Elisabeth Walther, M.A.
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About
Elisabeth Walther completed her Bachelor’s degree in History at Luhansk University, where she focused on Eastern European history. She then continued her studies in the Master’s programme in History at the University of Wrocław.
Since April 2026 she has been a research assistant in the GWZO Department »Culture and Imagination« working on the project »Remembering in Exile: Ukrainian Perspectives on the Transformation Period after 1991«, funded by the Leibniz Lab »Crisis and Transformation«.
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Work focus
- history and miners’ literature in Sorbian-speaking regions as well as in South Wales and the Donbas
- sociolinguistics and language planning of minority languages
- Ukrainian memory cultures
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Teaching
Since 2016, she has taught courses in European minority literatures, history of Sorbs, and introduction to minority sociolinguistics at the Sorbian Department of University of Leipzig.
Current topic of research
Remembering in Exile
The project creates a platform for exchange in which Ukrainians living in Leipzig share and document their experiences since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The outcome will be a German-Ukrainian audio and digitally published book featuring voices from various regions of Ukraine.
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