Lectures and Seminars
Topics |
Weeks |
Lectures |
Seminars |
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2 |
What is a nation? Modern nations and their history |
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2 |
3 |
Language, religion, and geography |
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3 |
4 |
Autocracy and ‘Third Rome’ |
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4 |
5 |
The Union of Lublin and the ascendancy of Polish culture |
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5 |
7 |
The Cossack Hetmanate and the ‘Kyivan Renaissance’ |
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6 |
8 |
From the Great Northern War to the Congress of Vienna |
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7 |
9 |
Thinking about Russia: From the Enlightenment to Panslavism |
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8 |
10 |
Thinking about Poland: From Sarmatism to Warsaw positivism |
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9 |
11 |
Ukraine’s self-discovery |
Thinking about Ukraine: From Kotliarevsky to Hrushevsky |
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10 |
12 |
Peasants into …: How the national message was spread |
National literature, music, and art |
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11 |
13 |
National boundaries and hybrid identities |
The ‘Jewish question’ and other questions |
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12 |
14 |
The Great War: Hopes, aims, and expectations |
Playing the national card: the self-destruction of empires |
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13 |
15 |
The Russian, Polish and Ukrainian Revolution |
From the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to the Treaty of Riga |
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14 |
17 |
Nation building Soviet style |
Affirmative action and genocide |
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15 |
18 |
Poland and her minorities |
Polish and Ukrainian nationalism |
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16 |
19 |
Bloodlands I: Soviet rule |
Sovietisation: terror and transformation |
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17 |
20 |
Bloodlands II: German rule |
German order: genocides and miscalculations |
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18 |
21 |
From Soviet to independent Ukraine |
Resistance, Russification, and disentanglement |
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19 |
22 |
Trials, tribulations, and choices: Ukraine and her neighbours after the fall of the Soviet Union |
The shadows of the past: the use and misuse of history |
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20 |
23 |
The Russian war against Ukraine |
Current situation and perspectives |