the ukrainian night an intimate history of revolution

Her research focuses on 20th-21st century intellectual history in Central and Eastern Europe. Marci Shore is associate professor of history at Yale University. While the world watched (or did not watch) the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Kiev during the winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. Who is ready to go out to the Maidan”-Kiev’s central square-“by midnight tonight? ‘Likes’ don’t count.” No one then knew that “ likes don’t count”-a sentence that would have made no sense before Facebook-would bring about the return to metaphysics to Eastern Europe. that day a thirty-two year-old Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, Mustafa Nayem, posted a note on his Facebook page: “Come on, let’s get serious. A decade later, on 21 November 2013, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych unexpectedly reversed the course of his own stated foreign policy and declined to sign an association agreement with the European Union. “This is a civilization that needs metaphysics,” Adam Michnik told Václav Havel in 2003. THE UKRAINIAN NIGHT: THE MEANING OF THE MAIDAN IN A POSTMODERN WORLD Marci Shore (IWM Vienna and Yale University): The Advanced Certificate in Political Thought (ACPT) specialization and Pasts, Inc. invite you to the public lecture by

The ukrainian night an intimate history of revolution