Power of the Lyric in Ukrainian Culture
Since its inception, 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Ukrainian Studies has sought to understand the social and political power of the lyric in Ukrainian culture, and particularly in the emergence and evolution of the modern Ukrainian national project. Its focus has since broadened significantly, from publications by Rory Finnin to doctoral studies (Bohdan Tokarskyi) and , particularly in verse confronting the trauma of war (Iryna Shuvalova).
100 karbovantsiv note of the Central Rada听of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917): in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Yiddish
Rory Finnin is a Co-Investigator in the landmark project , which is funded by a 拢3.2 million grant from the AHRC. The initiative undertakes a study of cultural texts and events 鈥� narrative fiction, poetry, theatre, cinema 鈥� that foreground, problematise and inform questions of linguistic unity, diversity, identity, power, and quality of life in the public sphere, particularly in Ukraine. It asks:听
- How do cultural events and works of literature, film and theatre contribute to understandings and misunderstandings about the place and function of languages in culture in Ukraine?听
- How does linguistic diversity in Ukraine bear on regional and national identities and communities affected by colonial pasts, particularly in the realm of culture?听
- How does multilingualism figure in conflict and conflict resolution both intra- and internationally?听
Rory Finnin is a member of the Core Team of the research initiative , headquartered at Columbia University. The project seeks to rethink traditional land-based area studies and contribute to a 鈥渘ew thalassology鈥� emphasising patterns of connectivity and mobility in and around the Black Sea, including Ukraine. In his publications on the representation of Ukraine鈥檚 Crimean Tatars, for the study of听the Black Sea as 'a unifying, centripetal presence rather than a听divisive, centrifugal one'.
Crimean Tatar Studies Initiative
Ahatanhel Krymskyi noted that 鈥榓 complete, multi-sided history of Ukraine is impossible鈥� without a knowledge of the Crimean Tatars. Yet in geopolitical debates and in academic discourse, even in the field of Ukrainian Studies. In 2016, 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Ukrainian Studies launched a Crimean Tatar Studies Initiative, which began with a first for Europe: .
In outreach and editorial commentary, Rory Finnin has sought to address and representations of Ukraine in Great Britain and Europe more generally. 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Ukrainian Studies has accordingly confronted these issues through postgraduate workshops and lectures on Ukrainian media discourse as well as the landmark international conference , which听explored the dynamics between the politics of representation and international security through the lens of the geopolitical tumult in Ukraine. Two doctoral research projects are now exploring media discourse in and about Ukraine, with special attention to听media discourse听in occupied Ukraine (Jon Roozenbeek) and to Ukraine's digital civil society听(Maria Terentieva). 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Ukrainian Studies has also launched a new initiative called Ukraine Media Lab, which seeks to devise innovative, portable curricula to educate students and the general public about disinformation and 'Fake News'; Ukraine's digital civil society; and the Ukrainian Internet. With Dr Sander van der Linden, Finnin also launched the , which seeks to bring cutting-edge research to bear on contemporary policy discussions and to foster closer collaboration in the sphere of information literacy between scholars, policymakers and stakeholders in journalism, education, business and diplomacy.
Rory Finnin was which was awarded 鈧�1 million by the HERA consortium.听The听interdisciplinary,听multinational initiative warned that the often subterranean cultural trafficking of traumatic memories along the听eastern border of the European Union, particularly in Ukraine,听could contribute to the political destabilization of Eastern Europe. It听involved academics in 澳门六合彩开奖记录, Groningen, Bergen, Helsinki and Tartu and advanced a听pioneering methodology to map 'memory听events'听across a host of literary, filmic, historical and web-based texts听in real time. Among the project鈥檚 publications was by Alexander听Etkind, Rory听Finnin et al (澳门六合彩开奖记录:听Polity Press,听2012), which was hailed by Jay Winter (Yale) as 'a rare example of collective scholarship鈥� and听'essential reading for all students in the social sciences and the humanities.鈥�
