SAHA brings you a new special edition podcast with historical insights into the invasion of Ukraine. Our speakers, drawn from across the Scottish higher education sector, are authorities on the history and culture of the region. In this discussion, grounded in an arts and humanities perspective and independent historical inquiry, the speakers explore contested narratives of the past and what these mean for our understanding of the current conflict. They also discuss the importance of narratives of national identity and why religious, economic, and political legacies still matter if we are to reach greater insight into this complex region and into the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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The podcast participants are:

Dr Jon Blackwood (podcast host) – Reader and Research Lead, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University
Dr Murray Frame – Interim Dean of the School of Humanities, University of Dundee
Professor Robert Frost FRSE – Burnett Fletcher Chair in History, University of Aberdeen
Professor Anthony (Tony) Heywood – Chair in History, University of Aberdeen
Dr Thomas Marsden – Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling
Professor Catherine O’Leary –  Professor of Spanish, University of St Andrews & SAHA Co-chair

The full transcript is available on our website.


Please find below some of the resources mentioned in this episode and further reading recommendations shared by the guests and Dr Asya Kudlenko:

Aleksei Miller, The Ukrainian Question: The Russian Empire and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (2003) (freely available)
Geoffrey Hosking, Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917 (1998)
Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus’
Robert Frost, The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania vol. 1 The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385 –1569 (2018...

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