Events / Program: Ukraine in European Dialogue

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Who Needs the State? Freedom, Justice, Sovereignty, and (Post)Wartime Ukraine	Tue, 28.05.2024	Lecture	Misha Glenny Yuliya Yurchenko		Who Needs the State? Freedom, Justice, Sovereignty, and (Post)Wartime Ukraine Tue, 28.05.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Yuliya Yurchenko Series: Lecture Building on historicized political economy of wartime Ukraine since 2014, the lecture illustrated that the state as an institution must be redefined. Ukraine has changed drastically during some 10 years of war and is in a dire need of a new functioning social contract that would secure constitutional rights and deliver socioeconomic justice. Read more
Who Needs the State? Freedom, Justice, Sovereignty, and (Post)Wartime Ukraine Tue, 28.05.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Yuliya Yurchenko Series: Lecture Building on historicized political economy of wartime Ukraine since 2014, the lecture illustrated that the state as an institution must be redefined. Ukraine has changed drastically during some 10 years of war and is in a dire need of a new functioning social contract that would secure constitutional rights and deliver socioeconomic justice. Read more
	Collisions. The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability	Tue, 21.05.2024	Lecture	Ivan Vejvoda Mykola Riabchuk Yuliya YurchenkoMichael Kimmage		Collisions. The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability Tue, 21.05.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Mykola Riabchuk Yuliya YurchenkoMichael Kimmage Series: Lecture Author Michael Kimmage presented his latest monograph. The book launch was followed by a panel discussion with IWM Visiting Fellows Yuliya Yurchenko and Mykola Ryabchuk. Read more
Collisions. The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability Tue, 21.05.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Mykola Riabchuk Yuliya YurchenkoMichael Kimmage Series: Lecture Author Michael Kimmage presented his latest monograph. The book launch was followed by a panel discussion with IWM Visiting Fellows Yuliya Yurchenko and Mykola Ryabchuk. Read more
	Symposium: Storms and Networks	Tue, 07.05.2024	Conferences and Workshops	Konstantin AkinshaMiroslav Haľák, Katia Denysova, Maryna Drobotiuk, Olena Kashuba-Volvach		Symposium: Storms and Networks Tue, 07.05.2024 Speakers: Konstantin AkinshaMiroslav Haľák, Katia Denysova, Maryna Drobotiuk, Olena Kashuba-Volvach Series: Conferences and Workshops From 1900 onward, pivotal influences shaping the trajectory of modern art emanated from diverse Central-South-Eastern European regions. The challenge lies in defining the scope of this interconnected and evolving modernity within the broader cultural context. Read more
Symposium: Storms and Networks Tue, 07.05.2024 Speakers: Konstantin AkinshaMiroslav Haľák, Katia Denysova, Maryna Drobotiuk, Olena Kashuba-Volvach Series: Conferences and Workshops From 1900 onward, pivotal influences shaping the trajectory of modern art emanated from diverse Central-South-Eastern European regions. The challenge lies in defining the scope of this interconnected and evolving modernity within the broader cultural context. Read more
	Exhibition "In the Eye of the Storm"	Tue, 07.05.2024	Exhibition	Konstantin AkinshaKatia Denysova, Miroslav Haľák, Olena Kashuba-Volvach	Register Here	Exhibition "In the Eye of the Storm" Tue, 07.05.2024 Speakers: Konstantin AkinshaKatia Denysova, Miroslav Haľák, Olena Kashuba-Volvach Series: Exhibition The curators of the exhibition "In the Eye of the Storm" at the Lower Belvedere led a guided tour. Read more

	What We Gather	Mon, 29.04.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Iryna Zamuruieva Mariia Shynkarenko		What We Gather Mon, 29.04.2024 Speakers: Iryna Zamuruieva Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia At the colloquium, Iryna Zamuruieva shared the strands of her research and creative work, where she works and thinks with certain plants. She is attempting to analyze the political ecology of land relations in Ukraine, developing methodologies rooted in Ukrainian intellectual thought and theories. Read more
What We Gather Mon, 29.04.2024 Speakers: Iryna Zamuruieva Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia At the colloquium, Iryna Zamuruieva shared the strands of her research and creative work, where she works and thinks with certain plants. She is attempting to analyze the political ecology of land relations in Ukraine, developing methodologies rooted in Ukrainian intellectual thought and theories. Read more
	Garrison Colony and Soviet Atomgrad	Fri, 26.04.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Mariia ShynkarenkoSvitlana Matviyenko	Register Here	Garrison Colony and Soviet Atomgrad Fri, 26.04.2024 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoSvitlana Matviyenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia The colloquium discussed several types of colonies typical for Soviet modernity, including the notions of internal and external colonization, to ponder and problematize their applicability to Soviet practice. We specifically focused on three different Ukrainian atomic cities, or “plutopia” (Brown) – Pripyat, Chornobyl, and Slavutych, the pre- and post-accident satellites of the nuclear power plant. Read more
Garrison Colony and Soviet Atomgrad Fri, 26.04.2024 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoSvitlana Matviyenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia The colloquium discussed several types of colonies typical for Soviet modernity, including the notions of internal and external colonization, to ponder and problematize their applicability to Soviet practice. We specifically focused on three different Ukrainian atomic cities, or “plutopia” (Brown) – Pripyat, Chornobyl, and Slavutych, the pre- and post-accident satellites of the nuclear power plant. Read more
	Ein Wir in Vielen Namen	Wed, 06.03.2024	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Olesya YaremchukMaria Weissenböck		Ein Wir in Vielen Namen Wed, 06.03.2024 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Olesya YaremchukMaria Weissenböck Series: Lecture In ihrem Buch „Unsere Anderen: Geschichten ukrainischer Vielfalt“ dokumentiert die Journalistin und Schriftstellerin Olesya Yaremchuk die Geschichte(-n) ethnischer Minderheiten in der Ukraine. Im Gespräch mit Ludger Hagedorn stelle die Autorin ihr Buch vor, das 2021 in deutscher Übersetzung erschienen ist, und von ihrer aktuellen Arbeit erzählen. Read more
Ein Wir in Vielen Namen Wed, 06.03.2024 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Olesya YaremchukMaria Weissenböck Series: Lecture In ihrem Buch „Unsere Anderen: Geschichten ukrainischer Vielfalt“ dokumentiert die Journalistin und Schriftstellerin Olesya Yaremchuk die Geschichte(-n) ethnischer Minderheiten in der Ukraine. Im Gespräch mit Ludger Hagedorn stelle die Autorin ihr Buch vor, das 2021 in deutscher Übersetzung erschienen ist, und von ihrer aktuellen Arbeit erzählen. Read more
	A Brief History of Ukrainian Art: Wartime Introduction	Mon, 12.02.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Lizaveta German Mariia Shynkarenko Polina Baitsym		A Brief History of Ukrainian Art: Wartime Introduction Mon, 12.02.2024 Speakers: Lizaveta German Mariia Shynkarenko Polina Baitsym Series: Seminars and Colloquia Lizaveta German presented the initial ideas, key points and structure of her book project on Ukrainian art that she is conducting during her fellowship at the IWM. Resulting from a lecture series delivered in several European institutions over the past two years, this project is an emergency response to curiosity and even lust for knowledge about the art scene of Ukraine, often barely visible from the rest of Europe. Read more
A Brief History of Ukrainian Art: Wartime Introduction Mon, 12.02.2024 Speakers: Lizaveta German Mariia Shynkarenko Polina Baitsym Series: Seminars and Colloquia Lizaveta German presented the initial ideas, key points and structure of her book project on Ukrainian art that she is conducting during her fellowship at the IWM. Resulting from a lecture series delivered in several European institutions over the past two years, this project is an emergency response to curiosity and even lust for knowledge about the art scene of Ukraine, often barely visible from the rest of Europe. Read more
	Decolonizing Slavic Studies	Tue, 28.11.2023	Lecture	Daryna KorkachEwa Thompson		Decolonizing Slavic Studies Tue, 28.11.2023 Speakers: Daryna KorkachEwa Thompson Series: Lecture Ewa Thompson´s lecture dealt with the insights first articulated in that book: why Russian colonialism has not been noticed until recently, how the teaching of Russian literature and history in the West has been influenced by colonialist distortions present in Russian literature, and the role of Western universities and research centres in promoting a colonialist version of Russian history. Read more
Decolonizing Slavic Studies Tue, 28.11.2023 Speakers: Daryna KorkachEwa Thompson Series: Lecture Ewa Thompson´s lecture dealt with the insights first articulated in that book: why Russian colonialism has not been noticed until recently, how the teaching of Russian literature and history in the West has been influenced by colonialist distortions present in Russian literature, and the role of Western universities and research centres in promoting a colonialist version of Russian history. Read more
	Democratic and Autocratic Outcomes of the Post-Soviet Political Development (1991–2022)	Tue, 21.11.2023	Lecture	Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny		Democratic and Autocratic Outcomes of the Post-Soviet Political Development (1991–2022) Tue, 21.11.2023 Speakers: Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Mikhail Minakov compared the outcomes of post-Soviet political development across four country cases: Estonia (a stable democracy with strong Western influence), Russia (a short-lived democracy turned aggressive autocracy with competing external influences), Ukraine (an unstable democracy with competing external influences), and Uzbekistan (a stable autocracy with a minimum of external influences). Read more
Democratic and Autocratic Outcomes of the Post-Soviet Political Development (1991–2022) Tue, 21.11.2023 Speakers: Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Mikhail Minakov compared the outcomes of post-Soviet political development across four country cases: Estonia (a stable democracy with strong Western influence), Russia (a short-lived democracy turned aggressive autocracy with competing external influences), Ukraine (an unstable democracy with competing external influences), and Uzbekistan (a stable autocracy with a minimum of external influences). Read more