Scientific Round Table “Eastern Ukraine: the Old/New Multi-Frontier of Europe?”

On 26 December 2025, the Marin Drinov Centre for Bulgaristics and Balkan Studies of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University held a scientific round table titled “Eastern Ukraine: the Old/New Multi-Frontier of Europe?”.

The event took place within the framework of the project “East Ukrainian Centre for European Studies” (EAUCES – ERASMUS-JMO-2024-COE 101176972).

The round table brought together researchers representing Karazin University, the V. H. Korolenko Kharkiv State Scientific Library, and the Local History Museum of the city of Horishni Plavni.

Topics discussed during the event included:

• “Parallels and Perpendiculars between the Military Frontier and Sloboda Ukraine”;

• “Bulgaria in the Assessments of the Kharkiv Press during the Bosnian Crisis of 1908–1909”;

• “The Phenomenon of Heorhii Demidov’s Work: the Kharkiv Context and a Humanistic Revision of the GUTAB Literature Canon”;

• “Political Myth as the Language of Revanchism: Narratives about ‘NATO’s Non-Expansion to the East’ and ‘We Can Do It Again’ in Russian Political Rhetoric”;

• “‘To Help or to Ignore’: Building Political Consensus on Assistance to Ukraine in the United Kingdom after 2022”;

• “Museum Tools in Shaping the Memory of the Russian–Ukrainian War”.

You can watch the video recording of the event via the links (Part 1, Part 2).