Andrij Portnow

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Andrij Portnow, 2015

Andrij Volodymyrowytsch Portnow ( Ukrainian Андрій Володимирович Портнов ; scientific transliteration Andrij Volodymyrovyč Portnov ; born May 17, 1979 in Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian historian and publicist . For his publications beyond Cyrillic, he uses the transliteration spelling without patronymy Andrij Portnov .

biography

Born in 1979 in Dnipropetrovsk, Andrij Portnow studied history after graduating from the local school No. 9 with a focus on English from 1996 to 2001 at the Oles Honchar National University in Dnipropetrovsk . After completing his studies "with distinction", he completed his studies with another master's degree, which he also obtained with distinction at the University of the Department of Eastern European History (Studium Europy Wschodniej) at the University of Warsaw in 2003. The works were addressed to the historian Volodymyr Parchomenko (1880–1942; published in 2003) , who last taught in Dnipropetrovsk, and to the Polish travelers to the Balkans in the 19th century. Portnow then worked for two years as a Senior Research Fellow at the Ivan Krypjakewytsch Institute for Ukrainian Studies in Lviv and received his doctorate in the following year under the direction of Professor Isajewytsch with the thesis “The scientific and teaching activities of Ukrainian emigration in interwar Poland”. From 2004 to 2006 he was a visiting scientist at the University of Trier . In 2006 he became deputy director of the Institute for European Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and head of an expert group of the “International Renaissance Foundation”. At the same time, he took on the role of editor-in-chief of the international historical and humanities journal “Ukraina moderna”, which he released again after 2010. Further shorter research projects and stays abroad followed: in 2007 he was a visiting scientist in Amsterdam at the NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- and Genocidestudies , 2007 to 2008 director of the Institute for European Studies of the National Academy of Sciences in Kiev , 2008 Senior Research Fellow at Ukrainian state think tank "Institute for Strategic Studies" in Kiev. A research stay at the “Center d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et center-européen” (CERCEC) in Paris followed in 2010, which he held until 2012 as a senior research fellow at the Ivan Krypjakewytsch Institute in Lviv. After visiting professorships in Helsinki (2010) and Cambridge (2011), Andrij Portnow moved in 2012 with his sister Tetiana, who is also a historian, to Berlin, where both have now made their home. From 2012 to 2014 he was a scholarship holder at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Since 2012 he has been teaching as a guest lecturer at the Berlin Humboldt University at the Chair of Slavic Studies. In February 2015 he became Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the “ Center for Contemporary History ” (ZZF) in Potsdam and in autumn as a long-term fellow of the “Forum Transregional Studies” director of the “Berlin-Brandenburg Ukraine Initiative” (BBUI), where In October 2016 he set up the international research network “PRISMA UKRAÏNA — Research Network Eastern Europe”.

Scientific work

Three fields of work have emerged as focal points of Portnow's academic work: 1. The comparative study of the history of science and the Ukrainian historiography of the last one hundred years; 2. The history and memory (as well as forgetting) practice of his hometown from Yekaterynoslaw via Dnipropetrovsk to the present Dnipro; 3. The current socio-political situation in Ukraine in times of difficult transition and the post-Soviet Russian conception of the “Russian world”.

The committed and controversial Portnow unfolds his research interested in history, methodology and metahistory primarily in the form of numerous essays, some of which are also addressed to a wider audience. The now over one hundred articles have appeared in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, German, Hungarian, French, English, and Czech. In the Ukraine, Portnow has summarized his work in, in some cases, excellent essay volumes; in German-speaking countries, they have so far only been scattered in various anthologies and journals, especially the journal "Osteuropa". A larger presentation on Yekaterinoslav-Dnipropetrovsk-Dnipro is expected.

Awards

  • 2008 Jerzy Giedroyc Prize
  • 2013 Jurij Schewelow (-Essayistics) Prize (1st prize winner of the newly established prize together with Taras Prochasko )

Publications (selection)

Independent publications

  • Володимир Пархоменко: Дослідник ранньої історії Русі. Львів, 2003 (Історики України; 6).
  • Наука у вигнанні: Наукова і освітня діяльність української еміграції в міжвоєнній Польщі (1919-1939). Харків: ХІФТ, 2008. (Science in Exile: The Scientific and Teaching Activity of Ukrainian Emigration in Interwar Poland (1919-1939)).
  • Між "Центральною Європою" та "Русским миром": Сучасна Україна у просторі міжнародних інтелекту інтелектуалих. Київ: Національний інститут стратегічних досліджень, 2009. (Between Central Europe and the “Russian World”: The Present Ukraine in International Debates).
  • Упражнения с историей по-украински. Москва: ОГИ, Мемориал, 2010. (Ukrainian exercises with history).
  • Історії істориків. Обличчя й образи української історіографії ХХ століття. Київ, Критика, 2011. (Stories of Historians. Faces and Images of Ukrainian Historiography in the 20th Century).
  • Історії для домашнього вжитку. Есеї про польсько-російсько-український трикутних пам'яті. Київ, Критика, 2013. (Stories for household use. Essays on the Polish-Russian-Ukrainian memory triangle).

Essays

  • Саветызація гістарычнай навукі ў Украіне і Беларусі (некаторыя канцєптуальныя меркарычнай мерка, іртана), in: 2000.
  • Textbooks in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine: the Presence of the Past and New Roads to the Future, in: Rekishigaku kenkyu (Tokyo), 6/815 (2006) 34–40.
  • Население западных окраин Российской империи в польских мемуарах первой трети XIX века, 60, in: 2006 Славенивед67
  • Концепції геноциду та етнічних чисток: західні наукові дискусії та місце в них украсце в них, in.
  • Plurality of Memory - Monuments and the Politics of History in Ukraine, in: Eastern Europe 58.6 (2008) 197-210.
  • “Western Categories” in the Ukrainian Post-Soviet Historiography - Language Changes in the 'Age of Translations', in: Jerzy Kłoczowski, Hubert Łaszkiewicz (Eds.), East-Central Europe in European History. Themes and Debates. Lublin: Institute of Eastern and Central Europe, 2009, 435–458.
  • Historical Legacies and Politics of History in Ukraine. Introductory Remarks, in: Heinrich Best, Agnieszka Wenninger (Eds.), Landmark 1989. Central and Eastern European Societies Twenty Years After the System Change. Berlin: Lit, 2010, 54–59.
  • (together with Tetiana Portnova) The price of victory. The war and the competition of veterans in Ukraine, in: Eastern Europe 60.5 (2010) 27–41.
  • Post-Soviet Ukraine Dealing with its Controversial Past, in: Journal of Modern European History 8.2 (2010) 152–155.
  • Post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus Dealing with “The Great Patriotic War”, in: Nicolas Hayoz, Leszek Jesień, Daniela Koleva (ed.), 20 Years after the Collapse of Communism. Expectations, achievements and disillusions of 1989. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011, 369–381.
  • The “Great Patriotic War” in the remembrance cultures of Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. An attempt at a comparison, in: Stefan Troebst and Johanna Wolf (eds.), Remembering the Second World War. Monuments and museums in Central and Eastern Europe. Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2011, 227-241.
  • Two Historians in One Lviv, in: New Eastern Europe 1.1 (2011) 147-151.
  • The Ukrainian Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Historiography: Some Observations, in: Andreas Kappeler (Ed.), The Ukraine. Processes of nation building. Cologne - Weimar - Vienna, Böhlau Verlag, 2011, 29–36.
  • Studying Memory in the Polish-Russian-Ukrainian Triangle. Some Observations, in: East European Memory Studies, No. 8, December 2011, 10-12.
  • Terra hostica: la Russe dans les manuels scolaires d`histoire ukrainiens, in: Anatoli. De l'Adriatique à la Caspienne territoires, politique, societés (Dossier Représentations du monde dans l`espace postsoviétique) 3.2 (2012) 39–62.
  • Истории для домашнего употребления, in: Ab Imperio 13, 3 (2012) 309-338.
  • (together with Tetiana Portnova) The “Jewish Capital of Ukraine”. Memory and the present in Dnipropetrovs`k, in: Osteuropa 62,10 (2012) 25–40.
  • (together with Vladimir Maslijchuk) Советизация исторической науки по-украински, in: Неприкосновенный запас 15, 3/83 (2012) 245–276.
  • Identify “Our People”. The 'Ukrainian Territories', 1772–1831, in: by Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg, Andreas Gestrich , Helga Schnabel-Schüle (eds.), The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania. Inclusion and exclusion mechanisms - tradition formation - levels of comparison. Osnabrück, Fiber, 2013, 201–243.
  • Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Ukraine (1991–2010), in: Uilleam Blacker, Alexandr Etkind, Julie Fedor (eds.) Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe. New York, Palgrave Macmillian, 2013, 233-254.
  • The Ukrainian post-Soviet historiography in an international and national context: Commentary on the contribution by Irina Savel'eva, in: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe 61 (2013) 379-385.
  • The origin of the Rus in Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet historiography. Variations of Panslavism using the example of the theories of Volodymyr Parchomenko, in: Agnieszka Gąsior, Lars Karl, Stefan Troebst (eds.), Post-Panslavismus. Slavicity, Slavic Idea and Antislavism in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2014, 306-332.
  • War and peace. The “Euro Revolution” in Ukraine, in: Eastern Europe, 64.1 (2014) 7-24.
  • (in cooperation with Tetiana Portnova) Столица застоя? Брежневский миф Днепропетровска, in: Неприкосновенный запас, 17.5 (2014) 71-87.
  • Post-Soviet hybridity and 'Eurorevolution', in: From Politics and Contemporary History 64, 47-48 (November 17, 2014) 3-8.
  • EuroMaidan: Context and Meaning, in: Euxeinos 13 (2014) 9-14.
  • The Ukrainian 'Eurorevolution'. Dynamics and Meaning, in: Viktor Stepanenko, Yaroslav Bylynskyi (Ed.), Ukraine after Euromaidan: Challenges and Hopes. Bern, Peter Lang, 2014, 59-72.
  • Soviétisation et désovietiésation de l'histoire en Ukraine. Aspects institutionnels et méthodologiques, in: Revue d`etudes comparatives Est-Ouest (RECEO) 45, 2 (2014) 95-127.
  • Post-Maidan Europe and the New Ukrainian Studies, in: Slavic Review 74 (2015) 723-731.
  • The new heart of Ukraine? Dnipropetrovs'k after the Europmaidan, in: Eastern Europe 65.4 (2015) 173-185.
  • “The Heart of Ukraine?” Dnipropetrovsk and the Ukrainian Revolution, in: Andrew Wilson (ed.), What Does Ukraine Think? London, European Council of Foreign Relations, 2015, 62-70.
  • (together with Tetiana Portnova), The “Imperial” and the “Cossack” in the Semiotics of Ekaterinoslav-Dnipropetrovsk: The Controversies of the Foundation Myth, in Urban Semiotics, in: Igor Pilshchikov (ed.), The City as a Cultural- Historical phenomenon. Tallinn: TLU Press, 2015 (Acta Universitatis Tallinnensis. Humaniora), 223-250.
  • Ukraine without Donbass? Galician reductionism and its roots, in: Katharina Raabe (Ed.), Endangered Neighborhoods - Ukraine, Russia, European Union. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015 (Valerio; 17), 68-79.
  • “Decommunization”: The new historical laws of Ukraine, in: Religion and Society in East and West 43, 8 (2015) 17-19.
  • Exclusion from your own country. The “Donbass” in the eyes of Ukrainian intellectuals, in: Osteuropa 66, 6-7 (2016) 171-184.
  • The Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1919 and the memory of it, in: Religion and Society in East and West 4-5 / 2017, 13-15.

Editorial activity

  • Ukraina Moderna, 2006-2010 (magazine)
  • historians.in.ua, from 2012 (Internet network)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrij Portnow should not be confused with the politician of the same name, born in 1973 and former employee of Viktor Yanukovych from the presidential administration, who fled Ukraine in 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Portnow, Andrij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Portnow, Andrij Volodymyrowytsch (full name); Portnov, Andrij (spelling in his publications in Germany); Портнов Андрій Володимирович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR