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.
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.
