Wednesday, January 29, 2020
13:15 Welcome Addresses
Thomas Grob (Vice President for Education, Basel University)
F. Benjamin Schenk (Head of URIS)
Panel 1 (13:30-15:00)
New Interpretations of post 1991 Developments
Chair: Rhea Rieben (Basel)
Valeriya Korablyova (Giessen)
Ukraine after 1991 between citizenry and spectatorship: from mass protests to ocular democracy
Mykhailo Minakov (Basel)
Impact of post-Soviet secessionism on irredentists in Ukraine's Donbas, 2014-19
Discussant: Ulrich Schmid (St Gallen)
Panel 2 (15:30-17:00)
Politics of History and Mnemonic Conflicts in Contemporary Ukraine
Chair: Sophia Polek (Basel)
Georgy Kasianov (Kyiv)
Decommunization in Ukraine after 2014: Narratives, Actions, Outcomes
Oksana Myshlovska (Bern)
Civil society, mnemonic conflicts and dealing with the grievances and traumas of the past in Ukraine: the case of veteran and victims’ organizations
Discussant: Thomas Grob (Basel)
17:00-18:00
Students' Poster Presentation I (MA- and PhD-thesis')
Keynote Lecture (18:15-19:30)
Yaroslav Hrytsak (L’viv)
Non-Euclidian Nation: What and How We Write about Ukraine
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Panel 3 (10:00-12:00)
Territorialisation, Population Transfers and Foreign Occupation
Chair: Alexis Hofmeister (Basel)
Julia Richers (Bern)
Carpatho-Ukrainian Border Biographies amidst Multiple Territorial Revisions, 1919-1946
Stephan Rindlisbacher (Frankfurt/ Oder)
Khrushchev’s Present? Commemorating the Transfer of Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954
Carmen Scheide (Bern)
Lifeworlds and Entanglements in Central Ukraine in the 20th century. A Research Perspective
Discussant: Korine Amacher (Geneva)
Panel 4 (13:30-15:00)
National Identities in the Ukrainian-Polish-Russian Triangle
Chair: Alexandra Wedl (Basel)
Andrii Portnov (Frankfurt/ Oder)
Divided Memories, Shared Memories. Ukraine / Russia / Poland (20th-21st Centuries): An Entangled History
Trevor Erlacher (Chapel Hill)
Ukrains’ka khata and the Political Implications of Anti-Ukrainophilism
Discussant: Harald Binder (L’viv)
Panel 5 (15:30-17:00)
Minorities and Transnational Entanglements in Early Soviet Ukraine
Chair: Charlotte Henze (Basel)
Olena Palko (London)
Minorities question in Soviet Ukraine: controlled ethnic diversity in the 1920s
Irina Matiash (Kyiv)
The Ukrainian-Swiss Relations in 1917-1926, Institutional History and Personalities
Discussant: Riccarda Torriani (Bern/Vienna)
17:00-18:00 Students' Poster Presentation II (MA- and PhD-thesis')
Friday, January 31, 2020
Panel 6 (09:00-10:30)
Historicizing the Black Sea Region
Chair: Henning Lautenschläger (Basel)
Boris Belge (Basel)
Building Infrastructures, Increasing Trade: Port Construction and Expansion in Odessa (1794–1866)
Liliia Bilousova (Odessa)
The Swiss Communities of Odessa, Shabou and Zurichstal Through the Records of the State Archives of Odessa Region: Sources, Database, Publication
Discussant: F. Benjamin Schenk (Basel)
Panel 7 (11:00-12:30)
Kiev/Kyiv Imagined City and Political Center
Chair: Laura Ritter (Basel)
Kateryna Dysa (Kyiv)
Not the Final Destination: Kyiv in Western Travel Literature of the Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Centuries
Fabian Baumann (Basel)
Niche Nationalism: Kiev’s Ukrainophile Milieu under the Ems Ukaz
Discussant: Andreas Kappeler (Wien)
12:30-13:00
F. Benjamin Schenk (Basel): URIS: Future Perspectives