Olga Gontarska
Date and institution of PhD awarded:
March 25, 2021, IH PAS
Specialisation:
Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries (with a particular focus on Ukraine and Latvia) – cultural history, identity, culture of remembrance and memory politics, history of social upheavals
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Academic interns:
- Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (October 2016, August–September 2027, November 2018)
Chapters in books:
- [with Veronika Pehe] “Films without a viewer: Ukrainian filmmakers and memory of the neoliberal turn in the post-Soviet space”, in: Remembering the Neoliberal Turn. Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989, eds. Veronika Pehe, Joanna Wawrzyniak, pp. 247–263.
Articles in journals:
- “Challenges of archiving contemporary Ukrainian cultural heritage (film production as a case study)”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies. Special Issue (Independence. Archive. Prognosis. Ukraine in 1991–2021 and Beyond), vol. 14, no. 4 (2022), pp. 4–13.
- “Between the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War: the image of the war in Ukrainian feature films after 1991”, Institute of National Remembrance Review, 3 (2021-2022), pp. 273–285, DOI: 10.48261/INRR210309
- “Between the Politics of History and Practice: Ukrainian Struggles with the Past. The Example of the Permanent Exhibition of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War”, Institute of National Remembrance Review, 1 (2019), pp. 265–281, DOI: 10.48261/INRR190108
- “Searching for inclusive history: Crimean Tatars in Ukrainian films”, Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, vol. 53 Special issue (2018), pp. 199–215, DOI 10.12775/SDR.2018.3.08
Reviews:
- “Sander Brouwer (ed.), Contested Interpretations of the Past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Film: Screen as Battlefield. Leiden/Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2016”, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, t. 4, no. 2 (2018), pp. 153–156.
- “Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives. Ed. by Magorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak, Berghahn Books, 2015″, Ukraina Moderna, 23 (2016), pp. 306–313.
