Montag, 9.12.2024, 16.50-18.20, Raum N.316 | Monday, 9 December 2024, room N.316
Odesa's City Myth Rethought and Reframed: Ukrainian Black Sea Narratives, Multidirectional Memory, and the Challenges of Decolonization
Few cities can rival Odesa in the richness and diversity of its cultural legacy. An oft-mythologized image of the city, derived primarily from early twentieth century Russian-language writings, trickled into a stereotypical version exploited for decades by Soviet and Russian post-Soviet mass culture. However, this outdated cliché narrative obscures many facets of the city’s cultural diversity both past and present. The Black Sea is at the center of both the Soviet-era myth and the enduring stereotypes about the city, on the one hand, and of revisionist decolonial and multidirectional memory narratives, on the other. Weiterlesen "9.12.2024 | Gastvortrag von Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas / Universität Basel): Mythos Odesa, neu gedacht: ukrainische Schwarzmeer-Narrative, multidirektionale Erinnerung und die Herausforderungen der Dekolonisierung (Vortrag auf Englisch)"