Danyliw Seminar

Iuliia Skubytska discusses how Eastern Ukrainians reacted to the policies released in 2015 related to de-communization

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Ursula Woolley elaborates on the popular discourses of Dnipro's public history, the associated politics of memory, and the institutions that have been constructed to preserve these memories.

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Mychailo Wynnyckyj discusses his new book “Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity”, which was published in February 2019 and will be available in Nort...

After speaking on her landmark work, “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine” (2017), Anne Applebaum answers questions from the audience at the 2019 Danyliw Seminar

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Anne Applebaum speaks on Holodomor and the process of compiling her landmark work, “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine” (2017)

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Andriy Kohut explains the "Zapad" ("West") operation – the first use of deportation as a counter-insurgency tool against the anti-communist movement.

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Artem Kharchenko speaks on the forcible removal of children to Soviet Ukrainian orphanages during the Holodomor and the educators who worked with those children.

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Andrew Danyliw joins a panel from the Seminar's international selection committee for a discussion on the Danyliw Foundation and the history of the Danyliw Seminar. In this final portion of the dis...

Andrew Danyliw joins a panel from the Seminar's international selection committee for a discussion on the Danyliw Foundation and the history of the Danyliw Seminar. Here, the panelists discuss the ...

Andrew Danyliw joins a panel from the Seminar's international selection committee for a discussion on the Danyliw Foundation and the history of the Danyliw Seminar. This portion includes discussion...

Andrew Danyliw joins a panel from the Seminar's international selection committee for a discussion on the Danyliw Foundation and the history of the Danyliw Seminar. In this portion of the discussio...

Andrew Danyliw joins a panel from the Seminar's international selection committee for a discussion on the Danyliw Foundation and the history of the Danyliw Seminar. In this portion, panelists speak...

Andrew Danyliw joins a panel from the Seminar's international selection committee for a discussion on the Danyliw Foundation and the history of the Danyliw Seminar. This video shows the introductio...

Paul Robert Magocsi discusses Ukrainian Studies in North America and his 2018 book "On Becoming a Ukrainianist".

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Paul Robert Magocsi discusses Ukrainian Studies in North America and his 2018 book "On Becoming a Ukrainianist".

Link to web page: http://bit.ly/MAGOCSI

Paul Robert Magocsi discusses Ukrainian Studies in North America and his 2018 book "On Becoming a Ukrainianist".

Link to web page: http://bit.ly/MAGOCSI

Paul Robert Magocsi discusses Ukrainian Studies in North America and his 2018 book "On Becoming a Ukrainianist".

Link to web page: http://bit.ly/MAGOCSI

Paul Robert Magocsi discusses Ukrainian Studies in North America and his 2018 book "On Becoming a Ukrainianist".

Link to web page: http://bit.ly/MAGOCSI

Stephan de Spiegeleire speaks on his research (completed alongside Khrystyna Holynska) of the key elements involved in Russian coercive efforts in Ukraine using datasets and tools from the ongoing ...

Khrystyna Holynska speaks on her research (completed alongside Stephan de Spiegeleire) of the key elements involved in Russian coercive efforts in Ukraine using datasets and tools from the ongoing ...

Oksana Mikheieva describes her research on how the occupation of some regions of Ukraine has resulted in complicated - and often traumatic - procedures of identification and document registration f...

Using the case of the war in Donbas, Jakob Hauter discusses the applicability of open source intelligence (OSINT) analysis as a tool for surveying murky information environments.


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The city of Dnipro has been essential to the war in Donbas, which is emphasized by the city's recent opening of a museum dedicated to telling the story of the conflict. In their discussion, Olena A...

When Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014, the effects were acutely felt by Crimean Tatar women. Elmira Muratova describes how these women were forced to change the ways that they engaged in societ...

In the first presentation of the 2019 Danyliw Seminar, Marta Havryshko discusses the horrific sexual violence perpetrated against Jewish women in Ukraine during the Holocaust.

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Why did some Ukrainians risk their lives to rescue Jewish people during the Holocaust in occupied Ukraine? Is it attributable to heroism, or something more? Raisa Ostapenko investigates these quest...

In this lively discussion, Oleksiy Haran speaks about his new book and how the conflict in eastern Ukraine is shaping public opinion.

Does proximity to conflict shape political behaviour? Olga Onuch’s research suggests that it does—but not necessarily in the way that many scholars anticipated.

The 2018 Danyliw Seminar ended with Iryna Shuvalova’s research on what songs can tell us about belonging, memory, and identity in the Donbas war.

Alina Gorlova is interviewed at the Danyliw seminar on her experience creating the film "No Obvious Signs", speaking on her role in the production and her plans for future films

Anna Balázs reveals how the war in eastern Ukraine and the politics of memory caused the city of Mariupol to reckon with its past in new and unexpected ways.

How has religion to reshaped everyday politics in Western Ukraine? Kathryn David examines the link between Church reunification and the state in Ukrainian history, from imperial Russia to the Sovie...

“Women who faced this powerful and merciless repressive system had no other agency to turn to.”  Oksana Kis on gender, religion, and survival in the Gulag.

Anna Muller explores the memories of female Polish and Ukrainian underground members imprisoned in post-1945 Poland. How did these women view each other, their lives in prison and their roles in th...

Filmmaker Alina Gorlova discusses her powerful new film “No Obvious Signs” and what it tells us about trauma, healing, and the aftermath of war.

Exploring the perspectives of people living in the Donbas region, Tania Bulakh discusses how individuals adjust their sense of normalcy to incorporate the uncertainty caused by conflict.

The Donbas War has severely damaged medical care infrastructure. Cynthia J. Buckley & Erik S. Herron assess the role of blame attribution on state capacity.
Ralph S. Clem was absent but a contribu...

"Home Games" film producer Stéphane Siohan shares some of his insight on the role of women and gender, education and resilience in this short interview.

Through the discovery of new archives, John Paul Himka demonstrates how denial can have profound implications on narrative construction.

At the evening reception on Thursday 9 November 2018, the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, along with the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Social Sciences, recognized our donor Mr. Andrew Danyliw for h...

Jews and Poles were victims of intimate violence perpetrated by their neighbours. Omer Bartov exposes genocidal encounters at the local level.

Jeffrey Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg ask the question: if anti-Semitism alone explains violent attacks against Jewish communities, why did pogroms occur in some municipalities and not others?

Through the stories of OUN prisoners in Buchenwald, Orsiya Kulick explores weapons production, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing—and their devastating human costs.

Natalia Levchuk on what the shifting role of grain procurement, across time and geography, can tell us about the Holodomor.

Q & A Session with "Home Games" Film Producer Stéphane Siohan.

Renowned author Stanislav Kulchytsky discusses the causes of the 1932-1933 famine, tackling a crucial question: should the Holodomor famine be considered a genocide?

Oleh Wolowyna provides a new, innovative research framework for the Holodomor famine, emphasizing the centrality of demography.

Visiting journalists witnessed the horrors of the Holodomor, but did not report on it. Nick Kupensky examines how they tried to justify this troubling gap.

Focusing on students sent into rural villages during collectivization, Olga Ryabchenko explores participation, resistance, and desertion during the Holodomor.

Daria Mattingly asks, who were the rank-and-file perpetrators of the Holodomor, what drove them and how did they reckon with their actions?