Mehrzahl Moderne II – Book presentation “Dnipro. Re-thinking Modern European history on the Dnipro shores”
New lecture series: Mehrzahl Moderne. An Introduction to the Intertwined Histories of Central and Eastern Europe”
Second event: Book presentation “Dnipro. Re-thinking Modern European history on the Dnipro shores”.
Prof. Andrii Portnov (Instytut Pileckiego Warszawa) followed by a commentary from Hanna Radziejowska (Pilecki-Institut Berlin).
27 April, 7.00 pm | Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin
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Languages: Polish and German (with simultaneous interpretation)
Could southern and eastern Ukraine be described as a laboratory of modernity? What would the implications of such an approach be for late Imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union? How did the city of Katerynoslav-Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) cope with the challenges of rapid industrialization, immigration, and ethno-religious diversity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? In what ways could the analytical notions of colonialism, hybridity, and national indifference be helpful when applied to Ukrainian socioeconomic realities in the modern era? Based on his own experience writing the first English-language biography of Dnipro, “Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City” (Boston, 2022), prof. Andrii Portnov would like to reflect on these topics and discuss the book’s main points.
Cykl wydarzeń “Mehrzahl Moderne. Wprowadzenie do splątanej historii Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej
Lecture series “Mehrzahl moderne: An Introduction to the Intertwined Histories of Central and Eastern Europe”
The Pilecki Institute Berlin and the Public History department at the FernUniversität in Hagen are jointly exploring how the recent histories of Poland, Ukraine and Belarus can be narrated as part of European history. How can the historical experiences of these societies be recounted without perpetuating historical notions of asymmetry, backwardness and superiority? One answer to this question is to understand modernity as a plurality of diverse, interwoven processes. An awareness of the region’s polyphony, complexity and interdependence enables us to sharpen our focus on the so-called periphery. By placing its past at the centre, we remind ourselves that the future of Europe is being decided today in Ukraine.
Curators of the Mehrzahl Moderne series are Prof. Felix Ackermann and Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk.
