Mykola Haievoi Center Summerschool 2025 / 29 June – 5 July 2025

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The Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History (MHZ) announces its first Summer School

Location: Lviv, Ukrainian Catholic University Campus,
Kozelnytska Street 2

Date: 29 June – 5 July 2025
Topic: Soviet and German Nazi Rule in Ukraine - Entanglements and Comparisons
Languages: English

About the Summer School
After its foundation in 2024, the Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History at the Ukrainian Catholic University has invited and selected participants from Ukraine and abroad for its first Summer School. The participants will be Ph.D. and Master’s students. The intensive academic program will take place in Lviv.
The program will consist of: lectures by renowned scholars specializing in Soviet and Nazi history, totalitarianism, and Ukrainian history; excursions to historically significant sites in Lviv related to the topic; and opportunities for participant presentations and project discussions with expert feedback.
The Summer School will explore key historical questions concerning the comparison and entanglements between alternating Soviet and German Nazi rule in Ukrainian territories, with particular attention to Lviv and Western Ukraine from 1939 to the end of the 1940s. Participants will examine historical examples of rule, repression, and local responses under both regimes. The presentations span from “German World War II Economy in Ukraine” to “Women's creative activities in the Gulag” and “Representation of the Holocaust in Comics of Ukrainian Authors”.

More about the Summer School
The topic of Soviet and Nazi rule has gained new relevance in the context of Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine. Russia's actions are an attempt to restore control over former Soviet territories, and its motives are deeply intertwined with the history of the twentieth century. This raises critical questions about how we understand that century and the legacies of its two most murderous, genocidal regimes in Europe: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin. The Summer School will be directed by prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, Oksana Kis, prof. Martin Schulze Wessel (tbc) and Kai Struve. Prof. Olena Stiazhkina, Ukrainian historian and writer, will hold a public lecture 30 june at 16.00. Topic: Russian Rule in the Occupied Territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions (2014-2022) - Violence Unseen.

More about the Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History
The MHC is a joint research center of the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich and the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv under the direction of prof. Martin Schulze Wessel and prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak. The subject of the research is the rule of the two major criminal regimes of 20th century European history, National Socialist Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin, using Ukraine as an example, as well as the controversial and entangled memory of their mass crimes. The funding comes from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the research project “Europe and Ukraine in the 20th Century - Soviet Rule, German Occupation and Conflicting Memories”. The center is named after an UCU PhD student who was to work at the center and was killed in combat in August 2024, just weeks before it opened.
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