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Conference 2025 - Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History

Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · 15d

3/ Programme and registration also at the website of UCU in #Lviv, Western #Ukraine, see ucu.edu.ua/cmh/en/event...

6 October

MHC Conference 6–7 October 2025

Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · 15d

2/ #ColdWar and in the Soviet Block’s struggle against opposition and emigré activists? Join the German-Ukrainian Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History (MHC), founded 2024, for its first annual conference. Programme and registration in-site/online (ZOOM) at
www.lmu.de/mhz/de/aktue...

The Politics of Nazi Accusations: The Soviet Union and anti-Soviet Nationalisms in the Cold War

the 23rd IOHA Conference - Conference programme

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · 15d

1/ #Nazi Accusations. Join us on October 6/7 for a conference on past and present, on fact and fiction. Why do #Russia’s leaders describe a Jew in #Ukraine, president #Zelensky, as “Nazi”? What is the tradition of Nazi Accusations after #WW2 and #Holocaust? Which role did they play during ...

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · 21d

„February 2022 is, for me, THE great breach in the last decades“, say historians, professors Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Basel) and Dominik Geppert (Potsdam). #historikertag #history The bi-annual „parliament“ of historians in #Germany, Historikertag.de , is debating great power politics. Bonn 2025.

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · 23d

- Wed 17.09: "Quo Vadis, Wartime Oral History?" (chair)

- Thu 18.09.: Lecture "On Both Sides of the Screen: The Researcher and the Arrangement of Oral History in a Documentary Film"

ioha2025.conference.pl/en/conferenc...

ioha2025.conference.pl

the 23rd IOHA Conference - Home

Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · 23d

MHC Center member Prof. Gelinada Grinchenko @gelinada.bsky.social will be participating at the 23rd IOHA Conference Kraków (16.-19. September 2025)
"Re-Thinking Oral History" as a chair and lecturer (more details below)
ioha2025.conference.pl/en

ioha2025.conference.pl

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Sep 1

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В Ужгороді відбулася публічна дискусія до роковин Миколи Гаєвого – захисника, історика, випускника УКУ

Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Sep 1

3/ hold annual lectures and found a Mykola Haievoi scholarship. -
Photo from Uzhhorod: The participants of the meeting, gathered around UCU professor Yaroslav Hrytsak (center). Photo: Myroslava Baloh. For more information, see ucu.edu.ua/news/v-uzhgo...

Микола Гаєвой – уродженець Ужгорода, випускник історичного факультету УжНУ (Ужгородського національного університету). Згодом закінчив магістратуру в УКУ на

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Sep 1

2/ They discussed how historians could describe their own battlefield experience and stated that, during war, history is no longer a “safe haven”, but becomes a call for responsibility before the past, the present and those who passed away. UCU historians plan to publish a biography of Haievoi, ...

Ukrainian Catholic University

Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Sep 1

1/ Historian Mykola Haievoi, graduate of Ukraine’s ucu.edu.ua/en/, died at 28. He fell as a volunteer in combat against Russian forces August 27th, 2024. Soon, the MHC was named after Haievoi. Now, a year later, historians commemorated their colleague in his home town Uzhhorod where he was buried.

Український Католицький Університет є відкритою академічною спільнотою, яка живе східно-християнською традицією і виховує провідників суспільства, професіоналів, для служіння в Україні та за її межами...

Jaroslaw Hrytsak: "Wenn die Ukraine alleine dasteht, wird sie kollabieren"

Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here is the interview, for the time being on ZEIT online : www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

Die Ukrainer werden sich einem Trump-Putin-Deal nicht einfach so beugen, sagt der ukrainische Historiker Jaroslaw Hrytsak. Und fürchtet, dass der Krieg noch lange dauert.

www.zeit.de

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Aug 19

„The key question in the #Ukraine negotiations is not the territories. It is the security guarantees“ for 🇺🇦 , says MHC Co-director, ucu.edu.ua/en/ historian Yaroslav Hrytsak in Germany’s weekly @zeit.de „Without credible Sec. guarantees, our sons, grandsons will be forced to fight again and again.”

Ukrainian Catholic University

Український Католицький Університет є відкритою академічною спільнотою, яка живе східно-християнською традицією і виховує провідників суспільства, професіоналів, для служіння в Україні та за її межами...

Trump trifft Putin: In Alaska droht ein zweites Münchner Abkommen

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Aug 14

#Ukraine summit in #Alaska. Mr. putin’s and Trump’s „swapping of territories” talk: A lie. The barbarian wants to devore, not to “exchange” anything. See the partitions of #Poland 1772-95 and #Czechoslovakia 1938-39, as described by prof. Schulze Wessel in Friday’s FAZ : www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Die Agenda von Putin und Trump bei ihrem Treffen in Alaska lässt einen Rückfall in diplomatische Praktiken vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg vermuten. Ein Blick in die Geschichte zeigt: Das hätte fatale Folge...

www.faz.net

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Jul 28

A report about MHC-Webinar "Researching the Holocaust in a Time of War", july 22 with Prof. Martin Schulze Wessel (LMU) @schulzewessel.bsky.social, Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak (UCU), Prof. Andrea Löw (IfZ) @andrealoew.bsky.social, PD Dr. Kai Struve (LMU) @kstruve.bsky.social and Dr. Yuri Radchenko (UCU).

Yaroslav Hrytsak - Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History

Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Jul 26

Born in the #USSR: “I graduated in history, but I had no idea about the #Holocaust nor about its dimensions...”, says prof. Hrytsak from #Ukraine. Learn why, and what Holocaust means to Ukraine and #Russia today - from this report: www.lmu.de/mhz/de/aktue...

Webinar “Researching the Holocaust in a Time of War: Ukrainian and German Perspectives”

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Andrea Löw @andrealoew.bsky.social · Jul 21

Join us tomorrow:
Conversation about Research on the Holocaust with Yuri Radchenko, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Kai Struve, @schulzewessel.bsky.social and myself.
@mhc-modern-history.bsky.social

The webinar will address questions of Holocaust research in Ukraine and in a broader European context before the background of the current Russian war against Ukraine.

Prof. Dr. Gelinada Grinchenko - Geschichte Osteuropas und Südosteuropas - LMU München

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Jul 16

2/ July 29 MHZ member prof. Gelinada Grinchenko and partners will discuss how oral history can be used in exhibitions, performances, and video presentations and how this may influence new cultures of memory. See www.gose.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/exz...

www.gose.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Jul 16

1/ “Witnessing the War on Ukraine”: The annual conference will be held in Uzhhorod, July 28-31. It serves as a platform for oral history, ethnography, memory studies, and witness literature. 2025 topic: “Testimonies as Cultural Heritage for Future Memory Landscapes”. www.ualberta.ca/en/canadian-...

Witnessing the War on Ukraine Summer Institute 2025

www.ualberta.ca

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Kai Struve @kstruve.bsky.social · Jul 14

Historische Zäsuren stellen neue Fragen an die Geschichte. Zu den zentralen Themen der Sommerschule des Mykola-Haievoi-Zentrums an der UKU in Lviv gehörte, welche Fragne der aktuelle Krieg an die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts stellt.
www.lmu.de/mhz/de/aktue...

Event report: Summer School in Lviv

Mykola Haievoi Center holds its first Summer School in Lviv

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: MHZ-Webinar “Researching the Holocaust in a Time of War: Ukrainian and German Perspectives”. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about ...

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Jul 14

Webinar I July 22, 6pm
“Researching the Holocaust in a Time of War: Ukrainian and German Perspectives”

Martin Schulze Wessel (LMU), Yaroslav Hrytsak (UCU), Yuri Radchenko (UCU), Andrea Löw (Institute for Contemporary History Munich), Kai Struve (LMU)

Registration lmu-munich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

lmu-munich.zoom.us

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Jul 11

2/ Veranstalter und weitere Informationen: www.collegium-carolinum.de/veranstaltun...

Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine. Rhetorik, Geschichte, Politik

Diskussion mit Martin Schulze Wessel, Petra Stykow und Riccardo Nicolosi. 15. Juli 2025, 19:00 Uhr Adalbert-Stifter-Saal (Sudetendeutsches Haus, Hochstr. 8, München)

www.collegium-carolinum.de

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Jul 11

1/ EINLADUNG: #Russland s Krieg gegen die #Ukraine. Rhetorik, Geschichte, Politik. Diskussion mit Martin Schulze Wessel, Petra Stykow, Riccardo Nicolosi (Historiker/Politologin/Slawist).

#München, Di., 15.7., 19 Uhr. Adalbert-Stifter-Saal, Sudetendeutsches Haus, Hochstr. 8. (S Rosenheimer Platz)

Veranstaltungsbericht: Ein Abend für den Bildhauer Vadim Sidur

Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Jul 10

Lecture by Prof. Gelinada Grinchenko @gelinada.bsky.social on
"Preserving the Past, Living the Present: Filming WWII Oral Histories Amid Russia’s War on Ukraine"

Tue, 15.07.2025, 8:30 a.m., on-site
MSA, Prague "Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability"
msaprague2025.dryfta.com/86-registrat...

Registration

86 registration

msaprague2025.dryfta.com

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · Jul 7

Rückblick: „Vadim Sidur zum 101. Geburtstag – ein Abend für den Bildhauer“ (28.06.2025)
Ein vom MHZ veranstalteter Abend mit Moderatorin Dr. Renata von Maydell (Slavistik Konstanz), dem Schauspielduo Antonia Braun und Bernhard Hanuschik sowie der Geigerin Doris Orsan.

www.lmu.de/mhz/de/aktue...

Am 28.06.2025 veranstaltete das Mykola-Haievoi-Zentrum in Kooperation mit der Slavistik der Universität Konstanz einen Abend zum 101. Geburtstag des in der Ukraine geborenen Bildhauers Vadim Sidur.