FORTHCOMING EVENTS, January – February 2024

January 2024

• 10/01, 10-11:30 a.m. CET, Online

DFG Funding Opportunities for Postdocs

• 18/01, Cambridge, UK

The Web of Images: Rethinking the Place of Early Modern Ukraine in European Culture. Speaker: Maria Grazia Bartolini (University of Milan). Nihon Room, Pembroke College

Book introduction and Discussion: “Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine”, Edited By Catherine Wanner. This volume examines russia’s war on Ukraine. Scholars who have lived through the russian invasion or who have conducted ethnographic research in the region for decades provide timely analysis of a war that will leave a lasting mark on the twenty-first century.

• 24/01, Online

Department of Education, University of Oxford: “Internationalisation as one of the key components of Ukrainian university activities in times of Russia’s military invasion”, Speaker: Dr Yuliya Zayachuk, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, and Academic Visitor at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK. This seminar is part of the SEMINAR PROGRAMME: UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN TIMES OF WAR. This series of talks explores how Ukrainian universities continue fulfilling their missions in current dramatic circumstances of russia’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine; how they are trying to ensure quality education and research while prioritising the safety of the participants of educational and research process. It aims to better understand current Ukrainian realities as a whole and extremely difficult challenges created for Ukrainian universities in the time of the war disaster. Speakers representing various Ukrainian universities will share their experience in solving problems that Ukrainian universities are facing due to russia’s military invasion.

• 31/01, Online

Department of Education, University of Oxford: “Adapting the University (of Lviv) in time of war”, Speaker: Professor Roman Gladyshevskii, Dr. Sc., Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vice-Rector for Research, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. This seminar is part of the SEMINAR PROGRAMME: UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN TIMES OF WAR. This series of talks explores how Ukrainian universities continue fulfilling their missions in current dramatic circumstances of russia’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine; how they are trying to ensure quality education and research while prioritising the safety of the participants of educational and research process. It aims to better understand current Ukrainian realities as a whole and extremely difficult challenges created for Ukrainian universities in the time of the war disaster. Speakers representing various Ukrainian universities will share their experience in solving problems that Ukrainian universities are facing due to russia’s military invasion.

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February 2024

• 2-3.02, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

TCUP Conference: Decolonizing Ukraine in Theory and Practice. ZOOM WEBINAR REGISTRATION

• 6.02, Online

ZOiS, Berlin: Workshop “The Ethics of War and Post-war Research: Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kosovo”, with Oleh Koval (Sociologist, Qualitative Research Expert), Iryna Malysheva (Monitoring and Evaluation Expert), Inna Volosevych (ZOiS), Chair: Tetiana Kostiuchenko (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin). Registration

• 7.02, Online

Department of Education, University of Oxford: “Higher education in Ukraine at a time of war: state of the network, legislative support, educational process organisation peculiarities”, Professor Olena Lokshyna, Dr. Sc., Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine. This seminar is part of the SEMINAR PROGRAMME: UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN TIMES OF WAR. This series of talks explores how Ukrainian universities continue fulfilling their missions in current dramatic circumstances of russia’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine; how they are trying to ensure quality education and research while prioritising the safety of the participants of educational and research process. It aims to better understand current Ukrainian realities as a whole and extremely difficult challenges created for Ukrainian universities in the time of the war disaster. Speakers representing various Ukrainian universities will share their experience in solving problems that Ukrainian universities are facing due to russia’s military invasion.

• 12.02, in person, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA, USA

Book Talk: Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States, with Oxana Shevel and Maria Popova, moderated by Alexandra Vacroux. Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States examines the root causes of Russia’s war against Ukraine. The book explains how, since 1991, Russia and Ukraine have diverged politically, ending up on a collision course. Russia slid back into authoritarianism and imperialism, while Ukraine consolidated a competitive political system and pro-European identity. As Ukraine built a democratic nation-state, Russia refused to accept it and came to see it as an “anti-Russia” project. After political and economic pressure proved ineffective, and even counterproductive, Putin went to war to force Ukraine back into the fold of the “Russian world.” Ukraine resisted, determined to pursue European integration as a sovereign state. These irreconcilable goals, rather than geopolitical wrangling between Russia and the West over NATO expansion, are – the authors argue – essential to understanding Russia’s war on Ukraine.

• 14.02, Online

Department of Education, University of Oxford: “Perception of uncertainty by the participants of the educational process under state of war in higher education institutions of Ukraine”, Professor Oksana Bodnar, Dr. Sc., Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Ukraine. This seminar is part of the SEMINAR PROGRAMME: UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN TIMES OF WAR. This series of talks explores how Ukrainian universities continue fulfilling their missions in current dramatic circumstances of russia’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine; how they are trying to ensure quality education and research while prioritising the safety of the participants of educational and research process. It aims to better understand current Ukrainian realities as a whole and extremely difficult challenges created for Ukrainian universities in the time of the war disaster. Speakers representing various Ukrainian universities will share their experience in solving problems that Ukrainian universities are facing due to russia’s military invasion.

• 14.02, in person, Pritsak Memorial Library at HURI, 34 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

The Voices of Babyn Yar. Book Talk by Marianna Kiyanovska, poet, translator, and literary scholar. Joined by translators Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky. In conversation with Oleh Kotsyuba, Director of Print and Digital Publications, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

• 19.02, Berlin, Germany

Cafe Kyiv, eine Initiative der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

• 19-22.02, Berlin, Germany

WaterTechBootcamp: Mykolaiv Water Hub is bringing together water utilities, universities from Ukraine and corporates and startups from Germany to discuss recovery and resilience of Ukrainian water, energy and food infrastructure.

• 25.02, 15:00 – 16:30 CET, Hanover, Sophienstraße 2

Campagne #RettetLebenUkraine 2024 on the occasion of two years of the full-scale invasive war against Ukraine and ten years of Russian aggression and occupation organized by the German-Ukrainian Academic Society, regional group Hannover. Within the campagne, a panel discussion “Medical support for Ukraine between emergency aid and future scenario” takes place with the following guests: Prof. Dr André Gottschalk, Medical Advisor Kleeblatt; Dr Bastian Ringe, Head of Department and Senior Physician Endocrine Surgery, Hannover Medical School (MHH); Dr phil. Christoph Egen, Clinic for Rehabilitation Medicine, MHH; Dr Jennifer Ernst, Innovative Amputation Medicine, Clinic for Trauma Surgery, MHH; Nadiya Pilipcuk, Specialist in General Medicine, Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Medical Association in Germany; Mariya Maksymtsive, Honorary Coordinator of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Parish of St. Volodymyr in Hanover incl. follow-up care for the injured from Ukraine. Moderation: Nataliya Butych, board member of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society e.V.

Registration for the event is open until 22.02.2024 per the email.

• 29.02, Cambridge, UK

Understanding The Zelensky Effect: A Story of the Ukrainian Civic Nation that Made Him. Speaker: Olga Onuch (University of Manchester), Nihon Room, Pembroke College.