FORTHCOMING EVENTS, June – October 2022

June 2022

  • 02/06, 12:30pm – 1:00pm CET | online

Humboldt Talk: Krieg in der Ukraine und der Kampf gegen den Welthunger mit Dr. Jonas Luckmann, Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für internationalen Agrarhandel und Entwicklung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Moderation: Katja Weber, Journalistin

  • 02/06, 5:30pm – 7pm CET | online

ZOiS Lecture Series in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “Long-term Trends of Polarisation in Ukraine“, with Timofii Brik (Kyiv School of Economics)

  • 03/06 – 03/07 (Berlin and online)

Charity Art Exhibition & Auction “H4M – Hands for Mom”. The idea of the auction is simple – to raise funds for prostheses for Ukrainian mothers who must continue to live and care for their young children!

  • 08/06, 16:15 – 17:30

„Ukrainian Migration to Poland: Facts, Figures, Contexts“ Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION with Prof. Dr. Marcin Dębicki (The Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies, Wrocław University)

  • 09/06, 8:00pm – 9:00pm Kyiv time | online

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Deutsch-Ukrainische Historikerkommission presents the online seminar series “Historians and the War: Rethinking the Future”, titled “Historians and the War: Discussion with Prof. Timothy Snyder”The seminar will be chaired by Martin Schulze Wessel, Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich, Germany) and held in Ukrainian and English with simultaneous translation

  • 09/06, 5:30pm – 7pm CET | online

ZOiS Lecture Series in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “Living at the ‘Gates to Europe’: the Border with Poland as an Oppportunity and a Challenge for Local Communities in the Lviv Region”, with Tatiana Zhurzhenko(ZOiS/SCRIPTS)

  • 13/06 – 20:00 (British Summer Time)

The Cultural Emergence of Modern Ukraine, Ivan Kotliarevsky and Taras Shevchenko, by Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge) in the framework of the intensive summer online course in Ukrainian literature “Literatura”

  • 14/06 – 17:30-19:00 

The online-event “Quo Vadis, Europe? Achievements and Challenges on Ukraine’s Road to the EU” by the Young European Federalists Berlin-Brandenburg (JEF), the Alliance of Ukrainian Organizations (AUO) and the Media Center of the Ukrainian Community in Vienna

  • 14/06, 17:00 – 19:00 pm 

Collège Belgique: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the Russia-Ukraine Armed Conflict: Dynamics, Accountability and Reparations, by Kateryna Busol in English. Registration is mandatory

  • 15/06 – 09:00-14:00  CEST

The European response to the crisis facing Ukrainian students, scholars, and scientists: The role of the higher education and research sectors in developing appropriate solutions to both immediate needs and rebuilding

  • 16/06, 3-4 pm (Helsinki)/ 4-5 pm (Kyiv)

UKRAINET #Stand With Ukraine Webinar Series “International Science Landscape, First Orientation & Useful Tips, #1: Finland & Sweden”. Confirmed speakers:

    • Anton Kuzyk, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland
    • Taras Kucherenko, Research engineer, Electronic Arts (EA), Stockholm, Sweden
  • 16/06, 5:30pm – 7pm CET | online

ZOiS Lecture Series in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “(Trans)national Experiences of Displacement from Ukraine”, with Viktoriya Sereda (Ukrainian Catholic University and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

  • 16/06, 17:00 – 19:00 pm 

Collège Belgique: War in Ukraine and Ukraine’s Accession to the EU: Compatible of Incompatible?, by Roman Petrov in English. Registration is mandatory

  • 20/06 – 20:00 (British Summer Time)

Ukrainian Literature in Dialogue, Ivan Franko and Sholem Aleichem by Lecturer: Uilleam Blacker (University College London) in the frame of the intensive summer online course in Ukrainian literature “Literatura”

  • 21/06, 17:00 – 19:00 pm 

Collège Belgique: Inter-State Proceedings and Implications of Russia’s Exclusion from the Council of Europe for Human Rights Protection in Ukraine, by Gaiane Nuridzhanian in English. Registration is mandatory

  • 22/06, 16:00 

DUAG member, Prof. Dr. Andrii Portnov will give a Löwenthal Lecture 2022 at the Osteurope-Institut of the Free University Berlin entitled “The German-language Ukrainian studies. A Forgotten Expierence” (in German)

  • 23 – 24/06

“Ukrainian-Bavarian Conference on Digital Education, in Bayreuth and online (BAYHOST), see the program. The conference aims to share knowledge and exchange experiences on the use of digital tools and concepts in education. The University of Bayreuth is advancing the German-Ukrainian exchange on the digitalisation of teaching-learning processes with two projects. The DAAD-funded Learnopolis+ project is working with partners in Lviv, Ternopil and Vinnytsia (Donetsk) to develop Massive Open Online Courses for the continuing education of university teachers. The framework for this is UTTERLY (Erasmus+ KA2), which establishes uniform competence standards, curricula and certification processes in this area

  • 23/06, 3-4 pm (Vienna)/ 4-5 pm (Kyiv)

UKRAINET #Stand With Ukraine Webinar Series “International Science Landscape, First Orientation & Useful Tips, #2: Austria & Switzerland”. Confirmed speakers:

    • Tetyana Milojevic, Professor, formerly at the University of Vienna, Austria (2000-2021), now: Chair of Exobiology at the University of Orléans & CNRS, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, France
    • Prof. Maksym Kovalenko, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich/ Laboratory for thin films & photovoltaics, EMPA – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science & Technology, Switzerland
    • Maksym Serbyn, Assistant Professor, Research Group “Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Dynamics”, Institute of Science & Technology, Austria
    • Dr Andrii Tykhonov, Assistant Professor, Department of nuclear & particle Physics, University of Geneva
    • Maksym Yarema, Professor, Materials and Device Engineering Group, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • 23/06, 8:00pm – 9:00pm Kyiv time | online

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Deutsch-Ukrainische Historikerkommission presents the online seminar series “Historians and the War: Rethinking the Future”, titled “Rashism/Ruscism – Is Russia Fascist?”with Marlene Laruelle, Oleksandr Zaitsev, Roger Griffins and Andreas Umland, chaired by Kai Struve

  • 28/06 5:30pm – 7pm CET | online

ZOiS Lecture Series in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “Women’s Participation in the Euromaidan Protests and the War in Ukraine”, with Tamara Martsenyuk (University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)

  • 27/06 – 20:00 (British Summer Time)

Ukrainian Modernism and Feminism, Lesia Ukrainka and Olha Kobylianska by Lecturer: Tamara Hundorova (National Academy of Science of Ukraine) in the frame of the intensive summer online course in Ukrainian literature “Literatura”

  • 29/06 – 01/07 | online

European Union Agency for the Space Programme invites organizations to participate in the EUSpace4Ukraine Hackathon in order to support people fleeing the war in Ukraine. The purpose of the contest is to develop solutions and applications for NGOs and helpers providing humanitarian help (such as for yourselves) using EUSPA satellite data. Examples of potential solutions are the provision of roadmaps for supplies, temporary satellite connections to replace broken landlines, identification of the level of destruction, creation of platforms for helping people integrate into new countries and coordinate private and public helper organisations. The deadline for application is on June 19 and can be done here

  • 29/06, 6pm | online

Dr. Olga Gonchareva, Ph.D. “Globlization challenges of modern world” in the frame of “Knowledge, Research and Innovation: Ukrainian scientists present their topics (online)”, orginised by EUROPAEUM (East-West Centre of the University of Regensburg) and BAYHOST. Zoom-Link (Meeting-ID: 645 4554 4027, Password: 215389)

  • 30/06, 5:30 pm – 7pm CET | online

ZOiS Lecture Series in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “From Spontaneous Help to Organised Civil Society: Volunteering in the Context of Forced Population Displacement in Ukraine Since 2014”, with Oksana Mikheieva(Ukrainian Catholic University)

  • 30/06, 1pm – 8pm | in Berlin and online 

Berlin4Ukraine: Meet & Learn. A networking event for exile researchers aims to convey basic knowledge of the structures and key players of the German Science System, to explain the key support offers for refugee researchers and scholars at risk in particular, as well as the system of German science funding in general

  • 30/06, 17:00 – 19:00 pm 

Collège Belgique: Legal Orders of Non-Recognised Entities in Ukraine: Lawfare in Action, by Roman Petrov in English. Registration is mandatory


July 2022

  • 01/07 and 08/07 (in German)

BAYHOST: Intercultural online training: Ukrainian cultural standards in everyday work. Register at administrator-bayhost@bayhost.de and indicate whether you would like to participate on July 1st or July 8th

  • 02/07 (in German)

Berlin, Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2022 | “Meet the Scientist” with Gwendolyn Sasse at the Humboldt Lab

On behalf of SCRIPTS, Gwendolyn Sasse will present her current analyses of the Russian-led war in Ukraine. In cooperation with the Humboldt Lab at Humboldt Forum Berlin. Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse is Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), SCRIPTS Principal Investigator, Research unit “Borders”, BGTS Faculty, Knowledge Exchange Lab Steering Committee Member

  • 04/07 – 20:00 (British Summer Time)

Ukrainian Avant-Garde, Mykola Kulish, by Mayhill Fowler (Stetson University) in the frame of the intensive summer online course in Ukrainian literature “Literatura”

  • 06/07, 6pm | online

Dr. Iryna Sapsai, Ph.D. “STEM direktion in education: from school to Institute of Postgraduate Education” in the frame of “Knowledge, Research and Innovation: Ukrainian scientists present their topics (online)”, orginised by EUROPAEUM (East-West Centre of the University of Regensburg) and BAYHOST. Zoom-Link (Meeting-ID: 645 4554 4027, Password: 215389)

  • 07/07, 5:30pm – 7pm CET | online

ZOiS Lecture Series in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair: Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “Social Capital in Ukraine: Networks and Civic Activism”, with Tetiana Kostiuchenko (University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)

  • 11/07 – 20:00 (British Summer Time)

Ukrainian Dissidents, Vasyl Stus by Lecturer: Bohdan Tokarsky (University of Potsdam) in the frame of the intensive summer online course in Ukrainian literature “Literatura”

  • 13/07, 6pm | online

PD Dr. Nataliia Lazebna “Linguistics and Semiotics of English Language Digital Discourse” in the frame of “Knowledge, Research and Innovation: Ukrainian scientists present their topics (online)”, orginised by EUROPAEUM (East-West Centre of the University of Regensburg) and BAYHOST. Zoom-Link (Meeting-ID: 645 4554 4027, Password: 215389)

  • 18/07 – 20:00 (British Summer Time)

Contemporary Ukrainian Literature of Eastern Ukraine, Serhii Zhadan and Olena Stiazhkina by Lecturer: Sasha Dovzhyk (Birkbeck, University of London) in the frame of the intensive summer online course in Ukrainian literature “Literatura”

  • 25/07 – 20:00 (British Summer Time)

Ukrainian Poetry of Independence, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Serhii Zhadan, Iryna Shuvalova, and Marianna Kiyanovska by Lecturer: Iryna Starovoyt (Ukrainian Catholic University) in the frame of the intensive summer online course in Ukrainian literature “Literatura”

  • 27/07, 6pm | online

Prof. Dr. Olena Tsyplitska “Industrial destruction an rise: challenges for creating innovations and technology during the war in Ukraine” in the frame of “Knowledge, Research and Innovation: Ukrainian scientists present their topics (online)”, orginised by EUROPAEUM (East-West Centre of the University of Regensburg) and BAYHOST. Zoom-Link (Meeting-ID: 645 4554 4027, Password: 215389)

August 2022

  • 01/08 – 20:00 (British Summer Time)

Russophone Writing in Ukraine, Andrei Kurkov, Boris and Liudmila Khersonsky by Lecturer: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas) in the frame of the intensive summer online course in Ukrainian literature “Literatura”

September 2022

  • 18/09

„Die Konsequenzen des Angriffs auf die Ukraine – was können Migrations- und Grenzstudien beitragen?“ – Diskussion with PD Dr. Carolin Leutloff-Grandits (Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)

  • 29-20/09

Save the date: Annual Meeting 2022 will be organized in Hannover on 30 September 2022 within the framework of the Days of Ukraine in Lower Saxony (29-20 September 2022).


October 2022

  • 20/10

2nd International Scientific Conference “Ukraine in the world: Germany and Ukraine in the history of Eastern Europe: from Reformation to Enlightenment”, Kyiv, organized by the Department of Foreign Sources on the History of Ukraine, M. S. Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies,National Academy of Sciences Ukraine. Submit your presentation abstract by October 13, 2022


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