Join us on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 for a lecture by Ukrainian historian, Andrii Portnov on "'Two Ukraines' and Euromaidan".
Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of History, NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, the NYU Program in International Relations, and the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University.
Portnov was born in 1979 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Graduated from Dnipropetrovsk (M.A. in History) and Warsaw (M.A. in Cultural Studies) Universities. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation about the Ukrainian emigration in inter-war Poland and defended it in 2005 in Lviv. In the years 2006-2010, he worked as Editor-in-Chief of the Ukraina Moderna journal in humanities. In January 2012, he co-founded Historians.in.ua intellectual web portal and since then has been one of its editors. In the years 2007-2011, he lectured or conducted research at the Universities of Cambridge, Helsinki, and Vilnius as well as Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam and Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies (CERCEC) in Paris. From 2012 – Guest Professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin.
His publications are devoted to intellectual history, historiography, and memory studies in Eastern and Central Europe. The author of five books, including The Histories for Domestic Use: The Polish-Russian-Ukrainian Triangle of Memory (Kyiv, 2013), Historians and Their Histories: The Faces and Images of Ukrainian Historiography in the 20th century (Kyiv, 2011), Ukrainian Exercises with History (Moscow, 2010). His most recent English language publication is: Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Ukraine (1991-2010), in: Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe, ed. by Uilleam Backer, Alexandr Etkind, and Julie Fedor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
