Events / Program: The World in Pieces

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Shaken, Not Stirred: Jewishness and Christianity. A Family History of Beliefs and Identity of the Soviet Intelligentsia	Mon, 09.12.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Anna Narinskaya Ludger Hagedorn	Shaken, Not Stirred: Jewishness and Christianity. A Family History of Beliefs and Identity of the Soviet Intelligentsia Mon, 09.12.2024 Speakers: Anna Narinskaya Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Who were the Soviet Jews? What defined them, apart from the state antisemitism directed against them (which was in many ways unifying)? How did they remain Jews without following their religion, without preserving their language, without retaining their original traditions while often promptly accepting new ones? Read more
Shaken, Not Stirred: Jewishness and Christianity. A Family History of Beliefs and Identity of the Soviet Intelligentsia Mon, 09.12.2024 Speakers: Anna Narinskaya Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Who were the Soviet Jews? What defined them, apart from the state antisemitism directed against them (which was in many ways unifying)? How did they remain Jews without following their religion, without preserving their language, without retaining their original traditions while often promptly accepting new ones? Read more
	Decolonizing Slavic Studies	Tue, 28.11.2023	Lecture	Daryna KorkachEwa Thompson	Decolonizing Slavic Studies Tue, 28.11.2023 Speakers: Daryna KorkachEwa Thompson Series: Lecture Ewa Thompson´s lecture dealt with the insights first articulated in that book: why Russian colonialism has not been noticed until recently, how the teaching of Russian literature and history in the West has been influenced by colonialist distortions present in Russian literature, and the role of Western universities and research centres in promoting a colonialist version of Russian history. Read more
Decolonizing Slavic Studies Tue, 28.11.2023 Speakers: Daryna KorkachEwa Thompson Series: Lecture Ewa Thompson´s lecture dealt with the insights first articulated in that book: why Russian colonialism has not been noticed until recently, how the teaching of Russian literature and history in the West has been influenced by colonialist distortions present in Russian literature, and the role of Western universities and research centres in promoting a colonialist version of Russian history. Read more
	The Sources of Suprematism	Mon, 06.11.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Eva Forgacs Tatiana Levina	The Sources of Suprematism Mon, 06.11.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Eva Forgacs Tatiana Levina Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, many interesting studies have appeared that shed light on the Kyiv period of Malevich's work (1928–30) and the avant-garde context in Ukraine. In 2015, several of Malevich’s texts were found in the archive of Marian Kropyvnytsky in Kyiv. Levina analyzed recently published books and articles by Tetyana Filevska, Myroslava M. Mudrak, Myroslav Shkandrij, and others to get a deeper insight into his Ukrainian heritage. Read more
The Sources of Suprematism Mon, 06.11.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Eva Forgacs Tatiana Levina Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, many interesting studies have appeared that shed light on the Kyiv period of Malevich's work (1928–30) and the avant-garde context in Ukraine. In 2015, several of Malevich’s texts were found in the archive of Marian Kropyvnytsky in Kyiv. Levina analyzed recently published books and articles by Tetyana Filevska, Myroslava M. Mudrak, Myroslav Shkandrij, and others to get a deeper insight into his Ukrainian heritage. Read more