Lectures and Seminars

Topics	Weeks	Lectures	Seminars
1	2	Entangled or colonised? How to write a history of Ukraine?	What is a nation? Modern nations and their history
2	3	Stories of origin: the Kyivan Rus	Language, religion, and geography
3	4	The ‘Mongol yoke’ and the rise of Muscovy	Autocracy and ‘Third Rome’
4	5	The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	The Union of Lublin and the ascendancy of Polish culture
5	7	The fight for the ‘land of the Rus’	The Cossack Hetmanate and the ‘Kyivan Renaissance’
6	8	Becoming an empire: Russia’s long 18^thCentury	From the Great Northern War to the Congress of Vienna
7	9	Russia’s mission and Ukraine	Thinking about Russia: From the Enlightenment to Panslavism
8	10	Poland’s struggle and Ukraine	Thinking about Poland: From Sarmatism to Warsaw positivism
9	11	Ukraine’s self-discovery	Thinking about Ukraine: From Kotliarevsky to Hrushevsky
10	12	Peasants into …: How the national message was spread	National literature, music, and art
11	13	National boundaries and hybrid identities	The ‘Jewish question’ and other questions
12	14	The Great War: Hopes, aims, and expectations	Playing the national card: the self-destruction of empires
13	15	The Russian, Polish and Ukrainian Revolution	From the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to the Treaty of Riga
14	17	Nation building Soviet style	Affirmative action and genocide
15	18	Poland and her minorities	Polish and Ukrainian nationalism
16	19	Bloodlands I: Soviet rule	Sovietisation: terror and transformation
17	20	Bloodlands II: German rule	German order: genocides and miscalculations
18	21	From Soviet to independent Ukraine	Resistance, Russification, and disentanglement
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
20	23	The Russian war against Ukraine	Current situation and perspectives