The history and
culture of Ukraine remain largely de-personified or reduced either to
contemporary figures of mass-culture and sport, or mythologized embodiments of
radical nationalism like Bandera. In our course we will analytically explore
the creation and contextual dynamics of the images of most important and
controversial historical figures of Ukraine. We will seriously discuss the
images of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ivan Mazepa, Symon Petliura, Pavlo Skoropadskyj, Nestor
Makhno, Stepan Bandera. We will put them into comparative and transnational
contexts. We will also analyse such prominent cultural figures as Taras
Shevchenko, Lesja Ukrainka, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Les` Kurbas in their
entanglements with Russian, Polish and German culture.
- Kursleiter*in: Dr. Tetiana Portnova