HEAD OF THE INSTITUTE’S DEPARTMENT AT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN LVIV

Head of the Department of Theory and History of Political Science, Maksym Rozumnyi, took part in the International Scientific Conference “Historical Memory of Ukrainians as a Mode of Formation of National Identity in the Conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian War and the New World Political Reality”, which took place in Lviv on November 12, 2025. The conference was organized by the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences, with the support of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine, within the framework of the project “Historical Memory of Ukrainians in Conditions of War: From Confrontation to Consolidation”. The curators of the scientific event are Doctor of Historical Sciences Iryna Orlevych and Doctor of Philology Hanna Didyk-Meush (project leader).

The well-known humanities researchers from Ukraine and Poland attended the conference.

Doctor of Political Sciences Maksym Rozumnyi participated in the work of the first section of the conference with a report “War for Identity: the Russian Challenge and the Ukrainian Response.” The sectional meeting was also attended by Dr. of History, Professor Leonid Zashkilnyak (with a report on theoretical issues of modern memory policy in Ukraine), Dr. of Philosophy Lyudmila Filipovych (the topic of the speech was religious and national identity in the context of the contemporary Russian-Ukrainian war), Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Candidate of History Volodymyr Viatrovych (the policy of national memory of Ukraine since 2014), Dr. Lukasz Adamsky (on the topic “Cognitive biases, fallacies and sophisms in the Polish-Ukrainian discussion on historical memory”). The participants in subsequent sectional meetings discussed the issues of national identity policy in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war, as well as various dimensions of historical memory and interpretations of the historical past in folk memory, official narratives, and scientific discourses.

Following the conference, it is planned to publish a collection of materials. The implementation of the project “Historical Memory of Ukrainians in the Context of War: From Confrontation to Consolidation” will continue in 2026.