Forthcoming Events

October 2024

  • 1.10, 9:30 am – 12.30 pm | ZOiS, Mohrenstr. 60, 10117 Berlin

Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS: Food for Thought on Contemporary Ukraine. Please send an e-mail to events(at)zois-berlin.de to confirm your attendance. With the first two waves of scholarship funding now complete, the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS will present research outcomes on topics such as displacement, reconstruction, civil society, education, religion, and popular culture and discuss policy implications.

  • 2.10, CGIS-Knafel/North Building, 3rd Floor, Room K-354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 and online

Lecture “Societal Resilience and Local Democracy at Times of War: Learning from Ukrainian Local Communities” by Oleksandra Keudel, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Governance, Kyiv School of Economics. Moderated by Emily Channell-Justice, Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.

  • 7-8.10, Berlin and online

The German Association for East European Studies (DGO) and the Freie Universität Berlin will jointly host the 2nd Congress of Central and East European Studies (ceecon24) in Berlin. The congress is organized in cooperation with the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). ceecon is the largest multidisciplinary congress on Central and Eastern Europe in the German-speaking world. It was established in 2022 as a cooperative project of the DGO and the Freie Universität’s Institute for East European Studies (Osteuropa-Institut). ceecon24 will welcome all students and scholars who oppose russia’s war on Ukraine. Anyone supporting russia’s war, or justifying it in any way, will not be welcome.

    • Monday, October 7, 2024 >> OEI/323, 14:30–16:00, Round Table: “Support, Reconstruction, Reforms: How Can We Make the German-Ukrainian Cooperation in Research Even More Attractive?”. Chair: Florian Frank, BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), Head of Division Cooperation with (non-EU) Eastern European Countries, South Caucasus, Central AsiaSpeakers:
      • Prof. Olexandra V. Antoniouk, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Scientific Committee of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Ukraine
      • Prof. Olga Garaschuk, University of Tübingen, President of German-Ukrainian Academic Society
      • Dr Susann Worschech, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Academic Coordinator Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin
  • 16.10, Atrium Reinhardtstraßenhöfe, Reinhardtstraße 14, 10117 Berlin/ Online

The Center for Liberal Modernity cordially invites you to the international conference “Ukraine and Us: What is at Stake”. The conference will discuss the following topics:

  1. the significance of this war for the future of Europe and the strategic goals of the West
  2. current military developments and military support for Ukraine and
  3. Ukraine’s EU- and NATO-integration
  4. Energy cooperation with Ukraine
  • 16.10, online, 09:30 to 12:45 (CEST, Brussels Time)

Horizon Implementation Day: Grant Agreement Preparation in Horizon Europe

  • 21.10, online

The Kyiv Connection Online Lecture Series. Join for a virtual lecture series organized jointly by the Davis Center, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and Kyiv School of Economics. Please check back soon for more information.

  • 23.10, online

Live-Webinar on the funding portfolio of the Volksvagen Foundation (Germany) In the webinar, employees from the funding department provide information on general funding, current calls for proposals and the process from application to project support. There will be time for questions and answers following the approx. 20-minute presentation.

  • 23.10, 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Location: CGIS-Knafel/North Building, 3rd Floor, Room K-354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138. IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom Webinar (live). Registration is required to attend online.

Russia’s Denial of Ukraine: Letters and Contested Memory. A book talk by Dr. Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Preceptor in Ukrainian, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.

  • 24-25.10, Kyiv-Hannover/ Online

ІІІ International Conference “Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine 2024”OSIU2024 is a forum designed for the presentation and discussion of works related to fundamental and specific aspects of open science and innovation. This forum addresses issues ranging from the formulation and implementation of policies, infrastructure, and service provision for the practical realization of open science and innovation to the creation and support of the human factor to ensure its long-term development. This conference is jointly organized by The State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, in collaboration with TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library, and supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The event will take place as part of the International Open Access Week 2024.

  • 25-26.10, Budapest, Hungary & online

Workshop “Cooperation with Ukraine in the humanities”, organized by BAYHOST, the Research Centre German in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, the Chair of Slavic Philology – Linguistics at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Regensburg and Andrássy University Budapest. The event is intended to contribute to the development and deepening of cooperation with Ukraine in the humanities, specifically with Ukrainian universities that have been particularly hard hit by the war and have had to be evacuated or are located close to the front line. It will focus on topics such as multilingualism, digital humanities and digital education, but is also open to other thematic contributions. The workshop is aimed at interested teachers and researchers in Bavaria, Ukraine, Hungary and neighbouring countries.


November 2024

  • 05.11, online

Horizon Implementation Day: Grant Management in Horizon Europe

  • 13.-14.11, Warsaw, Poland

4th International exhibition and conference “Rebuild Ukraine: Construction & Energy” is an online platform for recovery projects, materials, technologies, equipment and investments required to rebuild Ukraine’s war-torn economy, with an emphasis on infrastructure, industry, energy and housing. The aim of “ReBuild Ukraine” is to bring together the public sector, the private sector and international donors in order to derive specific projects from the needs of Ukrainian communities and bring them together with potential partners and sources of funding.

  • 21-23.11, Lviv, Ukraine and online

Ukrainian Open Science Forum in Lviv. This Forum will bring together international experts in Open Science and related fields to foster the implementation of the National Open Science Plan in Ukraine by sharing ideas, hosting discussions, and informing policy. The event is organised in the framework of the EU-funded “Open Practices, Transparency and Integrity for Modern Academia (OPTIMA)” project and is conducted jointly with the 11th International Youth Science Forum ’Litteris et Artibus’ (Lviv and online) and the Kick-Off Conference of the Ukrainian Reproducibility Network (Lviv and online). The Ukrainian Reproducibility Network received seed funding through the ‘TIER2 Award for Establishing a Reproducibility Network’. The TIER2 project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101094817.

  • 25.11, online

The Kyiv Connection Online Lecture Series. Join for a virtual lecture series organized jointly by the Davis Center, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and Kyiv School of Economics. Please check back soon for more information.


Video-recordings of some past events/ relevant YouTube channels: