Events
We aim to develop the Halle-Jena-Leipzig university network into an internationally visible centre of Polish studies. This is to be achieved in particular through interdisciplinary events, but also through subject-specific discussions. In addition, some of our activities are aimed at the interested public, to whom we would like to bring Polish history, language, society and culture closer.
The academic events include regular colloquia, conferences, workshops and lecture series, and in the long term also summer schools. For students we offer block seminars, which are an integral part of the Interdisciplinary Polish Studies programme, as well as excursions to Poland.
A Polish film series in cooperation with the Polish Institute Leipzig, the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, the Puschkino in Halle, the German-Polish Society Saxony-Anhalt and the Saxony-Anhalt State Centre for Political Education has a broader public impact. The films in these series as well as future readings of Polish literature are thematically related to the research fields of the centre.
Colloquia
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Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin (Warsaw): Ukrainians' identity struggle in light of the Soviet past and the present war
1/12, 18:00 (s.t.), in presence at FSU Jena
The lecture will present how the identity-related divisions in Ukrainian society evolved in time, what were the most important factors that kept them vivid over almost 30 years and what were the main milestones of the change. The divisions used to be deep enough to talk about “unexpected nation”, as Andrew Wilson in 2000 or about “two Ukraines” as Mykola Riabchuk in 2002. These were a manifestation of at least two competing identities within Ukrainian nation, which existed and developed parallelly and resulted with different ideas about the past of Ukraine and its future place in Europe. The widespread awareness of the existence of a national community with its own interests, as well as the state, ready to defend those interests, actually appeared only around 2014.
In the lecture I will show this process referring to the sociological data about the images of the past and changes in values that became especially apparent after the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the attacks on the eastern part of Ukraine in 2014.
Venue of lecture: Institut für Slawistik und Kaukasusstudien, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8, Raum 301 (3. OG), 07743 Jena
Lecture Series
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Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin (Warsaw): Ukrainians' identity struggle in light of the Soviet past and the present war
1/12, 18:00 (s.t.), in presence at FSU Jena
The lecture will present how the identity-related divisions in Ukrainian society evolved in time, what were the most important factors that kept them vivid over almost 30 years and what were the main milestones of the change. The divisions used to be deep enough to talk about “unexpected nation”, as Andrew Wilson in 2000 or about “two Ukraines” as Mykola Riabchuk in 2002. These were a manifestation of at least two competing identities within Ukrainian nation, which existed and developed parallelly and resulted with different ideas about the past of Ukraine and its future place in Europe. The widespread awareness of the existence of a national community with its own interests, as well as the state, ready to defend those interests, actually appeared only around 2014.
In the lecture I will show this process referring to the sociological data about the images of the past and changes in values that became especially apparent after the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the attacks on the eastern part of Ukraine in 2014.
Venue of lecture: Institut für Slawistik und Kaukasusstudien, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8, Raum 301 (3. OG), 07743 Jena
Lectures
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Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin (Warsaw): Ukrainians' identity struggle in light of the Soviet past and the present war
1/12, 18:00 (s.t.), in presence at FSU Jena
The lecture will present how the identity-related divisions in Ukrainian society evolved in time, what were the most important factors that kept them vivid over almost 30 years and what were the main milestones of the change. The divisions used to be deep enough to talk about “unexpected nation”, as Andrew Wilson in 2000 or about “two Ukraines” as Mykola Riabchuk in 2002. These were a manifestation of at least two competing identities within Ukrainian nation, which existed and developed parallelly and resulted with different ideas about the past of Ukraine and its future place in Europe. The widespread awareness of the existence of a national community with its own interests, as well as the state, ready to defend those interests, actually appeared only around 2014.
In the lecture I will show this process referring to the sociological data about the images of the past and changes in values that became especially apparent after the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the attacks on the eastern part of Ukraine in 2014.
Venue of lecture: Institut für Slawistik und Kaukasusstudien, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8, Raum 301 (3. OG), 07743 Jena
Polish Studies
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Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin (Warsaw): Ukrainians' identity struggle in light of the Soviet past and the present war
1/12, 18:00 (s.t.), in presence at FSU Jena
The lecture will present how the identity-related divisions in Ukrainian society evolved in time, what were the most important factors that kept them vivid over almost 30 years and what were the main milestones of the change. The divisions used to be deep enough to talk about “unexpected nation”, as Andrew Wilson in 2000 or about “two Ukraines” as Mykola Riabchuk in 2002. These were a manifestation of at least two competing identities within Ukrainian nation, which existed and developed parallelly and resulted with different ideas about the past of Ukraine and its future place in Europe. The widespread awareness of the existence of a national community with its own interests, as well as the state, ready to defend those interests, actually appeared only around 2014.
In the lecture I will show this process referring to the sociological data about the images of the past and changes in values that became especially apparent after the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the attacks on the eastern part of Ukraine in 2014.
Venue of lecture: Institut für Slawistik und Kaukasusstudien, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8, Raum 301 (3. OG), 07743 Jena
Conferences & Workshops
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Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin (Warsaw): Ukrainians' identity struggle in light of the Soviet past and the present war
1/12, 18:00 (s.t.), in presence at FSU Jena
The lecture will present how the identity-related divisions in Ukrainian society evolved in time, what were the most important factors that kept them vivid over almost 30 years and what were the main milestones of the change. The divisions used to be deep enough to talk about “unexpected nation”, as Andrew Wilson in 2000 or about “two Ukraines” as Mykola Riabchuk in 2002. These were a manifestation of at least two competing identities within Ukrainian nation, which existed and developed parallelly and resulted with different ideas about the past of Ukraine and its future place in Europe. The widespread awareness of the existence of a national community with its own interests, as well as the state, ready to defend those interests, actually appeared only around 2014.
In the lecture I will show this process referring to the sociological data about the images of the past and changes in values that became especially apparent after the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the attacks on the eastern part of Ukraine in 2014.
Venue of lecture: Institut für Slawistik und Kaukasusstudien, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8, Raum 301 (3. OG), 07743 Jena
Film series & Readings
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Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin (Warsaw): Ukrainians' identity struggle in light of the Soviet past and the present war
1/12, 18:00 (s.t.), in presence at FSU Jena
The lecture will present how the identity-related divisions in Ukrainian society evolved in time, what were the most important factors that kept them vivid over almost 30 years and what were the main milestones of the change. The divisions used to be deep enough to talk about “unexpected nation”, as Andrew Wilson in 2000 or about “two Ukraines” as Mykola Riabchuk in 2002. These were a manifestation of at least two competing identities within Ukrainian nation, which existed and developed parallelly and resulted with different ideas about the past of Ukraine and its future place in Europe. The widespread awareness of the existence of a national community with its own interests, as well as the state, ready to defend those interests, actually appeared only around 2014.
In the lecture I will show this process referring to the sociological data about the images of the past and changes in values that became especially apparent after the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the attacks on the eastern part of Ukraine in 2014.
Venue of lecture: Institut für Slawistik und Kaukasusstudien, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8, Raum 301 (3. OG), 07743 Jena