Kyiv, 10 Dobrovolchykh Batalyoniv St.
OFFLINE
Historical course with Oleksandr Zinchenko
Tsunami of history. Ukrainian context
How does a person who is swept away by a tsunami feel when historical events shift and move like a giant avalanche?
When does a major historical shift begin? What happens when the history accelerates to such a speed that the people involved will not be able to get off? How can we learn to understand what events will have tragic consequences in the future?
How to analyze global processes? How can we learn to distinguish the storylines of individual historical processes and understand their impact on each other? What resources do big changes require?
The answers to these questions are in a compact course on key events in Ukraine’s recent history.
At least twice in the past 33 years, Ukrainians have changed the course of world history and… did not notice it.
The course provides instruments that allow us to reflect deeply on the global changes that the national movement of Ukrainians has brought about. We will try to understand how knowledge, values, institution building, leadership and justice issues changed Ukrainians, Ukraine and the world.
The course covers the pivotal events that laid the foundation for the development of the modern Ukrainian nation and its statehood.
This course provides not only knowledge about the past, but also tools for analyzing the current challenges facing Ukraine.
Three revolutions – 1990-1991, 2004, 2013-14 – changed economic processes, the system of values, and culture, and led Ukrainian society from atomization through polarization and political turbulence to complex consolidation and national unity. It is time to rethink the tectonic changes we have witnessed over the past three decades.
The course will make participants rethink everything that has happened since our independence.
THE TRAINING PROGRAM INCLUDES
Lecture 1: Who destroyed the Evil Empire? How to analyze global processes if you are in the middle of this process? How to learn to see what the majority does not see? What are the limitations of analyzing global historical processes?
Lecture 2: Zero Hour. The case of August 24, 1991. How was a potential civil conflict transformed into a win-win situation for Ukrainians?
Lecture 3: If only Chornovil… A workshop on history modeling. Applied “what if studies”. What trajectory would Ukraine have followed if Viacheslav Chornovil had been elected President of Ukraine on December 1, 1991, instead of Leonid Kravchuk?
Lecture 4. The revolution that changed the world. Economy, complex consolidation of society, institutions, geopolitics after the Orange Revolution. A look 20 years after the event.
Mentor
Oleksandr Zinchenko
Oleksandr Zinchenko
historian, publicist, journalist, author of Public Broadcasting projects, co-founder of the most popular website about the Ukrainian past, Historical Truth, deputy director of the Institute of National Memory of Ukraine (2014-2015).
THIS COURSE IS FOR
- Civil society activists and opinion leaders who seek a deeper understanding of historical processes and their impact on modern society.
- Historians, researchers and teachers who are interested in actualizing historical events through the prism of modern challenges.
- Political scientists and sociologists who study collective memory, national identity, and social change.
- Journalists and media professionals who cover socio-political processes and work with issues of history and its interpretation.
- Statesmen and politicians dealing with issues of national policy, historical memory, and social crisis management.
- Psychologists and social workers working with collective trauma and identity issues.
- Cultural managers and employees of institutions dealing with the preservation of historical memory.
- Anyone who is interested in deep socio-historical processes and wants to understand the mechanisms of influence of the past on the present.
WE RECOMMEND THIS COURSE to those who want to
- Deepen your understanding of global processes.
- Rethink key historical events.
- Analyze alternative scenarios for the development of large processes.
- Reassess externally imposed clichés and stereotypes.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
- To strengthen the skills of analyzing global historical changes. Learn to feel the “wind of history” using the “scenario approach”.
- To analyze the turning points of history, scenario branches. Understand how at such moments the community is able to transform a potential conflict into a common good. Learn to determine the limits of possible compromise.
- To acquire tools and skills for modeling development scenarios based on available resources and opportunities.
- To comprehend the full implications of the revolutionary events for the economy, state institutions and geopolitical course of the country.
PRICE FOR thE STUDY
Kyiv, 10 Dobrovolchykh Batalyoniv St.