Octobre 2024

Andrii Portnov (born on May 17, 1979) is Professor of Entangled History of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), Director of the Viadrina Centre of Polish and Ukrainian Studies, and a member of the Ukrainian PEN-Club.

He graduated from Dnipro (M.A. in history) and Warsaw (M.A. in Cultural Studies) Universities. He defended his PhD dissertation (2005) on the Ukrainian emigration in inter-war Poland at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Lviv. In the years 2006-2010 he worked as “Ukraїna Moderna” Kyiv-based journal in humanities Editor-in-chief. He came to Berlin in 2012 as a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) and started lecturing on Ukrainian studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2014–2015 he was Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. In 2015 he was awarded Baron Velge Prize and conducted a series of lectures as International Chair for the History of the Second World War at the Free University of Brussels. He conducted research and lectured at the Universities of Basel, Cambridge, Geneva, Potsdam, the Free University Berlin, SciencesPo Paris, SciencesPo Lyon, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Historisches Kolleg in Munich.

In 2015 he co-founded a Berlin-Brandenburg Ukraine Initiative which transformed itself in 2016 into the PRISMA UKRAЇNA Research Network Eastern Europe at the Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin. In 2018 he was appointed a Professor of Entangled History of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder) and in 2023 – the Director of the Viadrina Centre of Polish and Ukrainian Studies.

In 2022 he was awarded the DIALOG Prize of the German-Polish Society for his “commitment to the dissemination of knowledge about Ukraine and its historical entanglements in Europe”.

His publications deal with intellectual history, historiography, genocide and memory studies in Central and Eastern Europe. He recently published “Dnipro. An Entangled History of a European City” (Boston, 2022), which won with the Ab Imperio Book Prize. He co-edited the volumes “Official History in Eastern Europe” (Osnabrück, 2020) and “Histoire partagée, mémoires divisées. Ukraine, Russie, Pologne” (Lausanne, 2020). His short book “Poland and Ukraine. Entangled Histories, Asymmetric Memories” was published in 2021–2023 in English, German, Polish and Ukrainian languages.

Andrii Portnov on the European University Viadrina web page: https://www.vcpu.europa-uni.de/en/personen/leitung/portnov/index.html

Andrii Portnov on academia.edu: https://europa-uni.academia.edu/AndriiPortnov

Viadrina Centre of Polish and Ukrainian Studies YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@viacpu