This coming August 7th, Serhii Plokhii, Professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, will hold a lecture from Cambridge MA, with the title “The Shadow of the Empire: The Russian-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of a Historian”. Those interested will be able to participate in person or on-line.
The event will be moderated by Serhii Bilenkyi, researcher at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, editor-in-chief of the magazine “East-West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies” and director of the Ukrainian Summer School at Harvard University (HUSI).
Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. His interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine.
The lecture is organized by the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University (HURI) as part of the HUSI public lecture series.
About:
Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. His recent books include The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History (W.W. Norton, 2023); Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (W.W. Norton, 2022); The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present (HURI, 2021); Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (W. W. Norton, 2021); Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (Oxford University Press, 2019); Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Basic Books, 2018); The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2015).
Serhii Plokhii’s books have won numerous awards, including the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Shevchenko National Prize (2018).
