FORTHCOMING EVENTS, June – October 2024

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June 2024

  • 04.06, online

Online Bar Camp “The Future of Higher Education Management in the European Higher Education Area”, organized by WANDELWERK. Zentrum für Qualitätsentwicklung at FH Münster University of Applied Sciences. Registration is available under the link.

  • 05.06, 17:30, CET, Berlin / 09.06, 11:00 & 21:00, online

GIZ discusses on rbb24 Inforadio “Reconstruction in the midst of war? What Ukraine needs now?” with Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Vice President of the German Bundestag, MdB; Reiner Perau, Managing Director of the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce; Nataliya Pryhornytska, Alliance of Ukrainian Organisations e. V. / Open Platform e. V.; Daniel Busche, GIZ Country Director Ukraine.  The recording will take place as an audience event at the GIZ Representative Office in Berlin on Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 17:30-19:00. For the on-side attendance, please register by e-mail to gizdiskutiert@giz.de. The discussion will be broadcast on rbb24 Inforadio on Sunday, 9 June 2024, from 11 a.m. and from 9 p.m. in the programme series ‘Das Forum’.

  • 10.06, Berlin 

Conference “Resilience, Reconstruction, Prosperity: Perspectives for Ukraine’s Economy”. The aim of the conference is to discuss ways in which Ukraine’s immediate economic needs, strategies for reconstruction and its long-term economic perspectives can be aligned while promoting creative thinking about how to reach the shared goal of achieving a prosperous, stable, socially just and democratic future for Ukraine. 

  • 10.06, 19:00 CET, Berlin & online

Public panel discussion “Ukraine’s Recovery in the European Context” with Svenja Schulze, German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine, moderated by Sonja Zekri, Süddeutsche Zeitung, organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Please register for in-person attendance of the evening event here by 3 June 2024. The event will also be live streamed in English and Ukrainian here. 

  • 11-12.06, Berlin (by invitation)/ Please note that a live stream will be available during the conference

Ukraine Recovery Conference 2024 (URC 2024).

  • 12.06, Berlin

Research and Development for sustainable reconstruction: The examples of energy and agriculture. Organised by the Alliance of German Science Organisations. This side event to the URC (see above) is organised by the three German Science Organisations, i.e. the Leibniz Association, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Helmholtz Association. This event explores the link between RD policies and sustainable reconstruction, deep-diving into energy on the one hand, and on sustainable agriculture on the other.

  • 10-12.06, Tutzing

TechCamp Bavaria in Tutzing on “Building Resilience in an Era of Disinformation”, organized by the U.S. Department of State, in partnership with Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing.

TechCamp is a U.S. Department of State initiative that brings together leading technologists and subject-matter experts to provide training for a diverse group of participants. TechCamp is a highly collaborative, hands-on event composed of brainstorming sessions, small group discussions, and training workshops that result in innovative solutions to real challenges you face in your work. Application is open until 22.03.2024 under the link.

  • 12-13.06, Vienna, Austria

Training on capacity building for international cooperation between Ukraine and Austria. The National Erasmus+ Agency in Austria and OeaD Austria in cooperation with the National Erasmus+ Office in Ukraine (ILIR) are organizing an offline training to build and strengthen cooperation between Ukrainian and Austrian institutions in the field of higher education and science on June 12-13, 2024 in Vienna (Austria).

  • 13-15.06, Zakarpats’ka oblast, Ukraine

International conference UOHA-2024 “Oral history in wartime: academic knowledge and the researcher’s responsibility”, organized by the Ukrainian Oral History Association (UOHA). The conference will take place on the grounds of and with the support of Uzhhorod National University and Zakarpattia Museum of Folk Architecture and Life (Uzhhorod, Ukraine), the Huculak Chair in Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada), and the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (Kyiv, Ukraine). Applications for participation in the conference will be accepted until March 15, 2024 under the link.

  • 14.06, Online

MSCA4Ukraine launch event of the 2nd call and info day. Please visit this webpage for further information and to register for the event.

  • 18.06, Kyiv, Ukraine

PowerUp Ukaraine Conference.

  • 21.06, Halle (Saale)

Ukrainian Academic Day at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

  • 25-27.06, Vilnius, Lithuania,

Scholars at Risk 2024 Global Congress is to be held June 25-27, 2024, in partnership with the European Humanities University (EHU) in Vilnius, Lithuania. It will bring together leading scholars, advocates, students and professionals to rethink issues of academic freedom and related values, to learn from each other, and to help shape SAR’s agenda for the coming years. The 2024 Global Congress theme, “Sustainable knowledge: Lessons from universities, scholars and students in exile,” seeks to explore and capture the experience of current and prior generations of academic communities forced into exile by political unrest, repression, disaster and conflict. The Congress program will use exhibitions, a film screening, plenaries, and panel discussions to explore effective means of supporting at-risk scholars and students in securing safety, reclaiming their academic roles, and contributing to resilient higher education communities and societies.

    • Registration and program information for in-person participation is available on the SAR website
    • Some sessions will be live broadcast via Zoom. Information for remote participation is available on the SAR website

 

  • 27-30.06, Ukraine

Inaugural Annual Conference“RE(KN)OWN REGION(S) from WITHIN” of the RUTA Association for Central, South, Eastern Europe, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation. The congress in June 2024 will be a kick-off event, aiming to open up perspectives that critically reflect imperial power and academic structures and thus strengthen decolonial approaches. russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has made it clear how much the destructiveness of imperial ideologies has been underestimated, even by some experts on Eastern Europe. Donate to support the organisation of this conference here.

  • 28-29.06, University of Passau, Germany

Interdisciplinary Workshop “Ukrainian Refugees in Germany and the United States after the War: Implications for Global Refugee Policy”. Funded by the Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen (SDAW/ Foundation on German-American Academic Relations), this interdisciplinary workshop is designed to generate comparative critical insight and expertise on Ukrainian migration and integration in Germany and the United States as case studies for the examination of global refugee policies. Papers are invited that provide critical perspectives on legal and social policies guiding Ukrainian refugee admission and (temporary or longer-term) integration into Germany and the United States, the relationship of Ukrainians to other refugee and migrant populations, as well as their representation and treatment in both countries. Please send a 300-word paper abstract and a 150-word biographical statement as one PDF-file by February 15, 2024 to Grigoleit-Richter.Grit@uni-passau.de and Claudia.Sadowski-Smith@asu.edu. A limited number of travel allowances (200 EUR) is available to PhD candidates/part-time or contingent faculty. Please indicate the need for a travel allowance when submitting the abstract.

September 2024

  • 11-13.09, Dubrovnik, Croatia

EEGA Annual Conference “Unfinished Statebuilding and Contested Democracies,” in Cooperation with the RSA Central and Eastern Europe Conference 2024. The united aim is to combine both – historically informed research and current political issues in Southeastern Europe. The conference is less devoted to strictly historical issues but offers a global and policy oriented approach. The conference zeroes in on a curated selection of themes that hold paramount importance for the region amidst the current geopolitical landscape. The Call for Proposals is now open until the 16th of April 2024 and abstract submissions until the 14th of May 2024.

  • 18.09, Cambridge, MA, USA
Book Talk “The Voices of Babyn Yar” 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. This event is organized by Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) as part of the weekly Seminar in Ukrainian Studies public event series and HURI Books program.
  • 26-27.09, Saarbrücken, Germany

Save-the-Date for the next conference: Days of Ukraine in Saarland and DUAG Annual Meeting in Saarbrücken, including the Final of the UKRAINET PhD Thesis Presentation Contest

October 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.

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