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Commemoration

Historical studies of commemoration, an omnipresent and culturally remarkable feature of past and present societies, is among the most interesting focuses of contemporary researchers. It is closely connected to history since commemoration is a symbolically significant element in various cultures. It has a form of ceremonial honoring and remembering past events or people and their experiences. Commemorating the past is intertwined with many other aspects of society, politics, and culture. It is based on historical understandings of specific periods, depends on religious traditions or political ideologies, and often aims at making group identities. In East-Central Europe, the commemoration was also a field of conflict and contestation. Educational Platform offers researchers materials that can help to understand what, how, and why people in the region used to commemorate. We focus on specific topics of memory, propaganda, the issues of political historicism, and ideological cults. Our materials aim to provide the content of commemoration practices and the processes of remembering.

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Attitudes towards “Leninopad” in interview responses of Euromaidan’ participants, 2013-2014
The quotes from the interview published here are part of the project "The Voices of Euromaidan in Global Protest and Solidarity Studies". The project focuses on the edited and thematically organized materials from the collection of oral history interviews called "Voices of Resistance and Hope," that were recorded in two stages, the first in December 2013 and the second in February 2014 (more then 100 interviews). They were gathered in the base "Intimate Chronologies of the Euromaidan", which is available on Urban Media Archive website. This collection includes 17 themetical categories. “Leninopad” is one of them. The answers given in this category indicate the attitudes towards Lenin's monuments, to specific forms of urban...
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Jews in East Europe, 1772-1991 with a Focus on Ukrainian-Jewish Relations
This course covers the period from the partitions of Poland through the Russian and Habsburg Empires, the Soviet Union and interwar Poland. Students will familiarize with the geopolitical results of Russia’s westward and Austria’s eastward expansions and will focus among other overarching themes on the shtetl, the unique East European Jewish habitat; on Hasidism, a Ukraine-born popular movement of religious enthusiasm; on the interaction between Zionists and Ukrainian nationalists in Galicia; on the development of Ukrainization and Yiddishization (or Ukrainian and Jewish korenizatsiia) in the 1920s and the situation of Jews in Poland in the 1920s; on the Holocaust and its aftermath; on Ukrainians and Jews in the dissident movement; and on Jewish-Ukrainian...
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History, Memory, Politics: Modern Ukraine and the Opportunities and Challenges of Diversity
Ukraine’s twentieth century was tragically marked by much politically motivated violence and authoritarian regimes as well as movements, from the radical left and the radical right. These forces and events did not only do great harm in the past but left memories and legacies that are still challenging to contemporary Ukraine. In this class, we will focus on several key issues of history, memory, and politics. The readings cannot be exhaustive. Instead, our aim is to read and discuss a sample of important short texts that allow us to reflect more broadly on the underlying questions.
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Jewish Culture and Society in East Central Europe: 1772-present
In 1939, on the eve of the Holocaust, east European Jewry constituted the most important and culturally influential Jewish community in the world. As a result of half a century of mass migration, up to 90% of world Jewry either lived in Eastern Europe or were children of immigrants from there. Jews were particularly prominent in East European cities. In Galicia, for example, Jews constituted a plurality or majority of nearly every major city. (L’viv was an exception, where they made up “only” a quarter of the population.) This course will survey the modern history of this once vital community – social, economic, political, religious and cultural – from the Polish partitions until...
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Jews on Display. Exhibiting Jewish History and Culture in the East Central European Context at the beginning of the 21st century
The course explores the ways in which Jewish history and culture are narrated and visualized in the new museum and exhibitions projects in post-communist East Central Europe, and how those museums as public institutions, and curatorial interventions contribute to establishing, (re)shaping, countering or petrifying respective national narratives, the understanding of cultural difference and prejudice.
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