No Good War: Ukraine and a European Crisis of Meaning

Tarik Amar‘s lecture at the Ukrainicum will focus on the current crisis in and over Ukraine and its special capacity to bundle and bring into competition and conflict interests, strategies, expectations, hopes, and fears from far beyond Ukraine, especially regarding the meaning and future of Europe.
Tarik Cyril Amar has degrees in History and International History from Oxford University, the London School of Economics, and Princeton University, where he obtained his PhD with a dissertation on the twentieth-century history of the city of Lviv, also known as Lwów, Lvov. This work is coming out this fall with Cornell University Press, under the title ‚The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv. A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists.‘ He has lived in Ukraine for five years, including three years when he directed the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv.
He is currently working on a political and cultural history of Cold War espionage fiction in cinema and TV in the former Soviet Union, East Germany, and Poland.
Moderation: Dr. Roman Dubasevych