6 May 2025
The next meeting in the seminar series of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity: “Between Sea and Steppe: Reimagining Crimean Indigenous Narratives Through Decolonial Praxis”- Mariia Chervak, May 07, 2025
will take place on
May 07, 2025
at 16:45 CET
in Room 9, Dobra 72
This research focuses on the Crimean Peninsula and the Southern Ukraine, their indigenous populations, the challenges they faced under the rule of different monarchies, and their current status in modern Ukraine.
Crimean Tatars represent Crimea’s largest indigenous ethnic group preserving unique traditions and maintaining their native language. Crimean Karaites are a traditionally Turkic-speaking Judaic ethnoreligious minority. The Krymchaks are a Jewish ethno-religious group from Crimea, originating from Turkic-speaking followers of Rabbinic Judaism. The Gagauz are an Orthodox Christian, Turkish-speaking ethnic minority, whose historic lands are situated in present-day Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.
Despite distinct cultural, religious, linguistic and communal differences, the native peoples of the Crimean Peninsula and Southern Ukraine lived in close proximity and interacted economically and socially being involved in trade, culinary practices and imperial pressures.
To join the seminar online, please register before 3 PM
on the seminar day at crp@al.uw.edu.pl
