The series of lectures on interdisciplinary Ukrainian studies called Ukrainian Winter, which began on January 29, 2025, ended on the first day of March. The series of lectures was jointly organised by the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv in cooperation with the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Vision Ukraine Netzwerk: Bildung, Sprache und Migration and the UCL Ukrainian Society.
The Ukrainian Winter series gathered over 300 registered participants and consisted of 14 lectures by Ukrainian and international scholars on a wide range of topics related to Ukrainian culture, history and society. The inaugural lecture on decolonization processes in Ukraine was given by Myroslav Shkandrij, Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba.
From the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a lecture entitled “Decolonial Content on Ukrainian YouTube: Revealing «kakaya raznitsa» and Blurring Cultural Boundaries with Russia” was delivered by dr Olha Tkachenko on February 21, 2025.
