Statehood | Istoria 2025

Focus themes: Nation-building and governance.

Description: The seminar examines the formation and evolution of Ukrainian statehood, highlighting lessons for democratic institution-building and civic identity.

Lecturer: Dr Olena Palko, University of Basel.

Biography:

Olena Palko is Assistant Professor at the Chair of East European History at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is a historian of Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and modern Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on the history of minorities.

Dr Palko has held a number of research fellowships, including at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, and the Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre in Sapporo, Japan.

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