Online webinar: "Cultural heritage at risk: Protection and reconstruction in wartime Ukraine"

November 13, 18:30-20:00 CET

With Elsa Urtizverea, Kateryna Chuyeva, and Elżbieta Olzacka (requested), moderated by Guido Hausmann.     

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The protection of the cultural heritage of Ukraine has been a matter of high priority in national and international activities on Ukraine since February 2022. The webinar aims at discussing various perspectives in this regard: political, legal, cultural, organizational and practical issues to better understand the various strategies and dynamics in the field.

The speakers will be:

  • Elsa Urtizverea, Project Manager at the Aliph Foundation based in Switzerland
  • Kateryna Chuyeva, Independent scholar, expert on museum and cultural heritage management and former Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine
  • Elżbieta Olzacka, Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland) (requested)

The panel will be chaired by Guido Hausmann, University of Regensburg. 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.