of Ukraine)

Denis Dafflon International Relations Office (UNIL)

Tetiana Kostiuk International Affairs (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University)

Arthur Friedli International Cooperation (SNSF)

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Ukrainian studies in Switzerland: projects and prospects 16:00-17:30

Hamest Tamrazyan Moderator (College of Humanities, EPFL) 

Nataliya Borys (University of Fribourg)

“Projects “Letters from Ukraine” and “Saving Cultural heritage in Ukraine”

Elena Denisova-Schmidt (University of St.Gallen)

“Corruption in Ukraine: What Should Be Done Next?”

Vira Orlovska (University of Geneva)

“Chornobyl Exclusion Zone: a heritage site in danger?”

Yuliia Mieriemova (University of Basel)

“An oral history project: Women and war in Ukraine”

Pascal Burgunder (UNIL)

“Black Sea archaeology at the Lausanne University”

Svitlana Drozdovska (UNIL /  National university of Ukraine on physical education and sport), Gregoire Millet (UNIL), Benght Kayser (UNIL)

“Historical aspects of the development of the lore of hypoxia and their implementation in practice in Ukraine and Switzerland”

Anastasiia Nahorna (Bern University of Applied Sciences)

“Development of preventive healthcare knowledge in Ukraine: history and present”

Viktoriia Nagorna (Federal Office of Sport BASPO / Federal University of Sport Magglingen EHSM), Artur Mytko (Federal Office of Sport BASPO / Federal University of Sport Magglingen EHSM)

“Gender and social aspects of billiard sport development in Ukraine and Switzerland”

March 11

Soviet and post-Soviet past in philosophical and sociological studies 9:30-11:00

Serhii Yosypenko Moderator (UNIL / H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy NAS of Ukraine) 

“La philosophie ukrainienne entre globalité et localité”

Sergii Rudenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). 

“Chinese studies in modern Ukrainian philosophy (Has Ukrainian philosophy left the Marxist paradigm behind?)”

Oleksandra Tarkhanova (University of St. Gallen)

“Doing empirical research during war: Ethics, methodologies, prospects”

Yuliia Soroka (N.V.Karazin Kharkiv National University / University of Fribourg)

“The public discourse in Ukraine during the war: studying the people under occupation”

Svitlana Ovcharenko (Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies / Odesa Polytechnic National University)

“Modern information warfare in post-non-classical scientific discourse”

Pause

Іntellectual history and challenges of war 11:20-12:50

Aleksandr Dmitriiev  Moderator (EPFL)

Balazs Trencsényi (CEU Democracy Institute )

“Rethinking East Central European Historical Studies in the Context of the War”

Lyman Igor (Berdyansk State Pedagogical University)

“Research and challenges of science in wartime: case study of the head of the Expert Council “Humanities” of National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance” 

Ostap Sereda (Ukrainian Catholic University / CEU / Invisible University for Ukraine)

“The Ukrainian Scientific Institute at Harvard as a factor in American academic life during the Cold War”

Marta Havryshko (University of Basel / NAS of Ukraine)

“Holocaust Research and Education in Times of Russia’s War in Ukraine”

Yurii Kaparulin (University of Michigan / Kherson State University)

“Research and teaching of genocide studies in the context of the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine”

Vitalii Andrieiev (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University), Svitlana Andrieieva (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University)

“Activity of the “Committee of Return to the Motherland” on issues of repatriation and re-emigration to Soviet Ukraine after the Second World War as a perspective direction of historical research”

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Recent studies in Ukrainian archaeology 14:00-15:40

Tetiana Shevchenko Moderator (Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine / UNIL) 

Alla Bujskikh (Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine), Vsevolod Ivakin (Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine)

“Ukrainian archaeological heritage, threatened by war”

Othmar Jaeggi (UNIL)

“Les nécropoles de Panticapée et les échanges culturels entre le royaume du Bosphore et les steppes des Scythes”

Inna Potiekhina (University of Bern / Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine / National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”)

“Integration of Ukrainian anthropology into the European historical context: results of joint international studies”

Mykhailova Nataliia (Institute of archaeology NAS of Ukraine)

“Mykola Makarenko and Mariupol Neolithic burial ground under the pressure of Soviet-Russian totalitarianism”

Oksana Ruchynska (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University / University of Fribourg)

“A Study of the Elite of Northern Black Sea Poleis: Historical and Archaeological Aspects”

Oleh Bilynskyi (Nation University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”)

“The Abduction of Scythia”

Tetiana Shevchenko (Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine / UNIL)

“Classical archaeology of Ukraine: revising previous approaches”

Anna Yanenko (National preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”)

“Museum iconography or visual museum history: actualization of pictorial sources in the history of Ukrainian Humanities”

Serhii Telizhenko (Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine)

“Archaeology after the war. Prospects and forecasts”

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Сlosing round table discussion 16:00-17:00

Béla Kapossy Moderator (UNIL)

Aleksandr Dmitriiev (EPFL)

Balazs Trencsényi (CEU Democracy Institute)

Alla Boiko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

Oleksandr Potiekhin (Institute of World History NAS of Ukraine)

Oleksii Polegkyi (EPFL)

Hamest Tamrazyan (College of Humanities, EPFL)