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The Closure of ‘The Ukrainian Body’

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 1 March 2012 by delclem

Sex, Nationalism, and Academic Freedom:
Kyiv has its home-grown debate on ‘degenerate art’.

“Controversy has erupted at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) over the recent closure of the art exhibition The Ukrainian Body at the university’s Visual Cultural Research Center (VCRC) and by the closure of the Center itself a few days later.

One can get a good sense of what was being shown at the exhibition from the review on the internet journal Art Ukraine.” >MORE

(c) John-Paul Himka & ukraineanalysis.com, 2012 (reblogged)

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Racist row in Ukraine

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 23 February 2012 by delclem

“Ukrainian singer Gaitana won the hearts of the judges in her bid to represent her country in the Eurovision Song Contest this year. However, the 32-year-old, who was born in Kiev to a Congolese father and a Ukrainian mother has scored, “nul points” from a politician who has said she is not representative of Ukraine because of the colour of her skin.” > Story & video (c) euronews, 2012

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Ukraine´s last Chance?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 19 November 2011 by delclem

An article by the renowned Yale historian Timothy Snyder
(c) New York Review of Books, 2011

Or is the choice between Yanukovych and Tymoshenko
rather the choice between the Plague and Cholera?

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National(istic) Carnival in Lviv

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 30 June 2011 by delclem

“Lviv re-enacts the June 30, 1941 Ukrainian National revolution (and the German invasion). Parents dress their children in ethnic outfits to applaud the men in SS uniforms. The driver of the sidecar MC even grew a little Hitler mustache. No re-enactment of the pogroms, it seems,” says Dr Per Rudling (more photos on zaxid.net).

How tasteless is this sort of national(istic) Carneval?
It does not really come over as the re-enactment of a trauma…

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Read the interview with Dr Rudling on SS recruitment in the Ukraine, the country’s contested past and the creation of false myths
in the blog Hitler’s Foreign Executioners

Or the article by Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe on The Act of 30 June 1941 and its Commemoration in Ukraine in the blog Defending History

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‘Post/colonial’ & ‘multi-kulti’ Central Europe (necessary PS)

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 23 May 2011 by delclem

An old friend of mine has pointed out  that in many countries (e.g. Canada), multiculturalism is misunderstood as multi-nationalism. According to him, each *nationality* within a multi-ethnic society constructs their little cultural backyard, an allotment garden as it were, with  hedges and garden gnomes. *Multikulti* then is a mere pretext for cultural segregation and *living out* your prevailing cultural narratives (one of the most polemic examples: Islamist attempts to introduce Sharia into western judiciary) without caring too much about the others and their cultures. Continue reading →

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Ukrainian ‘genocide envy’?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 24 April 2011 by delclem

The heated debate about the Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg and its representation of Holocaust and “Holomodor”: Ukrainian organizations in conflict with international scholars (see the open letter by the latter and an article in The Globe & Mail on the subject matter)

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