Cambridge Ukrainian Studies Podcast

Cambridge Ukrainian Studies Podcast

This podcast features lectures and discussions about Ukrainian culture and society with students, scholars, and artists around the world. It is part of a larger public programme of seminars, exhibitions, and festivals organised by Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an initiative of the Department of Slavonic Studies. Discover more of what we do at www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org or on Facebook.

Episodes

Russia's Aggression against Ukraine: Black Sea Perspectives

February 1, 2022 • 88 mins
Russia has amassed an estimated 150,000 troops along Ukraine's borders. To come to grips with this dramatic escalation of Europe's eight-year undeclared war, we focus on the vulnerabilities of Ukraine's southern border and the broader questions of Black Sea security, especially in the context of Turkish-Ukrainian-Russian relations. How does Nato member Turkey view Russia’s escalating aggression against Ukraine? What is the importan...
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'Burden of the Past': A Cambridge Book Discussion on the History of Ukraine

November 3, 2020 • 92 mins
In 2020, a new book was published by Indiana University Press: 'The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine', edited by Anna Wylegała and Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper. Wulf Kansteiner has described the book as 'a milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory and a compelling plea for the need to further de-Westernize the field of memory studies'. Olenka Pevny (Director, CUS...
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Ukraine's Political Scene: A Talk with Oleksiy Honcharuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2019/20)

November 3, 2020 • 68 mins
This CUS conversation provides an update on the political scene in Ukraine and focuses on the reforms enacted under Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk in 2019-2020. Oleksiy Honcharuk is a lawyer and politician who served as Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, and as the youngest Prime Minister of Ukraine, from August 2019 until March 2020. Mr. Honcharuk spoke with Dr Olenka Pevny and Andrii S...
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Cultural Politics in Ukraine: A Conversation with Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta

November 3, 2020 • 64 mins
In this podcast Olenka Pevny and Andrii Smytsniuk speak with Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta about cultural politics in Ukraine and on the role that art institutions play in its cultural policies. Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta is the Director of Mystetskyi Arsenal Art and Culture Museum Complex. She is also former Vice-Minister of Culture of Ukraine. ‘Mystets'kyi Arsenal’ (‘Art Arsenal’) is a public cultural institution, museum, and art exhibiti...
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Positioning Ukraine in the Cultural Framework of European History: Professor Serhii Plokhii

November 3, 2020 • 70 mins
In this podcast, Serhii Plokhii -- Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) -- spoke with University of Cambridge students enrolled in Paper (course) SL9 (Introduction to the Language, Literature and Culture of Ukraine) and in Paper SL12 (Socialist Russia from 1917-1991). Collectively, these Cambridge students have read Plokhii's bo...
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Between Russia and the EU: Ukraine's International Relations

November 3, 2020 • 65 mins
In this webinar, Olenka Pevny and Andrii Smytsniuk speak with Yelyzaveta Yasko, a graduate of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, Ukrainian MP, and the Head of Ukrainian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. They discuss Ukrainian international relations, Ukraine’s position in PACE, and the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group. The discussion was recorded on 14 May 2020.
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Ukrainian Education in Lockdown: A Conversation with Serhiy Kvit

November 3, 2020 • 59 mins
In this conversation, Olenka Pevny and Andrii Smytsniuk talk with Professor Serhiy Kvit about the current state of the Ukrainian education system as well as the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and its impact on the education process and Ukrainian education policy in general.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Ukrainian Economy

April 20, 2020 • 50 mins
An online conversation between Dr Alexander Rodnyansky (University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Cambridge and former Chief Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine), Dr Olenka Pevny (Director, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies), and Andrii Smytsniuk (Language Teaching Officer, Ukrainian). The interview was recorded on 15 April 2020.
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Natalie A. Jaresko: 'Ukraine in Transition'

April 13, 2017 • 90 mins
Natalie A. Jaresko -- Ukraine's former Finance Minister (2014-2016) -- delivers the Fifteenth Annual Cambridge Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies. Her presentation at Robinson College, Cambridge on 24 February 2017 was entitled 'Ukraine in Transition'.
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'The "Uniates" and the Invention of Eastern Orthodoxy', Dr Yuri Avvakumov

April 12, 2017 • 55 mins
The Annual Cambridge Lecture in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies was launched in 2016 to examine key questions of early Slavonic Studies, with a particular focus on the lands of present-day Ukraine. It features leading scholars who study the ever-changing cultural landscape of the Ukrainian lands and the varied composition and character of their inhabitants from the medieval period to the late eighteenth century. In line...
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Odessa in a Time of Revolution, War and Reform

February 2, 2016 • 58 mins
Particularly since the appointment of Mikheil Saakashvili as regional governor in May 2015, the Black Sea port of Odessa has become an epicentre of Ukraine’s campaign for political and economic reform. In this public lecture, Professor Volodymyr Dubovyk (Director of the Centre for International Studies, I. Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine) positions Odessa as a prism through which to analyse Ukraine’s experience of re...
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Timothy Snyder: Ukraine and the 'Fog of Memory'

March 13, 2015 • 65 mins
In this podcast Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale) considers the politicized history and the historicised politics related to Russia's war in Ukraine, with special attention to the the enduring legacy of the Holocaust and the Kremlin's rehabilitation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. He also previews his forthcoming book Black Earth, which will be published by Bodley Head in September 2015. His presentation, entitled 'The Fog of History...
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Ukraine as an Object of Academic Knowledge and State Propaganda

December 29, 2014 • 43 mins
In this podcast, three scholars discuss the relationship between academic knowledge of Ukraine and state propaganda about Ukraine in Germany, France and Russia, respectively. The presentations were a part of the conference 'Ukraine and the Global Information War' organized by Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. Andriy Portnov, Tetyana Ogarkova, and Ta...
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Ukraine as an Object of Western Journalism

November 15, 2014 • 95 mins
In this podcast, a group of prominent journalists debates the position of Ukraine as an object of Western journalism. The panel discussion was part of the conference 'Ukraine and the Global Information War' organized by Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. Sabra Ayres, James Marson, Simon Ostrovsky, Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss participate. Anne...
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George Grabowicz: 'Taras Shevchenko: The Making of the National Poet'

March 7, 2014 • 65 mins
On Friday, 28 February 2014 renowned scholar George Grabowicz (Harvard) delivered the Twelfth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge. His presentation, part of Cambridge's Shevchenko2014.org bicentennial celebration, was entitled 'Taras Shevchenko: The Making of the National Poet.' George Grabowicz is the Dmytro Cyzevs’kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature at Harvard University. Amo...
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Ukraine in Crisis: A Public Briefing

January 27, 2014 • 110 mins
Ukraine is engulfed in revolution. In this briefing, held on 24 January 2014, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies offered the UK public insights and analyses from political scientists Olexiy Haran and Andreas Umland (Kyiv Mohyla Academy), historian Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukrainian Catholic University, L'viv), writer and civic activist Serhii Zhadan (Kharkiv), and analyst Orysia Lutsevych (Chatham House, London). Cambridge students involved in t...
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Oksana Zabuzhko: 'Being a Writer in Contemporary Ukraine: Drawing the Landscape While Standing on a Powerboat'

March 29, 2013 • 83 mins
Oksana Zabuzhko delivers the Eleventh Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, entitled 'Being a Writer in Contemporary Ukraine: Drawing the Landscape While Standing on a Powerboat'.
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'Lieu de non-mémoire: A Ukrainian City and Its Russian, Jewish and Soviet Traces': The Tenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies

April 9, 2012 • 38 mins
In this podcast, Dr Andrii Portnov seeks to understand the paradoxes of post-Soviet pluralism, exploring Dnipropetrovsk (imperial Yekaterinoslav) as a laboratory in which to study the coexistence of, and conflicts between, different ethnic and religious groups in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. His presentation was the Tenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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Timothy Snyder on the Disjuncture between History and Memory in Ukraine and Eastern Europe

March 31, 2011 • 79 mins
In this video podcast, Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University offers a fascinating, provocative, and at times unsettling view into the tension between history and memory in Ukraine and Eastern Europe today.
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The Many Worlds of Kyivan Rus': A Conversation with Professor Simon Franklin

July 30, 2010 • 37 mins
In this video podcast, Professor Simon Franklin (Head of the School of Arts and Humanities) offers an introduction to Kyivan Rus', the first polity to emerge among the Eastern Slavs. Topics include Volodymyr the Great, Yaroslav the Wise, the Law of the Rus', the Primary Chronicle, the Tale of Ihor's Campaign, the Novgorod birch-bark letters, and the treasures of Kyiv's Monastery of the Caves (Pechers'ka Lavra) and Saint Sophia.
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