Events / Program: Ukraine in European Dialogue

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Ukrainian Historical Experiences Through Habsburg, European, and Global Lenses	Tue, 15.07.2025 - Tue, 15.07.2025	Conferences and Workshops	Katherine Younger Svitlana Potapenko Taras FedirkoTomasz Hen-Konarski, Patrice Dabrowski	Ukrainian Historical Experiences Through Habsburg, European, and Global Lenses Tue, 15.07.2025 - Tue, 15.07.2025 Speakers: Katherine Younger Svitlana Potapenko Taras FedirkoTomasz Hen-Konarski, Patrice Dabrowski Series: Conferences and Workshops This workshop brought together scholars examining Ukraine’s experiences under Habsburg rule from the 18th to 20th centuries. It aimed to provide feedback on Austria-related research in progress and foster discussion on integrating Habsburg history into global narratives of Ukraine’s past. Read more
Ukrainian Historical Experiences Through Habsburg, European, and Global Lenses Tue, 15.07.2025 - Tue, 15.07.2025 Speakers: Katherine Younger Svitlana Potapenko Taras FedirkoTomasz Hen-Konarski, Patrice Dabrowski Series: Conferences and Workshops This workshop brought together scholars examining Ukraine’s experiences under Habsburg rule from the 18th to 20th centuries. It aimed to provide feedback on Austria-related research in progress and foster discussion on integrating Habsburg history into global narratives of Ukraine’s past. Read more
	Beyond Resilience: Rethinking Solidarity and Resistance Through Palestine and Ukraine	Mon, 28.04.2025	Panels and Discussions	Mariia ShynkarenkoMalaka Shwaikh, Svitlana Matviyenko	Beyond Resilience: Rethinking Solidarity and Resistance Through Palestine and Ukraine Mon, 28.04.2025 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoMalaka Shwaikh, Svitlana Matviyenko Series: Panels and Discussions What new insights emerge when we think of Palestine and Ukraine in conversation with one another? In this dialogue, Svitlana Matviyenko and Malaka Shweikh critically examined the limits of the discourse of “resilience”—a term that often obscures the structural conditions of violence. Read more
Beyond Resilience: Rethinking Solidarity and Resistance Through Palestine and Ukraine Mon, 28.04.2025 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoMalaka Shwaikh, Svitlana Matviyenko Series: Panels and Discussions What new insights emerge when we think of Palestine and Ukraine in conversation with one another? In this dialogue, Svitlana Matviyenko and Malaka Shweikh critically examined the limits of the discourse of “resilience”—a term that often obscures the structural conditions of violence. Read more
	Technologies of Colonialism and Solidarity	Mon, 28.04.2025 - Tue, 29.04.2025	Conferences and Workshops		Technologies of Colonialism and Solidarity Mon, 28.04.2025 - Tue, 29.04.2025 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops This conference aims to critically position Russian colonialism not as an isolated phenomenon but as an integral part of the international project of colonial expansion. It brings together researchers, artists, and activists to analyze ways and methods of colonial violence, as well as to develop methods of translocal solidarity. Read more
Technologies of Colonialism and Solidarity Mon, 28.04.2025 - Tue, 29.04.2025 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops This conference aims to critically position Russian colonialism not as an isolated phenomenon but as an integral part of the international project of colonial expansion. It brings together researchers, artists, and activists to analyze ways and methods of colonial violence, as well as to develop methods of translocal solidarity. Read more
	Beyond Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the End of Moscow’s Rule in Eastern Central Europe, 1980-1991	Tue, 15.04.2025	Lecture	Franziska Davies Ivan Vejvoda	Beyond Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the End of Moscow’s Rule in Eastern Central Europe, 1980-1991 Tue, 15.04.2025 Speakers: Franziska Davies Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Franziska Davies offered an often overlooked perspective on the end of Moscow’s hegemony by focusing on the role of Ukrainian society in the 1980s and the development of Polish-Ukrainian relations in the lead-up to the fall of the Soviet Union. Read more
Beyond Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the End of Moscow’s Rule in Eastern Central Europe, 1980-1991 Tue, 15.04.2025 Speakers: Franziska Davies Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Franziska Davies offered an often overlooked perspective on the end of Moscow’s hegemony by focusing on the role of Ukrainian society in the 1980s and the development of Polish-Ukrainian relations in the lead-up to the fall of the Soviet Union. Read more
	Life After Captivity and Justice for Ukraine	Wed, 19.03.2025	Panels and Discussions	Misha GlennyMaksym Butkevych	Life After Captivity and Justice for Ukraine Wed, 19.03.2025 Speakers: Misha GlennyMaksym Butkevych Series: Panels and Discussions Maksym Butkevych, one of Ukraine’s most prominent human rights activists reflected on what he learned from his time in Russian captivity, what justice for Ukraine should look like, and how to remain resilient in the face of a much stronger enemy. He was be in conversation with IWM Rector Misha Glenny. Read more
Life After Captivity and Justice for Ukraine Wed, 19.03.2025 Speakers: Misha GlennyMaksym Butkevych Series: Panels and Discussions Maksym Butkevych, one of Ukraine’s most prominent human rights activists reflected on what he learned from his time in Russian captivity, what justice for Ukraine should look like, and how to remain resilient in the face of a much stronger enemy. He was be in conversation with IWM Rector Misha Glenny. Read more
	Literarische Landschaften der Ukraine	Thu, 20.02.2025	Panels and Discussions	Ludger HagedornAntje Contius, Ursula Ebel, Julia Stachiwska, Bohdan Kolomijtschuk, Natalka Sniadanko	Literarische Landschaften der Ukraine Thu, 20.02.2025 Speakers: Ludger HagedornAntje Contius, Ursula Ebel, Julia Stachiwska, Bohdan Kolomijtschuk, Natalka Sniadanko Series: Panels and Discussions Die kürzlich erschienene Ausgabe Nr. 295 der vierteljährlichen Zeitschrift die horen stellt aktuelle Literatur aus der Ukraine vor. Ein beeindruckendes literarisches Porträt einer Gesellschaft mit all ihrem Mut und ihrer Verzweiflung im Angesicht eines zermürbenden Krieges. Read more
Literarische Landschaften der Ukraine Thu, 20.02.2025 Speakers: Ludger HagedornAntje Contius, Ursula Ebel, Julia Stachiwska, Bohdan Kolomijtschuk, Natalka Sniadanko Series: Panels and Discussions Die kürzlich erschienene Ausgabe Nr. 295 der vierteljährlichen Zeitschrift die horen stellt aktuelle Literatur aus der Ukraine vor. Ein beeindruckendes literarisches Porträt einer Gesellschaft mit all ihrem Mut und ihrer Verzweiflung im Angesicht eines zermürbenden Krieges. Read more
	(Re-)Branding Regions in East Central Europe	Thu, 13.02.2025 - Fri, 14.02.2025	Conferences and Workshops	Börries Kuzmany Mariia ShynkarenkoKerstin S. Jobst, Patrice Dabrowski, Piotr Szlanta, Christoph Augustynowicz, Dietlind Hüchtker, Alois Woldan, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys	(Re-)Branding Regions in East Central Europe Thu, 13.02.2025 - Fri, 14.02.2025 Speakers: Börries Kuzmany Mariia ShynkarenkoKerstin S. Jobst, Patrice Dabrowski, Piotr Szlanta, Christoph Augustynowicz, Dietlind Hüchtker, Alois Woldan, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys Series: Conferences and Workshops Scholars from Eastern Europe will present their projects that systematically examine practices of “branding” and (multiple) “re-branding” of micro- and macroregional spaces after the redrawing of state borders. Such a focus will allow participants to discuss how political epistemologies have been translated into top-down and bottom-up actions in different spheres (political, economic, social, and cultural) and at various levels (state, regional or local). Read more
(Re-)Branding Regions in East Central Europe Thu, 13.02.2025 - Fri, 14.02.2025 Speakers: Börries Kuzmany Mariia ShynkarenkoKerstin S. Jobst, Patrice Dabrowski, Piotr Szlanta, Christoph Augustynowicz, Dietlind Hüchtker, Alois Woldan, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys Series: Conferences and Workshops Scholars from Eastern Europe will present their projects that systematically examine practices of “branding” and (multiple) “re-branding” of micro- and macroregional spaces after the redrawing of state borders. Such a focus will allow participants to discuss how political epistemologies have been translated into top-down and bottom-up actions in different spheres (political, economic, social, and cultural) and at various levels (state, regional or local). Read more
	Practical Past	Tue, 19.11.2024	Lecture	Mariia ShynkarenkoRory Finnin	Practical Past Tue, 19.11.2024 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoRory Finnin Series: Lecture The modern Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar alliance has succeeded in overcoming narratives of historical antagonism by excavating and promoting a “practical past” of solidarity in their stead. This talk drew on Rory Finnin’s long-standing expertise in the interplay of culture and identity in Ukraine. Read more
Practical Past Tue, 19.11.2024 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoRory Finnin Series: Lecture The modern Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar alliance has succeeded in overcoming narratives of historical antagonism by excavating and promoting a “practical past” of solidarity in their stead. This talk drew on Rory Finnin’s long-standing expertise in the interplay of culture and identity in Ukraine. Read more
	Crimea and the Black Sea	Tue, 19.11.2024 - Wed, 20.11.2024	Conferences and Workshops	Mariia Shynkarenko Martin-Oleksandr Kisly Natalia VolvachRory Finnin, Filiz Tutku Aydin, Kerstin S. Jobst, Milana Nikolko, Olena Sobolieva, Greta Uehling, Andrew Wilson, Suleiman Mamutov, Gayana Yuksel, Ottilie Manegold	Crimea and the Black Sea Tue, 19.11.2024 - Wed, 20.11.2024 Speakers: Mariia Shynkarenko Martin-Oleksandr Kisly Natalia VolvachRory Finnin, Filiz Tutku Aydin, Kerstin S. Jobst, Milana Nikolko, Olena Sobolieva, Greta Uehling, Andrew Wilson, Suleiman Mamutov, Gayana Yuksel, Ottilie Manegold Series: Conferences and Workshops Ten years ago, Russia's annexation of Crimea set in motion a series of events that culminated in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The conference highlighted issues of de-occupation, decolonization and reintegration as different actors envision Crimea's future. By bringing together distinguished experts from different disciplines, this IWM conference initiated a critical discussion on a crucial but understudied topic. Read more
Crimea and the Black Sea Tue, 19.11.2024 - Wed, 20.11.2024 Speakers: Mariia Shynkarenko Martin-Oleksandr Kisly Natalia VolvachRory Finnin, Filiz Tutku Aydin, Kerstin S. Jobst, Milana Nikolko, Olena Sobolieva, Greta Uehling, Andrew Wilson, Suleiman Mamutov, Gayana Yuksel, Ottilie Manegold Series: Conferences and Workshops Ten years ago, Russia's annexation of Crimea set in motion a series of events that culminated in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The conference highlighted issues of de-occupation, decolonization and reintegration as different actors envision Crimea's future. By bringing together distinguished experts from different disciplines, this IWM conference initiated a critical discussion on a crucial but understudied topic. Read more
	Odesa City Myth Rethought and Reframed	Wed, 06.11.2024	Lecture	Mariia ShynkarenkoVitaly Chernetsky	Odesa City Myth Rethought and Reframed Wed, 06.11.2024 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoVitaly Chernetsky Series: Lecture Few cities on the Black Sea coast can rival Odes(s)a in the richness and diversity of its cultural legacy. An oft-mythologized image of the city derived from Russian-language writings, especially from the early twentieth century, trickled into a stereotypical version exploited for decades both by the Soviet and the Russian post-Soviet mass culture, as well as by the city's own tourism industry. Read more
Odesa City Myth Rethought and Reframed Wed, 06.11.2024 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoVitaly Chernetsky Series: Lecture Few cities on the Black Sea coast can rival Odes(s)a in the richness and diversity of its cultural legacy. An oft-mythologized image of the city derived from Russian-language writings, especially from the early twentieth century, trickled into a stereotypical version exploited for decades both by the Soviet and the Russian post-Soviet mass culture, as well as by the city's own tourism industry. Read more