About the event
In the first session in the Spring semester, Oleksii Chebotarov from the University of Vienna will talk about the ideological use of river Zbruch, which bordered interwar Poland and the Soviet Union.
He will discuss the political and cultural Soviet discursive images of Zbruch, as well as physical projections of these discourses on the riverscape.
Reading: Tricia Cusack, Riverscapes and National Identities, Syracuse University Press 2010, chapter 6 Shannon Riverscapes.
About the presenter
Oleksii Chebotarov is an SNSF Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Eastern European History, University of Vienna. He also works in the research projects of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St. Gallen, the European Association of Jewish Studies, and the Center for Urban History in Lviv. He is currently working on a book based on his doctoral dissertation "Jews from the East, Global Migration and Habsburg Galicia in the early 1880s" and on the postdoctoral project "The Border River Zbruch: A Socia-Cultural and Environmental History, 1900-1939." His field of expertise includes Jewish, digital, and environmental history, as well as migration, borderland, and Ukrainian studies.
Organiser
NB: External guests should register with Ada Arendt.