The Bucharest Winter Academy as a Scholarly Contact Zone in Situ
By Nadzeya Charapan The Winter Academy “Revisiting the Nation: Transcultural Contact Zones in Eastern Europe” brought to Bucharest 19 young...
Kategorie: Revisiting the Nation
The Spectre of Communism / Привід комунізму
by Denys Shatalov It might seem naïve to my Romanian colleagues and point out my ignorance, but for a long...
Cultural Diversity of Political Solidarity. A Case from the Black Sea Region
Stephan Rindlisbacher comments on Rory Finnin’s lecture on 1st March: In his lecture, Rory Finnin addressed intertextual references between Ukrainian...
Alexandru Solomon’s “Tarzan’s Testicles”: A Film Review
By Alexandru Lesanu Nowadays, filmmakers do not like to explain their movies. The viewers are left alone with their ideas...
From Postcolonialism to Contact Zones?: Nadia Bureiko Comments on Ulrich Schmid’s Lecture
by Nadia Bureiko From Postcolonialism to Contact Zones? Time to Reconceptualize Ukrainian Cultural Studies Since the dissolution of the Soviet...
Brian Haman on the Poetry Reading Evening in Bucharest
By Brian Haman On a wintry Tuesday evening in Bucharest, poets, scholars, students, and others gathered under the auspices of...
Yiddish Shenanigans on Purim: The Winter Academy Sees “Marienbad” at the State Jewish Theater in Bucharest
by Amber N. Nickell As a scholar interested in the Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe and a student...
The Abortion Question in Soviet Modernity: A Study of Doctors and Female Patients in a Provincial Soviet Ukrainian Hospital, 1946-1991
Olena Palko comments on Kateryna Ruban’s research on “The Abortion Question in Soviet Modernity”: In the historians’ world, Kateryna Ruban...
The Songs of the Donbas War: A Quest for Memory, History and Identity
Simon Lewis comments on Iryna Shuvalova’s project on songs in the Donbas war and her presentation at the academy on...
Hello Bucharest! First Impressions of the Winter Academy “Revisiting the Nation”
The academy participants have arrived safe and sound, the first presentations have been held and evenings were used to discuss...
Iryna Shuvalova: Oral Poetry in the Donbas War
Oral Poetry in the Donbas War: A Quest for Memory, History and Identity This project centers on contemporary Ukrainian oral...
Kateryna Ruban: The Abortion Question in Soviet Modernity
The Abortion Question in Soviet Modernity: A Study of Doctors and Female Patients in a Provincial Soviet Ukrainian Hospital, 1946-1991...
Simon Lewis: The Cosmopolitan Imagination in Polish Literature
The Cosmopolitan Imagination in Polish Literature, ca. 1800-1939 This research project retraces the genealogy of Polish cosmopolitanism and seeks to...
Amber Nickell: “We Wander” Together
“We Wander” Together: Jews and Ethnic Germans on the Eurasian Steppes, 1917-1979 This project examines the changing relationships between ethnic...
Olena Palko: Contested Minorities
Contested Minorities: A Transnational History of the Polish-Soviet Borderlands, 1918-1939 The end of the First World War saw the defeat...
