Timothy Snyder, Serhii Plokhii and Yaroslav Hrytsak Launch The Ukrainian History Global Initiative with Colleagues from Ukraine

90 Scholars will join the major research initiative to explore Ukraine’s deep history

London, UK: November 27, 2023: 90 scholars including Timothy Snyder, Serhii Plokhii and Yaroslav Hrytsak join the Ukrainian History Global Initiative. In this three-year long endeavor, colleagues from Ukraine and around the world will carry out dozens of independent projects, starting from the prehistory of the lands of Ukraine and arriving at the present.

The Ukrainian History Global Initiative is being registered and will be regulated as a charity organization by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. The project will be governed by an independent board of Trustees, comprising among others Carl Bildt, prominent politician and diplomat (chairman), Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian, Borys Gudziak, the Metropolitan-Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, Serhiy Zhadan, Ukrainian poet and novelistand Victor Pinchuk, the founder of the initiative, Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist.

Ukrainian history is central to global history, to an extent that can be hard to bear and hard to acknowledge. In this light, the connections between the present war and larger developments in global economy and politics are no surprise. The Ukrainian History Global Initiative seeks a new empirical and conceptual understanding, using an innovative approach across disciplines and application of new technologies. It will take up subjects such as the origins of human settlement, the spread of Indo-European languages, the relationship between classical Greece and the Black Sea region, Viking-era Europe, Byzantium and Kyiv, the renaissance and reformation, as well as modern questions of nation-building and