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Dr Tetyana Pavlush
Teams and roles for Tetyana Pavlush
Lecturer in Modern European History
Overview
I specialise in 20th century European history with a primary focus on Germany and Ukraine. Before joining the History Department at Cardiff University in October 2019 as Lecturer in Modern German history, I taught Modern European history at the University of Stirling. I received my PhD in Modern European history at the Free University of Berlin in 2014.
My research deals with different aspects of collective memory, national identity and the politics of history in the German-German and broader European context. The Second World War in German and European memory, the history and memory of the Holocaust, Christian-Jewish encounters, and the role of history in the process of post-totalitarian transformation are among my research and teaching priorities.
My current research project addresses the transformation of public memory of the Holocaust in two European countries from different sides of the ‘Iron Curtain’ – Austria and Ukraine – before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I am co-founder (with Prof David Clarke and Dr Maja Davidović) of research project Remembering the Future.
My monograph ‘Kirche nach Auschwitz’ (Churches after Auschwitz) was published in 2015. This is a comparative study on how the Holocaust and its legacy were addressed between 1945 and 1990 by Protestant churches in two German states: the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR.
Through my affiliation with the Berlin School for Comparative European History I developed an interest in the theory and praxis of historical comparison and other methodological approaches used in the context of comparative history, transfer studies and connected or shared history. Since then I am passionate in applying them in my research and in my teaching.
I worked in academia and in the political and civic education sector in the UK, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Germany. I am fluent in Ukrainian, English, German, Czech and Russian.
Publication
2024
- Pavlush, T. 2024. ”Leninopad”: coming to terms with the past in post-Soviet Ukraine. In: Loeffler, M. ed. Berlin Wall Falls: History, Identity and Politics. University of Wales Press
2023
- Pavlush, T. 2023. Im sog der säkularisierung: die Deutschen kirchen in politik und gesellschaft (1945-1990). German History 41(1), pp. 143-145. (10.1093/gerhis/ghac067)
2022
- Pavlush, T. 2022. Russia invades Ukraine. The Scotsman
2015
- Pavlush, T. 2015. Kirche nach Auschwitz zwischen Theologie und Vergangenheitspolitik. Peter Lang. (10.3726/978-3-653-04977-0)
2011
- Pavlush, T. 2011. Die Auseinandersetzung der evangelischen Kirchen mit dem Eichmann-Prozess in der Bundesrepublik und in der DDR. Vergleich und Verflechtung in der deutsch-deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte (German Protestants and the Eichmann Trial: Comparison and Entanglement in the Contemporary German-German History). In: Arndt, A., Häberle, J. C. and Reinecke, C. eds. Vergleichen, Verflechten, Verwirren? Europäische Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Theorie und Praxis. [Die Auseinandersetzung der evangelischen Kirchen mit dem Eichmann-Prozess in der Bundesrepublik und in der DDR. Vergleich und Verflechtung in der deutsch-deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte]. Göttingen (Germany): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 115-139.
Articles
- Pavlush, T. 2023. Im sog der säkularisierung: die Deutschen kirchen in politik und gesellschaft (1945-1990). German History 41(1), pp. 143-145. (10.1093/gerhis/ghac067)
- Pavlush, T. 2022. Russia invades Ukraine. The Scotsman
Book sections
- Pavlush, T. 2024. ”Leninopad”: coming to terms with the past in post-Soviet Ukraine. In: Loeffler, M. ed. Berlin Wall Falls: History, Identity and Politics. University of Wales Press
- Pavlush, T. 2011. Die Auseinandersetzung der evangelischen Kirchen mit dem Eichmann-Prozess in der Bundesrepublik und in der DDR. Vergleich und Verflechtung in der deutsch-deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte (German Protestants and the Eichmann Trial: Comparison and Entanglement in the Contemporary German-German History). In: Arndt, A., Häberle, J. C. and Reinecke, C. eds. Vergleichen, Verflechten, Verwirren? Europäische Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Theorie und Praxis. [Die Auseinandersetzung der evangelischen Kirchen mit dem Eichmann-Prozess in der Bundesrepublik und in der DDR. Vergleich und Verflechtung in der deutsch-deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte]. Göttingen (Germany): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 115-139.
Books
- Pavlush, T. 2015. Kirche nach Auschwitz zwischen Theologie und Vergangenheitspolitik. Peter Lang. (10.3726/978-3-653-04977-0)
Research
My research is based on new approaches in memory studies, Cold War history and media studies. It focuses on 20th century Europe and deals with different aspects of collective memory and heritage, national identity and the politics of the past in German, European and global contexts.
Collaborative research
Remembering the Future (with Prof David Clarke and Dr Maja Davidović)
This interdisciplinary project sets out to ask the question of how our engagements with the past, within the frame of the three academic and professional discourses of memory, heritage and transitional justice, can regain a future-oriented impulse that opens up the space to imagine different futures at a time of climate breakdown, mass extinction, recurrent conflicts and mass-scale atrocities, growing global inequality and the rise of right wing populism.
Individual research
Holocaust Memory on Both Sides of the ‘Iron Curtain’: Austria and Ukraine (funded by BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant)
My current projct project addresses the transformation of public memory of the Holocaust in two European countries from different sides of the `Iron Curtain', Austria and Ukraine, before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It aims at 1) gaining a more nuanced understanding of the whole spectrum of factors responsible for downplaying the Jewish Shoah for decades in post-war Europe; 2) revising the role of the Cold War in shaping the Austrian and Ukrainian national memories and re-thinging the watershed of 1989/90 for the memory of the Holocaust; and 3) exploring the possibilities for variations of national histories and alternative memories within the conforming ideological Soviet narrative by shifting the research focus from Russia to Ukraine.
My book 'Kirche nach Auschwitz' (Church after Auschwitz) was published in 2015. In it I examine comparatively how the Holocaust and its legacy were addressed between 1945 and 1990 by Protestant church leaders, journalists, laypeople and theologians in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). I argue that churches' dealing with Auschwitz was catalysed and driven by public controversies over the Nazi past, focusing primarily on the following events: the controversy about Rolf Hochhuth's 1963 play 'Der Stellvertreter' (The Deputy), the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1979 national broadcast in the FRG of the U.S. television drama 'Holocaust'.
Teaching
My teaching expertise covers a wide range of topics in the cultural, social and political history of 20th century Western, Central and Eastern Europe. This includes the history of the First and the Second World Wars, Fascism and Communism, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, social history of post-1945 Europe, and Cold War culture.
Module convenor
HS6305: Divided Memory in post-1945 Germany
HS1105: The Making of the Modern World
Undergraduate
- HS0002: Projecting the Past: Popular Media and Heritage
- HS6218: Europe's Dark Century
- HS6219: Stalinism: State, Society, and Environmen
- HS6203: Debating History
- HS1801: Dissertation
Postgraduate
- HST083: Theories, Methods and Practices of History
- HST082: Space, Place and Historical Research: From Micro-Histories to the Global Turn
- Gender, Power and Culture (HST077)
Biography
August 2015: Ph.D. in Modern History, Freie Universität Berlin (funded by the Berlin School for Comparative European History)
Speaking engagements
May 2024: Moderator in the Exhibition Curator Talk ‘Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust’ (The Wiener Holocaust Library) at Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff
October 2023: Speaker at the Václav Havel European Dialogues: Peace and Democracy in Crisis (Cardiff/Oxford/London)
https://london.czechcentres.cz/en/program/vaclav-havel-european-dialogues-2023
September 2023: Speaker at the Welsh Centre For International Affairs on 'Misinformation as a Tool of War: Past & Present'
Contact Details
+44 29225 12380
John Percival Building, Room 4.32, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Research themes
Specialisms
- 20th-21st century
- Memory
