The Ukraine Belarus division introduces itself
Since 2022, research and teaching in the field of Ukrainian and Belarusian studies has been intensified at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz. Since 2023, teaching has included Ukrainian lessons over four semesters up to level A2 (2 semesters at Treffpunkt Sprachen and 2 semesters at the Institute of Slavic Studies). A new feature is the opportunity to complete the "Ukraine - Language, Culture, Law" certificate in cooperation with the Center for Eastern European Law. For the first time, the winter college "Ukraine interactive" will take place in winter 2024 with an interdisciplinary program of language lessons, academic lectures, workshops and excursions.
The following people are involved in research activities as part of the Ukraine research focus
Who conducts research in Ukraine and Belarus?
Portrait of Mariya Donska
She conducts research into contemporary Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish poetry, intertextuality and praxeology. She is also actively involved in cultural and language education and works in cooperation with the Literaturhaus Graz and Kulturvermittlung Steiermark.
Selected publications:
- Donska, Mariya (2023): "Deconstructing an imperial monument: Pam''jatnyk by Jurij Andruchovyč in the context of the intertextual Exegi monumentum tradition", in: Anzeiger für Slavische Philologie L (2022), 39-74.
- Donska, Mariya (2024): "Ukrainische Lyrik nach 1991: eine Annäherung". In: Peter Deutschmann, Michael Moser; Alois Woldan (eds.): Die Ukraine - Vom Rand ins Zentrum. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 149-165.
Iryna Orlova
conducts research in the fields of translation history, foreign language didactics and migration. As a state-certified tourist guide Austria Guide, she offers expertise in the history of the city of Graz, with a special focus on the "Ukrainian traces in Graz".
Selected publications:
- Orlova, Iryna (2020):"Translational-cultural preliminary considerations on literary translation in Soviet Ukraine: the hurdles of bureaucracy".In: Pekka Kujamäki, Susanne Mandl, Michaela Wolf (eds.): Historische Translationskulturen. Forays through space and time. Tübingen. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 151-164.
- Orlova, Iryna (2024): [In preparation]: Memory and Hope: Temporalities of Displacement based on the Essays of Ukrainian Refugees".
Maria Katarzyna Prenner
conducts research on linguistic topics (including morphosyntax, verb semantics and grammaticalization processes in East and West Slavic languages) as well as at the interface between linguistics and cultural studies. For several years, she has been studying the phenomenon of biscriptality in Belarusian and its contribution to the consolidation of a written and linguistic norm on the basis of printed documents from the early 20th century.
Selected publications:
- Prenner, Maria K. (2023a): "Alphabetical pluricentricity, graphematical development and orthographical tendencies in selected Belarusian Newspapers between 1862 and 1915", in: Linguistische Beiträge zur Slavistik/ XXIX Jungslavist*innen-Treffen in Bochum 2021, 159-175.
- Prenner, Maria K. (2023b): "Białoruska łacinka w drugiej połowie w. XIX: realizacja akania i jakania w gazecie 'Mužyckaja Praŭda'". In: Kaleta, R. (ed.), Odkrywając Białoruś... 65-lecie Białorutenistyki na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Warszawa: [Uniwersytet Warszawski], 268-287.
