War, Conflict, and Memory in Modern Ukraine

Location:

Greensboro Shrine Club, High Point Road, Greensboro, NC, USA

Cost:

$ 120.00 per person

Duration:

1h 30min

About this experience

Thursdays, 2:00 – 3:30 pm     
March 26 – April 30 

This course explains the role of ethnic conflicts and genocides in Ukraine in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (e.g., the Holodomor, the horrible famine in Ukraine in the mid-1930s; the Great Terror, the purges of the Stalinist regime in the late 1930s; the Holocaust; the Volhynian tragedy, the bloody conflict between Ukrainians and Poles in 1943; the deportation of Crimean Tatars during World War II, etc.) and their memory, including the current Russia’s war against Ukraine. We will examine how contemporary events in Ukraine have affected historical perceptions of the Holodomor and the Holocaust. Historical ethnic conflicts and genocides, which were taboo topics and silenced during the Soviet era, have gained attention at both the national and international levels since Ukraine gained its independence in late 1991, and much of our focus will be on that development.

  1. The Politics of Memory and Historical Narratives: Actors, Issues, and Memories of the Past
  2. Politics of Memory of the Holocaust in Ukraine
  3. Soviet Heritage and Collective Memory in Ukraine
  4. Competing Recollections: Responsibility and Reconciliation—Memory of the Volhynian Tragedy and Ukraine-Poland Relations
  5. Russia’s war against Ukraine and New Memory?
  6. Conclusions and Considerations

 

Refund Policy

To receive a refund, a written request must be received 3 business days before the first class. A $25 processing fee will be deducted from the refund. Cancellation requests received less than 3 business days before the first class but before the second meeting will receive a 50% refund.  ALL written requests should be emailed to emeritus@spartanstrategiesinc.org or mailed to the address above.

 

 

Your Host

Nataliia Ivchyk (PhD, Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine) is from Rivne, Ukraine, where she is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Rivne State University for the Humanities in Ukraine. She is the co-founder of the Mnemonics, a center in Rivne that has created educational materials, translated scholarly documents, and erected Holocaust memorials. Her research examines gender and children’s experiences during the Holocaust in Ukraine and Central Europe. She has published a book, Insulted Otherness: Ethno-Confessional Policy of the Russian Empire in the Right-Bank Ukraine (2020), and is currently working on a chapter, “Children, World War II, and the Holocaust,” for the forthcoming book European-Jewish Studies (De Gruyter Brill, 2026). She has also published a chapter in the book Town of Remembrance-Town of Oblivion: The Palimpsests of Rivne Memorial Landscape (2020). Most recently, Dr. Ivchyk has been in residence at the University of British Columbia in 2023-2024 and as a Research Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC in 2025.