Events

Third URIS workshop, 16 March 2018, St. Gallen
“Contemporary Ukrainian Studies: Cross- and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
The workshop invites scholars representing diverse disciplines and countries to examine the socio-political, cultural and institutional challenges Ukraine has faced during recent years. They will discuss how those challenges have been addressed in contemporary Ukrainian studies and specifically in sociological studies of religion as well as political and anthropological research. The workshop will also analyze the epistemological and methodological complexities of doing fieldwork in times of political turbulence, transformation and war.

Dr Tornike Metreveli (St. Gallen) and Dr Anastasiia Grynko (Kyiv/Aarau) will lead through the workshop. Everyone interested in the topic is warmly invited to participate. Please, send a short message to uris@unibas.ch.

Have a look at the program!

 

Past Events

Ukrainian Language Course II in February 2018
URIS is organising a follow-up course in Ukrainian from 5–16 February for students and members of staff of Swiss universities with good knowledge of Russian or Polish (B1) or with basic knowledge of Ukrainian (A1). The course is free for students and members of staff of Swiss universities. 3 ECTS. Ms Yuliya Mayilo, MA (yuliya.mayilo@unibas.ch) will teach the course. For more information please visit the University of Basel Language Centre website.

Second URIS workshop in November
The next workshop will take place in Basel on Monday, 20 November 2017. The subject will be “Language, Politics and Identity in Ukraine. Past and Present”. All interested individuals in the field of Ukraine research in Switzerland are warmly invited to take part in the workshop as guests. Have a look at our workshop page for further details. The full programme is available here.

Intensive Ukrainian course in August 2017
URIS is organising an intensive course in Ukrainian from 7–25 August for students and members of staff of Swiss universities with basic knowledge of Russian or Polish (A1). The course is free for students and members of staff of Swiss universities. The course will take place from 7–25 August 2017, Monday to Friday, 1.15pm – 4.30pm, at the Department of History of the University of Basel (next to the train station). 4 ECTS. Ms Yuliya Mayilo, MA (yuliya.mayilo@unibas.ch) will teach the course. You can sign up for the course from 23.3.2017 until 23.7.2017 on the University of Basel Language Centre website. For more information please visit the University of Basel Language Centre website.

First URIS workshop in Basel (7 – 8 June 2017)
All interested individuals in the field of Ukraine research in Switzerland are warmly invited to take part in the workshop as guests. Ongoing Ukraine-related research projects currently underway at Swiss universities will be presented. The first URIS fellow, Prof. G. Kasianov, will also talk about his own studies on the evening of 7 June. If you are interested in attending, please send a short message to uris@unibas.ch. We look forward to in-depth discussions and a fruitful exchange of knowledge and ideas. For more information please have a look at our workshop program.

URIS opening event
We are delighted to invite you to the public URIS opening event on Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at the University of Basel. Prof. Kasianov, to whom we extend a warm welcome as the first URIS fellow, will give a lecture entitled “Past Continuous: Politics of History in Ukraine and the ‘New Europe’ (End of 1990s – 2000s)”. Everyone is invited to join us for refreshments afterwards. The event will be held on 29 March 2017 at 6.15 pm in Auditorium 102 in the Kollegienhaus of the University of Basel, Petersplatz 1 (directions). In his presentation, Prof. Kasianov will speak about the politics of history in Ukraine in the 1990s and 2000s. He explores how the past is used and abused for the present, how history and collective memory can be exploited by various actors, interest groups and governments, and what the consequences are of this kind of utilitarian and politically motivated use of history and memory.