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Re-mapping the world. Ukraine - from periphery to center stage in world politics?

Lecture & Discussion|Karl Schlögel in conversation with Anne O'Donnell

  • Goethe-Institut New York, New York, NY

  • English
  • Free, but registration required
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Karl Schlögel, esteemed German historian, presents on the future of Ukraine and joins Anne O’Donnell for a stimulating discussion.

For generations, Ukraine existed largely outside the frame of reference for many Europeans, including Germans. The takeover of Crimea and the Russian invasion in 2022 radically changed the perception of this long ignored and neglected nation.

Much depends now not only on the resistance and resilience of the Ukrainians, but on the firm support of Europe and the United States.

This event is co-presented by 1014, Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Ukrainian Museum.

Panelists

  • Karl Schlögel

    Karl Schlögel, born in 1948, studied philosophy, sociology, Eastern European history, and Slavic studies at the Free University of Berlin. He initially worked as a freelance translator, journalist, and author before being appointed to the Chair of Eastern European History at the University of Konstanz in 1990. In 1995, he moved to the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, where he taught until 2013. Karl Schlögel is a recipient of the Pour le Mérite order and has been honored with numerous awards, most recently the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (2025). His publications include: Entscheidung in Kiew. Ukrainische Lektionen (Hanser, 2015), Das sowjetische Jahrhundert. Archäologie einer untergegangenen Welt (C.H. Beck, 2017), Der Duft der Imperien (Hanser, 2020), American Matrix. Besichtigung einer Epoche (Hanser, 2023), and Auf der Sandbank der Zeit. Der Historiker als Chronist der Gegenwart (Hanser, 2025). Karl Schlögel lives in Berlin.

  • Anne O'Donnell

    Anne O’Donnell is Associate Professor of History and Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. Her first book, Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution, is a legal, economic, and social history of the disintegration of private property in cities during the Bolsheviks’ rise to power after 1917. It was published by Princeton University Press in 2024 and received the 2025 Ed A. Hewett Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Her current research explores the lived experience, classification, and amelioration of “poverty” in the late Soviet Union, a place where it both was endemic and did not officially exist. 

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