The crisis of Europe became one of the most resonant topics of the first half of the twentieth century. It was particularly relevant in the context of decolonisation and the transformation of the geopolitical landscape after World War II. Representatives of another Europe had a distinctive voice in discussions of the crisis, as thousands of displaced persons and war victims found themselves in displaced persons camps in the heart of Europe. The idea of a new Europe also emerged in the aftermath of this catastrophe.

This lecture focuses on the discourse of Occidentalism among intellectuals in Ukrainian displaced persons camps between 1946 and 1948, examining it through the lens of decolonial studies. The debate on the crisis of Europe provides a platform for conceptualising Ukrainian geocultural identity and historiographical narrative. It also signals a critique of Eurocentrism and an attempt to provincialising Europe.

Tamara Hundorova ist eine ukrainische Literaturwissenschaftlerin. Sie ist leitende wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Taras-Sewtschenko-Institut für Literatur der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Ukraine, Professorin und Dekanin an der Ukrainischen Freien Universität und assoziiertes Mitglied des Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Hundorova ist momentan Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin mit dem Projekt »The Idea of Occidentalism and Post-World War Ukrainian Cultural Imagination (1945–1949)«.

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