Bykivnia, Babyn Yar, Bucha: Between The Massacre and Memory. An International Conference ENG

A contribution to the understanding of the tragedies of the last century and the inclusion of memories about present tragedies into the general memory paradigm of Ukrainian and European society. The conference can influence the memory culture in different European countries due to analytical approaches and well-thought-out presentations of academic papers. The conference will contribute to the development of clear and appropriate terminology to describe the character current Russian-Ukrainian war.
The conference is opened by Hanna Radziejowska, director of Pilecki Institute in Berlin.
Main topics of the conference:
Perceptions of the "triangle of evil" in the different European countries: politicians, academics, media, and the publi;.
What different intellectuals, political and cultural groups in the European community understand by the terms Communism, Nazism and Rashism;
Should we compare Communism, Nazism and Rashism?;
The essence of Rashism: sources, conceptualization, promotors.
A brief introduction to the conference's speakers:
Andrii Portnov, professor of Entangled History of Ukraine, and Co-director of the Viadrina Centre of Polish and Ukrainian Studies at the European University Viadrina, Director of PRISMA UKRAЇNA Research Network Eastern Europe
Igor Kąkolewski, professor, Director of the Center for Historical Research Berlin Polish Academy of Sciences. Co-coordinator for the preparation and distribution of German-language materials, organizer of the conference in Berlin
Svitlana Liakhovets, art historian, coordinator of Central and Eastern Europe projects at the Institute of Lithuanian History, expert at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, Head of NGO Svitarta. Author of the idea and project manager of the Bykivnia, Babyn Yar, Bucha project
Yuri Shapoval, professor, main research fellow at the Department of Theory and History of Political Science, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Field of research interest: political history and the history of political thought in Ukraine in the 19th-21st centuries; the politics of memory and the process of decommunization in contemporary Ukraine; history of the Communist totalitarian system in Ukraine; Holodomor in Ukraine; Polish-Ukrainian relations in the 20th century.
Andrii Portnov, professor of Entangled History of Ukraine, and Co-director of the Viadrina Centre of Polish and Ukrainian Studies at the European University Viadrina, Director of PRISMA UKRAЇNA Research Network Eastern Europe
Igor Kąkolewski, professor, Director of the Center for Historical Research Berlin Polish Academy of Sciences. Co-coordinator for the preparation and distribution of German-language materials, organizer of the conference in Berlin
Larysa Yakubova, professor, Head of the Department of History of Ukraine 1920-1930, Institute of History of Ukraine. Field of research: history of ethnic minorities of Ukraine, national question, national policy, history of Eastern Ukraine and Donbas; history of Russian and Soviet totalitarian regime; Russo-Ukrainian War 2014 - 2024; Rashism and the ‘Russkiy mir’.
Roman Podkur, PhD, senior research fellow at the Department of history of Soviet state terror, Institute of History of Ukraine. Field of researcht: history of the Communist totalitarian system in Ukraine; history of the communist secret services; political history of the 20th century.
Anatolii Podolskyi, PhD, leading research fellow at the Department of Ethnopolitical Studies, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Head of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies. Field of research: history of Jews in Ukraine in the 20th century, history of the Holocaust; Ukrainian-Jewish relations in historical perspective; comparative studies of the history of genocide of the 20th century.
Nadiia Honcharenko, senior research fellow, Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts; research fellow Non-Residential Scholarship at Indiana University (USA). Field of research: cultural studies, historical education, memory policy.
David Rieff, an American essayist, journalist, and policy analyst, who work has largely focused written on war, humanitarian action, the global food system, and the politics and ethics of memory. He is fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, a member if the US Council on Foreign Relations, and an honorary professor at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.