Online film screening "Living on the borderland: a Swiss village at the Black Sea", October 21, 17:00-18:30 (CET)

We invite you to the online screening of the film "Living on the borderland: a Swiss village at the Black Sea." This event is a part of the Annual Online Conference "Black Sea Region in the Times of Crises: New Theoretical Approaches and Research Methodologies," October-November 2021. The online conference looks at the present and historical dynamics shaping the Black Sea region through the lens of transculturality.

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The film is one of the results of the research project "History of Swiss Colonies in Crimea and Northern Black Sea Coast: Linguistic and Identity's Approach" (University of Lausanne). The film was supported by GCE-HSG within the research dissemination grant program "Borderland Studies in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region" in 2021.

About the film

In 1822, 30 Swiss wine-growers founded the colony of Shabo (Chabag) at the Black sea and the liman of Dniester. Shabo was to become the largest Swiss colony in the world. The life of Swiss settlers through the turmoil of history and border changes, from the Russian Empire to the Kingdom of Romania and then the USSR, is reconstructed based on archival search in Switzerland, Ukraine, and Russia as well as interviews with former settlers.

The online screening will be followed by a discussion with film authors.

Participants:

Films authors: Elena Simonato and Natalia Bichurina (University of Lausanne)

Discussant:Amber Nickell (Fort Hays State University)

Chair: Oleksii Chebotarov (University of St.Gallen / New Europe College)

The event will be delivered on an online platform zoom. To join the event, please follow the link: unisg.zoom.us/my/blacksea.conference.