About this Event
For generations, Ukraine existed largely outside the frame of reference for many Europeans, including Germans. The takeover of Crimea and the Russian invasion in 2022 radically changed the perception of this long ignored and neglected nation.
Much depends now not only on the resistance and resilience of the Ukrainians, but on the firm support of Europe and the United States.
Karl Schlögel studied philosophy, sociology, East European history, and Slavic studies at the Free University of Berlin. He is a member of the Order Pour le Mérite. The German Academy for Language and Literature honored him with the Sigmund Freud Prize in 2004. In 2016, he received the Prize of the Institute for Advanced Study in History, and in 2018, the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, in 2025 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association. His most recent books include "American Matrix: A Look at an Era" (2023), "The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow" (2020), "The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Vanished World" (2017), and "Decision in Kyiv: Ukrainian Lessons" (2015). His books have been translated into numerous languages. He lives with his wife Sonja Margolina in Berlin.
Anne O’Donnell is Associate Professor of History and Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. Her first book, Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution, is a legal, economic, and social history of the disintegration of private property in cities during the Bolsheviks’ rise to power after 1917. It was published by Princeton University Press in 2024 and received the 2025 Ed A. Hewett Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies ASEEES. Her current research explores the lived experience, classification, and amelioration of “poverty” in the late Soviet Union, a place where it both was endemic and did not officially exist.
This event is co-presented by 1014, Deutsches Haus at NYU, and the Ukrainian Museum.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Goethe-Institut New York, 30 Irving Place, New York, United States
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