Ukrainian statehood and identity in history and today
Date and time:
Wednesday 19 April, 2023
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, the world has discovered the unity of Ukrainians of all backgrounds in protecting their statehood. However, in the past, Ukraine, a multilingual and multicultural state, has been frequently misunderstood, while its rich and complex identity has suffered from simplifications.
Join us to hear Professor Paul Robert Magocsi in conversation with Dr Marnie Howlett as they discuss the relationship between identity and statehood in Ukraine historically and today. This event is organised in partnership with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.
Speaker
Paul Robert Magocsi
Paul Robert Magocsi, Board Member, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, is Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Chair of Ukrainian Studies. He is the author of over 40 books, including Babyn Yar: History and Memory, Ukraina Redux: On Statehood and National Identity (2022), This Blessed Land: Crimea and the Crimean Tatars (2022), Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence (2018), Historical Atlas of Central Europe (2018), History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples (2017), The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism (2002).
Speaker
Marnie Howlett
Dr Marnie Howlett is a Departmental Lecturer in Russian and East European Politics at the University of Oxford, where she teaches in both the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and Oxford’s School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and BA (High Honours) in International Studies and MA in Political Science from the University of Saskatchewan. Dr Howlett’s research centres on the intersection of cartography, nationalism, and geopolitics within the former Soviet Union, particularly Ukraine. Dr Howlett’s research has been published in Qualitative Research, Perspectives on Politics, Problems of Post-Communism, and Political Geography. She recently co-edited a volume, Researching in the Former Soviet Union: Stories from the Field, for the BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. She is currently finishing a book monograph, Ukraine: An Imagined Borderland, which re-conceputalises the Ukrainian state within contemporary geopolitics.
