Ukraine Lecture Series

Taste, Social Class, and Oriental Carpet Design in the Eighteenth-Century Cossack Hetmanate

A lecture about the social significance of the Orient-style Hetmanate carpets in relation to the Cossack elite as a social class

Anna Yaroslavna, Queen of France, in History and in Ukrainian Imagination

A lecture about the wife of King Henry I who ruled France as co-regent during the minority of her son Philip I

Historical Memory

A roundtable on historical memory in Ukraine.

The Sovereign's Image and its Site-Specificity in Kyivan Rus'

A lecture about how Kyivan sovereign's portraits concealed the questionable mechanisms of rising into power and legitimized the alleged usurpers in the eyes of the society, the Church, and Christ.

Displaced Cultural Heritage

A roundtable on concerns related to displaced cultural heritage, including that of Ukraine.

Reading the Image of Prince Volodymyr Sviatoslavych in Seventeenth-Century Kyiv

A public lecture about Prince Volodymyr Sviatoslavych and the evolution of his image from the mid-seventeenth to the early eighteenth centuries by Maria Grazia Bartonlini

Endangered Monuments

A lecture on the endangered cultural monuments of Kyivan Rus

Mazepa's Women Before and After Poltava

A lecture on the strong women of Mazepa's family by Dr. Liudmyla Sharipova

Medieval Origins and Modern Constructs, Rus–Ukraine–Russia

A virtual lecture by Dr. Christian Raffensperger

The Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv

Roundtable discussion with Thomas Dale, Ioli Kalavrezou, and Sofia Korol’

The Holy Rus’: Concept and Religious Art with Political Connotations

A Lecture about Pochayiv Monastery in the 19th Century by Dr. Mariana Levytska

Lacunae of Art History and Kyiv’s Visual Culture

A Lecture by Olenka Z. Pevny