Ukraine in Global History | Istoria 2025
Date and time:
Tuesday 28 October, 2025
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
ONLINE
Focus themes: Ukraine, empires, and global entanglements.
Description: The seminar explores Ukraine’s position within wider European and global histories, examining how the country’s past was shaped by and contributed to larger political, economic, and cultural currents.
Lecturer: Professor Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University.
Lecturer
Professor Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University
Yaroslav Hrytsak is a Ukrainian historian and public intellectual. He is a Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, where he serves as Director of the Petro Jacyk Programme for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society. He has also taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Central European University. From 2014 to 2022, he was Co-Director of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission.
Professor Hrytsak is the founding editor of the journal Ukraina Moderna and the author of numerous works on modern Ukrainian history, including Essays in Modern Ukrainian History (Kyiv, 1996), Prophet in His Native Land: Ivan Franko and His Community (Kyiv, 2006), and Overcoming the Past: A Global History of Ukraine (Kyiv, 2021).
He has repeatedly been named among the one-hundred most influential Ukrainians and has received several Ukrainian and international awards for his academic achievements and public service.
