Partner Universities

Activities & News

In this section we share all information about our ongoing activities and news about the project:

  • team teaching
  • guest lectures
  • conference participation
  • conference talks & roundtables
  • project meetings
  • workshops
  • ...

Past Events

Überraschend Ukrainisch: Gerechtigkeit hat viele Gesichter

Together with FrauenGenderBibliothek Saar, Forum Geschlechterforschung and UkraineFreundeSaar e.V. we will hold an open dialogue on Tag der Offenen Gesellschaft on June 17, 2023 at 15:30 p.m. CET.

The motto of this year's Tag der offenen Gesellschaft is 'fairness' and and we invite you to take part in an afternoon of open conversation with Ukrainian women now living in Saarbrücken. Accompanied by Ukrainian snacks we will discuss how women transform challenges into opportunities, with German-Ukrainian relations at the center of attention. Our Ukrainian guests will bring a unique and precious perspective on everyday topics and we hope for a lively exchange.

Please register via e-mail at info@frauengenderbibliothek-saar.de

 

Ukraine Fulbright Lectures

The NamLitCult department and UniGr Border Studies are happy to participate in the „Ukraine Fulbright Lectures“ in May/Junemit
All lectures will take place via zoom, for more info contact amerikanistik@mx.uni-saarland.de

Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 4 pm
Isis Luxenburger: „The Representation of Borders in Industrial Films on the Saarland’s Heavy Industry (1931-2019)“

Tuesday, 23 May 2023 1 pm
Dr. Tobias Schank: „Bordertexuring the German-Polish borderlands“

Friday, 26 May 2023 4 pm
Bärbel Schlimbach: „From Frontier to Border Studies: Changing Approaches to Borders in the American West“

Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 4 pm
Eva Nossem: „Of Languages and Borders: Staking Out the Field of Border Linguistics”

Monday, 5 June 2023, 4 pm
Prof. Dr. Astrid M. Fellner: „What is border writing?“

Movie Screening "Mr. Jones"

Together with Kino achteinhalb we are again happy to show a Ukrainian movie!

Friday, April 28 at 7 pm

Es gibt Gerüchte über eine Hungersnot in den 1930er-Jahren in Moskau, wohin der britische Journalist kommt. Gareth Jones hat schon Hitler interviewt, diesmal geht es um Stalin. Zum Interview wird es nie kommen, aber Jones‘ Kollegen in der sowjetischen Hauptstadt machen Andeutungen. Angeblich tobt in der Ukraine eine gigantische Hungersnot, während das Getreide aus dieser Kornkammer der UdSSR nach Moskau geschickt wird. 
Agnieszka Holland erzählt vom Holodomor, das ukrainische Wort für »Tötung durch Hunger«, dem in den Jahren 1932/33 in der Ukraine bis zu 14 Millionen Menschen zum Opfer fielen. Ein Menschheitsverbrechen, immer noch heftig umstritten in der ukrainischen und russischen Geschichtsschreibung. 
(deutschlandfunkkultur.de).

Buy tickets here

"Stop Zemlia" and "Das Hamlet Syndrom" Movie Screening

As part of our ongoing "Filmland Ukraine" cooperation with Kino achteinhalb we will be showing the ukrainian movies "Stop Zemlia" and "Das Hamlet Syndrom":

Stop Zemlia:

Monday, February 27, 7pm with an introduction by Dr. Alina Mozolevska, Petro-Mohyla-Schwarzmeer-Universität, Mykoljiw

Tuesday, February 28, 8pm

Wednesday, March 1, 8pm

Tickets are 4€ and you can get them in advance here

Das Hamlet Syndrom:

Thursday, March 23, 7pm including a discussion with director Elwira Niewiera

Friday, March 24, 7 pm

Saturday, March 25, 7 pm

More info here

Filmland Ukraine

Kino achteinhalb is continuing their screening of Ukrainian movies! All movies start at 8pm and are shown in their original version with german subtitles.

Monday, 30 January: "Nichts über uns: Queere Ukrainische Kurzfilme", free entry with an introduction by Dr. Olga Plakhotnik, Greifswald University.

Monday, 27 February, Tuesday, 29 February and Wednesday, 1 March: Stop-Zemlia

(D)on Quixote and the US-Mexican borderlands: A tertulia with Octavio Solis and Prof. Oleksandr Pronkevych

Online Lecture: (Re)Building the Bridges: Education and Job Market in Ukraine

On November 25, 9:00 pm CET, Kateryna Haidarzhyi will give an online lecture about the peculiarities of the educational system and the job market in Ukraine, as well as taboos and pitfalls in Ukrainian-German communication.

"Der Vortrag versucht, eine möglichst umfassende Einführung in die Besonderheiten der Lebens- und Arbeitsverhältnisse in der Ukraine zu geben. Wie ist das ukrainische Bildungssystem aufgebaut? Wie sieht der Arbeitsmarkt in der Ukraine aus? Welche interkulturellen Stolpersteine sind zu erwarten? Gibt es Tabuthemen für die Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine? Welche kulturellen Besonderheiten und welche Erwartungen bestehen? Wissenswerte Hintergrundinformationen und eine kulturelle Akzentuierung erscheinen sinnvoll für die Netzwerkpartner, die mit Geflüchteten im sozialpädagogischen und akademischen Kontext arbeiten."

 

Borders in Crisis: Screening of Ukrainian Films and Documentaries

Coming soon we have a series of four Ukrainian films and documentaries screening at Kino 8 1/2 in Saarbrücken! All screenings begin at 7 p.m.

Friday, November 4: Earth by Alexander Dovzhenko, a 1930s silent film.

Friday, November 18: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Sergei Parajanov, a 1965 film of Ukrainian magical realist cinema.

Friday, December 2: The Guide by Oles Sanin, a drama about an American boy and a Ukrainian blind bard.

Friday, December 12: The Earth is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsylik, a documentary about living in the front-line war zone.

New Project: Global Classroom Ukraine-Saarland

funded by the U.S. Embassy

We've received a grant for a new project!

The teaching project "Global Classroom Ukraine-Saarland," funded by the U. S. Embassy and organized in cooperation with the German American Institute DAI Saarland, will start in the fall of 2022.

More news coming soon!

Oleksandr Pronkevych's War Diary (Spanish)

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Prof. Dr. Oleksandr Pronkevych, the dean of the faculty of philology at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolayiv, Ukraine and the head of our project on the Mykolayiv side, has published daily entries in his war diary in the Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia.

Click here to access and read his diary (in Spanish).


War in Ukraine

War in Ukraine

We are appalled by the events in Ukraine and we are following the news in disbelief and shock. Our hearts are with our colleagues, students, and friends in Ukraine.

A warm welcome to all our Ukrainian friends, colleagues, and students who are currently at Saarland University and at our partner universities in the Greater Region. Saarland University | NamLitCult will make sure you not only find shelter but also a welcoming home. We are very honored to have you here with us!

STOP THE WAR *** STAND WITH UKRAINE *** STAND WITH MYKOLAYIV