Statehood | Istoria 2026
Date and time:
Tuesday 27 October, 2026
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
ONLINE
Nation-building and governance.
The seminar examines the formation and evolution of Ukrainian statehood, highlighting lessons for democratic institution-building and civic identity.
Lecturer: Dr Olena Palko, University of Basel.
Lecturer
Olena Palko
Olena Palko is Assistant Professor at the Chair of East European History at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is a historian of Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and modern Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on the history of minorities.
Dr Palko has held a number of research fellowships, including at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, and the Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre in Sapporo, Japan.