Invited lecture by Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe `Stepan Bandera. History, Post-War, and Politics of Memory¿

22/01/2026

Every year, the Contemporary History, Politics and Economics bachelor degree organises a series of invited lectures. For the 2025-2026 academic year, the opening lecture was given by Emanuele Felice, who offered an interpretation of the history of the West over the last two centuries and different readings of the concept of freedom. The series continues next February with the participation of Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and specialist in the history of the Holocaust, fascism and the politics of memory. Rossoliński-Liebe is the author of the book Stepan Bandera. Fascismo, genocidio y culto, published in Germany and recently translated into Spanish. This is the first comprehensive academic biography of the Ukrainian nationalist politician Stepan Bandera: in it, the historian from the Freie Universität Berlin offers a critical and rigorous reflection on a highly controversial historical figure and his memory after 1945. Rossoliński-Liebe's research contextualises these different memories in their political, social and historical dimensions, paying attention to both the Ukrainian diaspora and the politics of memory in the USSR and Poland.

The lecture will be held on 26 February at 12:30 pm in the Faculty's Sala de Graus. It will be attended by the coordinator and deputy coordinator of the bachelor degree programme, Javier Rodrigo and Steven Forti, professors in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History.