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Ukrainian Energy Studies: 2022-2023 Lecture Series

field of grain with a radioactive sign at Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has confirmed not only the centrality of energy to the war, but also the importance of Ukraine to global energy policy, with its far-reaching economic, environmental, and cultural consequences. This interdisciplinary series, co-organized by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU and the East European, Russian, Caucasian, and Central Asian Faculty Network at the 91Ҹ 91Ҹ, will explore the concept of energy as a shaping force in Ukrainian cultural and political history; the aesthetics of particular energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear energy, renewables) in Ukrainian literature, film, and other media; the Russia-Ukraine energy nexus; Ukrainian energy markets; and environmental effects of energy production, consumption, and catastrophe.


The series is co-sponsored by the and the Departments of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, History, Geography, and Political Science and the International Affairs Program at CU 91Ҹ.

Schedule

  • Sept. 8, 2-3:30 p.m. MT. Margarita Balmaceda, Seton Hall University. “Ukraine in Russian Energy Chains: Threat, Temptation and Learning from the Past to Understand Ukraine's and Europe's Current Energy Challenges.” Hybrid event. CU affiliates can join via Zoom.
  • . Andrian Prokip, Director of the Energy Program at Ukrainian Institute for the Future & Senior Associate, Wilson Center. “The Transition of Ukraine’s Energy – from a Part of the Soviet Economy Towards a United Europe”. Join via .
  • Hanna Chuchvaha, U of Calgary. Virtual. Lecture on Chornobyl and the art of trauma.
  • 12/6/22 11 a.m., MT. Per Högselius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Virtual. Lecture reframing Hogselius’ book, Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), in light of the current war in Ukraine.
  • 4/27/23 10 a.m. MT. Inna Sukhenko, University of Helsinki. Spring 2023. Virtual. Lecture on nuclear energy in literature and culture.
  • TBA. Galina Babak, Humbolt University/Vienna University. Virtual. Spring 2023. Lecture on Ukrainian literature in connection with energy.