Viadrinicum

Past Tense of the Oder

Posted by anajegnaradze on 28. November 201729. November 2017

This short documentary of two Georgian filmakers Ana Jegnaradze and Marita Tevzadze explores how the 1st of September is commemorated as the Veterans Day in Słubice in Poland and as the World Peace Day in …

Border.Doc

Step across the Border

Posted by Daria Voyloshnikova on 15. November 201728. November 2017

Another [natural] migrant abused. Which part of the border to blame? Daring to paraphrase Vonnegut, I premise that this is a simple-minded piece about men who enjoy killing – and those who don’t. And in …

Border.Media, General

Talk. Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak: Experiences of Reconciliation in Polish-Ukrainian- Relations

Posted by viadrinicum on 24. October 201724. October 2017

https://mportal.europa-uni.de/getMedium/e843bbf42cd7e8cf967bb3564fb05578.mp4 “Experiences of Reconciliation in Polish-Ukrainian Relations” Professor Dr. Yaroslav Hrytsak The presentation will focus on two partic-ular cases of the Polish-Ukrainian reconcil-iation: a successful one, in case of the Polish Military Cemetery in Lviv …

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Opening Speech. Prof. Karl Schlögel: Borderland Europe – Borders and Conflicts in Europe in the 20th Century

Posted by viadrinicum on 24. October 201724. October 2017

https://mportal.europa-uni.de/getMedium/e6270cf88487edc6a3f4b0c8ee1d08e7.mp4 Opening Speech Viadrinicum 2017 “Borderland Europe – Borders and Conflicts in 20th Century Europe” by Professor Dr. Karl Schlögel The great changes in Europe after 1989 have re-opened our view on many fundamental political, …

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Panel Discussion. How to Deal with the Soviet/Socialist Past in Urban Context? Georgian, Ukrainian and Polish Experiences with Ketevan Khutsishvili, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Mariusz Czepczyński

Posted by viadrinicum on 12. October 201724. October 2017

https://mportal.europa-uni.de/getMedium/0eb360728235901960dbb1f27ae8386d.mp4 How to Deal with the Soviet/Socialist Past in Urban Context? Georgian, Ukrainian and Polish Experiences September 04, 2017, 6.00 pm, Europa-Universität Viadrina Große Scharrnstraße 59, 15230 Frankfurt/Oder, HG 109 Dr. Vasyl Cherepanyn, Cultural Studies …

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Talk. Jan Sowa The “New” and “Old” Europe. Revisiting the European East-West Divide

Posted by viadrinicum on 11. October 201724. October 2017

https://mportal.europa-uni.de/getMedium/8ae758190c64a431344ddff78dc5d568.mp4 “The “New” and “Old” Europe. Revisiting the European East-West Divide” Dr. habil. Jan Sowa After the fall of the Soviet Bloc almost 30 year ago it seemed the division of Europe into the West …

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Quotation of the day #14:

Under the conditions of proliferating hybridization external and internal conflicts often become transposed, which adds to the blurriness of their borders. Thus, the war in Ukraine becomes a global struggle refracted through the prism of the local conflict.

10. October 201729. December 2017

Quotation of the day #13:

Externalizing the conflicts in oder to keep the center safe, the EU has been bound to face the return of the repressed.

10. October 201729. December 2017

Quotation of the day #12:

The problem of walls’ existence poses the problem of analytical optics: one is alsways caught between the risk of reifying (artificially) constructed differences and the fallacy of ignoring the materiality of existing borders.

10. October 201729. December 2017

Quotation of the day #11:

Metaphorical perception of borders as the skin of statehood makes one aware of the corporeality of political subjectivity.

10. October 201729. December 2017