Summer Symposium of Ukrainian and Swedish Researchers

22.8.2023

The Associate Professor of the Ukrainian History Department took part in the Summer Symposium of Ukrainian and Swedish Humanitarian Researchers.

On August 14–17, 2023, Associate Professor of the Ukrainian History Department Olha Zabudkova took part in the Summer Symposium of Ukrainian and Swedish Humanitarian Researchers “Ukrainian Studies in Sweden. Methodological Challenges and Future Perspectives”, held at Södertern University in Stockholm, Sweden.

Ukrainian studies in Sweden is a field of research that is developing very quickly. How did the war affect the cooperation of Ukrainian and Swedish scientists? How to ensure empirical and archival research in Ukraine during the war? What are the methodological problems and prospects for future research? Answers to these and other questions were actively discussed during the symposium.

The event was organized by the Center for Baltic and East European Studies of Södertern University (CBEES), the Institute of Modern History of Södertern University (SHI) and the Department of History of Uppsala University with the support of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (ÖSS).

The symposium was attended by Ukrainian scientists from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Odesa, Dnipro, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Ostroh, as well as scientists from Swedish educational and scientific institutions – Sedertern, Uppsala, Stockholm, Lund and Gothenburg Universities, the National Archives of Sweden, etc.

During the symposium, Olha Zabudkova took part in the work of the panel “Imperial Histories of Ukraine in a Longue Durée”, where she presented the report “The distorted history of Eastern Ukraine (using the example of the events after the February Revolution of 1917 in Luhansk region)”, separately highlighting the challenges facing to researchers of the region these days.

According to information of the ER IHIRSPS