Event

The Department of History presents “Historical Insights into the Ukraine Crisis” by Dr Christian Cwik, on Wednesday April 2, at the AV Room, 3^rd floor, Alma Jordan Library, at 5.30pm.

All are invited to attend. 

More about Dr Cwik 

Dr. Christian Cwik has been the lecturer for European and Atlantic History at the Department since August 2013, Before joining the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine he was lecturer of Caribbean and Latin American History at the University of Cologne in Germany. He has also held positions at Vienna University and the University of Graz in Austria. He has held visiting positions at Dresden University in Germany, the Pablo Olavide University in Seville,  the Havana University in Cuba as well as at the Cartagena University in Colombia and the Bolivarian University in Venezuela. He is expert for Austrian and German history.   

More about the presentation 

The Ukraine was always an important intersection between Europe and Asia and therefore was  hotly contested. It was only at the end of the First World War that the Ukraine became an independent state but then it failed almost immediately. The Austrian historian,  Christian Cwik, will help us understand the current international crisis by sharing  historical insight into the political and cultural genesis of the Ukraine.