Conflicting Memories: Ukraine

06/02/2017 By

Round Table Conversation
Conflicting Memories: Ukraine
A political crisis from a cultural perspective, part 2

due to circumstances: 16 February 2017 was POSTPONED >> a NEW date will be announced soon 

Language: English
Price: 7,50 euro, reduced fee 5 euro
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A collaboration between Castrum Peregrini and the European Cultural Foundation

Participants: Ivan Krastev, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Visual Culture Research Centre, Kyiv and laureate of the ECF Princess Margriet Award (2015) and Fleur de Weerd, journalist and former correspondent in Ukraine.

The participants will each give a short contribution on their view of the current conflict from the perspective of collective memory, followed by a panel discussion including the public moderated by Katherine Watson, director ECF.

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Conflicting Memories: Ukraine

18/01/2017 By

 Round Table Conversation

Conflicting Memories: Ukraine
A political crisis from a cultural perspective, part 2

16 February 2016, 20.00 hrs12-debat by Pip Erken

Language: English
Price: 7,50 euro, reduced fee 5 euro
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A collaboration between Castrum Peregrini and the European Cultural Foundation

 

Participants: Ivan Krastev, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Visua10-debat by Pip Erkenl Culture Research Centre, Kyiv and 2015 laureate of the ECF Princess Margriet Award and Fleur de Weerd, journalist and former correspondent in Ukraine.

The participants will each give a short contribution on their view of the current conflict from the perspective of collective memory, followed by a panel discussion including the public moderated by Katherine Watson, director ECF.

The conflict in Ukraine is often seen in a global perspective: geopolitical spheres seem to compete again, often with reference to cold war rhetoric.
On the ground the conflict has another dimension: clashing collective memories resulting in seemingly different cultural identities. Panellists will try to deconstruct cultural reference points that form the basis of the conflict and talk about what would be needed to construct new, inclusive narratives.

The evening follows up a similar discussion one-and-a-half years ago, when the images of the Maidan clashes where still fresh in mind. What has happened since, what is the perspective for Ukrainian identity internally and internationally at the moment?

On the participants:

Ivan Krastev is the Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, and permanent fellow at the IWM Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, e.a. He was ranked in the 2008 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Foreign Policy/Prospect List. Since 2004, he has been the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans chaired by the former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato.

Vasyl Cherepanyn is director of the Visual Culture Research Center (Kiev), works as a senior lecturer at the Cultural Studies Department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and is an editor of Political Critique magazine. Cherepanyn holds a Ph.D. in philosophy (specialisation – aesthetics). He has also worked as a guest lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Political Critique in Warsaw, Poland and the Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald of the Greifswald University, Germany.

Fleur de Weerd is a historian, and independent journalist, who has written extensively about Germany and the former Soviet Union for various newspapers in the Netherlands and Belgium. She was the official correspondent for Dutch daily Trouw in Ukraine during the Euro-Cup Soccer championship and has visited the country often in 2014. Her book Het land dat maar niet wil lukken was awarded the prestigious Bob den Uyl-prijs for best literary travelogue. It recounts various diverse and complex (hi)stories of Ukraine and its inhabitants.

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Conflicting Memories: Ukraine – 26 February 2015

17/02/2015 By

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Conflicting Memories: Ukraine

– a political crisis from a cultural perspective

Amsterdam, 17th February 2015

“The EU and Russia are really living in different worlds and the competition is to demonstrate which of this worlds is the real one,” – says Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia. Being the expert in politics of Eastern Europe, Krastev will lead the discussion ‘Conflicting Memories’ with Ukrainian activists and cultural thinkers on 26th of February:

–          Vasyl Cherepanyn, Visual Culture Research Centre, Kyiv,

–          Yevhen Hlibovitsky, Pro Mova, Lviv

–          Mykhailo Glybokyi, Izolyatsia, Platform for Cultural Initiatives

The event will take place at:

Castrum Peregrini, Herengracht 401, entrance Beulingstraat on

Thursday, 26th of February at 19:30 hrs.

In old Slavic language ‘Ukraine’ literally means ‘borderlands’, ‘by the border’, symbolic for the country bordering Russia and the EU. But is it an origin for the separatist actions and recent armed conflict? A blurring border on the East of Ukraine is a warning signal for the whole geo-political climate on the post-soviet territory. Looking from the cultural perspective, panelists will debate upon clashing cultural references of the Ukrainian identity, which created the ground for the on-going conflict.

No matter what Kremlin’s agenda is, Ukraine is the most logical spot for the first manoeuvre. This discussion is a great chance to hear a life debate on insider beliefs of Ukraine from both East- and West-Ukrainian perspectives, not shadowed by the media. Cultural and political activists, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Yevhen Hlibovitsky, Mykhailo Glybokyi, are going to give an impulse presentation on their view of the current conflict. The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion, opened for the audience.

Conflicting memories: Ukraine. A political crises from a cultural perspective takes place within the Memory Machine – We Are What We Remember programme of Castrum Peregrini and is established in close cooperation with the European Cultural Foundation (ECF).

On March 31st, Vasyl Cherepanyn will be honoured with the ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture for the outstanding work at Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv). The ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture Award is a platform for showing those whose creative work can truly make a difference to Europe’s varied societies, underlining ECF’s belief that social and political change requires artistic and cultural engagement. The Award was launched in 2007 in honour of ECF’s former President, HRH Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and now annually given to European artists, intellectuals and activists. The prestigious award includes prize money of 25,000 euros per laureate: http://www.culturalfoundation.eu/pma-2015

Castrum Peregrini’s programme Memory Machine – We Are What We Remember about our memory and what it says about who we are: as an individual and as a group, about how collective memory is formed, influenced and eroded. For the full programme, see: www.facebook.com/MemoryMachinebyCastrumPeregrini

Short Bio’s of the speakers:

Ivan Krastev (1965), is the Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, and permanent fellow at the IWM Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the advisory board of the ERSTE Foundation. He is also associate editor of Europe’s World and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and journal Transit – Europäische Revue. He was ranked in the 2008 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Foreign Policy/Prospect List. Since 2004, he has been the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans. He is a co-author with Steven Holmes of a forthcoming book on Russian politics. see also: https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/ivan-krastev

Vasyl Cherepanyn (1980), Kiev is founder and chair of the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC)http://vcrc.org.ua/en/микола–рідний–укриття/. The VCRC is nominated for the ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture, March 31st 2015 in Bozar Brussels. more information: http://www.culturalfoundation.eu/pma-2015 Cherepanyn did a PhD in cultural studies department National University of Kyiv / Mohyle Academy. Vasyl Cherepanyn is an activist, artist and teacher at university.

Yevhen Hlibovytsky, (1976), is a founder of pro.mova, an independent think tank that conducts research on cultural values in the post-Soviet countries and inside Ukraine. His educational background is in political science, professional background (until 2005) in political journalism. This year he was involved in the establishment of the station HromadskeTV, a prototype of Public Service Broadcast in Ukraine. He is a lecturer at the UkrainianCatholicUniversity in Lviv and Kyiv-Mohyla

Mykhailo Glybokyi (1986 Donetsk)

 

The event will take place at:

Castrum Peregrini, Herengracht 401, entrance Beulingstraat on

Thursday, 26th of February at 19:30 hrs.

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