Forthcoming events

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January 2026

  • 06.01, Frankfurt/Oder, Europa-Universität Viadrina, GD HS 08 (Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)/ Hybrid format 

Lecture: Waldemar Rapior: Transnational Resilience Infrastructures — Solidarity in Times of National Egocentrism and War. This lecture examines Polish–Ukrainian and German–Ukrainian relations at the micro level by analysing the practices of activists and volunteers engaged in transnational mobilization beyond the nation-state. Waldemar Rapior is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw (Poland), KIU Research Fellow (KIU – Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder)–Berlin).

  • 13.01, Frankfurt/Oder, Europa-Universität Viadrina, GD HS 08 (Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)/ Hybrid format 

Book talk and screening of the video essay ‘Images and Objects of Russia’s War Against Ukraine’ with Natasha Klimenko, Miglė Bareikytė, Viktoriya Sereda

  • 19.01, KINO KROKODIL, Greifenhagener Str. 32, Berlin

Film screening & discussion — ‘Prisoners: The System of Terror’ (documentary).

The screening will be followed by a discussion with:

  • Oleksandr Tarasov, civil rights activist
  • Evgenia Chirikova, filmmaker, Activatica
  • Dr Susan Worschech, KIU – Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder)–Berlin
  • Moderator: Simon Schlegel, Zentrum Liberale Moderne

Language: Ukrainian and russian, with German subtitles. Organised by: Activatica; KIU – Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder)–Berlin; Centre for East European and International Studies; Zentrum Liberale Moderne.

  • 21.01, Landshuter Str. 4, R. 017, Regensburg, 93047

Lecture: Von Resilienz bis Widerstand: Rollen und Phänomene der ukrainischen Zivilgesellschaft im Krieg. Referentin: Dr Susann Worschech (Kompetenzverbundes Interdisziplinäre Ukrainestudien Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)). Veranstalter: „Denkraum Ukraine“ an der Universität Regensburg, gefördert vom DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) aus Mitteln des Auswärtigen Amtes (AA), Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) Regensburg, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO). Sprache: Deutsch

  • 30-31.01, Cambridge, MA, USA

2026 TCUP Conference “Solidarity Within and Beyond Ukraine”

  • Keynote speaker: Maksym Butkevych, human rights activist, journalist, and winner of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize (2025).
  • Panel 1: Friday 1/30, 10 a.m. to noon Global Solidarity with Ukraine
  • Panel 2: Friday 1/30, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Солідарність: Political Activism and Civic Engagement
  • Panel 3: Saturday, 1/31, 10 a.m. to noon Solidarity under Occupation
  • Panel 4: Saturday, 1/31, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. US-Ukraine Solidarity: Activism and Advocacy

With speakers including: Alim Aliev (PEN Ukraine), Yulia Bidenko (Ukrainian Research Institute), Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge), Melinda Haring (RAZOM for Ukraine), Neringa Klumbyte (Miami University, Ohio), Emma Mateo (Ukrainian Research Institute), Oksana Mikheieva (European University Viadrina), Nate Mook (World Central Kitchen), Yevhen Shybalov (INDEX), Alisa Sopova (Princeton University), Oleksandra Tarkhanova (University of St. Gallen)

February 2026

  • 06.02, Regensburg

Book presentation: “Women of Ukraine: Reportages from the War and Beyon”. Speaker: Anna Romandash. Organizer: Graduate School for East and Southeast European StudiesUR, Leibniz ScienceCampus “Europe and America in the Modern World”, “Denkraum Ukraine” / “Think Space Ukraine” at the University of Regensburg, financed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) through the funds of the Federal Foreign Office (AA). Language: English

  • 20.02, online

Science Europe-NRFU webinars focused on research funding/ Webinar: Open Science policies and practices of research funding organisations/ Політики та практики відкритої науки в діяльності установ, що фінансують дослідження  Register here. 

  • 23.02, Berlin

Café Kyiv: Europe’s most outstanding event on Ukraine, an initiative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

  • 24.02, Leibniz-Saal of the BBAW, Markgrafenstr. 38, 10117 Berlin

The Long Shadow of War: Learning from History for Russia’s War against Ukraine, with Josip Glaurdić (University of Luxembourg), Anne Deighton (University of Oxford), Oleksandr Zabirko (BBAW’s Young Network TransEurope) and Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS).

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