Program
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DAY 1. Monday, March 27, 2023
10:00 Workshop opening
10:15-11:30 Session 1
Roman Dubasevych (U Greifswald)
Trauma, Heroism, and War
Discussant: Ulrich Bröckling (U Freiburg i. Br.)
Moderator: Tatjana Hofmann (Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich)
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-13:00 Session 2
Martin Henzelmann (U Greifswald)
Tracing Language Contact in Southern Bessarabia
Elena Denisova-Schmidt (U St. Gallen)
Language of Corruption in Ukraine: Some Insights from Business, Higher Education, and Society
Moderator: Svitlana Ovcharenko (Genève Graduate Institute)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 Session 3
Oksana Myshlovska (U Bern)
The Government and Its Regionally-Based Challengers: Trajectories of Contention and Radicalization During Yushchenko Presidency
Oleksandr Zabirko, Alina Strzempa (U Regensburg)
After the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Intercultural Literary Negotiations about the Donbas and Upper Silesia in Comparative Perspective
Moderator: Olena Palko (U Basel)
16:00-18:00 Podium discussion “Future of Ukrainian Studies”
Since the full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022, we have witnessed a significant growth of interest in Ukraine on scholarly and public levels. European societies' need for expertise in Ukraine coincides with the relocation/displacement of many Ukrainian scholars who fled the war and are hosted now by European universities. In these circumstances, collaboration and knowledge exchange between Slavists and Ukrainian scholars can be very promising, and Ukrainian Studies as an academic area can gain momentum for further intensive development. At the same time, there are questions regarding the (self-)positioning of "Ukrainian voices" in Western academia and public discourse. What kind of knowledge about Ukraine is most supported and welcomed? Which theoretical paradigms are privileged, which are not, and for what reasons? Another set of concerns focuses on the institutional aspects. What implications has the temporarily supported presence of Ukrainian scholars on the global academic market? What are structural changes needed to accommodate the new demands? And how do they relate to the much-discussed slogans of "decolonization" and "decentering" of Western academic institutions?
Today, a profound discussion about the future of Ukrainian Studies in both methodological and institutional terms is much needed. As numerous events on the topic have shown, the study of the ongoing war and its effects on Ukrainian as well as European society is often hindered by the politically motivated concerns of not being weaponized by Russian propaganda and not "playing into the hands of the aggressor." Given this complexity, we may ask: How to research Ukraine today? How could a re-orientation of East European and Slavic Studies toward Ukraine and other "minor" cultures be carried out on methodological, institutional, and structural levels? In what ways can the results of such re-orientation be transferred to the decision- and policymakers?
Panelists: Olena Palko (Basel), Ulrich Schmid (St. Gallen), Benjamin Schenk (Basel), Alexander Chertenko (Giessen)
Moderator: Maria Mayerchyk (Greifswald)
The flyer can be found here.
DAY 2. Tuesday, March 28, 2023
10:00-11:15 Session 4
Alexander Chertenko (U Giessen)
Nationalizing Women? L’écriture feminine and Ukrainian Identity Debates before and after February 2022
Marta Havryshko (U Basel)
Sexual Violence, War, and Militarism: Challenges in Ukrainian Studies
Moderator: Maria Mayerchyk (U Greifswald)
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:45 Session 5
Olga Plakhotnik (U Greifswald)
Contested Categories in Social Science: Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship
Discussants: Oleksandra Tarkhanova (U St. Gallen) & Yuliia Soroka (U Fribourg/Freiburg)
12:45-14:30 Lunch
16:00-18:00 Movie screening and discussion “Мої думки тихі” (“My Thoughts Are Silent,” 2019)
Discussant: Nataliya Tchermalykh (U Genève)
Moderator: Roman Dubasevych (U Greifswald)
18:00-18:30 Concluding remarks