Scripta ucrainica europaea

Scripta ucrainica europaea

The papers presented here were delivered at the international conference that took place two years ago in Greifswald (Germany), hosted by “Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg”. The conference, under the title “Is there a Third Way for Ukraine?”, was organized thanks to the financial and logistic support of the “Alfred Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg” and brought together some of the most outstanding scholars from several European and Overseas countries.
The papers deal with issues related to history, literature, social and political life of contemporary Ukraine. References to19th-20th century historical and cultural events offer a useful background to discuss present-time problems.

The papers are published in the language, in which they were delivered at the conference or written by the authors. Thus, the reader will find papers in English, German, Italian and Ukrainian. This choice has been made not only because of practical reasons. It responds to a general (programmatic) concept of the publication we offer to the reader and of the Conference where the papers were first presented. Indeed, the organizers were moved by the desire to bring together specialists from Ukraine and from various European and Overseas’ countries in an international “forum” where multilingual and multicultural presence should act as the main “detonator” for spreading critical evaluation and knowledge of Ukrainian culture inside and outside Ukraine.

The authors hope that this first issue of a sort of “European e-journal”, devoted to Ukraine and Ukrainian studies, may attract contributions for next issues. We do hope as well, that the analysis and ideas contained in these papers will foster discussion and mutual enrichement among specialists, but also among the broad reading public. Suggestions for future cooperation are welcome. At the top of our wishes remains the desire of promoting a growing and longlasting dialogue between Ukraine and every other country or nation in Europe or in the vast world. A dialogue that should be aimed at making of each inhabitant of each country a free citizen of the world and a worthy representant of the best features of each national or areal specificity.

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Giovanna Brogi Bercoff (University of Milan, Italy)

Alexander Kratochvil (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Find the papers attached below.

Articles

Suche nach dem dritten Weg in der ukrainischen Geschichte - Hans Rothe (Bonn)

Through a rapid glance to the past of Ukrainian society and culture from the 15th c. up to our time, H. Rothe highlights some of the “turning points” of the history of the Ukrainian lands where the political, social and ecclesiastic elites missed the opportunities of creating an integrated, modern and viable society, capable of gaining visibility among the more structured, politically and culturally unified neighbouring countries. At the end Rothe points
out at some positive achievements in recent Ukrainian studies and at desiderata for future development.

One World is not enough, or my Adventures with National Paradigm - Jaroslav Hrytsak (Lviv/Budapest)

Ja. Hrytsak focuses on the possible approaches that may allow a new reading of Ukrainian history, permitting to overcome both narrow nationalistic oriented and imperialistic paradigms, and to present the complex intermingling of ethnic, religious, linguistic and social
components as a dynamic but unitary system.

В колі Вічного Повернення: українська література між вестернізацією і модернізацією - Тамара Гундорова (Київ)

T. Hundorova tries to interpret the dialectic – sometimes opposed – relationship between high and low literature in Ukrainian tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries through the methodological grids offered by such influential critics as Blum, Toynbee and others. In her view, writers of the youngest generation inspired by post-modern trends offer new opportunities to Ukrainian literature to overcome the traditional gap dividing “popular” and “European”, “nationally-oriented” and “westernizing” models of literary self-perception and self-representation.

Translating Culture: Some Observations on the Temptations and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Visibility - Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University)

M. Pavlyshyn, focuses on the “ways of conferring upon Ukraine and Ukraine’s culture the benefit of visibility to the world outside Ukraine, and to the rest of Europe above all.” Efforts made by a part of Ukrainian writers to send out literary messages intelligible by the whole of the readers belonging to the set of “civilisational values” defined by the idea of “Europe” indicate a “civilizational choice” aiming at “translability” of one’s own culture into the set of values of countries that represent the Western “Other” of Ukraine. Up to which point, however, – the author asks – does a “refocussing” towards a Western vector “involve the choice of a different colonialism, if probably one less debilitating than its predecessor”, than “the inertial persistence of [Ukraine’s] presence in the Soviet or post-Soviet cultural space”? As a “case study” Pavlyshyn analyses the reasons for success and the dangers of marginality
of Ju. Andruxovyč’s translations into German.

Generation next: Pop-Literature in Ukraine - Alexander Kratochvil (Konstanz)

In A. Kratochvil’s contribution the reader may find a description and analyses of some of the most challenging and “disrupting” manifestations of Ukrainian pop-literature, of its impact on culture in Ukraine itself and in the context of Eastern-Central European contemporaneity, and of its “functioning” as a form of entertainment and industry.

Яке майбутнє очикує україністику в європейських країнах? - Джованна Броджі Беркофф (Мілано)

G. Brogi Bercoff points at the difficult situation of Ukrainian studies outside Ukraine, mainly in EU countries, but overseas as well. The paper sheds light on some of the main questions put at stake during the Conference and may be considered as “programmatic” for further development of Ukrainian studies outside Ukraine itself. The author discusses by what means Ukrainian and European institutions might (and should) support this new field of
investigation and teaching, in a period when financial support for universities becomes smaller and smaller, while the strategic importance of Ukraine may probably grew in the next years. The author stresses the need of forming young generations of scholars and well trained specialists, who may be able to cope with the problems of European integration and of mutual relationships of EU and other countries. The “Ukrainicum” Summer School founded
by the “Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg” exerts a leading role in this direction, both by offering young Ukrainians the possibility of becoming acquainted with EU and Overseas specialists and their methodologies in humanities and socio-political studies, and by fostering skills in Ukrainian culture among EU young generations of non-Ukrainian origin.

Reviews

200 Anni di Skovorodiana. Per una rassegna ragionata. Maria Gracia Bartolini (Milano)

О. Горбач, Українське арго, Львів: Інститут ім. Крип'якевича НАН України, 2006, 636 ст. Марія Грація Бартоліні (Мілано)

As an addition to the papers, the reader may find a long review article on the newest publications about H. Skovoroda and reviews of L. Uškalov’s book on Skovoroda and O. Horbatsch’s seminal work on Ukrajins’ke argo (edited by A.-H.- Horbatsch). These three contibutions are authored by M.G. Bartolini.

Закарпатський „Дебют” Олександр Михед (Київ)

O. Myhed offers a bulk of interesting “last news” about “second or third rank very young writers” from Zakarpattja, who attracted attention thanks to literary prizes they won in the last three-four years. The author asks himself to what degree such mostly regionally oriented writers may contribute to the creation of high-level national literature: “At some point, be that earlier or later – the author maintains – the active creativity of some kind of regional
myth leads to positive results and forms its own artistic school”.

Possibilities for Cooperation between Polish and Ukrainian Historians on the History of Ukraine in the Seventeenth Century

Although the possibilities of research into the history of Ukraine which the Polish historians had after the Second World War can hardly be compared with the situation of their counterparts in Ukraine, however, no publications on Ukrainian issues in the 1950s appeared in Poland either. This is well illustrated by the fortunes of Professor Władysław Tomkiewicz (1899-1982) and his student and disciple Zbigniew Wójcik who were removed from the work on Ukraine's history. Anyway, their professional careers cannot be compared with the tragic fortunes of the Ukrainian historians.

Discussions

Third way? - Stefan Simonek

Круглий стіл на тему: «Викладання української мови – досвід і перспективи»

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4-Rothe	Suche nach dem dritten Weg	83 Kb
5-Hrytsak	One World is not enough	89 Kb
6-Hundorova	В колі Вічного Повернення	169 Kb
7-Pavlyshyn	Translating Culture	86 Kb
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