220184 Lunch Talk with Lviv. A series of online discussions about Ukrainian intellectual life (StGr) (WiSe 2024/2025)

zoom link: https://aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2024/10/18/lunch-talks-von-ukrainerinnen-ueber-die-ukraine-lernen/

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 reading by a Ukrainian author. All readings will be available in advance.

Lunch Talk 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)

1st session, 21 October 2024, 12 p.m. in Bielefeld / 1p.m. in Lviv
The Global History of Ukraine. Book Launch with Yaroslav Hrytsak
reading: Yaroslav Hrytsak: Ukraine. Biographie einer bedrängten Nation, translated from Englisch by Karlheinz Dürr and Norbert Juraschitz (München: Beck 2024).
chair: Kornelia Kończal (Bielefeld) and Taras Romashchenko (Bielefeld)

2nd session, 4 November 2024, 12 p.m. in Bielefeld / 1p.m. in Lviv
The Decolonization Debate
reading: Andrew Kushnir, “Why Is Canadian Theatre So Russian Right Now?”, Intermission Magazine, 2023. https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/artist-perspective/why-is-canadian-theatre-so-russian-right-now/
introduction: Oleksandr Pronkevych (Lviv)
chair: Taras Romashchenko (Bielefeld)

3rd session, 18 November 2024, 12 p.m. in Bielefeld / 1p.m. in Lviv
Militarism and Pacifism across Europe
reading: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukraine and the Borders of Europe, IWM Post, 2022, vol. 129.
Ukraine and the Borders of Europe | IWM WEBSITE
introduction: Volodymyr Sklokin (Lviv)
chair: Taras Romashchenko (Bielefeld)

4th session, 25 November 2024, 12 p.m. in Bielefeld / 1p.m. in Lviv
The Language of War
reading: Oleksandr Mykhed, The Language of War, translated from Ukrainian by Maryna Gibson, Hanna Leliv, Abby Dewar (London: Penguin 2024), preface, chapters 1 and 2.
introduction: Ostap Slyvynsky (Lviv)
chair: Kornelia Kończal (Bielefeld)

5th session, 2 December 2024, 12 p.m. in Bielefeld / 1p.m. in Lviv
Rethinking Russian-Ukrainian Relations
reading: Oksana Sabuschko: Die längste Buchtour: Essay, translated from Ukrainian by Alexander Kratochvil (Graz: Literaturverlag Droschl, 2022), chapter 1.
introduction: Sofiia Filonenko (Lviv)
chair: Kornelia Kończal (Bielefeld)

6th session, 16 December 2024, 12 p.m. in Bielefeld / 1p.m. in Lviv
Diaries and Dreams of War. Book Launch with Bohdan Shumylovych
reading: Bohdan Shumylovych and Magdalena Zolkos (ed.), Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: Imprints and Dreamscapes (London: Routledge, 2024), introduction.
chair: Kornelia Kończal (Bielefeld) and Taras Romashchenko (Bielefeld)