Date: November 20, 2025, 12:00 

Speaker: Andrii Portnov (Sofia)

Location: online via Zoom

Organized by: Natalya Bekhta (Tampere), Stanisław Krawczyk (Wrocław), Jana-Katharina Mende (Halle), Denys Shatalov (Kryvyi Rih/Berlin) and Oleksandr Zabirko (Regensburg) within the framework of the research network “Young Network TransEurope” based at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Language: English

What makes a certain historical narrative transnational? How the aspiration of transnational approach correlates with the postcolonial perspective? Are we about to experience the revival of national history writing? What aspects, what themes of the Ukrainian past could be particularly productive for integrating the Ukrainian studies into newly defined global history? 

Andrii Portnov

Andrii Portnov is a Ukrainian and German historian, he graduated from Dnipro and Warsaw Universities, and after research work in Lviv and Kyiv moved in 2012 to Germany. In 2018-2025 he was a Professor of Entangled History of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina, at the moment he is a Fellow at the Centre of Advanced Study Sofia, Associate Member of the Viadrina Centre of Polish and Ukrainian Studies, and a Director of PRISMA UKRAINA Research Network Eastern Europe in Berlin. Prof. Portnov is the author of 10 books, among them the award-winning "Dnipro. Entangled History of a European City" (2022) and a German-Language "Introduction into Ukrainian Studies" (2025).

Lecture Series “Reclaiming Transnationalism: A Seminar Series on Cross-Border Solidarities, Conflicts, and Cultural Imaginaries”

This lecture is part of the online seminar series, focused on East/Central Europe within the international and transnational academic and cultural context “Reclaiming Transnationalism: A Seminar Series on Cross-Border Solidarities, Conflicts, and Cultural Imaginaries”. You can find the whole program of the seminar series here.

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