🌟 [ 15 ]   Andrii Portnov on Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City [ @Ukrainian Institute London ]

Ukrainian historian Andrii Portnov and American historian Marci Shore discuss the entangled history of Dnipro, one of the most important and interesting cities of modern Ukraine. Portnov’s new book Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City is the first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (known until 2016 as Dnipropetrovsk, and until 1926 as Katerynoslav). It untangles the history of Dnipro through the prism of key threads in modern European history: imperial colonisation and industrialisation, war and revolution, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. 27 June 2023. SPEAKERS Andrii Portnov Andrii Portnov is Professor of Entangled History of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), Director of the PRISMA UKRAЇNA Research Network Eastern Europe and a member of the Ukrainian PEN-Club. He graduated from Dnipro (M.A. in history) and Warsaw (M.A. in Cultural Studies) Universities, and defended his PhD dissertation (2005) at the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute for Ukrainian Studies in Lviv. Since 2012 he conducted research and lectured at the Universities of Basel, Cambridge, Geneva, Potsdam, Free University Berlin, Free University Brussels, Humboldt University of Berlin, SciencesPo Paris, SciencesPo Lyon, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Institute for Advanced Study (WIKO) in Berlin. He is the author and co-editor of ten books and numerous articles on intellectual history, historiography, urban history, genocide and memory studies. Marci Shore Marci Shore teaches modern European intellectual history. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her Ph.D from Stanford University in 2001; she taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s The Black Seasons and th .

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