East Meets West
Schedule Spring 2026
February 16th, 13:15-15:00, SOL: L503 Dr. Milosz Cordes (Lecturer, DIS Study Abroad, Copenhagen), Book presentation, “Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast” (2025), in collaboration with YES-seminars at SOL
March 2nd, 10:15-12:00, LUX: A332 Dr. Yulia Gradskova (Associate professor, Södertörn University), Book presentation, “East–South Women Internationalism at the Cold War Periphery” (2025)
March 9th, 10:45-12:15, online (ZOOM) Prof. Dr. Julia Richers (Professor, Bern University) and Dr. habil Carmen Scheide (Associate Professor, Bern University), Project presentation: “The Forgotten Fates of Soviet Prisoners of War and Forced Labourers in Switzerland”
March 16th, 10:15-12:00, LUX: A332 Prof. Dr. William Risch (Professor, Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia, United States), Book presentation: “Ukraine’s Euromaidan: From Revolutionary Euphoria to the Madness of War” (2026)
April 17th, 10:15-12:00, SOL: H 405 Dr. Dorota Michaluk (Professor, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland), Ongoing research presentation, “The historical tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the state symbols and concept of the borders of the Belarusian People's Republic”, in collaboration with YES-seminars
April 21st, 10:15-12:00, LUX: B339 Dr. Per Anders Rudling (Associate Professor, Lund University), Dr. Denys Kiryukhin (Researcher, Lund University), Dr. Francesco Zavatti (Associate Professor, Lund University/ Södertörn University), Book presentation, “Transnational and Transatlantic Fascism, 1918–2018: The Far Right in East Central and Southeastern Europe” (2025)
April 28, 10:15-12:00, LUX: B352 Dr. Norman Domeier (Private Docent, Charles University, Czech Republic), book-based presentation: “The Secret Deal between Associated Press (AP) and Nazi Germany, 1942–1945: The Stockholm Connection”, in collaboration with NORAH.
May 4th, 10:15-12:00, LUX: A332 Gundula Pohl (Doctoral candidate/ Research assistant, Fern Universität Hagen/ Lund University), Dissertation chapter: “Unlimited prosecution: The posthumous conviction of non German Nazi perpetrators and its role in Belarusian politics of history”, in collaboration with NORAH.
May 18th, 10:15-12:00, LUX: A332 Dr. Aniela Radecka (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland), Book presentation, “Ukrainian Women’s prose: Unveiling Narratives, Imaginary and Societal Roles of Women “(2026), in collaboration with YES-seminars.
May 25th, 10:15-12:00, A332 Prof. Dr. Srdja Pavlovic (Lecturer, Doclean Academy of Science’s and Arts (DANU), Montenegro), ongoing research presentation: “West is the Best: Tensions Between Montenegro’s dream of the EU Membership and the promise of the “Serbian World".
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