【Seminar July 6】Special Seminar

Date & Time: July 6 (Sun) at 15:00-17:00 (JST, GMT+9)

Venue: Hongo Satellite, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and online via Zoom

Speaker: Olena Palko (The University of Basel / SRC)

Title: Speaking in Tongues: The Soviet Nationalities Policy and Minority Protection in Interwar Europe

Olena Palko is a historian of Modern Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on minority history in Ukraine and the Soviet Union. She is the author of Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and a co-editor of Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing Borders in Twentieth Century (McGill Queen’s University Press, 2022), and Ukraine’s Many Faces. Land, People, and Culture Revisited (transcript Verlag, 2023).

Language：English

Registration: https://forms.gle/42p1Vqj6BG8iugUSA *Deadline: July 4 (Fri)

Organized by: Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “Historical Narratives on the Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire: Imperial Perspectives and Regional Intellectuals”
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Recasting Modern Eurasian History: The Collapse of Empires and the Quest for a New Order in the Borderlands”

Co-organized by: Association for East European Studies, Japanese Association for Ukrainian Studies, Japanese Society for the Study of Russian History

Contact: Yoko Aoshima < yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] reads as @）