Moderated by Megan K. Duncan Smith, HURI Programs Manager. Attendees are invited to enjoy an informal lunch.
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This event is organized by HURI as part of the Ukraine Study Group public event series.
Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine triggered a massive revision of expert knowledge about the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Russian-Ukrainian relations in particular. In this lecture, Volodymyr Kravchenko focuses on the intellectual history of Ukrainian and Russian historical studies in North America after WWII and if/how their legacy matters today.
Dr. Volodymyr Kravchenko is a professor in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion, and a senior research fellow at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada). He came to Canada from Kharkiv in 2012 after being elected Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Professor at the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta (Edmonton). Before that, he was a founding Chair of the Department of Ukrainian studies, Director of the Kowalsky Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and founding Editor-in-Chief of the East/West journal of Ukrainian studies at Vasyl’ Karazin Kharkiv National University.
Dr. Kravchenko is the author of about 200 publications on modern Ukrainian history and historiography, including articles, book chapters, monographs, and edited collections. His fields of interest also include the history of East European, Russian, and Soviet studies. His recent publications include, Unpredictable Past Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies, co-edited with Marko R. Stech (CIUS Press, 2024); Kharkov/Kharkiv: A Borderland Capital (Berghahn Books, 2023); Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War: The Struggle for Recognition (Lexington Books, 2023); and The Ukrainian-Russian Borderland: History versus Geography (McGill U Press, 2022).