Ukraine-Network

The postdoc network "Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Understanding the country through Ukrainian voices" is funded by the Bremen Early Career Researcher Development (BYRD) of the University of Bremen. The aim of the network is to bring together Ukrainian policy experts, practitioners, and scholars at various career stages to explore, analyze, and discuss contemporary developments in Ukraine. Within the framework of this postdoc network, we aim to facilitate collaboration with Ukrainian scholars currently based in Ukraine and elsewhere to provide interdisciplinary dialogue on areas of research as diverse as economics, gender studies, history, political science, and sociology. The network will organize event series, with a large part of participants coming from Ukraine, while combining in-person and online formats in order to allow for broad participation especially in times of war. Planned events include thematic workshops, colloquia, and guest lectures, with the promotion of interdisciplinary exchange being the key aim.

Events

Book presentation : "Russia’s War in Ukraine. Personal Experiences of Ukrainian Scholars" with Tetiana Kostiuchenko (co-editor, Kyiv Mohyla Academy), Kukoon (Bremen, Buntentorsteinweg), 27 February 2025

Book presentation: "The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City" with Denys Gorbach (author, Lund University) and Jeremy Morris (discussant, University of Aarhus), Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, 28 January 2025

Panel discussion "1.000 Tage Krieg in der Ukraine - wie weiter?",  with Mattia Nelles (Deutsch-Ukrainisches Büro, Düsseldorf/Berlin), Eduard Klein und Oksana Chorna (both FSO Bremen), chair: Susanne Schattenberg, Europapunkt Bremen, 20 November 2024

Lecture by Oksana Mikheieva (Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv), "War-time Volunteering and Population Displacement: From Spontaneous Help to Organised Volunteering in Post-2014 Ukraine", University of Bremen, 29 May 2024

Book presentation “The Rise of Ukraine’s Sun” with Kateryna Zarembo (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv / TU Darmstadt) and a comment by Lysenko (Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen), EuropaPunktBremen, 05 July 2023

(as co-organizer) International conference "Social Movements in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia in Times of War", Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, 8-9 June 2023

Lunch talk "Chain of Insecurities: Is There an Opportunity for Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Breakthrough?", Yulia Kurnyshova, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, 16 May 2023

Book presentation "The Zelensky Effect" with Henry Hale (George Washington University) and discussants Yuliia Kurnyshova (Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen), Kostiantyn Yanchenko (University of Hamburg), 28 April 2023

Panel discussion "Ukrainian studies in times of war: ways forward" with Tamara Martsenyuk (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Inna Melnykovska (Central European University / Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg), Artem Zakharchenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv / ZeMKI, University of Bremen), 20 February 2023