Online webinar: "The Matter Of Historical Responsibility: Experience And Prospects For Ukraine"
July 4, 18:00-19:30 CET
With Jars Balan, Oleksandr Lysenko and Tanja Penter, moderated by Gelinada Grinchenko and Kai Struve.
The webinar will focus on discussing the concept of historical responsibility and its theoretical underpinnings, the experience of cultivating a culture of responsibility, and the implementation of responsibility policies in European and North American countries. Special attention will be given to the issue of Germany's historical responsibility towards Ukraine for the crimes of National Socialism. The speakers will be:
- Jars Balan, Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies (Edmonton, Canada)
- Oleksandr Lysenko, Institute for History of Ukraine, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Tanja Penter, Heidelberg University (Germany)
The panel will be chaired by Gelinada Grinchenko, University of Wuppertal (Germany), and Kai Struve, Martin Luther University (Halle, Germany). At the end of the webinar, there will be a Q&A section where questions from the audience will be read out. The Seminar will be held in Ukrainian and English with simultaneous translation.
To participate, please register here. A recording of the seminar will be published on the Youtube channel of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission.
The seminar series is a joint initiative by the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Ukraine-based scholarly journal "Ukraina Moderna. We thank for the sponsorship by the German Academic Exchange service (DAAD) with funds of the German Foreign Ministry.

