Andrii Portnov, historian of modern Ukraine, has become long-term Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien to direct the Berlin-Brandenburg Ukraine Initiative. This new initiative of the Forum attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the situation in Ukraine and neighboring countries. The Initiative invites scholars, journalists, and civil society activists from Ukraine and Eastern Europe to spend several months in Berlin as Visiting Fellows to participate in and organize workshops, podium discussions, and public and university lectures to exchange expertise and experience. The Initiative is supported by scholars from Eastern Europe at universities and research institutes in the Berlin-Brandenburg area.
Tue 15 Sep 2015
The Ukraine historian Andrii Portnov becomes long-term Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien
Portnov specializes in intellectual history, historiography, genocide and memory studies in Eastern and Central Europe. He has been a Guest Lecturer at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2012. In 2015 he was awarded Baron Velge Prize and conducted a series of lectures as International Chair for the History of the Second World War at the Free University of Brussels. In 2014-2015 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt-Universiät zu Berlin and Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, in 2012-2014 he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a co-founder and co-editor of the Ukrainian intellectual web portal www.historians.in.ua.
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