Events / Program: Ukraine in European Dialogue

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021	Mon, 21.06.2021	Conferences and Workshops	Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo Martynenko Gabriela Vicanova Krystof DolezalRosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou, Sina Farzin		Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021 Mon, 21.06.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo Martynenko Gabriela Vicanova Krystof DolezalRosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou, Sina Farzin Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives the Junior Fellows to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional, semester-closing, celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021 Mon, 21.06.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo Martynenko Gabriela Vicanova Krystof DolezalRosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou, Sina Farzin Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives the Junior Fellows to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional, semester-closing, celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
	The Universe behind Barbed Wire	Thu, 10.06.2021	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Timothy SnyderMyroslav Marynovych		The Universe behind Barbed Wire Thu, 10.06.2021 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy SnyderMyroslav Marynovych Series: Panels and Discussions In the 1970s, the notion of human rights transformed the landscape of dissent in the Soviet Union. Buoyed by the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, dissidents embraced this new framework, holding the Soviet regime to account and asserting their right to live in such a way that their outer conduct reflected their inner convictions. The regime found this new challenge to the worldview it sought to impose on its citizens deeply threatening and responded with harsh repressive measures, including the arrest of many of the movement's leaders. Read more
The Universe behind Barbed Wire Thu, 10.06.2021 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy SnyderMyroslav Marynovych Series: Panels and Discussions In the 1970s, the notion of human rights transformed the landscape of dissent in the Soviet Union. Buoyed by the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, dissidents embraced this new framework, holding the Soviet regime to account and asserting their right to live in such a way that their outer conduct reflected their inner convictions. The regime found this new challenge to the worldview it sought to impose on its citizens deeply threatening and responded with harsh repressive measures, including the arrest of many of the movement's leaders. Read more
	The Hijack	Tue, 25.05.2021	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Marci Shore Slawomir Sierakowski Timothy Snyder Viktoras BachmetjevasFiona Hill, Martin Malek, Francois Heisbourg		The Hijack Tue, 25.05.2021 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Marci Shore Slawomir Sierakowski Timothy Snyder Viktoras BachmetjevasFiona Hill, Martin Malek, Francois Heisbourg Series: Panels and Discussions On 23 May, a Belarusian fighter plane intercepted Ryanair 4978 and forced the European commercial airliner to land in Minsk. The reporter Roman Protasevich (26), known for his coverage of pro-democracy protests, was then abducted by Belarusian authorities, along with the student Sofia Sapega (23). How can reporters be protected against the use of military force by dictators? And how should the EU react to the state hijacking of an aircraft bound from one EU capital to another? Given Russia’s dominant role in Belarus, might it bear responsibility? Read more
The Hijack Tue, 25.05.2021 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Marci Shore Slawomir Sierakowski Timothy Snyder Viktoras BachmetjevasFiona Hill, Martin Malek, Francois Heisbourg Series: Panels and Discussions On 23 May, a Belarusian fighter plane intercepted Ryanair 4978 and forced the European commercial airliner to land in Minsk. The reporter Roman Protasevich (26), known for his coverage of pro-democracy protests, was then abducted by Belarusian authorities, along with the student Sofia Sapega (23). How can reporters be protected against the use of military force by dictators? And how should the EU react to the state hijacking of an aircraft bound from one EU capital to another? Given Russia’s dominant role in Belarus, might it bear responsibility? Read more
	Die Lieblinge der Justiz	Mon, 26.04.2021	Lecture	Yuri AndrukhovychCornelius Hell	Facebook-Video	Die Lieblinge der Justiz Mon, 26.04.2021 Speakers: Yuri AndrukhovychCornelius Hell Series: Lecture Die Lieblinge der Justiz, das sind Verbrechen und Verbrecher, echte und vermeintliche: Bohdan Staschynskyj zum Beispiel, ein KGB-Agent und Auftragskiller. Oder Mario, der Kolonialwarenhändler aus Kolomea im östlichen Hinterland der k. und k. Monarchie. Juri Andruchowytsch entfaltet in seinem neuen Buch »Die Lieblinge der Justiz. Parahistorischer Roman in achteinhalb Kapiteln« ein die Jahrhunderte umspannendes Panorama von Mord, Liebe und Verrat, von der Monstrosität des Verbrechens und der Justiz. Read more
Die Lieblinge der Justiz Mon, 26.04.2021 Speakers: Yuri AndrukhovychCornelius Hell Series: Lecture Die Lieblinge der Justiz, das sind Verbrechen und Verbrecher, echte und vermeintliche: Bohdan Staschynskyj zum Beispiel, ein KGB-Agent und Auftragskiller. Oder Mario, der Kolonialwarenhändler aus Kolomea im östlichen Hinterland der k. und k. Monarchie. Juri Andruchowytsch entfaltet in seinem neuen Buch »Die Lieblinge der Justiz. Parahistorischer Roman in achteinhalb Kapiteln« ein die Jahrhunderte umspannendes Panorama von Mord, Liebe und Verrat, von der Monstrosität des Verbrechens und der Justiz. Read more
	In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994)	Mon, 19.04.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Marci Shore Yuri Andrukhovych		In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994) Mon, 19.04.2021 Speakers: Marci Shore Yuri Andrukhovych Series: Seminars and Colloquia The essay Yuri Andrukhovych currently works on is an attempt at a consistent recollection and a fairly objective reconstruction of several significant cultural events that fundamentally influenced Ukrainian society nearly three decades ago. The final years of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the first years of independent Ukraine came together into what was essentially an uninterrupted festival of artistic events that were new for their time, or at the very least a clear alternative to the ossified official culture. A radical renewal of cultural discourses and values through poetry, rock music, visual and performance art became an ineluctable part of sociopolitical changes at that break of eras. How did it begin in Ukraine, and why did it end? What has been preserved in memory? What has been swallowed up by oblivion? Was the “festival age” a continuation of, or a supplement to, the East European velvet alternatives? Read more
In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994) Mon, 19.04.2021 Speakers: Marci Shore Yuri Andrukhovych Series: Seminars and Colloquia The essay Yuri Andrukhovych currently works on is an attempt at a consistent recollection and a fairly objective reconstruction of several significant cultural events that fundamentally influenced Ukrainian society nearly three decades ago. The final years of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the first years of independent Ukraine came together into what was essentially an uninterrupted festival of artistic events that were new for their time, or at the very least a clear alternative to the ossified official culture. A radical renewal of cultural discourses and values through poetry, rock music, visual and performance art became an ineluctable part of sociopolitical changes at that break of eras. How did it begin in Ukraine, and why did it end? What has been preserved in memory? What has been swallowed up by oblivion? Was the “festival age” a continuation of, or a supplement to, the East European velvet alternatives? Read more
	A Short History of Prison Noise	Tue, 23.02.2021	Lecture	Felix Ackermann Iryna Vushko Timothy Snyder		A Short History of Prison Noise Tue, 23.02.2021 Speakers: Felix Ackermann Iryna Vushko Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Noise can be understood as sonic violence and analysed as a central means of communication during the recurring prison riots in the early 20th-century Habsburg Empire. For both prison administrators and state-appointed public prosecutors, silence was synonymous with discipline and order. This definition gave criminal prisoners an opportunity to bargain silence in exchange for legally slight yet routine-revising changes within the regime of incarceration. Noise wielded such powerful leverage because it spread inmates’ demands from inside the prison to nearby streets – in this case, those of the Habsburg city of Lemberg. Inmates were able to use their prison buildings as a space of resonance – in both physical and symbolic ways. Read more
A Short History of Prison Noise Tue, 23.02.2021 Speakers: Felix Ackermann Iryna Vushko Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Noise can be understood as sonic violence and analysed as a central means of communication during the recurring prison riots in the early 20th-century Habsburg Empire. For both prison administrators and state-appointed public prosecutors, silence was synonymous with discipline and order. This definition gave criminal prisoners an opportunity to bargain silence in exchange for legally slight yet routine-revising changes within the regime of incarceration. Noise wielded such powerful leverage because it spread inmates’ demands from inside the prison to nearby streets – in this case, those of the Habsburg city of Lemberg. Inmates were able to use their prison buildings as a space of resonance – in both physical and symbolic ways. Read more
	Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Winter 2020	Thu, 17.12.2020	Conferences and Workshops			Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Winter 2020 Thu, 17.12.2020 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops Morning Session Moderator: Iryna Sklokina Read more

	Language Policies in Multilingual Countries: Western and Non-Western Approaches	Mon, 14.12.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Volodymyr Kulyk Wolfgang Merkel Miloš Vec		Language Policies in Multilingual Countries: Western and Non-Western Approaches Mon, 14.12.2020 Speakers: Volodymyr Kulyk Wolfgang Merkel Miloš Vec Series: Seminars and Colloquia The presentation was based on the nearly completed Ukrainian-language book that examines the varieties of language policy in a number of Western and non-Western multilingual countries, looking not only at those with official bi- or multilingualism but also at those promoting one dominant language. The book seeks to describe and explain their successes and failures in promoting certain languages, ensuring human rights, maintaining social stability, and forging national unity, with a keen eye on identifying those arrangements that could be adopted in today’s Ukraine. In the presentation, however, Volodymyr Kulyk focused on similarities and differences between prevalent patterns of multilingualism and its management by the state in Western and non-Western (post-colonial and post-imperial) countries. He explored sociolinguistic, historical and political factors determining these countries’ choices of language policy and their degrees of success in its implementation. Read more
Language Policies in Multilingual Countries: Western and Non-Western Approaches Mon, 14.12.2020 Speakers: Volodymyr Kulyk Wolfgang Merkel Miloš Vec Series: Seminars and Colloquia The presentation was based on the nearly completed Ukrainian-language book that examines the varieties of language policy in a number of Western and non-Western multilingual countries, looking not only at those with official bi- or multilingualism but also at those promoting one dominant language. The book seeks to describe and explain their successes and failures in promoting certain languages, ensuring human rights, maintaining social stability, and forging national unity, with a keen eye on identifying those arrangements that could be adopted in today’s Ukraine. In the presentation, however, Volodymyr Kulyk focused on similarities and differences between prevalent patterns of multilingualism and its management by the state in Western and non-Western (post-colonial and post-imperial) countries. He explored sociolinguistic, historical and political factors determining these countries’ choices of language policy and their degrees of success in its implementation. Read more
	Cossacks and Enlightenment	Mon, 05.10.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Volodymyr Sklokin		Cossacks and Enlightenment Mon, 05.10.2020 Speakers: Volodymyr Sklokin Series: Seminars and Colloquia The talk dealt with the impact of Enlightenment ideas on rethinking the image of Cossacks in the Ukrainian peripheries of the Russian Empire in the second half of the eighteenth century. The mechanisms through which eighteenth century West European Enlightenment political and historical thought provided intellectual resources for both orientalizing the Cossack political tradition and empowering it were examined. Orientalist discourse was introduced by Voltaire, used by Saint Petersburg enlightened absolutists to justify the elimination of Cossack autonomies, and accepted by a segment of the local elite. On the other hand, Enlightenment political thought, exemplified in particular by Rousseau and Montesquieu, was used to go beyond traditional estate and regional particularism, to rethink the Cossack political tradition in more universalist categories of republicanism and to set it against Catherine II’s supposed ‘despotism’. Read more
Cossacks and Enlightenment Mon, 05.10.2020 Speakers: Volodymyr Sklokin Series: Seminars and Colloquia The talk dealt with the impact of Enlightenment ideas on rethinking the image of Cossacks in the Ukrainian peripheries of the Russian Empire in the second half of the eighteenth century. The mechanisms through which eighteenth century West European Enlightenment political and historical thought provided intellectual resources for both orientalizing the Cossack political tradition and empowering it were examined. Orientalist discourse was introduced by Voltaire, used by Saint Petersburg enlightened absolutists to justify the elimination of Cossack autonomies, and accepted by a segment of the local elite. On the other hand, Enlightenment political thought, exemplified in particular by Rousseau and Montesquieu, was used to go beyond traditional estate and regional particularism, to rethink the Cossack political tradition in more universalist categories of republicanism and to set it against Catherine II’s supposed ‘despotism’. Read more
	The Sociology of Belarusian Protest	Thu, 20.08.2020	Panels and Discussions	Nelly Bekus-GoncharovaElena Gapova, Aliaksei Lastouski, Alena Minchenia, Andrey Vozyanov, Mischa Gabowitsch		The Sociology of Belarusian Protest Thu, 20.08.2020 Speakers: Nelly Bekus-GoncharovaElena Gapova, Aliaksei Lastouski, Alena Minchenia, Andrey Vozyanov, Mischa Gabowitsch Series: Panels and Discussions Belarusian voices are few and far between in international debates about the ongoing protests in Belarus. In this webinar, Belarusian sociologists shared their views and analysis of the current protest wave. Among other things, they discussed the role of striking workers; class, gender, and violence; patterns of mobilization and self-organization; the mobilizing effects of trauma; the impact of urban space; the legacy of previous protests; the role of protest in forging different types of communities; and the ways in which the post-industrial shift and other long-term transformations in Belarusian society have affected its political economy. This webinar took place in English. Read more
The Sociology of Belarusian Protest Thu, 20.08.2020 Speakers: Nelly Bekus-GoncharovaElena Gapova, Aliaksei Lastouski, Alena Minchenia, Andrey Vozyanov, Mischa Gabowitsch Series: Panels and Discussions Belarusian voices are few and far between in international debates about the ongoing protests in Belarus. In this webinar, Belarusian sociologists shared their views and analysis of the current protest wave. Among other things, they discussed the role of striking workers; class, gender, and violence; patterns of mobilization and self-organization; the mobilizing effects of trauma; the impact of urban space; the legacy of previous protests; the role of protest in forging different types of communities; and the ways in which the post-industrial shift and other long-term transformations in Belarusian society have affected its political economy. This webinar took place in English. Read more