KIU RECOMMENDS | BLOCKSEMINAR
‘Exploring the North Azovian Greeks in Ukraine: A Practitioner and Community-Rooted Perspective on Languages, Identity, and War’ by Olga Tsuprykova
08.05 | 22.05 | 05.06
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., GD 311
We warmly encourage students to apply!
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Join our info session to learn more 👇
📅 21 April 2026 | 4:00 p.m. (online)
More info on our website: www.europa-uni.de/en/studium/s...
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UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES
Lecture by Mykola Riabchuk: ‘Civicness by Default: Constructing Inclusive Nation against the Challenges of Exclusivity’
20 April 2026 | 4:00 p.m.
GD 102
Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building, Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
🔗 To join online text to kiu-communications@europa-uni.de
CONFERENCE | Ukrainian (Working) Lives: Vulnerabilities, Shifting Geographies, Resistance
📅 22 April 2026
📍 Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
🕘 9:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
More information on our website: www.kiu.europa-uni.de/en/kiu-news-...
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Kanzler Merz will mehr junge männliche Geflüchtete zur Rückkehr aus Deutschland in die Ukraine bewegen, sagte er heute nach einem Treffen mit Präsident Selenskyj.
Die meisten haben bisher keine Absicht dazu, zeigt eine Umfrage.
Mehr im #ZOiS_Spotlight von Soziologin Inna Volosevych: bit.ly/sl3_26
We are very pleased to welcome our KIU Research Fellows for the summer term 2026, who have come to work on projects connected to the topic: ‚Nationalities, Minorities and Identity: (Re) Configuring Ukraine?‘
More about the fellows and their research projects: www.kiu.europa-uni.de/en/research/...
UKRAINE LECTURE SERIES
’Rearticulation of Belonging: Regionalism, Identities and the Role of Minorities’ by Viktoriya Sereda
📅 13 April 2026 | 4:00 p.m.
📍 GD 102
Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building, Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
💻 Hybrid format
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📙New Publication by Susann Worschech
In: Manfred Sapper and Volker Weichsel (eds.), Stress Test: Ukraine in Times of War, Osteuropa (11–12), Berlin, pp. 309–329.
Read more: zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2025/1...
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KIU Launches: Certificate Programme in Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies for Master’s Students
Want to find out more? Don’t miss our info session on 21 April 2026.
The Zoom link for the session, as well as further information about the programme: www.europa-uni.de/en/studium/s...
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📘KIU Guest Professor – Summer Semester 2026
Oksana Mikheieva teaches at our partner institution, the Kyiv School of Economics. During the Summer Semester 2026, she will offer two courses addressing the topics of Soviet totalitarianism and occupation zones in Ukraine.
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🇺🇦Ukraine Lecture Series – Summer Semester 2026
3 April – 13 July 2026
🕓 Mondays, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
📍 GD 102, European University Viadrina, Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder) / Hybrid format
Discover more on our homepage: www.kiu.europa-uni.de/en/programme...
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Recent publications by Susann Worschech and KIU alumni
Publications:
journals.sagepub.com/home/DSS
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
css.ethz.ch/content/dam/...
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Today we are publishing the final text from the KIU Summer School, written by Maryna Olinishevska, a participant in the academic writing course: entanglements.hypotheses.org/6409?fbclid=...
Film Screening & Discussion
Attention: Children | Svitlana Rudiuk | Documentary | 2024 | 75’
5 March 2026 | 6:30 p.m.
📍GD HS 08, European University Viadrina
Europaplatz 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Entrance is free
Language: Ukrainian
Subtitles: English
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ZUR SACHE | Neuwahlen in der Ukraine?
Selenskyj hat sich offen für die Durchführung von Wahlen gezeigt. Im neuen KIU-Format „Zur Sache“ ordnen der Politikwissenschaftler Oleksij Haran und die Meinungsforscherin Inna Volosevych diese Entwicklungen ein.
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TO THE POINT | Elections in Ukraine?
Zelenskyy has expressed openness to holding elections. In the new KIU format ‘To the Point’, political scientist Oleksiy Haran and public opinion researcher Inna Volosevych assess these developments.
www.kiu.europa-uni.de/en/publicati...
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Read the piece by KIU Summer School participant Ruslana Ivaniura on our blog Entanglements: entanglements.hypotheses.org/6380
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KIU & VCPU at Café Kyiv 2026
🗓 23 February 2026 | Colosseum Berlin
🔗 More information and the full programme cafekyiv.kas.de/en/programme/
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We invite you to take a look inside the KIU Summer School by reading texts written by the Ukrainian participants who joined the academic writing course.
entanglements.hypotheses.org/6297?fbclid=...
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📢 Open Call: Research Scholarship for a Postdoc from Ukraine
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Faculty of Political Science and Journalism) announces a call for applications for a six-month research scholarship for a postdoc from Ukraine.
More info: bip.amu.edu.pl/__data/asset...
KIU PhD Students’ Activities 🎓
Pauline Foret, KIU PhD student, will teach at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) from 5 February to 3 April 2026 as part of the ValEUs Co-Teaching Program.
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Fellows’ Activities
We are pleased to share a book publication by Michael Dobbins, KIU Fellow alumnus (Summer Term 2025) and political scientist whose research focuses on education policy, post-communist transformation processes, and organized interests
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KIU RECOMMENDS | NEUERSCHEINUNGEN
Susanne Frank (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, KIU-Netzwerk) veröffentlicht im Frühjahrsprogramm des Arco-Verlags gleich zwei neue Bücher, die zentrale Beiträge zur ukrainischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte leisten.
www.book2look.com/book/XWdhMjn...
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👩💻 KIU IN DEN MEDIEN
Susann Worschech im Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur
🖇️ www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/krieg-in-der...
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KIU recommends | Dispatches Essay
Pauline Foret 'Dark Winter', published by the Kennan Institute
www.kennaninstitute.org/articles/dar...
We invite you to support life-saving energy resilience by donating to ukraine2power.org/en/donate/?t... which helps restore electricity in Ukraine.
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KIU Fellows’ alumni activities
06.02.2026I (10:45–12:00)
Yuriy Matsiyevsky, will take part at the International Academic Conference at Collegium Polonicum with the impulse talk: 'Russia’s War, Ukrainian Resistance, and Its Implications for Central and Eastern Europe' europa21.edu.pl/Program2026....
Call for Papers: Academic Workshop
Organised by: Centre Marc Bloch, ZOiS, KIU
Submission guidelines:
A single PDF including
title & abstract (max. 500 words, English)
CV (max. 150 words)
Deadline: 20 February 2026
to ukrainianworkinglives@cmb.hu-berlin.de
More info www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jbib1...
📢 KIU RECOMMENDS 📢
Open Call for six-month research and teaching fellowships
Organised by: Ukrainian Research in Switzerland
Location: University of Basel, Switzerland
Duration: 6 months
Application deadline: 16 March 2026
Full call, requirements, and application details (DE / EN): www.uris.ch
„Gefangene: System des Terrors“
Über die Vorführung berichtete Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Fazit). In dem Beitrag zitierte die Journalistin Gesine Dornblüth Susann Worschech (KIU):
🔗 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/gefangene-sy...
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