Curriculum Vitae Oleksii Rudenko
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Curriculum Vitae Oleksii Rudenko Doctoral student, Department of History, Central European University (Vienna) Email: [email protected] https://ceu.academia.edu/OleksiiRudenko Education 09.2020 – ongoing Doctoral student in Comparative History, Department of History, Central European University (Vienna, Austria) Dissertation: ‘The Classical Tradition and Shaping Myths of Origins in Early Modern East-Central Europe’ Supervisors: Prof. Matthias Riedl (leading supervisor), Prof. Jan Hennings (co-supervisor) 09.2018 – 09.2020 International Master (with distinction) in Central & East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom; Master (with distinction) in European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland; MA in Social Sciences (Central and Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies), Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. Thesis: ‘The Classical Reception, Royal Image and Strengthening the King’s Power in Early Modern Poland (1520-1572)’ Supervisors: Prof. Jakub Niedźwiedź (Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Dr. Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (University of Glasgow). 09.2017 – 03.2018 Erasmus+ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Faculty of Philosophy, School of History and Archaeology 2014 – 2018 Bachelor with honours in History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Faculty of History, Department of Ancient and Medieval History BA thesis: ‘Illegal Political Practices in the Late Roman Republic’ Supervisor: Prof. Viktor Stavnyuk Research interests Propaganda in ancient, medieval and early modern world; classical reception and the classical tradition; cultural and intellectual history of late medieval and early modern East-Central Europe; the Jagiellonian dynasty and their royal image, especially of Sigismund II Augustus; Renaissance ethnogenetic myth-creation; early modern cartography. Publications The myth, the text, the map: imaginary homeland and its geographic markers in early modern Poland and Lithuania, MEMSA Durham University 2021 Journal, 2021 (under peer-review). Sigismund II Augustus: Portrait against the Background of the Era. To the 500th Anniversary of the Last Jagiellon’s Birth (in Ukrainian), Ucrainica Mediaevalia, 3, 2021 (under peer-review). The Classical Images in Dissemination of the Royal Imagery in Early Modern Poland, Epoch, 1, September 2020, https://www.epoch-magazine.com/rudenkopolishimagery. The Making of a Soviet Hero: the Case of Spartacus, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 47 (3), 2020, pp. 333-356, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763324-20201365. Creating the image of the King: the early modern woodcut of Sigismund Augustus from ‘Confessio Fidei’ by Stanislaus Hosius, Text and Image: Essential Problems in Art History, 1(9), 2020, pp. 54-68, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2519-4801.2020.1.04. Religious ritualism as a factor of political struggle in the Late Roman Republic (the 60s–50s years of I century BC) (in Ukrainian), Hileya, 4(131), 2018, pp. 121-123. The Methods of Political Struggle in the Late Republic Period: on the Matherials of Dio Cassius (in Ukrainian), Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, 4(135), 2017, pp. 55-58. Reformation in the public memory of Germany / Die Reformation in der öffentlichen Errinerung (in Ukrainian and German), Tandem-Buch, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv & Europaeum, Ost-West-Zentrum, University of Regensburg, 2017, pp. 68-75. Conferences, workshops, summer schools Jan.-Feb. 2021 CEU Summer University School, Bridging ICTs and the Environment – Mapping the World with QGIS Jan. 2021 Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), paper ‘Early Modern Ruthenian Self-Identification: Myths of Origins and Securing the Place on the Maps of Europe’ Sept. 2020 First Ukrainian Studies on Antiquity, Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, paper ‘Latitinas as an element of the classical reception in early modern Central-Eastern Europe’ July 2020 14th Annual Medieval and Early Modern Student Association Conference ‘Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries’, Durham University, paper ‘Between the Romans and the Sarmatians: Central- Eastern European late medieval and early modern search for imaginary homelands’ July 2020 Sixth Annual Conference, Late Antique & Medieval Postgraduate Society, University of Edinburgh, paper ‘Geography and genealogy: Sarmatia and Central-Eastern Europe in the late medieval and early modern cartography’ January 2020 Third International Conference on Byzantine and Medieval Studies, Nicosia Municipal Multicultural Centre, paper ‘Reception of ‘Classical’ Mediterranean Region in Jagiellonian Tapestries in Late Medieval and Early Modern Age’ June 2019 Workshop ‘Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Political Present in East-Central Europe’, University College, The Castle, Durham University, paper ‘Reinventing the Heroes in Soviet Union: Case of Spartacus’ May 2019 Sixth International Graduate Conference ‘Cultural Entanglement, Transfer And Contention In Mediterranean Communities From Antiquity To The Present’, Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, paper ‘Thessaloniki, Cultural Heritage and Narratives: Juxtaposing Greeks, Romans, Slavs, Byzantines and Turks’ May 2019 4th ARDIT International Congress ‘Building Identities in the Middle Ages: new approaches to cultural transmission and material exchanges’, University of Barcelona, paper ‘Fights for Identity: Myths of Origins among Central-Eastern European Nations in Late Middle Ages’ May 2019 International conference ‘Ver Kyiviens’, Societies of Medieval and Early Modern Times and their Civilisation Heritage’, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, paper ‘The classical reception and the King’s power during the last Jagiellonians’ April 2019 Borderlines XXIII, Postgraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Sound and Silence in the Funeral Ceremonies of Polish Kings’ March 2019 Conference ‘Laughter, Holiday and Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Department of Art History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, paper ‘Classical Reception and the Jagiellonian Dynasty’ March 2019 Late Ancient, Medieval Postgraduate Society (LAMPS) Seminar, University of Edinburgh, paper ‘Imaginary Homeland: Myths of Origins in Central-Eastern European Nations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Age’ May 2018 First Summer School in Latin & Cyrillic Paleography and Early Printed Books, Department of Ancient and Medieval History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 2016-2018 International scientific conferences for students and young researchers, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (2016 and 2018 with distinctions for the best paper) Research projects Summer 2017 Tandem Research Project at the University of Regensburg on the study of the Reformation and the public memory in Germany during the 500th anniversary of the Reformation (EVZ Foundation support) Experience as a double-blind peer-reviewer The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (2021), Text and Image: Essential Problems in Art History (2020) Professional experience 09.2016 – ongoing NGO ‘Art Community Head of NGO, organizing free night theatrical historical ‘Night at the University’ guided-tours in historical buildings of Kyiv 01.2020 – 01.2021 Project Żolkiewski.com Translating historical board game (Polish to Ukrainian) 10.2019 – 12.2019 National Museum in Intern, Department of Education Kraków 10.2016 – 10.2020 UTERIA Historical consultant and editor of the historical maps 03.2016 – 12.2016 Kyiv History Museum Consultant, Department of Marketing, Exhibitions and Events 06.2015 – 07.2015 Ukrainian Institute of the Volunteer, decommunizaton of Mykolaiv region National Memory Language competencies Native: Ukrainian, Russian Foreign: English (C1), Polish (B2), German (A2/B1), Greek (A2), Belarusian (reading), Latin (reading), Old Ruthenian (reading), Italian (A1) Scholarships and Awards Full doctoral fellowship, Central European University, Vienna (2020-2023) Tuition fee cover for CEU Summer University School, Bridging ICTs and the Environment – Mapping the World with QGIS (January-February 2021) Special Award by the Foundation for the Promotion of Culture IRSA in the Marian Sokołowski Award for the best MA thesis in Art History, defended at the Kraków Universities in 2019/2020 Erasmus Mundus EACEA Scholarship for International Masters CEERES Programme (2018-2020) Erasmus+ Scholarship (September 2017 – March 2018) Euro-Asian Accrediting Commission Grant for the scientific trip across the places of Reformation (2017) EVZ Foundation support for the Tandem Project research (June-August 2017) ‘Zavtra. UA’ Program’s Scholarship for academic achievements and civil activity (2017, 2018) 1st place at the National Student Competition in History (Kyiv, 2016) Hobbies Playing guitar and composing, applying for different projects and getting rejected (or not), humor and its theory, travelling, making a photo collection of the cathedrals and churches visited References (available upon request) Dr. hab, Prof. UJ. Jakub Niedźwiedź, Head of the Department of History of the Old Polish Literature, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Address: Gołębia 16, r. 54, Kraków, Poland, 30-001. Email: [email protected] Dr. Elwira Grossman, Stepek Lecturer in Polish and Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Programme Director, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow. Address: Hetherington Building, Room 321A, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G12 8RS. Telephone: 0044-(0)141- 330-5335, email: [email protected] .