Annual Conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission to be held in Warsaw ( 10.09.2023)

Early Modern Statehood and Society in the Ukrainian Lands: Forms and Concepts

The annual conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission is organized in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Warsaw.

The organizational committee of the conference includes Prof. Dr. Miloš Řezník (German Historical Institute Warsaw), Prof. Dr. Yvonne Kleinmann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), and Dr.Volodymyr Sklokin (Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv).

Conference venue: Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau, Pałac Karnickich, Aleje Ujazdowskie 39, PL-00-540 Warszawa 

Format: hybrid (online and offline participation possible)

Languages: English and Ukrainian

The German-Ukrainian Historical Commission is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany. 

For organizational questions please contact:

duhk@lrz.uni-muenchen.de  / +49 89 2180-3056 

A German-Israeli Historians' Commission examines attack during 1972 Olympics in Munich"

(09/05/2022) At the memorial ceremony in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, for the victims of the Munich Olympics massacre, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser spoke of deep wounds and agonising questions. "It’s shameful that it took so long before there was any understanding or reappraisal of the events, transparency about them, or acceptance of responsibility for them," Minister Faeser said to the victims’ families, who had travelled to Munich for the 50th anniversary of the attack.

The Federal Government supports the victims’ families, who continue to this day to suffer as a result of what happened. "Finally, the events are being thoroughly examined by a German-Israeli commission of historians. This lays the foundation for a new and vital culture of remembrance," Faeser said. "It is true not only for this attack, but also for others, that we must treat people whose lives have been dramatically altered by attacks with greater empathy and support."

Read more here

2021 Annual Meeting of the German-Russian Historians Commission took place online

 For further information as well as video recordings, see here

German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission (DUHK) issues Statement

In reaction to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's withdrawing its symbolic patronage from the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission, the DUHK has issued a statement of position in German and English, which you'll find on its webpage http://www.duhk.org/erklaerung. A Ukrainian version will follow shortly.

On September 24, DUHK organized a webinar under the title "Was Holodomor a Genocide?" featuring Andrea Graziosi (Rome), Liudmyla Hrynevych (Kyiv), Georgiy Kasianov (Kyiv) and Daria Mattingly (Cambridge).

The Fifth Annual Conference of the German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission

The Fifth Annual Conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission on "Memories of the Second World War in Germany and Ukraine since 1945" was held in Dnipro, in cooperation with "Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies. Check out the program!

22nd annual conference of Russian-German Historians' Commission meets in Voronezh, Russia

The theme of this year's conference is economic relations between Germany and Soviet Union, 1917-1991. Over a day and a half, fourteen presentations are made by Commission members as well as by those who answered a Call-for-Papers. One session is devoted to "Nazi's Forced Labor and Germany's Historical Responsibility." For detailed program, see here.

Before the Voronezh meeting, an event for the release of the last of the three-volume joint history book was held at the reception house of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 9th. Russian President V. Putin and German Chancellor Merkel sent messages of congratulations respectively.

Fourth Annual German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission meeting held in Munich

Between October 22-24, the fourth annual conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission (DUHK) met to discuss various aspects of occupation policies in Ukraine during the Second World War.  For more information, click the link here.

21st Annual Meeting of German-Russian Historians' Commission

Together with the annual meeting, a number of public events were held in Munich, July 4-5, 2018. They include a panel discussion on the 1918 Revolution in Moscow, Berlin, and Munich, a day-long symposium at the Institute for Contemporary History and the launch of Volume One of a joint history book of German-Russian relations at the Tolstoi Library.

Workshop for Young Historians from Ukraine and Germany

Organized by German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission, the workshop is devoted to "Global and transnational perspectives on Ukrainian history from early modern times to present." It takes place from July 1-5 at the Mykola Gogol State University in the central Ukrainian city of Nizhyn.
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German-Russian Historians' Commission to Hold 21st Annual Meeting on July 5, 2018

The German-Russian Historians' Commission will hold its annual plenary session in Munich. There will be a colloquium, a panel discussion, as well as a book presentation of the latest volume of a joint schoolbook. For details, check the Commission's website under Useful Links

Major Study of Historians' Commissions published

The first major study of historians' commissions in Europe--both internal and international commissions--has been published by the German publisher DE GRUYTER OLDENBOURG. Entitled Historikerkommissionen und historische Konfliktbewältigung [Historical Commissions and Managing Conflict Over History] it is by Christoph Cornelißen and Paolo Pezzino. Click here for the Table of Contents and Introduction.

(Thanks go to Prof. Harrison for the alert)

German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission Held 3rd Annual Conference

The annual conference of the German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission took place on 29 and 30 September in Kyiv, in cooperation with the Institute of History of Ukraine, the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

The conference dealt with the topic "Rethinking the Revolution 1917: War, Revolution and Statehood in Ukraine." Unlike in the old Soviet narrative of the "Great Socialist October Revolution," the Conference was concerned with the theme of the national movement of the Ukrainian people and the struggle for the founding of the state. The speakers focused their presentations on various topics that integrated the national and social factors of the revolutionary year, and also linked various local and regional revolutionary stories in the former Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires.

The conference program (in Ukrainian and English) can be found here. 

German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission held workshop in Odessa, October 2016

From October 27 to 31, 2016, in Odessa, the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission, in cooperation with the National I.I. Mečnykov-University of Odesa organized a junior workshop for graduate students and advanced students. The choice of the theme was based on the great political significance of contrasting memories of the time of the Second World War for the conflicts of the past years and the current political processes in the Ukraine. The aim of the workshop was to examine the role and changes of memory, while at the same time opening up comparative perspectives with Germany. Last but not least, the town of Odessa has provided interesting insights into these questions. For a summary of the workshop (in German), click here

German-Ukrainian Joint Historians' Commission Met

On January 15, 2016 Ukrainian Catholic University hosted the session of German-Ukrainian Commission of Historians. During the session historians discussed the work plan of the Commission for the period 2016 - 2018, defined the main directions of its activities including its main vector of assisting young researchers of History of Ukrainian-German relations and Holocaust. Historians negotiated regarding the organization of annual summer school, which will take place in Germany and Ukraine alternatively. They also discussed the possibility of exchanging students and young scholars between universities and scholarly institutions of the two countries. For further information, read here.