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Poles as “Enemies of the People” – the Polish Operation of the NKVD in 1937-1938.
We are pleased to invite you to the public
lecture Poles as ‘Enemies of the People’ – the Polish Operation of the
NKVD in 1937–1938, presented by Tetiana Kovalenko (V. N. Karazin
Kharkiv National University, Ukraine & German Historical Institute in Warsaw,
Poland), which will take place on Tuesday, 25 April 2023 at 4 p.m. at the
Polish Institute in Prague (Malé Nám. 1, Prague 1). The lecture will be held
in English.
The event is organized by the Institute of Contemporary History CAS and
the Institute of History SAS in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague.
Abstract: The Polish Operation of the NKVD was a part of the Great Terror policy in the USSR in 1937–1938. It became the largest of the NKVD’s national operations. Terror has reached a qualitatively new level, i.e. the implementation of ethnic repression, when the basis for the arrest, and then often the execution of a person was only his/her national origin, the presence of relatives in Poland or just contacts with the Poles. Members of families of these “enemies of the people” were also convicted on groundless accusations of counter-revolutionary activity and thus became victims of terror. During the Polish operation of the NKVD about 140 thousand people were sentenced, 111 091 of them to death. The broken fates of entire families are behind these figures. Full declassification of the Ukrainian archival documents allowed studying the course and consequences of this purposeful campaign of extermination of the Polish population. This paper will analyse the features of the Polish operation of the NKVD in Kharkiv region.
Humour as a weapon in crisis and war
We are pleased to invite you to the public
lecture Humour as a weapon in crisis and war, presented by
Tetiana Kovalenko (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine &
German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland), which will take place on
Wednesday 26 April 2023 at 6 p.m. at the Hybernská Campus (Hybernská 4,
Prague, Čítárna HYB4) and will be held in English.
The meeting is organized by the Institute for Contemporary History CAS,
the Institute of History SAS and the Leibniz-Institute for History and Culture
of Eastern Europe (GWZO).
Abstract: Internet memes about the
Russia-Ukraine war which began on February 24, 2022 have spread online rapidly .
Are they important? What influence do memes have in public space and on public
opinion? How do they contribute to the process of shaping historical memory and
creating new historical symbols? Do memes interact with politics and can they be
considered a weapon in times of war? These questions will be answered by Dr.
Tetiana Kovalenko (Uni Kharkhov – DHI Varsaw) based on the analysis of publicly
available sites and channels of Ukrainian officials, volunteers and civic
activists mainly on Facebook and Telegram. Dr. Petra Hudek (Institute of
Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Institute of History of
the Slovak Academy of Sciences) will follow with a reflection on humour in the
streets of Czechoslovak cities after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in
1968. At the end, doc. Petr Janeček (Institute of Ethnology of the Faculty of
Arts, Charles University – Centre for Study of Popular Culture) will add some
theoretical reflections on the role of humour in the social crisis. The lecture
will be followed by a discussion with audience.
Moderated by: Dr. Lucie Dušková (Leibniz-Institute for History and Culture of
Eastern Europe).
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/L535pmcG
