Past as Prelude: Polish-Ukrainian Relations for the Twenty-First Century ! An International Conference ! 30 June - 1 July 2015 Sidney Sussex College ! Programme ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Past as Prelude: ! Polish-Ukrainian Relations for the Twenty-First Century ! 30 June - 1 July 2015 Sidney Sussex College, University of! Cambridge Organised by Cambridge Polish Studies and Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, ! initiatives of the Department of Slavonic Studies !Convenors: Stanley Bill and Rory Finnin In December 1991, Poland was the first state to recognise Ukraine’s independence. This moment represented the culmination of a consistent Polish policy toward its eastern neighbours, first developed by Jerzy Giedroyc, Juliusz Nr 61309 1973 Mieroszewski and other thinkers associated with the émigré journal Kultura. It was later adopted by influential members of the Solidarity movement who would shape Polish foreign policy after 1989. The essence of the Kultura doctrine lay in a pragmatic acceptance of the post-Yalta status quo with respect to borders; a recognition of the national subjectivity and sovereignty of Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus; a normalisation • x. Y. Z. : NOCNE RODAKOW ROZMOWY

T. NOWAKOWSKI: BUON GIORNO ROMA of relations with Russia; and a general exclusion of contentious CZ. PAUZA historical questions from political negotiations. The past could J. MIEROSZEWSKI : POLSKA «OSTPOLITI K» !not offer the key to the future, at least not in the short term. ! Yet the pragmatic burying of history was to be a provisional measure. As early as 1990, Giedroyc asserted: ‘The only road to a normalisation of relations between us is to tell each other the truth – the whole truth.’ In 1997, Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma made the first of several joint statements confronting the more contentious episodes from the long history of Polish- Ukrainian relations. They referred to the wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the anti-Ukrainian policies of the Second Polish Republic; the Volhynia massacre of Poles in 1942-43; and the forced resettlement of Ukrainians during Operation Vistula after the war. The presidents closed their remarks with the hope that Ukrainians and Poles would remember the past but think of the future. Such steps helped to engender constructive relations between Poland and Ukraine and to foster a solidarity that may stand as one of the most remarkable political and social achievements of recent European Billboard in Rava-Rus’ka, L’viv oblast, Ukraine. February history.! 2014. ‘Thank you: he who has not deserted us in our fight ! for the future is our brother.’ Source: http://tyzhden.ua/ News/101897 1 The international conference Past as Prelude: Polish-Ukrainian Relations for the Twenty-First Century seeks to understand how this delicate negotiation between past and future will develop in circumstances of increasing regional instability after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In this broad context, we propose to re-examine the Kultura doctrine as the foundation of strong Polish-Ukrainian relations in the face of the renewed threat of a Russian state that has not eschewed imperial ambitions as Giedroyc hoped it would. Is an updated version of the Kultura policy – pursued in part through the new instruments of the European Union and its Eastern Partnership – now more relevant than ever? Or is a fresh paradigm required in the aftermath of the annexation of Crimea and the failure of earlier Polish diplomatic attempts to normalise !relations with the Kremlin? ! After the successes of the Kultura era, the Polish-Ukrainian relationship has entered a period of uncertainty. Russian aggression has shown Ukrainian territorial integrity to be negotiable, while Poland’s strategic response to the crisis has been unclear and its influence within the European Union limited. By bringing together scholars and stakeholders from diverse intellectual and political spheres, we hope to cultivate an open exchange of ideas that will yield coherent new pathways for the future !development of Polish-Ukrainian relations. !

!SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Monday, 29 June 2015! Winstanley Theatre! Trinity College, Cambridge! ! Pre-Conference Film Screening! ‘Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation in Film’! ! 17:30! Three Stories of Galicia! ! 83 min. (2010); Directed by Sarah Farhat and Olha ! ! Onyshko! ! 19:00! My Friend the Enemy! ! 55 min (2014); Directed by Wanda Koscia! Followed by Q&A with Wanda Koscia !

2 !Conference Proceedings! Tuesday, 30 June 2015! William Mong Hall! !Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge! 9:00 ! Registration! ! Coffee and Refreshments! !10:00! Welcome: Stanley Bill and Rory Finnin! !10:15 !Opening Presentation: Frank Sysyn! 11:00! Panel 1: Current Crisis! ! Chair: Simon Franklin (University of Cambridge)! !Yaroslav Hrytsak!! ‘After Giedroyc… Now What?’! Bartosz Kramek!! ‘The Development of Polish-Ukrainian Relations since ! !!!!!the Beginning of Maidan’! ! Andrzej Szeptycki !! ‘Contemporary and Future Challenges for Polish-! !!!!!!Ukrainian Relations’! Karolina Wigura! ! ‘Can the Current Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Be ! Authentic If It Is Motivated by Mutual Fear of Russia?’! !13:00! Lunch! 14:00! Panel 2: Historical Perspectives! ! !Chair: Olesya Khromeychuk (University of Cambridge)! !Łukasz Adamski!! ‘The Nineteenth-Century Predecessors of Kultura’! Robert Frost! ‘Union, Disunion, and the Sharing of a Common Past: Ukraine and the Legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian ! Union’! Ola Hnatiuk!! ! ‘The Asymmetry of Ukrainian and Polish National ! !!!!!Narratives’! Serhii Plokhii ! ‘Beyond Heroes and Villains: Writing a Twenty-First ! Century History of Ukraine’! !16:00 !Coffee Break! 16:30! Roundtable 1: Understanding the Past in the Present! ! Moderated by Stanley Bill and Rory Finnin! Uilleam Blacker, Robert Frost, Paweł Kowal, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, ! Sławomir Sierakowski, Mykola Riabchuk, Frank Sysyn, Karolina Wigura! ! ! !

3 Wednesday, 1 July 2015! William Mong Hall! !Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge! 9:00 ! Registration! ! Coffee and Refreshments! !10:00! Welcome: Stanley Bill and Rory Finnin! !10:15 !Introductory Remarks: Norman Davies ! 10:30! Panel 3: Beyond the Kultura Doctrine! ! !Chair: Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)! !Paweł Kowal!!‘The Meaning of the Giedroyc Doctrine’! Igor Lyubashenko! ‘The Timeliness of the Kultura Doctrine in the Context ! of the Changing International Order’! !Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern !‘National Memory and Ethnic Minorities’! ! Mykola Riabchuk !! ‘Deriving Benefit from Asymmetrical Relations’ ! !13:00! Lunch! 14:00! Panel 4: Changing Paradigms! ! Chair: Emma Widdis (University of Cambridge)! ! Uilleam Blacker!! ‘Literature and Culture in Contemporary Ukrainian-! !!!!!!Polish Relations’! Tadeusz Iwański! ‘The Ukrainian Perception of Poland’s Policy towards Ukraine: The “Strategic Partnership” before and after ! the Euromaidan’! Sławomir Sierakowski ! ‘What Is Moral and What Is Pragmatic in the ! !!Giedroycian Paradigm of Polish-Ukrainian ! ! ! Relations?’! Ievgen Vorobiov!! ‘Opportunities and Challenges of Ukrainian-Polish! ! !!!!Relations after the Polish Presidential Election’! !16:00! Coffee Break! 16:30! Roundtable 2: Looking to the Future! ! Moderated by Stanley Bill and Rory Finnin! Łukasz Adamski, Ola Hnatiuk, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, Igor !Lyubashenko, Serhii Plokhii, Andrzej Szeptycki! ! ! ! !

4 !PARTICIPANTS Łukasz Adamski is a historian and political scientist who specialises in the history of political thought in Central and Eastern Europe and in the domestic and foreign policies of Russia and Ukraine. He is Research Projects Supervisor at the Polish-Russian Centre for Dialogue and Understanding in Warsaw. He is the author of the monograph Progressive Nationalist: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and His Views on Poland and the Poles (Nacjonalista postępowy. Mychajło !Hruszewski i jego poglądy na Polskę i Polaków; Warsaw 2011), among other works.! Stanley Bill is Lecturer in Polish Studies at the University of Cambridge. He works largely on twentieth-century Polish literature and culture, with particular interests in religion, secularisation theory and postcolonial interpretations of Polish cultural history. He has written on Czesław Miłosz, Bruno Schulz, postcolonial theory in the Polish context, and religious problems in the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Before coming to Cambridge, he worked at the Jagiellonian University in !Kraków.! Michał Boni is a Member of the European Parliament in the Group of the European People’s Party. He is presently a delegate to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a Vice-Chairman of the Informal Group of European Friends of Ukraine in the European Parliament. He has also served as Minister of Digitization and Administration of Poland.! Uilleam Blacker is Lecturer in the Comparative Culture of Russia and Eastern Europe at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He is currently working on a book project focusing on the dynamics of cultural memory in cities in east-central Europe that experienced large-scale population shifts and losses as a result of the Second World War. The project arose from research he carried out as part of the Memory at War research project at the !University of Cambridge between 2010 and 2013. He is co-author of Remembering Katyn (2012).! Norman Davies is Professor Emeritus at University College London and an honorary fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He has worked broadly on European history, with a particular focus on Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. His books include God’s Playground: A History of Poland (1981), Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw (2003), and Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe (2013). Professor Davies has been decorated with the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and the Order of !the White Eagle.! Rory Finnin is Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies Programme and Chair of the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES). He is University Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies. His published work focuses on literature and national identity in Ukraine and also explores nationalism theory, human rights discourse and problems of cultural memory. He is !co-author of Remembering Katyn (2012).! Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications range from the history and culture of early Rus to 20th- century Russian poetry. His books include Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950-1300 (2002), which has been translated and published in Russia. In 2008 he was awarded the !Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.! Robert Frost holds the Burnett Fletcher Chair of History at the University of Aberdeen. He was educated at St Andrews University, the Jagiellonian University, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. His main interests lie in the history of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth, particularly from c 1550 to c 1725. Frost’s first book, After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War (1993), is a study of the political impact on Poland- Lithuania of the series of wars which engulfed it after the Cossack rebellions of 1648-54. He has just published the first part of his two-volume Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania (2015).!

5 Ola Hnatiuk is Professor at the Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw. She is also visiting professor at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Her main research interests are in twentieth- century East European history and culture. Her most recent publications include Farewell to Empire (Pożegnanie z imperium, 2003; Ukrainian translation, 2005); Between Literature and Politics: Essays and Interludes (Між літератрою і політикою: Есеї та інтермедії, 2012); and !Courage and Fear (Відвага і страх / Odwaga i strach, 2015).! Yaroslav Hrytsak is Professor of Modern History at the Ukrainian Catholic University in L’viv, Ukraine. He is the author of numerous publications on the modern history of Eastern Europe and has won several awards, including the Anton Gindely Preis für Kultur und Geschichte Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropas (Austria, 2010), the Polish Orders “Pro Publico Bono” (2010) and “Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Zasługi RP” (2013), and an Award for Intellectual Courage by the independent Ukrainian journal Ї (2010). His biography of Ivan Franko, A Prophet in His Fatherland: Ivan Franko and His Community (Kyiv, 2006; Polish translation in 2011; English translation forthcoming), was chosen as Best Book of 2007 in Ukraine; the book also won the Antonovych Prize (Ukraine, !2007) as well as the Jerzy Giedroyc Prize (Poland, 2013).! Tadeusz Iwański is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova at the Centre for Eastern Studies in Warsaw. A specialist in Ukraine’s domestic and foreign affairs, he has written on a range of political and economic questions affecting Ukraine. He has also worked for the Ukrainian service of Polish Radio. He is currently editor of The New Prometheus !magazine.! Olesya Khromeychuk teaches the history of Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She also teaches the history of Russia and the Soviet Union at the University of East Anglia and the Ukrainian language at the University of Cambridge. Her book ‘Undetermined' Ukrainians: Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division (2013) focuses on the formation, activity and civilianisation of the Waffen SS 'Galicia' Division and the creation and preservation of the memory of this military unit in Ukraine !and in the Ukrainian Diaspora.! Paweł Kowal is a Polish politician from the Polska Razem party. He holds a doctorate in political science. He was formerly a Member of the European Parliament and a delegate to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He has served as Secretary of State in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2014, he won the Jerzy Giedroyc Prize for his extensive political and cultural !work on Polish-Ukrainian relations.! Wanda Koscia is a London-based freelance documentary filmmaker specialising in history and current affairs, ranging from hard politics to intimate and personal human stories. She has worked on major television series and documentaries for BBC, UK Channel Four and Discovery. Her most recent film My Friend the Enemy uncovers painful memories of a little known wartime massacre in !Western Ukraine. The film premiered at IDFA in the mid-length competition in November 2014.! Lyudmyla Kozlovska is President of the Open Dialog Foundation. She has organised missions to observe elections and to monitor the observance of human rights in Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and !Kazakhstan. She is a member of the Civic Lustration Council in Ukraine's Ministry of Justice.! Bartosz Kramek is the Head of the Board of the Open Dialog Foundation. He deals extensively with human rights issues and civil society development in the post-Soviet region, especially in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. He initiated the first European long-term mission of observation !and support for Ukrainian civil society during the Euromaidan.! Igor Lyubashenko is Assistant Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He is a contributing editor at New Eastern Europe magazine and coordinator of the online column ‘Digital Eastern Europe’. A specialist in international relations and new media, he has published extensively on the European Union’s Eastern Partnership and the Euromaidan.!

6 ! Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies in the History Department at Northwestern University. Born in Kyiv, he has taught at Hebrew University, Jerusalem; University of Warsaw; Jagiellonian University in Krakow; Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv; National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy; and Harvard University. He has written more that 100 articles and published 6 books, the latest of which is The Golden Age Shtetl (2014), which !was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Jewish Book Award. ! Serhii Plokhii is Mykhailo S. Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. His research interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine. His publications include The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires (2012), Yalta: The Price of Peace (2010), Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past (2008), and Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History (2005). His most recent book The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (2014) won the 2015 Lionel !Gelber Prize.! Mykola Riabchuk is a writer, intellectual, journalist, literary critic and a political and cultural analyst. He is Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Political and Nationalities Studies at the Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. He is also Vice President of Ukrainian PEN. In 2013-14 he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He has been a moving force behind the Ukrainian journals Vsesvit, Suchasnist, and Krytyka. His most recent book Gleichschaltung: Authoritarian Consolidation in Ukraine, 2010-2012 (2012) was published in both Ukrainian and !English.! Sławomir Sierakowski is a sociologist and founder of Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), a magazine and centre for political and cultural thought. Krytyka Polityczna has established an active branch in Ukraine. Mr Sierakowski has contributed to a range of international journals and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, El País, Haaretz, Die Tageszeitung !and Gazeta Wyborcza.! Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of European International Relations at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the history of European foreign policy. His publications include Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (2001), Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 (2007), and Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present (2013). He is also president of The Henry Jackson Society and !president of the Project for Democratic Union, a Munich-based student-organised think tank.! Frank Sysyn is Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta; Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; and Editor-in-Chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. A specialist in Ukrainian and Polish history, he is the author of Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653 (1985); Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001), and studies on the Khmelnytsky Uprising, Ukrainian historiography, and early !modern Ukrainian political culture.! Andrzej Szeptycki is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Warsaw. His research focuses on the domestic and foreign policy of Ukraine; Polish foreign policy; European integration and transatlantic relations; and international relations in Europe. He has published extensively on Ukraine, Poland, Russia, and Polish-Ukrainian relations. One of his most recent works is Ukraine towards Russia: A Study of Dependence (Ukraina wobec Rosji. Studium zależności, 2013). He is a member of the Council of the Polish-Ukrainian !Partnership Forum.! Ievgen Vorobiov is a trade policy analyst based in Ukraine. His research deals with EU-Ukraine relations and the Ukraine-Russia conflict. A graduate of Dnipropetrovsk National University, he has worked at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Poland's largest think-tank, and

7 served as a regular contributor to the ‘beyondbrics’ blog of the Financial Times. He holds a !Master's Degree in European Studies and International Politics from Maastricht University.! Emma Widdis is Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on Soviet culture of the 1920s and 1930s, with a particular emphasis on cinema. Her current long- term project is a cultural history of the senses in Soviet Russia, with a particular focus on Touch. Her publications include Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second !World War (2003).! Karolina Wigura is a sociologist and political editor at Kultura Liberalna, an online political and cultural magazine. She is a specialist in the area of memory politics. In 2012, she won the Józef Tischner Prize for her book The Guilt of Nations, which explores the role of ‘forgiveness’ in diplomacy. She is the co-author of an influential article on Polish reactions to the Ukraine crisis, !entitled ‘The Sated Poles look at Ukraine’.! ! ORGANISERS Cambridge Polish Studies is a pilot initiative launched in 2014 by the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. It aims to make Cambridge a key centre for the study of Poland and the promotion of Polish culture in the United Kingdom and throughout the world. Cambridge Polish ! Studies combines innovative undergraduate courses on the language, literature and culture of Poland with a vibrant cycle of events open to the public, including guest lectures, debates,! film screenings, and academic conferences.! Cambridge Ukrainian Studies is an academic centre in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, endowed permanently in 2010. It aims to promote and contribute to the study of Ukraine in the United Kingdom and beyond. It is committed to deepening public understanding of Ukraine and to advancing fresh, innovative approaches to research on the largest country within Europe, a critical crossroads !between ‘East’ and ‘West’ with a rich historical, linguistic, and cultural inheritance. ! Cambridge Polish Studies and Cambridge Ukrainian Studies would like to thank the following partners who have helped make this conference possible:! ! The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London! The Foundation for Polish Science! The M. B. Grabowski Fund! The Oxford Noble Foundation! The Polish Cultural Institute in London! The Zdanowich Fund of Trinity College

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Past as Prelude: Polish-Ukrainian Relations for the Twenty-First Century! ! University of Cambridge! ! Key! 1! Film Screenings, 29 June: Winstanley Theatre, Trinity College! 2! Conference Venue, 30 June and 1 July: William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College!