Historian Liliya Berezhnaya to present her research in Ukraine on bulwark myths
Research on bulwark myths in Eastern Europe conducted by the historian Liliya Berezhnaya from the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” is attracting interest in Ukraine. The “Religious Information Service of Ukraine” (RISU) has announced that she will be presenting her work in a webinar at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv as part of the “Kiev Christianity” programme. Berezhnaya will present the anthology that she has edited with Heidi Hein-Kircher for Berghahn Books in New York, Oxford, Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism. She will also speak on “The Holy Assumption Pochayiv Lavra as an Orthodox Bulwark” from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. The book was written as part of the Cluster project B 2-4 “The Ukrainian Bulwark – Fortifications of Europe and antemurale christianitatis. Nationalization of a Myth” in cooperation with the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association (Marburg). (exc/vvm)