In January Professor Timothy Snyder visited the Sir Duncan Rice Library to present his lecture' Why is Ukrainian History Global?'
It was a sellout: all 90 tickets were taken, but not everybody made it, as it fell on the stormy night when there were yellow weather warnings out all over the county
The lecture has now been made public on the University You Tube channel so those unable to attend can catch-up here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AgapCbJtao
Professor Snyder’s lecture was organised by the Centre for Polish-Lithuanian Studies. He was in Aberdeen to attend a workshop organised jointly by the Centre and the Centre for Scandinavian Studies as part of the Ukrainian History Global Initiative, which funded Robert Frost’s recent leave. The workshop brought scholars from Oslo, London, Cambridge, and Oxford to present their plans or drafts for the 30,000-word capsules for this project, which involves 100 scholars from across the world with the aim of producing a comprehensive and accessible account of Ukraine within the context of global history, from prehistory to the present day. Papers were presented on Vikings, Goths, Sarmatians, and Beauty, and were commented on by Ralph O’Connor and Hannah Burrows, who sat on a roundtable at the end; Erin Benton and Cameron Flint also attended, and helped with the lectures and the arrangements. Robert’s capsule is on ‘Lithuania’.