Videoblog / Видеоблог

Why do historical studies pay more and more attention to the problems of today? How does widening of history-writing circles (from journalists to witnesses the event) affects the historian profession? What is the price of the constant presence of the historian in the public space and what are the prerequisites for the making of career of a historian?

Andrei Portnov talks with the director of the Slavonic Library in Bern Christoph von Werdt of the Swiss Ukrainian Studies (compared to the Polish and Russian Studies). Christoph von Werdt, in particular, talks about the series of lectures and discussions on Ukraine in Bern, as well as the prospects of Ukrainian studies in Switzerland.

Using the example of Amsterdam's Anne Frank Museum, Andrei Portnov speaks about the modern museum in the context of global trends of museulization of memory. The author briefly describes the Polish Museum war and wonders when the Ukrainian museums are going to gather such daily queues as the house of the Dutch girl - victim of the Holocaust.

Elena Gapova on intellectuals in post-Soviet space. Lecture in the Vilnius University. The author discusses the division of the academic community in Russia and Belarus, the formation of separate academic communities that do not recognize each other, the status of intellectuals in the social structure and genesis of the "new intellectuals".