With the establishment of a research centre in Lviv, the Max Weber Foundation (MWS) is continuing its reorientation in Eastern Europe since the start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
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The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) is supporting the establishment of this research centre by funding the project “Rethinking Europe: Ukrainian History as Entangled History”. The project examines the transnational history of the region marked by the political borders of present-day Ukraine. The focus is on the communication processes through which the region has been intertwined with Western and Central European actors and institutions since the early modern period. In doing so, the project integrates Jewish, Crimean Tatar and other historical narratives of the region, treating them not as stories of minorities but recognising their respective historical agency and their constitutive contribution to Ukrainian history.
In doing so, the project establishes a distinct research focus on the history of interconnections within the German, Ukrainian and European academic landscape.
