Lunch Talk with Lviv #1

21 October 2024, 12 p.m. CET

The Global History of Ukraine. Book Launch with Yaroslav Hrytsak

chair: Kornelia Kończal (Bielefeld) and Taras Romashchenko (Bielefeld)

The aim of these cross-border meetings is to gain a better understanding of current debates in the Ukrainian public sphere. What are the most important and controversial issues in Ukraine today? Whose voices are shaping the public sphere and whose are not? How is the ongoing war affecting the Ukrainian language? Why is the idea of decolonisation so central to so many Ukrainians, and what does it actually mean? What factors influence Ukrainian perceptions of Germany? How do Ukrainian writers and intellectuals imagine the post-war future of their country? By creating a space to learn about Ukraine from Ukrainians, this new format aims to provide a much-needed counterpoint to the widespread tendency towards Westsplaining.

We meet online for 60 minutes over lunch. Each session will be devoted to a selected essay or book by a Ukrainian author.

Lunch Talks with Lviv is a joint project of researchers from the Bielefeld University and the Ukrainian Catholic University of Lviv, and is open to students and staff from all faculties of both universities as well as to interested people from other places.

Co-curators in Bielefeld:

Kornelia Kończal (kornelia.konczal@uni-bielefeld.de) and

Taras Romashchenko (taras.romashchenko@uni-bielefeld.de)

Co-curators in Lviv:

Volodymyr Sklokin (sklokin@ucu.edu.ua) and

Bohdan Chuma (bohdan.chuma@ucu.edu.ua)