In the last days, our experts Borys Babin and Anna Prykhodko participated actively at the Ukrainian Studies Conference “Ukraine in the World” that took place on 8-10 July in Lviv, hosted by the Ukrainian Catholic University in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
The “Ukraine in the World” conference aimed to create a major international platform in Ukraine that unites global academia around a contemporary vision of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar studies.
Its goal was not only to create a space to present the current state of research but also to strengthen Ukraine’s role as an active subject of international academic dialogue and provide momentum for future partnerships, scientific, educational, and cultural projects.
During the conference, Professor Babin, also as the representatives of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Eskender Bariiev, Professor Yevhen Khlobystov, Liudmyla Korotkykh, and Valentyna Manzhula, also as Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian Studies at Cambridge University, organized the panel discussion “The Role of Ukraine’s Indigenous Peoples in the Formation of the Ukrainian Political Nation.”
In his report Borys Babin focused attention to the sustainable democratic development of the Crimean Tatar indigenous structures in the last decades, reminded of the racial discrimination and repressions against indigenous Crimean Tatars in the occupied peninsula, and stressed the significance of the free, prior and informed consent principle and of the legitimization of Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People in the Ukrainian jurisdiction and of relevant decision of Ukrainian government, done this April.
