Ukraine – Demokratie zwischen Kontinuität und Wandel Podiumsdiskussion am @zois.bsky.social, 7. Oktober 2025, 18 - 19.30 Uhr. Anlass sind die Neuerscheinungen: ➡️ Das politische System der Ukraine (Hg. Michael Dobbins/ Springer VS) ➡️ Freiheitsschauplatz (Hg. Susann Worschech/ Nomos) bit.ly/3IraXKn

Join our young KIU team! We are seeking for a student assistant (f/m/d) who supports in the field of teaching & press and media work. 👉Application deadline: Monday, 22 September 2025 👀 Detailed job description: www.europa-uni.de/de/universit... @viadrina.eu

✨Join us for the EU-Ukraine-Pub Quiz – the grand finale of the KIU summer school! Free entry for everyone! 📅 Friday, 19 September 2025 📍 Verbindungshaus fforst, Forststraße 3/4, Frankfurt (Oder) ⏰ 20:00 - 22:00 (with a break in between two fun rounds) @viadrina.eu

KIU summer school goes public! 🎥Our tomorrow's event "Feminist and queer visions of Ukraine" will screen two short artistic films and discuss them afterwards. Introduction and moderation will be realized by Oksana Potapova and Maria Vtoruchina. @viadrina.eu

💫 We would love to share a little summary of the first week of our 2nd KIU summer school under the umbrella topic 🇪🇺🇺🇦´Ukraine in Europe: Controversies, complexities and agency of a multifaceted interconnection. Thanks to all contributors and our fantastic participants. 🍀 @viadrina.eu

Wie erforscht man ein Feld, zu dem es kaum Zugang gibt? Darüber spricht Yuriiy Matsiyevsky im @taz.de Interview zu ukrainischem Widerstand in russisch besetzten Gebieten. Was den Politologen und Interviewerin @anastasiarodi.bsky.social verbindet: Beide sind/waren Fellows am @kiu-network.bsky.social.

KIUrious Interview #4! Seit Juli 2025 ist die Ökonomin Julija Swyrydenko im Amt. Politikwissenschaftler Michael Dobbins spricht darin über ihre Befugnisse als Premierministerin, den Personalwechsel und die Bedeutung für Reformen, EU und Washington. Link: www.kiu.europa-uni.de/en/publicati...

Wie lässt sich die ukrainische Widerstandskraft erklären? Im Buch „Freiheitsschauplatz“ findet #Viadrina Sozialwissenschaftlerin @susannworschech.bsky.social Antworten. Am 18.9. stellt sie mit Autor Garry Polushkin (Moderation: @dornblueth.bsky.social) die Publikation vor. @kiu-network.bsky.social

📍On Friday, 12 September, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., AM 03 (Auditorium Maximum) a public discussion with Mattia Nelles from the German-Ukrainian Office will take place at European University Viadrina as part of the second KIU summer school. @viadrina.eu @mattian.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social

Wie schützt man Kulturgüter im Krieg? Wie geht die Arbeit in Museen weiter und wie gelingt ein Wiederaufbau? Mit solchen Fragen im Kopf reisen Teilnehmende des Projektes „Cultural Guardians“ aktuell durch Brandenburg – und machten u.a. Halt an der #Viadrina 👇 @kiu-network.bsky.social

CHANGE OF LOCATION. The today's lecture with Nataliia Mushak needs to change location: NEW ROOM is 🏠HG 109 (Senatssaal, Große Scharrnstraße 59, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder) ⏰Monday, 8 September, 7 pm, Language: English. @viadrina.eu @zois.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

👋 Monday, September 8, 2nd KIU summer school starts under the umbrella topic 🇪🇺🇺🇦 "Ukraine in Europe: Controversities, complexities and agency of a multifaceted interconnection", including also public events. 📌Join us on Monday, 8 September, when Nataliia Mushak will held the keynote opening speech.

REVIEW Legal scholar Prof. Dr. Roman Petrov (National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (NaUKMA) presented on Monday, July 7th, at Ukraine Lecture Series the topic: ❓Can EU External Action ensure justice and fair Peace Deal for Ukraine in Trump 2.0 era? Mission im/possible? @viadrina.eu

📌 KIU Alumni Yuriy Matsievsky (research fellow summer 2025) published a joint article together with Susann Worschech in Ukraine-Anyalysen (edited by Forschungsstelle Osteuropa Bremen) about his KIU research project ➡️ Resistance in the temporary occupied territories of Ukraine. @viadrina.eu

Susann Worschech, Scientific Coordinator of KIU gives a statement to the today's Ukraine Independence Day! @viadrina.eu @zois.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @bbaw.bsky.social @wiko-berlin.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social

9 September | Online (How) can the #EU sustain its support for #Ukraine? Join & discuss with 🔸 Roman Petrov, EU law professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy 🔸 Annika Weidemann, Senior Advisor at EEAS 🔸 Dr Marija Golubeva, Baltic Initiative on European Reform (tbc) Chaired by @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social#EU⤵️

🇺🇦 Sociolinguist and KIU Alumni (research fellow 2025) 👨‍🎓Liudmyla Pidkuimukha speaks in the new edition of ZOIS Spotlight (14/2025) about the change of language ideologies in Ukraine, since 2022. 🔎To read the full text: www.zois-berlin.de/en/publicati... @zois.bsky.social @viadrina.eu

Between 30 June–1 July 2025 the international conference “The Civil Sphere in Central and Eastern Europe” took place at the Europa-Universität Viadrina. Jeffrey Alexander (Yale University) delivered a keynote lecture: 👀 Watch the whole lecture on KIU Youtube-Channel! @viadrina.eu

Why did Ukraine repeal a law on its anti-corruption bodies just days after passing it — and what does this U-turn reveal about power dynamics in Kyiv and the EU’s influence? Prof. Roman Petrov shares his insights in a new interview. [1/8] www.kiu.europa-uni.de/en/publicati...

Ukrainian is far more than the official state language. It has become the voice of resistance, part of the cultural identity, and a break with Russian imperialism. But how far-reaching and lasting is this renunciation of Russian? News ZOiS Spotlight out now by KIU Fellow Liudmyla Pidkuimukha

Ukrainisch ist mehr als nur die Staatssprache. Es ist Stimme des Widerstands, Teil der kulturellen Identität und eine Abgrenzung vom russischen Imperialismus. Doch wie tiefgreifend und dauerhaft ist diese Abkehr vom Russischen wirklich? ZOiS-Spotlight von KIU-Fellow Liudmyla Pidkuimukha

🎉You are cordially invited to the final event of our Ukraine Lecture Series, held during this Summer Semester at the @viadrina: 📍 From the Weimar Triangle to the Frankfurt Quadrangle: New Perspectives for European Cooperation. ⏰14.07.2025 GD102 Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) #viadrina #kiu #ukraine

KIU Briefing on Ukraine: Today 12:00 p.m. at ZOiS: ⬇️

📚Roman Petrov (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy): Can EU External Action ensure justice and fair Peace Deal for Ukraine in Trump 2.0 era? Mission im/possible? 📌UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES/ Monday, 7 July 2025, 6 pm, GD 102 Supported by DAAD with Funds from Federal Foreign Office (AA). #kiu

What drives Lithuanian civil society to support Ukraine? Based on fieldwork and interviews, Arvydas Grišinas explores how ‘rational empathy’—rooted in Lithuania’s own experience of Soviet repression—motivates civic engagement and a fight for shared freedom and future. Join us on 8 July at ZOiS.

✨ Germany, Ukraine, Europe: Approaches, policies, and misunderstandings in the 1990s. This was the topic of the last Ukraine Lecture Series, presented by Jan Claas Behrends on June 23. @daadworldwide.bsky.social @viadrina.bsky.social

❌ Jeffrey C. Alexander, founder of cultural sociology and leading theorist of the civil sphere, will give a public lecture within the framework of Ukraine Lecture Series at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)! @viadrina.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social

We invite you for this online event, which is a cooperation between UNET@ZOiS and KIU: Ekaterina Bataeva, KIU sur place research fellow together with Daria Yashkina, UNET fellow, will talk about the situation of Ukrainian academics and universities under attack in frontline cities.

📍Upcoming Tuesday, 24 June, KIU research fellow Nataliia Mushak speaks at Europa-Universität Viadrina about ➡️ The impact of the European Court of Human Rights' practice on the implementation of the right to freedom of expression under the martial law in Ukraine. @viadrina.bsky.social

🇺🇦2nd Ukrainian Academic Day at Martin Luther University Halle (Saale). Susann Worschech participates on the PANEL DISCUSSION ➡️How we (don't) see Ukraine. An analytical approach to perception, representation and media interpretation in the context of the Russian war´. @viadrina.bsky.social

In dieser Woche hat der @kiu-network.bsky.social die erste Graduiertenschule für Ukrainestudien in Deutschland an der #Viadrina eröffnet. Drei Jahre lang werden zwölf Doktorand*innen zu ukrainischer Kunst, Geschichte, Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft forschen. Mehr zur Eröffnung 👇

📌 Monday, 23 June, 6 pm our Ukraine Lecture Series continue with: Jan Claas Behrends: Germany, Ukraine, Europe: Approaches, Policies and Misunderstandings in the 1990s 🏠 Europa-Universität Viadrina, Gräfin Dönhoff Building, GD 102, Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder) @viadrina.bsky.social

💬 In his insightful lecture, Prof. Dr. Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zürich) emphasized that Russia’s war against Ukraine represents a watershed moment: it is the first war against a country associated with the EU, bringing military threats closer to EU member states. @viadrina.bsky.social

25 June, 09:30 | ZOiS Researcher Yuriy Matsiyevsky has examined the role of both peaceful protests & armed partisan activities in occupied territories of #Ukraine. He will discuss the impact of Ukrainian resistance on regional security, humanitarian responses & Europe’s geopolitical landscape.

The full scope of resistance in occupied Ukraine remains underexplored. What is the interplay between civil protest & armed partisan activities—and how does it impact on the broader geopolitical landscape? Join KIU Fellow Yuriy Matsiyevsky at ZOiS on June 25 for the next KIU Briefing on Ukraine.

📣 On Wednesday, June 11, KIU research fellow Alexander Dmitriev talks about his research topics at our KIU network partner university Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. ⏰ 11 June 2025, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. 🏠 Humboldt University, Dorotheenstraße 65, Boeckh Building, Room 5.57. @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Am 6. Juni 2023 wurde der Kachowka-Staudamm in der Ukraine zerstört. Heute sind die Folgen der Katastrophe noch immer spürbar. KIU-Alumna Dr. Tetiana Gardashuk spricht über den schwierigen Wiederaufbau, Wasser als Kriegswaffe und Ansätze zur Zukunftsgestaltung der Region. bit.ly/4krttQl

📣 We are happy to announce our first KIU LUNCH LECTURE of one of our new research fellows! 🕰Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 1 p.m. 🏠 Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building, Room GD 206, Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder) @viadrina.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social #Ukraine #UkrainianStudies #kiulunchlectures

☎️ For any questions about our research fellowship programme ´Infrastructural fragmentation, infrastructural resilience - Interdisciplinary perspectives on techno-politics and crisis´ please join the online consultation on 10 June, 2.30 p.m. (CET)! ➡️ Zoom link on our website. @viadrina.bsky.social

Wie organisiert sich der ukrainische Widerstand? Welches Bild wird über Social Media von ukrainischen Frauen im Militär transportiert? Inwiefern hat der Krieg Einfluss auf Sprach-Ideologien? Dazu und mehr arbeiten neun Fellows vom @kiu-network.bsky.social bis Ende Juli an der #Viadrina. 👇

🎉🎊💥OPENING OF GERMANY´S FIRST PHD PROGRAMM IN UKRAINIAN STUDIES! 👉The ceremony will start at ⏰ 6 P.M. and take place at the 🏠Logensaal, Logenstraße 11, in 15230 Frankfurt (Oder). @viadrina.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social @ukrindeu.bsky.social @yuliyayurchuk.bsky.social @umland.bsky.social

📍 Next Monday, 2 June, we continue our 🇺🇦 Ukraine Lecture Series with the lecture of Frank Schimmelfennig (Professor of European Politics, member of the Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zürich) on the topic: ✋War and Boundary Formation: the European Integration of Ukraine.

🙌 The guest of the recent Ukraine Lecture Series was Julia Langbein (ZOiS), who spoke on the topic: 🌟 How to Manage Integration into the EU Market: Lessons from Eastern Enlargement for Ukraine's EU Accession 🌟 @viadrina.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

📌CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Research Fellowships on Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies (October to December 2025) ⏩ Infrastructural Fragmentation, Infrastructural Resilience: InterdisciplinaryPerspectives on Techno-Politics and Crisis ⏪ ☎️ Online consultation: 10.6.25, 2.30 P.M. @viadrina.bsky.social

🌟You like to meet with our KIU Fellows or the KIU team on regular basis? Join the 🍊🍽 🧀KIU Open Lunch every Tuesday, 1 to 2 P.M. at Viadrina canteen. @viadrina.bsky.social

🛑Next lecture of Ukraine Lecture Series is coming up on Monday, 26 May, 6 P.M. at European University Viadrina: We looking forward to the lecture of Julia Langbein (ZOiS). Supported by @daadworldwide.bsky.social with funds from Foreign Federal Office (AA). @viadrina.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social

✨ On Monday, we had the pleasure of welcoming a special guest, Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, former ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Poland and the Czech Republic, to our Ukraine Lecture Series. @daadworldwide.bsky.social @viadrina.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social

🔔 Our new KIU research fellows arrived: 9 scientists from will conduct research at the KIU. We warmly welcome: Alexander Dmitriev, Nataliia Mushak, Nataliia Zalietok, Arvydas Grišinas, Michael Dobbins, Yuriy Matsiyevsky, Gaëlle Le Pavic, Liudmyla Pidkuimukha & Olena Lazorenko. @viadrina.bsky.social

🎊We are so happy to announce: The new book FREIHEITSSCHAUPLATZ. Ein Gesellschaftsportrait der Ukraine is out now. Volume 1 of the series was funded by the @daadworldwide.bsky.social with funds from the Federal Foreign Office. @viadrina.bsky.social @umland.bsky.social @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social

Last Monday Georgiy Kasianov gave a lecture within 🇺🇦 Ukraine Lecture Series at European University Viadrina. Supported by @daadworldwide.bsky.social with Funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA). @viadrina.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @zois.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social