{"id":20253,"date":"2025-09-30T16:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=20253"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:53:16","slug":"fellow-seminar-ukrainian-studies-in-the-cold-war-era-dialogue-above-the-iron-curtain-the-kgb-special-operations-and-soviet-ukrainian-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/event\/fellow-seminar-ukrainian-studies-in-the-cold-war-era-dialogue-above-the-iron-curtain-the-kgb-special-operations-and-soviet-ukrainian-patriotism\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow seminar: Ukrainian Studies in the Cold War Era: Dialogue Above the Iron Curtain, the KGB Special Operations, and Soviet Ukrainian Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>Andrii Portnov<\/strong> (Gerda Henkel Fellowship, Oct \u201825 &#8211; Feb \u201826)<\/p>\n<h3>Ukrainian Studies in the Cold War Era: Dialogue Above the Iron Curtain, the KGB Special Operations, and Soviet Ukrainian Patriotism<\/h3>\n<p>20 November 2025 (Thursday), at 16:30.<\/p>\n<p>Moderated by: <strong>Jelena Erdeljan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Abstract:<\/em> In my talk, I would like to present one aspect of my larger project at the CAS: Aesopian language from the experience of contextual reading of Soviet historical texts. This topic is crucial for understanding Soviet historical writing in terms of formal and &#8220;inner&#8221; censorship, how some scholars publicly expressed their dissenting views despite state propaganda, and how they communicated with Soviet colleagues and other scholars in the socialist bloc and the West. I will discuss concrete examples of hidden interpretive hints, &#8220;mistaken&#8221; quotes, and non-obvious interpretations of canonical texts within the context of the multi-level, unequal dialogue between Soviet Ukrainian and Ukrainian diaspora historiographies during the Cold War era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrii Portnov (Gerda Henkel Fellowship, Oct \u201825 &#8211; Feb \u201826) Ukrainian Studies in the Cold War Era: Dialogue Above the Iron Curtain, the KGB Special Operations, and Soviet Ukrainian Patriotism&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20770,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/20253\/revisions\/20770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20253"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=20253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}