Resistance | Istoria 2026

Nationalism, minority rights, and political resistance.

This seminar examines political identity, nationalism, and minority rights under imperial and authoritarian rule. It focuses on the historical and contemporary experiences of the Crimean Tatars as a case study in civic resistance.

Lecturer: Dr Mariia Shynkarenko, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Mariia Shynkarenko is a political scientist specialising in resistance, nationalism, and identity. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York in 2023. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, where she leads an NCN-funded project "Justice in Ukraine's Political Thought (1830-1922): Political and Social Dimensions". She is also a co-founder and board member of the Institute for Documentation and Exchange (INDEX) in Lviv. 

Her book, Identity as Weapon: Crimean Tatars and their Quest for Indigenous Self-Determination, is forthcoming with University of Toronto Press in October 2026. 

You can enrol for the full course here.