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iCal calendarDr. ANDRIY PORTNOV (Humboldt University of Berlin) will hold a lecture "The semiotics of Dnipropetrovsk: How the capital of Brezhnev`s Zastoi turned into “the Heart of the Ukrainian project“.
The lecture will take place in room A-222 (Astra building, 29 Narva mnt) on Tuesday, 11th of November, at 4 PM.
Ekaterinoslav-Dnipropetrovsk, designed by Catherine II as the southern capital of the Russian Empire, has never become a capital city. Still the topos of “capital city” remains central in city`s self-presentation and mythology. “The capital of Russian industrialization”, “The capital of Zastoi”, “The Jewish capital of Ukraine” are among the images and discourses to be analyzed in my talk.
Dr ANDRIY PORTNOV, 1979, historian. Graduated from Dnipropetrovsk (M.A. in History) and Warsaw (M.A. in Cultural Studies) Universities and defended his PhD in History at Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Lviv. Since 2012 Guest Lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In the years 2006-2010 he worked as “Ukraina Moderna” journal in humanities Editor-in-chief. In the years 2007-2011 he has lectured or conducted research at the Universities of Cambridge, Helsinki, and Vilnius as well as at the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam and the Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC) in Paris. The majority of his publications are devoted to the intellectual history, historiography, genocide and memory studies in Eastern and Central Europe.
His publications include the books: Histories for Home Use. The Polish-Russian-Ukrainian Triangle of Memory (in Ukrainian, 2013; Yuri Sheveliov Prize); Historians and their Histories. The Faces and Images of Ukrainian Historiography in the 20th century (in Ukrainian, 2011); Ukrainian Exercises with History (in Russian, 2010); Between “Central Europe” and the “Russian World” (in Ukrainian, 2009); Scholarship in Exile. The Scholarly Activity of Ukrainian Emigration in inter-war Poland 1919-1939 (in Ukrainian, 2008; Jerzy Giedroyc Prize). Currently works on the biography of the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
The lecture is in English.