Online Presentation from Lviv | German Historians and Russia's War against Ukraine

Online Presentation from Lviv
Tuesday, 8 November, 2022

November 10, 6:30 PM (Kyiv Time) 

EHRI partner the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe  in Ukraine invites you to the online-presentation "German Historians and Russia's War against Ukraine - The significance of this debate for collaboration in the field of digital humanities" with Peter Haslinger, who is Director of the Herder Institute Marburg and Professor of History of Eastern Europe at the Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies.

The event is part of the programme series "Source as a choice" on documenting the experience of violence and warfare, organized by the Center for Urban History in cooperation with EHRI.

To begin with, the presentation aims to take stock of the debates that have been taking place in the community of historians in Germany since February 24. It asks how the humanities as a whole reacted to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

Secondly, the talk tries to discuss possible consequences for the Digital Humanities and options for action in the German academic world.

Finally, the presentation addresses basic questions of an intensified Ukrainian-German cooperation in the future. The aim is also to identify needs and forms of cooperation at eye level.

Moderator of the meeting is Taras Nazaruk.

Mykola Makhortykh, Postdoctoral Researcher in Communication and Data Science at the University of Bern and former EHRI fellow, will join the conversation.

The event will be delivered on the online platform Zoom and takes place Thursday 10 November 2022, 6.30 PM (Kyiv Time). To join the discussion, please, register.

The presentation will be conducted in English. Simultaneous interpretation into Ukrainian will be provided at the event.

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Cover Image: George Ivanchenko, 2022 // Urban Media Archive of the Center for Urban History