Participation in the Summer School on Borderland Studies

12.7.2023

The Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine took part in the work of the Third Summer School “Borderland Studies in East Central Europe and the Black Sea Region”.

From June 25 to July 4, 2023, the Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine Olha Zabudkova took part in the work of the Third Summer School “Borderland Studies in East Central Europe and the Black Sea Region”.

This year the School was held in Chisinau, Moldova. The organizers were the Center for the Study of Interethnic Relations of Eastern Europe (Kharkiv, Ukraine) with the support of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and the Kowalski Program for the Study of Eastern Ukraine at the University of Alberta (Canada).

The Summer School gathered participants and lecturers from twelve countries, including the USA, France, Armenia, Great Britain, Moldova, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Albania, Georgia, and others.

The format of the School involved a combination of lectures, presentations, discussions, educational trips and public events. During ten days, the participants listened to lectures by scientists who research imaginary and real borders – Steven Siegel (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Diana Dumitru (Georgetown University, USA), Diana Eglitis (George Washington University, USA), Bohdan Shumylovych (Center for Urban of History in Lviv, Ukraine) and Oleksii Chebotarov (University of Vienna, Austria; University of St. Gallen, Switzerland).

In addition, participants had the opportunity to present and discuss their own research. Thus, O. Zabudkova presented her intelligence project, dedicated to the history of the Luhansk region during the revolutionary events of 1917–1921.

The School also included study visits to civil society organizations in Chisinau that are involved in supporting reforms in the country. The State University of Moldova also held a public discussion of the problems of the border areas of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova. Two days were devoted to study trips to get to know the border Bulgarian and Gagauz communities of Moldova.