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EHRC Newsletter - January 2025

EHRC NEWS

The EHRC was proud to support the Second Ukrainian Summer School, held at the University of Warwick from 9 to 23 June 2024. Twenty students from the Ukrainian Catholic University participated in workshops and events, including a session on Ukrainian Political Thought, led by Professor Christoph Mick, in collaboration with Dr. Ostap Sereda, Dr. Tetyana Vodotyka, Professor Mark Philp and postgraduate students Leokadiia Shuhurova and Sophiia Matsiuk. On 17 June, the EHRC hosted a public event where Professor Viktoria Sereda delivered a powerful talk on ‘Ukrainian refugees and their renegotiation of belonging’. The evening included discussions and presentations by Summer School participants, enriching perspectives on Ukrainian identity and resilience during challenging times.

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In October, the EHRC hosted a commemorative event to honour the late Professor Robin Okey, who sadly passed away in December 2023. Professor Christopher Read organised the event, which included historians from Wales and England, who celebrated Okey’s profound impact on the study of Wales and the Balkans.

Also in October, the EHRC welcomed Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University), who delivered a fascinating lecture on ‘The Soviet Anthropocene: Changing Notions of Human and Non-Human Agency in the Context of an Authoritarian Regime’. This lecture, part of our History Research Seminar Series on the history and ethics of artificial intelligence, sparked thought-provoking discussions on the intersections of technology, history and ethics.

One of our flagship initiatives, The Re-imagining Democracy project, led by Professor Mark Philp in collaboration with Professor Joanna Innes (Oxford), continues to thrive. The team has moved on to the fourth and final volume of their series, which focusses on Central and Northern Europe between 1770 and 1870. Together with the previous volumes, this research promises to deepen our understanding of democratic transformations in thought and practice in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Anna Hájková spent the fall as a fellow at the Frankel Center for Judaic studies and is in the winter Agathe Lasch guest professor at the University of Hamburg. She is putting finishing touches on her book 'People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust', forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press. (Will Jones translated a large part of that book!)