This Friday, November 8 at 4:00 p.m., a conversation with invited experts will take place in the walls of NAMU on the topic of confusing paths in the search for one’s own national identity, which were followed in Ukraine more than 100 years ago.
In the 19th century, the development of Ukrainian national consciousness faced resistance, which consisted not only in direct prohibitions from the empire, but also in its cultural expansion into the Ukrainian environment. During this period, the formation of the Russian nation took place: the cosmopolitan culture of the feudal elite was replaced by the nationalism of the middle class; orientation to world classics – orientation to Great Russian traditions, planted as nationwide. Progress in the development of cities, the development of art, and education turns into the displacement of local traditions by Great Russian ones.
For Ukrainians, this trend is particularly harmful due to the vagueness of the demarcation of historical tradition, the commonality of religion, and the phenomenon of the Russian language, which is close to the book Old Ukrainian. A prominent example of the replacement of national consciousness is the figure of the prominent Kyiv artist-pedagogue Mykola Murashko, who went from a clearly expressed hostility to an inculcated Great Russian identity in the 1860s to realizing himself as a “Russian man” in the 1890s. The study of similar phenomena will allow a better understanding of the contradictions of the national self-awareness of Ukrainians, formed in opposition to the assimilation carried out by the bureaucratic machine of the empire.
Participants of the discussion:
🔹Ihor Hyrych, doctor of historical sciences, head of the sector of the Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies named after M. Hrushevsky National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
🔸Hanna Veselovska, theater expert, doctor of art history, head of the department of performative practices and stage art of the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems,
🔹Olena Mokrousova, architectural historian, monument expert, candidate of historical sciences, deputy general director for scientific work of the Kyiv Scientific and Methodological Center for the Protection, Restoration and Use of Monuments,
🔸 Oleg Yaskiv, cultural expert, film expert, director of the Sheptytsky Center of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
📌Cost: free of charge.
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❗ IMPORTANT: You can get to the museum through the service entrance located at the back of the building. To do this, you need to go around the museum to the right along Museum Lane.