Course: Belarus and Ukraine: Historical Trajectories and Post-Soviet Transformations - SoSe 2020

Weekly outline

General
- Ankündigungen Forum
- Belarus and Ukraine: Seminar Plan File
22 April
Introduction
- Andrii Portnov, Welcome Video URL
- Documentary: Weißrussland. Europas letzte Diktatur URL
29 April
Medieval and early modern Belarus and Ukraine
- Serhii Plokhy, The Origins of the Slavic Nations. Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus File
- Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations. Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus. 1569-1999 File
6 May
Two national movements of stateless ethnic groups
- Roman Szporluk, Ukraine: From an Imperial Periphery to a Sovereign State File
- Rudolf A. Mark, Die nationale Bewegung der Weißrussen im 19. und zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhundert File
13 May
Soviet Belarus and Soviet Ukraine
- Bernhard Chiari, „Nationale Renaissance“, Belorussifizierung und Sowjetisierung: Erziehungs-und Bildungspolitik in Weißrußland 1922-1944 File
- Francine Hirsch, Toward an Empire of Nations: Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities File
20 May
The Second World War
- Alexandra Goujon, Memorial Narratives of WWII Partisans and Genocide in Belarus File
- Per A. Rudling, The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia: A Historical Controversy Revisited File
27 May
Post-war years. Perestroika. Independence
- Roman Szporluk, West Ukraine and West Belorussia: Historical Tradition, Social Communication, and Linguistic Assimilation File
- David A. Marples, Belarus. A Denationalized Nation File
3 June
President Lukashenka`s Phenomenon

Presentation by Veranika Laputska (Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences)
10 June
How to capture Ukraine`s pluralism: “Two Ukraines” or more
- Mykola Rjabtschuk, Die reale und die imaginierte Ukraine File
- Mykola Riabchuk, ‘Two Ukraines’ Reconsidered: The End of Ukrainian Ambivalence? File
17 June
Maidan and Ukrainian Identity
24 June
Language Issue and Language Politics in Two States
- Laada Bilaniuk, Ideologies of Language in Wartime Ukraine File
- Mark Brüggemann, Koloniales sprachliches Erbe. Sprache und Nation in Lukašenkas Belarus File
1 July
Russia as the Third Part of East Slavic Triangle
- Igor Torbakov, Ukraine and Russia: Entangled Histories, Contested Identities, and a War of Narratives File
- Andrew Savchenko, Belarus – A Perpetual Borderland File
8 July
Why Belarus is not Ukraine?
15 July
Why Ukraine is not Belarus?

Andrii Portnov Video (will be published soon)
22 July
Concluding (ZOOM?) meeting