Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship (SUS) Workshop at CAS Sofia & via Zoom
on Friday, 7 March 2025

9.30 – 9:45: Welcome Remarks
Diana Mishkova, Director, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia
Katharina Biegger, Strategic Advisor, Center for Governance and Culture, University of Sankt Gallen

9.45 – 10:30: Introduction of Participants

10.30 – 10.45: Break

10.45 – 12.15: Keynote Lecture and Discussions: “Reshaping Ukrainian and East European Studies: Achievements, Difficulties, Perspectives? “ by Dr. Tetiana Portnova, Research Associate at the University of Potsdam (DFG position)

12.30 – 14.30: Break

14.30 – 16:00: How to study Slavic / Transnational Studies? A View from the Participants: Roundtable with SUS Fellows from NEC Bucharest and CAS Sofia

16.00 – 16.30: Break

16.30 – 18:00: The Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship Program. Feedback and Ideas from the Participants: Roundtable with SUS Fellows from NEC Bucharest and CAS Sofia

Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship (SUS) Workshop: Cultural Program
on Saturday, 8 March 2025, Sofia

10:00 – 13:30: Sofia Tour with Guide Ms Radoslava Kuneva (PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies) and Visit to the Sofia Archeological Museum with CAS Fellow Dr Peter Parvanov (Archeology)

13. 30 – 15.30: Lunch Break

15.30 – 16.30: Tribute Visit to the Memorial Gravestones of Mikhaylo Dragomanov and Mykhailo Parashchuk  at the Central Sofia Cemetery with Lecture by Prof. Sergii Strashniuk, Maryn Drynov Center for Bulgarian and Balkan Studies at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

About our Keynote Speaker: Dr Tetiana Portnova is a historian specializing in intellectual history, urban history of Eastern Europe and museology. Since November 2023, Portnova has been working as a research associate at the University of Potsdam (DFG position). She is the author of two books (in Ukrainian): “The City Landscape and Modernisation: Katerynoslav in mid-19th – early 20th Centuries” (2008) and “Peasantry in Ukrainian Intelligentsia’s Perception of the second half of the 19th Century” (2016). She holds her Ph.D degree in history (2009) and M.A. (2004) from Dnipro National University. In 2012-2021 Portnova was an Associate Professor at the Chair of Historiography, Source and Archival Studies of the Dnipro National University. Since 2021 she has been working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Dmytro Yavornytsky Dnipro National History Museum.

This event is organized within the Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship (SUS) fellowship program, hosted jointly by the New Europe College Bucharest and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia with the support of the VolkswagenStiftung.